Josip Broz Tito: Difference between revisions

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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 [[Useful Notes/Nazis With Gnarly Weapons|German Army]] invaded and the government was forced into exile. Large parts of the country were annexed by Germany, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria, and several puppet regimes were installed - the largest being the [[A Nazi By Any Other Name|Croatian Ustaše]] regime of Ante Pavelić.

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 [[Useful Notes/Nazis With Gnarly Weapons|German Army]] invaded and the government was forced into exile. Large parts of the country were annexed by Germany, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria, and several puppet regimes were installed - the largest being the [[A Nazi by Any Other Name|Croatian Ustaše]] regime of Ante Pavelić.

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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** 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 One]], a spy, a cassanova, a freedom fighter who almost on his own liberated Yugoslavia and a statesman who, along with Nkrumah, Sukarno, Selassie, Nasser and Nehru, founded the Non-Aligned Movement, all in one single life.

** [[Badass in A Nice Suit]]: In his Marshall uniform.

** [[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:

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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 ~~With~~ Extreme Prejudice]]: Happened to him during World War I, when a Cossack stabbed him in the back using a lance. He got better, though.

* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: Happened to him during World War I, when a Cossack stabbed him in the back using a lance. He got better, though.

* [[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 A Bitch]]: Subverted with the [[wikipedia:Bleiburg massacre|Massacre of Bleiburg]]. Not only were surrendering [[Those Wacky Nazis|Wehrmacht soldiers]], [[A Nazi By Any Other Name|Ustasha]], [[The Remnant|Chetniks]], and [[Punch Clock Villain|Domobrani]] murdered en masse by the partisans, but sadly many civilians too.

* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: Subverted with the [[wikipedia:Bleiburg massacre|Massacre of Bleiburg]]. Not only were surrendering [[Those Wacky Nazis|Wehrmacht soldiers]], [[A Nazi by Any Other Name|Ustasha]], [[The Remnant|Chetniks]], and [[Punch Clock Villain|Domobrani]] murdered en masse by the partisans, but sadly many civilians too.

* [[Leitmotif]] / [[Awesome Music]]: Has many.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjGfeC-vGt0 Uz Marsala Tita]

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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 By Their Nickname]]: Almost everyone simply called him "Comrade/Marshal Tito".

* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: Almost everyone simply called him "Comrade/Marshal Tito".

* [[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 "M" for Manly]]: Just read his biography or the rest of his entries. His depiction in Yugoslav propaganda did sometimes even go into [[Testosterone Poisoning]].

* [[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 [[wikipedia:Republic of U%C5%BEice|Republic of Uzice]] was overrun by the Axis.

* [[Written By the Winners]]

* [[Written by the Winners]]

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