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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My mother passed away peacefully today in hospital, thankfully she didn't have any pain.
OMG you are actually sooo predictable, I knew from the moment I shit my pants that you would make fun of me for it
My grandma's literally older than Israel and has listened to the news almost obsessively since she was like 8 years old and hasn't had any mental decline so like, despite being incredibly BBC brained she's really anti Israel because she can literally remember every single crime they've committed. Whenever I go round to visit her she has several radios in different rooms (all on max volume because she's pretty deaf) and we'll just start talking for a bit about what's in the news and she'll relate it to something that happened 60 years ago when she was a young woman. Idk, it's weird to think that she was literally a preteen when Stalin died.
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Something like, 4 months ago, I started sending my friend pictures of cute guys, and then a lil while after I started sending her girlfriend them as well. A month in and they just made a groupchat for all of us lmao. And since then, their girlfriend (they're poly) and another person joined the gc. So I just have a men groupchat for me to post cute guys to the people I love.
So that kinda diminished the utility of hexbear for me. But aside from using hexbear to post about cute guys, it also had me constantly plugged into the happenings around the world and the internet — and it's been really nice not having that
got refunded for accidentally signing up for a health insurance plan i couldnt afford on my most recent paycheck
absolutely horrendous post, do not read
i'm serious, this joke is awful
awful in several senses of the word. i am going to regret posting this and you will regret reading it
you're a dumb bastard if you click this and read it anyway. don't say i didn't warn you
wishing i was born in china so i could live in a socialist country; call that autochinaphillia
I had a dream last night that I was banned from lemmy.zip for posting pictures of beans over and over again, and everybody back on Hexbear was tagging me in dozens of posts about beanis as some form solidarity.
Went and got my new phone today, bus drivers were very nice to me. First bus I simply didn't have the cash on me for the fare (they didn't take card), so he let me ride for free. On my way back home and after a visit to an ATM, the bus driver didn't take my cash cause he didn't have the change for any of the notes (50kr and 100kr), so again I got to ride for free, :07: to you, bus drivers.
I have been informed that calling people anglos is racist and that "anglo" is national-socialism language. i will be taking a hiatus to reflect on how I have hurt the English people with my thoughtless behavior.
Caption from the Wikipedia article “Altruism (biology)”
Cooperative hunting by wolves allows them to tackle much larger and more nutritious prey than any individual wolf could handle. However, such cooperation could, potentially, be exploited by selfish individuals who do not expose themselves to the dangers of the hunt, but nevertheless share in the spoils.
The brainworms run deep.
