Born in Croatia on May 25, 1892 of a native peasant and a Slovene mother.
Kumrovec lies in the Croatian Zagorje and Croatia was still under Austro-Hungarian rule. Broz worked as a mechanic in small workshops. During World War I, he served in the Austro-Hungarian army. He was captured as a prisoner of war and transported to the Russian interior. He joined a Bolshevik group while in prison and after escaping, he joined the Bolshevik Red Guards several months before the October Revolution.
He was registered as a member of the Communist party. Back in Yugoslavia, he continued his revolutionary work as a secretary of a metal union. He was picked up and spent six years in prison. He was released in 1934 and joined the Comintern in Moscow. Visited Moscow several times and was appointed Secretary of Yugoslav Communist Party in 1937. His success was due in part to the internal rivalry of communist leaders. In January 1939, he was officially appointed general secretary of the Yugoslav Communist Party.
After Nazi invasion, set up his Partisans in Southern Serbia in 1941, and led by far the most powerful resistance movement in Europe. By end of the War, Tito’s forces had control of the whole country. Refused to take Stalin’s direction, and was expelled from the Cominform in 1948. Remained leader of the country till his death in 1980.
From then on, Tito had a major voice in all the ensuing phases of the Yugoslav revolution. During World War II, he became commander in chief of the partisan armed forces. In 1943, the Second Session of the Anti-Fascist Council of the National Liberation of Yugoslavia established the second Yugoslavia as a federal socialist republic of six republics. Tito had to make use of all his charisma to convince his comrade-partisans that all peoples of Yugoslavia should be granted equal rights. The partisan struggle ended with a complete victory of the communists. Supported strategically by their allies, both of the West and the East, complying formally with some demands for a multi-party system, Tito could form his first government on March 7, 1945.
More dangerous for Tito’s political career was the clash with the USSR. The Cominform conflict led to a break with Moscow. Tito’s internal power base was threatened as well, and large-scale purges in the party were bitterly needed. Needed also was an alternative ideology. In the beginning of the 1950s self-management was rediscovered in Marx’s writings and step by step introduced in Yugoslavia.
After the fall of hardliner Ranković, economic and political liberalization broke through and this threatened the party monopoly anew. At the same time, on advice of the Slovene Edvard Kardelj, he pushed through constitutional reforms to take the wind out of the sails of nationalism. By granting more autonomy, responsibility and formal self-government to the republics, he hoped to reduce the tensions between the federal units. In the same spirit, he set up a federal presidency structure to ensure the continuity of the system after his death.
In international affairs, Tito profited much from the rivalries of the two blocs during the Cold War. He played a leading role in the movement of the so-called Non-Aligned Countries.
Tito died in May 1980 and the structures set up to ensure continuity functioned more or less satisfactorily for a few years. Then, divergent aspirations could no longer be reconciled and the federal structure exploded.
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Having a strong "am i extremely angry about [social phenomena] because i see connections to past social and political actions that had terrible reprecussions, or have I just finally gone completely over the edge in to mindless reflexive grognardness?" Moment. My friends never seem to understand the things I'm angry about all the time. People treat me like i'm a nut. I struggle to explain connections between events that seem unconnected to people who aren't aggressively online and involved in politics. First as tragedy, then as farce? I can't even get feedback on this shit. This is all about the helldivers game fiasco. To me? It was just another of gamergate's slimy head's rearing up to whip up a mob of aggrieved gamers in a harassment campaign. It looked just like gamergate, like witch hunts from old reddit, like 4chan and Anon harassment campaigns. Am i right? Am i wrong? Is there anything to discuss? I have no idea, no one i'm interacting with has any diea what the fuck i'm talking about, they don't seem to see any continuity between this incident and prior incidents of psuedo-political gamer activism, this is it's own thing, it doesn't bear on anything else, it didn't grow from prior events and won't influence events to come.
I feel like the "i live in a t-34 in a junkyard" guy, always mad about shit other people don't think about until it inevitably effects them years or decades later. But maybe i'm just an angry nut who gets off on being outraged all the time and i should just shut up, stop trying to understand anthing, and grill. I hate this all so much. I'm angry and upset and i feel like shit and I can't sleep and the only thing happening on the internet tonight is gamers congratulating themselves for beating big bad sony, with none of them stopping to reflect on how badly they've caused real, serious harm and trauma to the people at Arrowhead over this.they got their victory, sony agreed to maintain the status quo. They stopped something with almost no material consequences from happening. They're heroes. Tomorrow they'll go right back to harassing the artists and programmers and writers at Arrowhead because some minor change was made that they disliked.
I'm so tired of this. I'm stuck in my house with nothing to really do but play games and wait for an improvement in function. I don't want to deal with any of this. I just want to play fucking games to keep the clock moving as i await my appointment with death and all this misery finally ends. And with every genuinely cool thing i find, that i want to talk about and be excited about, it feels like there's all these fucking gamers being aggrieved miserable shithead treat piggies. Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. Fuck all of this. I hate living like this, why can't people just be fucking decent to each other? All these assholes are so fucking self satisified about their win they don't think about the people their campaign hurt at all. What did you when with you terrorized all the community managers in to shutting down their personal social media? What did you win doxxing workers who are going to feel unsafe at their jobs and look for an exit? What did you win drawing.a whole new block of people in to the sick ecstasy of righteous hatred, people who will be that much easier to mobilize in the next right win reactionary harassment campaign? Fuck. Fuck.
And this hurts personally because i was excited for the game because i played the first game and since it dropped most of my attempts to like educate, explain, help other players in the communities where this was organized have been rebuffed, insulted, shot down, downvoted, dismissed. I don't think that community acted in good faith because i spent a lot of time trying to participate in that community related to the cool thing i liked and i saw constant bad faith. Bad faith complaints and if people said "no, that's not right, that's not what's happening, you're misunderstanding the system, you're not understanding how the game works, you're manipulating images to create false impressions", the people trying to educate and help and spread joy were downvoted, insulted, called idiots and fools and shills. Fuck. The top of the page was always screaming and whining about problems that didn't exist or were due to lack of player knowledge, and there was a rigid and inflexible refusal to allow any deviation from the narrative that the devs were malicious idiots, that everthing in the game was broken, that every problem players had was a result of developer malice and incompetence. Just this tirrade of bad faith self righteous grievance and bullshit. Fuck.
I hate being powerless and disabled and isolated from a real social life. I hate living on the internet like this. I'm so tired of this shit. I've been enmeshed in these petty online culture war conflicts for so long while my health has deteriorated, my friends have drifted away or outright abandoned me or fallen in to their own isolated holes of misery and illness. I'm getting old and i'm so tired and i'm posting about it at 4am bc i don't have anyone to talk to about any of this except therapists and my gay hexagon commies. So many of the little joys I find are fucked up by culture war bullshit and just fuck.
I don’t know what to say, since I’m the same way always seeing connections to capitalism and stuff others don’t, but I’m also never angry and kind of shitpost-grill-pilled. Maybe you should chill out or meditate or whatever, or maybe I’m just privileged/lucky to be able to joke about politics in the abstract while scarcely affected.
Edit: actually no, gamers suck and it’s best you ignore them