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[[File:Tito_5836.png|frame|The Marshal himself]]
{{quote|''"A locksmith in his youth. An Austro-Hungarian corporal. A case hardened revolutionary. Commissioner of the Comintern. A terrorist. Red menace. A robber. An illegal with ten different passports and names. A passionate hunter. Bon vivant. He had five wives and a party of his believers. An indomitable partisan. Undefeated by Hitler and Stalin. An adaptive statesman. A born Machiavellist. The lord of second [[Yugoslavia]]. No one before and after him has on this place more material for legends. He ruled the Serbs longer then Car Dušan, Knjaz Miloš and King Aleksander who propably would have used him as a pattern. A jovial dictator. The patron of the poor. The magnet of jet set. He sold his world vision like a new Christ of the Balkan peoples. A conjurer or the protagonist of an era, it was never clear to distinguish. One thing was for sure: Nothing in his proximity was of a small scale. Fortune and misfortune, deceit and truth, charm and actuality."''
|'''The intro of the Serbian documentary series ''Crveno i Crno'''''}}
Josip Broz (Tito) was born in Croatia in 1892. He came from [[Farm Boy|a poor family]] and worked as a mechanic before being conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1914, and proved to be a very capable soldier. While fighting In the [[First World War]], he was captured by the Russian Army. Broz converted to Communism and took part in the [[Red October|Russian Revolution]] in 1917.
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On the outbreak of the [[Spanish Civil War]], the Comintern established the Dimitrov Battalion. Named after Georgi Dimitrov, the battalion comprised Greeks and people from the Balkans. Tito eventually became one of the battalion's senior commanders.
The Yugoslavian government headed by Prince-Regent Paul allied itself with the fascist dictatorships of Germany and Italy. However, on March 27, 1941, a military coup established a government more sympathetic to the Allies. Ten days later, the Luftwaffe bombed Yugoslavia and virtually destroyed Belgrade. The [[
Tito returned to Yugoslavia and helped establish the [[La Résistance|partisan resistance fighters]]. Initially, the Allies provided military aid to the [[The Remnant|Chetniks]] led by Draža Mihailović. Information reached Sir [[Winston Churchill]] that the Četniks had been collaborating with the Germans and Italians. At Teheran, the decision was taken in mid-1943 to switch this aid to Tito and the partisans.
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1943 was a turning point for Tito's forces, since Italy surrendered in September and the Četniks' power was broken in the Battle of Neretva river (there's a famous movie about this). By the end of November the same year, Tito was able to establish a government in Bosnia.
In 1944 the fortunes of war continued to favor the partisans. [[Adolf Hitler]] sent [[
In March 1945, Tito became premier of Yugoslavia. By now the remaining Axis forces were in full retreat. Zagreb, the capital of the Croatian Nazi state fell and its leaders either fled or were captured (and usually killed after a show trial). Some Axis forces continued to resist for a week even after Germany surrendered, but they were quickly overcome. Over the next few years he created a federation of socialist republics (Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia).
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Although created president for life in 1974, Tito established a unique system of collective, rotating leadership within the country. Tito died on May 4, 1980, and the system did not last long. Lacking a strong leader, the Belgrade leadership pushed for a highly centralized state, but was resisted by the ruling parties of each republic. The economic situation of Yugoslavia also deteriorated after Tito's death and, with the collapse of the East Bloc, the communist parties lost their monopoly on power and lost the elections to the nationalists. In 1991, Slovenia and Croatia declared independence, which led to the [[Yugoslav Wars]].
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* [[Abusive Dad]]: All the money the young Josip got from begging was spent by his father for gambling and alcohol.
* [[Arch Enemy]]: Of the Chetnik Leader Draža Mihailović.
** And of Ante Pavelić, the leader of the Croatian Nazi state (and the ruling Ustaše movement).
* [[Badass]]: Starting as a locksmith he was a veteran of [[World War
** [[Badass in
** [[Colonel Badass]]
* [[Badass Boast]]: The following message from Tito was found in [[Josef Stalin]]'s personal papers following his death:
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* [[Badass Longcoat]]: He wore this look during World War 2.
* [[Bash Brothers]]: With Milovan Đilas and Aleksandar Ranković during World War II.
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* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]]: As above mentioned, he was in his youth a poor locksmith end ended as one of the most influential persons of the [[Cold War]].
* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: Tito is still popular in quite a few countries that belong(ed) to the Non-Aligned Movement. You may find a street or two named after him in the most unlikely of places.
* [[Impaled
* [[Improbable Age]]: He was with at age of 22 the youngest Sergeant Major of the Austro-Hungarian army.
* [[Kavorka Man]]: Not only was he married to the 32 year younger Jovanka but was also rumored to have affairs when he was in his eighties.
* [[Kick the Son of
* [[Leitmotif]] / [[Awesome Music]]: Has many.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjGfeC-vGt0 Uz Marsala Tita]
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qna0nBFx7d0&feature=related Titovim putem]
* [[Made of Iron]]: According to one of his security chiefs, 57 assassination attempts were planned against Tito from the year 1928 to his death, and four times the assassins almost succeeded (he was wounded in one attempt in 1947, and survived another in 1950 one thanks to his bulletproof vest). He also barely survived being impaled by a lance during World War I (it took him 13 months to recover) and was lightly wounded by bomb shrapnel during World War II.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: He repeatedly evaded capture by the Axis forces (including the elite paratroopers and mountain divisions sent after him) and managed to pull off several clever ruses, such as [
* [[Master Swordsman]]: He won the silver medal at an Austro-Hungarian army sword-fighting championship.
* [[May
** In fact, all four of his wives (and many of his mistresses) were a lot younger than him.
* [[Meaningful Funeral]]: His funeral was attended by 4 kings, 31 presidents, 6 princes, 22 prime ministers and 47 ministers of foreign affairs; together they represented almost every country of the [[Cold War]]-era.
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* [[Multinational Team]]: His partisans - and later Yugoslavia itself - consisted of seven major nationalities (Slovenes, Croats, Bosniaks, Serbs, Macedonians, Montenegrins and Albanians) and three major religions (Catholics, Orthodox Christians and Muslims). There were also smaller groups such as the Czechs, Italians, Jews etc.
* [[No One Gets Left Behind]]: Tito was big on this one, and famously managed to keep his pledge to save all the wounded after the Battle of the Neretva.
* [[Only Known
* [[Pragmatic Villainy]]: Villain? Debatable. Pragmatic? Definately! He gave the Axis soldiers several chances to surrender and receive amnesty. By the end of the war a lot of them ended up fighting for the partisans (the number of partisans grew from 250,000 to 800,000 from 1944 to 1945!).
* [[Rated
* [[Really Gets Around]]: Tito was married four times and allegedly had children with at least 17 women. God knows how many affairs this man had.
* [[The Remnant]]: Played briefly straight during [[World War II]] after the provisorial [[
* [[
=== In fiction: ===
* Included in the manga ''Ishi No Hana'' by Sakaguchi Hisashi, as a secondary character.
* Tito appears in ''The Battle of Sutjeska'' where he is played by [[Richard Burton (actor)|Richard Burton]].
* Mentioned in ''The Man With the Iron Heart'' by [[Harry Turtledove]]. Heydrich used Tito's tactics as an inspiration for the German Freedom Front.
* Dolgare from ''[[Tactics Ogre]]'' is based on him.
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