Josip Broz ‘Tito’: Too Tough for Stalin

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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024

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  • @Biographics
    @Biographics  4 года назад +485

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    • @lll870621345lll
      @lll870621345lll 4 года назад +5

      DO ONE ABOUT ENVER HOXHA ALBANIAN DICTATOR

    • @zackferris5268
      @zackferris5268 4 года назад +2

      Nicolae Ceaușescu. I feel that’s all I need for convincing lol

    • @tarbalonggzadar8939
      @tarbalonggzadar8939 4 года назад +3

      Alexander 1st was dead by 1940 for 6 years. He was killed by ustasha regime in assasination in France.... Just sayin

    • @defactunit363
      @defactunit363 4 года назад +3

      Tito is 10th mass murder in the human history. Yugoslavia was divided into 50/50 percentage deal between Churchill and Stalin therefore Tito was just a marionette who was always depending either on western help or Stalin’s. He became western puppet, a tool against his master Stalin.

    • @malizlato
      @malizlato 4 года назад +1

      @@defactunit363 it would take a century how blatantly stupid you are and all the lies you spew...but no one has time for imbecils like you.

  • @JohnSmith-sl6uq
    @JohnSmith-sl6uq 2 года назад +3094

    Interesting story about Tito:
    My paternal grandfather served in the British Airforce in WW2. One morning, towards the latter years of the war, my grandfather's friend gave him a knife. Later that day, my grandfather was shot down by a German pilot in Yugoslavia, and he parachuted into the water. The only reason he didn't drown was because he used the knife to cut open the parachute that was collapsing on him in the water.
    He was able to swim towards the shore, and a Yugoslavian fisherman ended up swimming out to help my exhausted grandfather to the shore. He brought him in and eventually took him to a nearby camp of The Partisans, the communist guerilla group led by Tito.
    Tito was at this camp. My grandfather met him, and Tito personally handwrote a letter that allowed my grandfather safe passage back to England.
    We still own the letter and the knife.

    • @gil8132
      @gil8132 2 года назад +108

      TELL MORE PLESE

    • @JohnSmith-sl6uq
      @JohnSmith-sl6uq 2 года назад +429

      @@gil8132 my grandfather must have made an impact on Tito, because when the Yugoslavian embassy happened in Melbourne, Australia in 1980-ish, they invited my grandfather who was living there at the time. Whether Tito himself was there I can't remember, but my grandfather shared caviar, cigars, drinks and stories with other Yugoslavians there

    • @TheFonograf
      @TheFonograf 2 года назад +70

      Thanks for sharing this John, fascinating story.

    • @Hello_Its_Me_Tom
      @Hello_Its_Me_Tom 2 года назад +93

      OI YOU GOT A LOISCENSE FOR THAT KNOIFE THERE BRUV!!!!???

    • @TammoKorsai
      @TammoKorsai 2 года назад +24

      Can we see some photos of the letter and knife?

  • @murdanauf
    @murdanauf 4 года назад +5206

    I think there were about 56 assasionation attempts on Tito, there is a book about it I read years ago. Most of them attempted by USSR and the USA. He visited JFK once in NYC, and he was almost shot there. There is a recorded phone call from Tito to JFK after Tito got home, telling JFK he loved it in America and that he should come visit Yugoslavia so he could return the hospitality

    • @josephleonard6695
      @josephleonard6695 4 года назад +1145

      Tito is so full of dark comedy

    • @Yeaggghurte
      @Yeaggghurte 4 года назад +121

      Yeah but jfk wasn’t almost shot so he’s dead

    • @nont18411
      @nont18411 4 года назад +563

      Makes me wonder, what if what happened in Dallas 1963 was Tito returning the hospitality?

    • @Cobra0190
      @Cobra0190 4 года назад +165

      @@nont18411 I mean there’s no evidence to prove that.

    • @confused4971
      @confused4971 3 года назад +316

      @@Cobra0190 Yeah, but regardless its fun to think about

  • @misspurdy27288
    @misspurdy27288 5 лет назад +7698

    “Stalin, stop sending people to kill me! We’ve already captured five of them, one with a bomb and another with a rifle... If you keep sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow. And I won’t have to send another.”
    The best quote. Ever.

