Forty -five years since Josip Broz Tito’s death
45 years ago, the lifelong president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia-Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980) died.
Tito was the leader in the fight against the occupier from 1941 to 1945. He was the longtime leader of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and commander of its armed forces from the end of World War II to death in 1980. It was one of the founders of the Non -Aligned Movement, which united countries from several continents that did not belong to any of the two dominant blocks at the time, Western and East Block – NATO and the Warsaw Agreement.
Opinions about his role and work are contrasting – for some Tito is a symbol of social justice, a better and more reliable life, a great foreign policy reputation, and for others – a dictator with huge political power that has been calculated with political dissenters.
Josip Broz Tito died on May 4, 1980 at the Ljubljana Clinical Center. He is buried in Dedinje in Belgrade in the flower house. The funeral was attended by more than 200 statesmen and prominent figures around the world. Many citizens of the former SFRY republics are still coming to his grave. The flower house has been visited by more than 20 million people so far.
