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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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* [[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 [
* [[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-December Romance]]: With Jovanka.
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* [[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 [
* [[
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