    • @enderlaptopminecrafter390
      @enderlaptopminecrafter390 4 года назад +56

      *tiTo
      Umesto staljina haahha
      Edit-uj koment
      Greska

    • @misspurdy27288
      @misspurdy27288 4 года назад +33

      enderlaptop minecrafter3 huh? sorry i only speak english and bits of japanese XD translation please.

    • @yohatch
      @yohatch 4 года назад +82

      @@misspurdy27288 You need to change the name, Tito said that, not Stalin.

    • @misspurdy27288
      @misspurdy27288 4 года назад +151

      _Laboratorija The ‘stalin:’ is part of the quote. Although good catch it should be a comma.

    • @michaeldunne338
      @michaeldunne338 4 года назад +34

      If true, totally bad @$$ ...

  • @garrick3727
    @garrick3727 4 года назад +1833

    I went to Yugoslavia as a kid and never knew it was a communist country. It just seemed like going anywhere else. I remember it was very green and the bread was good. Ten years later it had disintegrated.

    • @seadfacic2924
      @seadfacic2924 3 года назад +5

      @Andrea Zan Zanardi l'infame Can you elaborate on that please?

    • @semirveskovic7980
      @semirveskovic7980 3 года назад +36

      @Andrea Zan Zanardi l'infame yup, they did kill a lot of NAZIS

    • @malina5606
      @malina5606 3 года назад +6

      @Andrea Zan Zanardi l'infame Bujna mašta radi svašta, ha ha! Hilarious!

    • @justme_gb
      @justme_gb 3 года назад +95

      Many places have delicious bread but the competition for 'best in the world' would all be former Yugoslavian countries.

    • @Wok_Agenda
      @Wok_Agenda 3 года назад +38

      *Socialist

  • @bruhguyman4781
    @bruhguyman4781 4 года назад +8822

    Serbs: Tito was a Croatian dictator.
    Croats: Tito was a Serbian dictator.
    Bosnians: Tito was a nice guy.

    • @SerbwithGod
      @SerbwithGod 4 года назад +422

      Ya 'cuz he invented them ... And Tito was half Croatian , half Slovene , so ...

    • @alfamuzjaksakitomiznadpros5182
      @alfamuzjaksakitomiznadpros5182 4 года назад +1115

      @@SerbwithGod pretty sure Bosnians weren't invented by Tito

    • @SerbwithGod
      @SerbwithGod 4 года назад +160

      @@alfamuzjaksakitomiznadpros5182 As a nation, first mentioned as Muslims only place in the world, you would see that.. Before that mostly Serbs and other Croats...

    • @alfamuzjaksakitomiznadpros5182
      @alfamuzjaksakitomiznadpros5182 4 года назад +478

      @@SerbwithGod Before 1971, Bosnian Muslims saw themselves as Bosnians, it's not like they went around and called themselves Serbs or Croats, there's a reason we got the term "Muslim" Bosniaks wanted a term for themselves because they didn't feel like they were Serbs or Croats, during Ottoman and Austro Hungarian times Bosniak or Bosnian was a term tha was used. That is why in 1971 they wanted to get a new name, and the only thing the Yugoslav government saw as a good name was " Muslim"

    • @SerbwithGod
      @SerbwithGod 4 года назад +64

      @@alfamuzjaksakitomiznadpros5182 Bosnian Serb or Bosnian Croat by geographical location, not a nation, and they felt different because of Tito, same is for Macedonians and Montenegrins...

  • @olivercuenca4109
    @olivercuenca4109 5 лет назад +2135

    "Tried to please everyone, ended up pissing everyone off." Ain't that just the story of human history.

    • @00p-u1t
      @00p-u1t 5 лет назад +43

      Absolutely. The modern day media in both strongest nations of former Yugoslavia; Croatia and Serbia seem to compete who is going to come up with more filth and dirt about him. But it's the way of the world today. The ever more rich elites are just taking care of the plebs keeping it at bay from their wealth which isn't really their wealth since they haven't created it. But... oh well... :)

    • @ziparis
      @ziparis 5 лет назад +5

      Not entirely. Some people are murderous psychopaths out only for their own power.

    • @danielgyllenbreider
      @danielgyllenbreider 4 года назад +34

      That is not the story of Tito, however. He is held in high regard among lots of the former yugoslav people.

