The Unifier
Josip Broz Tito, born 1892, Kumrovec, Austria-Hungary [now Croatia], died 1980, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia [now Slovenia].
Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. The first Communist leader in power to defy Soviet hegemony, he supported workers' management of production rather than Soviet-style central planning, and led the formation of the non-aligned bloc during the Cold War. He permitted freedom in the Arts, but demanded loyalty to the Party. His cult of personality did not survive him.
"At his death, the state treasury was empty and political opportunists unchecked. He died too late for constructive change, too early to prevent chaos." --Britannica.com
His little rural hometown is now an open-air architectural and cultural museum with many houses and barns containing household goods and farm implements of the period. You can see a pile of dried corn in a barn behind the statue's left shoulder, and a spider web on its right.
The rain falls on the just, and the unjust.
7:45 CDT; 06-23-2023
The Unifier
Josip Broz Tito, born 1892, Kumrovec, Austria-Hungary [now Croatia], died 1980, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia [now Slovenia].
Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. The first Communist leader in power to defy Soviet hegemony, he supported workers' management of production rather than Soviet-style central planning, and led the formation of the non-aligned bloc during the Cold War. He permitted freedom in the Arts, but demanded loyalty to the Party. His cult of personality did not survive him.
"At his death, the state treasury was empty and political opportunists unchecked. He died too late for constructive change, too early to prevent chaos." --Britannica.com
His little rural hometown is now an open-air architectural and cultural museum with many houses and barns containing household goods and farm implements of the period. You can see a pile of dried corn in a barn behind the statue's left shoulder, and a spider web on its right.
The rain falls on the just, and the unjust.
7:45 CDT; 06-23-2023