Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
116,942
edits
Josip Broz Tito: Difference between revisions
update link
m (Mass update links) |
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (update link) |
||
| (6 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{
[[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.
Line 10 ⟶ 11:
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.
Line 24 ⟶ 25:
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]].
{{creatortropes}}
* [[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 a Nice Suit]]: In his Marshall uniform.
** [[Colonel Badass]]
* [[Badass Boast]]: The following message from Tito was found in [[Josef Stalin]]'s personal papers following his death:
{{quote|
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: He wore this look during World War 2.
* [[Bash Brothers]]: With Milovan Đilas and Aleksandar Ranković during World War II.
Line 87:
* 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.
Line 94:
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Historical Domain Character]]
[[Category:
| |||