    • @edwincasimir28
      @edwincasimir28 4 года назад +16

      @@danielgyllenbreider And don't forget: foreigners, both leaders and citizens as well. Unlike the current leaders of ex-Yu states, he was at least respectable.

    • @anteretem9569
      @anteretem9569 4 года назад +7

      The problem is much complicated, tito did a lot of good things, but in Yougoslavia some secret parties try to take the power in the shadows and tito use full power on them and was regard less, his secret police did a lot of bad things. Some people's who talked bad about Yugoslavia and about tito, tito send guy's from his secret police to kill them, like in Germany in the 70's tito organized assassination of ex-yugoslavian people who said that tito was dictator.

  • @Elementalism
    @Elementalism 5 лет назад +3704

    Damn, dude has Hitler and Stalin going after him and he survives.

    • @pahvalrehljkov
      @pahvalrehljkov 5 лет назад +330

      only in balkan...

    • @brickrok2408
      @brickrok2408 5 лет назад +18

      Elementalism he was an ustasha who was on the nazi side

    • @thelastshadow8623
      @thelastshadow8623 5 лет назад +36

      He was a murder and an idiot

    • @thelastshadow8623
      @thelastshadow8623 5 лет назад +10

      @@urby5996 are you realy soo primitive that you CANT read books? Looks like you are the stupid one over here

    • @thelastshadow8623
      @thelastshadow8623 5 лет назад +21

      @bsdnix3 learn english... and polite conversation because i called a comunist dictator a murderer an an idiot i am automaticly fashist? Civilized balkan people....

  • @PokojniToza1804
    @PokojniToza1804 4 года назад +1489

    Here is a real story showing what kind of character Tito was.
    My father used to play accordion in a traditional music group, so called Kulturno Umjetničko Društvo (cultural and artistic company) from Sarajevo. These companies were a thing that literally every city, town or village had in Yugoslavia. Many of them exist to this day. The purpose of those troops is to preserve old songs and traditional dances of the people of Yugoslavia and give young people a place to pursue a hobby. Anyway, in his orchestra the lead accordion player has met Tito in person and had a really nice story about him. He was also a good friend of my father, his name was Mehmed, all of us kids called him uncle Meho. He enlisted in Yugoslav Navy in December 1952. as a sailor. At the time the mandatory military service in the navy was 3 years long so he was due to serve until December 1955. After finishing his basic training he was assigned to serve aboard Tito's presidential yacht "Galeb". In 1953. Tito started his famous world peace tour with "Galeb" and the trip lasted for 478 days. During the trip, at open sea, Tito insisted on having so called "sailor's evenings" where the crew would gather, sing, dance and spend the evening hanging out with him. The official reason behind it was that it is good for crew morale, but the truth was that Tito preferred hanging out with regular people instead of all the suck-ups and lackeys around him. And no one dared to oppose Tito regarding having those events. So my dad's friend, being a musician, was given an accordion and he was the main entertainer on those evenings. Not just because he knew how to play accordion and Tito's favorite folk songs, but also because he was from Bosnia and had that recognizable Bosnian sense of humor and a sense for a good party. Tito even remembered his first name and called him "comrade Meho". Almost half a year after that Tito came back to "Galeb" for some official state reception. As he was walking in front of the lined up crew he recognized uncle Meho and asked him "you are still here, Meho?" and uncle Meho replied "3 years of service, comrade Tito". Tito looked at him with a bit stunned expression and asked "when was the last time you went home for a leave?" and he replied "for 2 weeks, when we came back from the trip". Tito just let out some confused "hmmmm" then added "that is outrageous", patted him on the shoulder and said "we'll get that right". After 2 weeks he received honorable discharge papers signed by Tito personally, almost a year before his service was due. He kept them framed on his wall for his entire life as a souvenir and also as proof of the story. Not long after that navy service was cut down to 2 years. You can guess whose idea and order it was.
    You can say and think about him whatever you want, but you can't deny that Tito cared about the common people of Yugoslavia.

    • @WarCrimeGaming
      @WarCrimeGaming 4 года назад +217

      I have many Balkan friends, and they all said that their parents lived in heaven until Titos death

    • @milepod
      @milepod 4 года назад +85

      @Andrea Zan Zanardi l'infame if you're a leader of a country in a cold war, state sanctioned murder is one of the things that go along with it. He didn't kill as many as the CIA did in those days, and yet people don't seem to call US presidents pig murderers for some reason. It is true that he could have provided a more pluralistic society if he put the effort in, but he was sadly heavily influenced by the bolshevik ideology. I'm still impressed his version of Stalinism was much, much softer on citizens of Yugoslavia than the actual Stalinism was on citizens of the Soviet union. Political repression was all the rage in those days and for that he will always be called a dictator.

