Niccolo and Donkey
05-06-2008, 04:34 AM
Anniversary of Josip Tito’s Death (http://www.javno.com/en/croatia/clanak.php?id=145797)
Javno.hr
05.05.08
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Even today, 28 years after his death, Josip Broz Tito prompts controversy whilst some love him unconditionally, others hate him.
Josip Broz Tito, the Yugoslav marshal and president of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, died on this day in history, 28 years ago in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Josip Broz was born on May 7, 1892 in Kumrovec. He left World War II as a winner with his Communist Party of Yugoslavia, and soon implements the communist regime throughout the county, banning all parties and joining the block led by Stalin and the USSR. Straight after the war he -.--.-returned the regions of Istria and Rijeka, as well as the Kvarner islands that were not a part of Yugoslavia during the war.
During the Cold War years, Tito invented the Non-aligned Movement in order to create a “third path” for Yugoslavia, and he tried to maintain good relations with both the communist and capitalist blocks because it remained non-aligned and lightly separated from the USSR.
Many who opposed his regime ended up in prison
In 1948 he said a firm “no” to Stalin, with which he gained the sympathy of the West and stopped a nearly certain famine in Yugoslavia. Because of fear of the bureaucratisation of the one party system, Tito invented the system of worker self-management.
The rule of Josip Broz was marked with periods of strong repression towards the critically minded population, and a lessening of the repression when the system was liberalized.
Because of their different opinions and disagreement with the system, many people ended up in prison or were shut out of Yugoslavia’s social life. The strongest democratization movements occurred at the beginning of 1970s. The “Croatian Spring” was stopped by imprisoning many of the leaders of the movement, and replacements at the top of the Communist Party of Croatia that supported liberalism.
The seed of the new countries was in the 1974 constitution
As an answer to those movements, Yugoslavia brought a new constitution which contained the seed of nationality for what had been state republics until then. Tito then became the life-long ruler of Yugoslavia, and it was then that the battle for supremacy between the republics started, which ended in a bloody war 10 years after Tito’s death.
-.-wikimedia commons-.-Tito’s life was everything but boring. As a revolutionist and statesman, he marked a part of the history of the region, and still provokes a lot of controversy today. Nobody in the region is impassive when it comes to him. People either love him or hate him.
Statesman who is loved and hated
He is hated for the communist’s crimes in Bleiberg and during the “path of the Cross”, for restricting human freedom and democratic values in communist Yugoslavia, and the impossibility to express national and religious feelings.
He is loved for the battle against Fascism in World War II, placing Yugoslavia in the Non-Aligned category of the world, peace in the region during his lifetime, and the alleged “socialism with a human face” in Yugoslavia.
The saying “history will show what he was like” can be applied to Tito’s rule of Yugoslavia, because feelings are still too strong for his character and work to be objectively evaluated by people that lived in his system. For that we will have to wait at least another 30 years.
Javno.hr
05.05.08
http://www.javno.com/slike/slike_3/r1/g2008/m05/y170709625344081.jpg
Even today, 28 years after his death, Josip Broz Tito prompts controversy whilst some love him unconditionally, others hate him.
Josip Broz Tito, the Yugoslav marshal and president of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, died on this day in history, 28 years ago in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Josip Broz was born on May 7, 1892 in Kumrovec. He left World War II as a winner with his Communist Party of Yugoslavia, and soon implements the communist regime throughout the county, banning all parties and joining the block led by Stalin and the USSR. Straight after the war he -.--.-returned the regions of Istria and Rijeka, as well as the Kvarner islands that were not a part of Yugoslavia during the war.
During the Cold War years, Tito invented the Non-aligned Movement in order to create a “third path” for Yugoslavia, and he tried to maintain good relations with both the communist and capitalist blocks because it remained non-aligned and lightly separated from the USSR.
Many who opposed his regime ended up in prison
In 1948 he said a firm “no” to Stalin, with which he gained the sympathy of the West and stopped a nearly certain famine in Yugoslavia. Because of fear of the bureaucratisation of the one party system, Tito invented the system of worker self-management.
The rule of Josip Broz was marked with periods of strong repression towards the critically minded population, and a lessening of the repression when the system was liberalized.
Because of their different opinions and disagreement with the system, many people ended up in prison or were shut out of Yugoslavia’s social life. The strongest democratization movements occurred at the beginning of 1970s. The “Croatian Spring” was stopped by imprisoning many of the leaders of the movement, and replacements at the top of the Communist Party of Croatia that supported liberalism.
The seed of the new countries was in the 1974 constitution
As an answer to those movements, Yugoslavia brought a new constitution which contained the seed of nationality for what had been state republics until then. Tito then became the life-long ruler of Yugoslavia, and it was then that the battle for supremacy between the republics started, which ended in a bloody war 10 years after Tito’s death.
-.-wikimedia commons-.-Tito’s life was everything but boring. As a revolutionist and statesman, he marked a part of the history of the region, and still provokes a lot of controversy today. Nobody in the region is impassive when it comes to him. People either love him or hate him.
Statesman who is loved and hated
He is hated for the communist’s crimes in Bleiberg and during the “path of the Cross”, for restricting human freedom and democratic values in communist Yugoslavia, and the impossibility to express national and religious feelings.
He is loved for the battle against Fascism in World War II, placing Yugoslavia in the Non-Aligned category of the world, peace in the region during his lifetime, and the alleged “socialism with a human face” in Yugoslavia.
The saying “history will show what he was like” can be applied to Tito’s rule of Yugoslavia, because feelings are still too strong for his character and work to be objectively evaluated by people that lived in his system. For that we will have to wait at least another 30 years.