Tito was born Josip Broz in Kumrovec, Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Croatia), in an area called Zagorje. He was the seventh child in the family of Franjo and Marija Broz. His father Franjo Broz was a Croat, while his mother Marija (née Javeršek) was Slovenian. After spending part of his childhood years with his maternal grandfather in Podsreda, he entered the primary school in Kumrovec, and ...

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Josip Broz Tito, Josip Broz Tito - Early years, Josip Broz Tito - Origin of the name Tito, Josip Broz Tito - World War II, Josip Broz Tito - Post-war, Josip Broz Tito - Aftermath, Josip Broz Tito - Personal

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Tito was born Josip Broz in Kumrovec, northwestern Croatia, in an area called Zagorje, which was then part of Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was the seventh child in the family of Franjo and Marija Broz. His father Franjo Broz was a Croat, while his mother Marija (née Javeršek) was Slovenian. After spending part of his childhood years with his maternal grandfather in Podsreda, he entered the primary school in Kumrovec, and ...

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1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. 1953 - Events. January 7 - President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. January 12 - Estonian emigres find a government in exile in Oslo January 13 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito chosen President of Yugoslavia January 15 - Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying January 20 - Change of US presidency from Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) ...

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Vis is a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea, the furthest one from the coast that is also inhabited. There are two towns and municipalities on the island, Vis (1,960 inhabitants in the municipality) and Komiža (1,677). The island was inhabited since ancient Greece, as Issa. During Venetian domination, the name was Lissa. The sea to the north of the island was the stage of two battles: on 13 March 1811, a small Royal Navy fleet, under the command of captain William Hoste, defeate ...

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Youth Day is a holiday dedicated to the youths of a country. Youth Day - Angola. On the 14 April Angola celebrates Youth Day. Youth Day - China. Youth Day (青年节) in the People's Republic of China is on May 4. It commemorates the beginning of the May Fourth Movement in 1919. This day is known as Literary Day (文藝節) in the Republic of China (Taiwan). Youth Day (青年節) in the Republic of China is on March 29. Youth Day - Moro ...

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Ante Pavelić (July 14, 1889 - December 28, 1959) was the leader and founding member of the Croatian Ustasha movement in the 1930s and later the leader of the Independent State of Croatia. Pavelić was born north of Konjic in Bradina, a small village c. 15 kilometres south west of Hadžići in Bosnia and Herzegovina. As an adult, Ante Pavelić decided to move to Zagreb so he could study law. In his youth he became a member of the Croatian Party of Rights, and was part of the splinter, more nationalist faction led by Josip Frank ...

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At the time of his death, speculation began about whether his successors could continue to hold Yugoslavia together. Ethnic divisions and conflict grew, and eventually erupted into a series of Yugoslav wars a decade after his death and the end of his strong-rule that had kept a lid on ethnic tensions. Tito was buried in his mausoleum in Belgrade, called Kuća cveća (The House of Flowers) and numerous people visit the place as a shrine to "better times," a ...

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Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages, in Cyrillic Југославија) is a term used for three separate but successive political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. Translated, the name means Land of the South Slavs (jug in the word Jugoslavija means south). The first was a kingdom formed in December 1, 1918 as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, which was re-named the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in ...

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Tito's first wife was Pelagija Broz (maiden: Belousova), a Russian who bore him a son, Žarko. They got married in Omsk before moving to Yugoslavia. She was transported to Moscow by communists when Tito got thrown in jail in 1928. His next notable relationship was with Hertha Haas, a Slovene of German ethnicity, whom he met in Paris in 1937. They never entered marriage although in May of 1941 she bore him a son Mišo. They parted company in 1943 in Jajce during the 2nd meeting of AVNOJ. All throughout his relationship with Haas, Tito ...

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At the time of his death, speculation began about whether his successors could continue to hold Yugoslavia together. Ethnic divisions and conflict grew, and eventually erupted into a series of Yugoslav wars a decade after his death and the end of his strong-rule that had kept a lid on ethnic tensions. Tito was buried in his mausoleum in Belgrade, called Kuća cveća (The House of Flowers) and numerous people visit the place as a shrine to "better times," a ...