    • @milepod
      @milepod 4 года назад +9

      @Andrea Zan Zanardi l'infame oh well I think the land Italy occupied after WW1 would not be such a serious issue if it weren't for the forced Italianization and forced relocation of native Slovenian population during the 1920s and 1930s. My grandparents suffered greatly at the brutal oppression under Italian occupation during those times so I understand why they wanted sovereignty over those lands after the war and why they were prepared to push the Italians out with force.

    • @altergreenhorn
      @altergreenhorn 3 года назад +3

      @Andrea Zan Zanardi l'infame What italian land ? You mean an Austro Hungarian land with Slovenia majority which west gave to the Italy as a bribe in WWI to backstab Austria ? BTW Venice is not Italy

    • @altergreenhorn
      @altergreenhorn 3 года назад +1

      @Andrea Zan Zanardi l'infame Venice is Italy ? great then Rome isnt Italy

  • @misterbacon3423
    @misterbacon3423 5 лет назад +8529

    Fun fact: Tito was the only one who was allowed to smoke in the White House.

    • @bigpapa880
      @bigpapa880 5 лет назад +757

      MisterBacon342 what are they gonna do? Tell him no?

    • @GoranArsic76
      @GoranArsic76 5 лет назад +1834

      Yes, and he smoked Cuban cigars, supplied by Castro. lol.

    • @Tengri30
      @Tengri30 5 лет назад +671

      @@GoranArsic76 It was actually a gift given by Castro.

    • @ognjenpetrovic5843
      @ognjenpetrovic5843 5 лет назад +2496

      Nixon: We do not smoke in here
      Tito: Good for you

    • @ivanaznar6495
      @ivanaznar6495 5 лет назад +191

      @@ognjenpetrovic5843 I need more likes to give you for that comment

  • @BIGNEM
    @BIGNEM 5 лет назад +5317

    This man had the most celebrated and attended funeral of any world leader ever.

    • @nedmanovic
      @nedmanovic 5 лет назад +521

      @Biliary Clinton what @NEMSWOLRD meant by most attended is that a huge number of presidents, ministers, ambassadors, government officials etc of other countries attended his funeral. In that way it is still I believe the most attended funeral of all time.

    • @izetmedosevic9241
      @izetmedosevic9241 5 лет назад +210

      @Biliary Clinton No, no, Kings & Queens was there,.. Btw:The best punk rock culture was in Yugoslavia.

    • @autonomas8083
      @autonomas8083 5 лет назад +367

      @Biliary Clinton That was not the case in Tito's funeral. People came to pay their respects to him because they actually loved him. He managed hold a state with more than 5 different ethnicities. One of the best leaders in the world

    • @skendzo4901
      @skendzo4901 5 лет назад +127

      It was the second most watched tv program the number one was when the USA landed on the moon

    • @autonomas8083
      @autonomas8083 4 года назад +9

      @Biliary Clinton Why did your family have to flee?

  • @goranjosic
    @goranjosic 4 года назад +4644

    The Yugoslav passport was once the most desirable passport in the world, with the largest number of countries you could visit without a visa. You could travel from Japan, the Soviet Union, Western Europe, Cuba, the North and South America.
    This fact in itself is an amazing achievement...

    • @altergreenhorn
      @altergreenhorn 3 года назад +22

      @Karlo Cubing what you mean with rare? Every one had one

    • @MareSrbija
      @MareSrbija 3 года назад +18

      @Karlo Cubing False info! Dont listen to this gut

    • @DrugBa642
      @DrugBa642 3 года назад +356

      And only with with a Yugo passport, you could go to both West and East Germany

    • @goranjosic
      @goranjosic 3 года назад +105

      @Karlo Cubing I lived in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Yugoslavia), and my entire extended family, friends and neighborhood, loved shopping in Trieste - (at least when they had enough money for it), and Trieste is in Italy - so they all had passports.
      Don't alwais believe your friend :D

    • @goranfazlinovic4030
      @goranfazlinovic4030 3 года назад +23

      @Karlo Cubing are you actually dumb? My dad is from croatia and his whole family has passports, why would he strain his own people? He is a croat!