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Born in Montenegro, he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia while a student at Belgrade University in 1932. He was a political prisoner from 1933 to 1936. In 1938 he was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party and became a member of its Politburo in 1940. In April 1941, as Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and their allies defeated the Royal Yugoslav army and dismembered Yugoslavia, Đilas helped Tito found the partisan resistance, and was a resistance commander during the war. Following Germany's attack on the Soviet Un ...

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After the Yugoslavian army capitulated on April 17, 1941, Yugoslavia was distributed between Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria. Opposition to these occupation regimes caused the formation of resistance movements, resulting in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY), then only active in the underground, assuming the role of leading the forces in the Yugoslavian resistance. On November 26, 1942, the Partisan leaders of Yugoslavia convened the first AVNOJ meeting at Bihać, in the northwest of Bosnia, in the hope of gaining political ...

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Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslavia claimed during the Cold War to choose a socialist autogestion way, which led to his break with Moscow. In France, between 1970 and 1973, Lip, a clockwork factory based in Besançon, was self-managed after an attempt by share-holders to close it down. CFDT trade-unionist Charles Piaget led the strike allowing workers to claim back the means of production. In October 2005 the first Encuentro Latinoamericano de Empresas Recuperadas ("Latin American Encounter of Recovered Companies") took place i ...

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For the most part, agriculture has been in private hands, but farms have been small and inefficient, and food has traditionally been a net import for the republic. The centrally planned economy has resulted in some legacies in the economy. Industry is greatly overstaffed, reflecting the rigidity of the planned economy. Under Josip Broz Tito, military industries were pushed in the republic; Bosnia hosted a large share of Yugoslavia's defence plants for military reasons. Bosnia was in the center of former Yugoslavia. People throughout B ...

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The defining document of the state was the Constitution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which was amended in 1963 and 1974. The Communist Party of Yugoslavia had won the first elections, and remained in power throughout the state's existence. It was also called League of Communists of Yugoslavia, and it was composed of individual parties from each constituent republic. The primary political leader of the state was Josip Broz Tito, but there were several other important politicians, particularly ...

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Democratic Federative Yugoslavia was reconstituted at the AVNOJ or the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia conference in Jajce (November 29 - December 4, 1943) while negotiations with the royal government in exile continued. On November 29, 1945 the Federative People's Republic of Yugoslavia was established as a socialist state (also by AVNOJ in Jajce). On January 31, 1946, the new constitution of FPR Yugoslavia established the six constituent republics. The first president was Ivan Ribar and prime minister Josip Broz Tito. In 1953, Tito wa ...

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He was widely regarded as Tito's eventual successor, and was about to become President of Yugoslavia in 1954, when he was suddenly expelled from the government and stripped of all Party positions for his criticism. He resigned from the Communist Party soon afterwards. In December that year he gave an interview to the New York Times in which he said that Yugoslavia was now ruled by "reactionaries". For ...

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Milovan Đilas, Milovan Đilas - Revolutionary, Milovan Đilas - Dissident, Milovan Đilas - Quotable

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After the Second World War, the Communist Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito decided that the policy of Serbianization in Macedonia had failed - it had led to strong resentment of Belgrade. In addition, the Macedonians had been strong supporters of Tito's Partisan resistance movement, fighting the occupying Bulgarians, Germans and Italians as well as opposing the Serbian royalist Chetniks, who were, until midway through the war, the West's favorite rebels in Serbia. The Macedonian resistance had a strongly nationalist character, not least as a ...

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Macedonians ethnic group, Macedonians ethnic group - Areas of settlement, Macedonians ethnic group - Major Populations of Macedonians by country, Macedonians ethnic group - Origins and identities, Macedonians ethnic group - Symbols, Macedonians ethnic group - The Balkan Wars, Macedonians ethnic group - Macedonians after the Second World War, Macedonians ethnic group - The situation today

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After the Second World War, the Communist Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito decided that the policy of Serbianization in Macedonia had failed - it had led to strong resentment of Belgrade. In addition, the Macedonians had been strong supporters of Tito's Partisan resistance movement, fighting the occupying Bulgarians, Germans and Italians as well as opposing the Serbian royalist Chetniks, who were, until midway through the war, the West's favorite rebels in Serbia. The Macedonian resistance had a strongly nationalist character, not least as a ...

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