  • @nikispaniki
    @nikispaniki 3 года назад +386

    My friend’s father from Serbia killed himself after Tito died. He said Yugoslavia would now destroy itself and he was too old to want to go through anymore wars. He knew what was coming. My friend said he was happy his father at least had some good years after ww2 with Josip in charge.

    • @Euro.Patriot
      @Euro.Patriot 3 года назад +14

      He knew no-one liked Yugoslavia.

    • @swamifakkananda4043
      @swamifakkananda4043 2 года назад +6

      Woooow, what a story!!

    • @dyniaz65
      @dyniaz65 2 года назад +41

      the saddest thing is he was right, shortly after Tito death, Yugoslavia literally destroyed itself

    • @slaven000
      @slaven000 Год назад +13

      @@Euro.Patriot hm, my parents came back from Germany in the 70's to live and work in Yugoslavia. I've been around the world and Yugoslavia is still in a category for itself for me.
      Before WWII this area was basically a shithole. Infrastructure, industry, universal Education, Healthcare, retirement, maternity, women rights(we're now fighting to preserve all aforementioned)... Damn, whole cities were built and given to workers, factories had resorts at the Adriatic coast for it's workers..

  • @Evzone1821
    @Evzone1821 5 лет назад +3196

    Stalin: “I will shake my little finger and there will be no more Tito.”
    Tito: *laughs in 1980*

    • @damirbecirbegovic3374
      @damirbecirbegovic3374 5 лет назад +184

      He was the greatest, Stalin was a paranoid lunatic who murdered his people, Tito hated him for that.

    • @Evzone1821
      @Evzone1821 5 лет назад +55

      Damir Becirbegovic Tito was like Stalin, but watered down heavily.

    • @gaiusjuliuscaesar3808
      @gaiusjuliuscaesar3808 5 лет назад +133

      @@Evzone1821 You need to understand that the Balkan people, especially Ex-Yugs have an extreme adoration and romanticism towards Tito. And though Tito was fairly kind compared to Stalin(Not a difficult achievement tbh), he still lead purges and removed many of his yugoslav communist rivals through the Great Purge and supressed nationalism instead of solving it.

    • @itsblitz4437
      @itsblitz4437 5 лет назад +4

      @@damirbecirbegovic3374 right? Stalin was such a sore loser. Are you a Justice Democrat?

    • @armancausevic2155
      @armancausevic2155 5 лет назад +43

      @@gaiusjuliuscaesar3808 Yes I agree, however most don't understand that most people purged were nationalits for republics(e.g bosnian nationalists, croatian, serbian, etc.). You can observe clerly near his death and after how quickly the nationalists came power and desired to rid of the nation and establish indepedent republics(leading to the war, many other factors played into stirring up the war, but nationalism was the main factor I say).

  • @s.majstorovic5598
    @s.majstorovic5598 5 лет назад +3488

    His father, Franjo Broz, was a carpenter, a drunkard who beat his kids and wife. He would make Josip beg for money around Kumrovec just so the poor family could survive. His mother, Marija Broz, was the bearing pillar of the entire family, working multiple jobs. Tito in his later years talked of her with great respect and love. In 1977 the 85-year-old Tito was asked by a journalist to describe the hardest part of his life: "The hardest blow of my entire life, was when I returned from captivity in 1920, and I couldn't find my mother."

    • @rezok1896
      @rezok1896 5 лет назад +104

      If you don’t mind me asking, where did you read about this?

    • @MyKakec
      @MyKakec 5 лет назад +44

      he was killing people who opposed him and killing everyone who wanted to escape from the country.

    • @DocProctor
      @DocProctor 5 лет назад +541

      @@MyKakec
      That why my mother was free to leave Yugoslavia to work in Switzerland and after that go to Norway to marry my father? That why me and my family could go to Pakrac, Beograd, Lipik, etc to visit family whenever we wanted? That why my uncles and grandparents could come to Norway and visit whenever they wanted? Because he was killing people who wanted to leave the country?
      ROFL.

    • @-ED-
      @-ED- 5 лет назад +333

      @@MyKakec he was getting rid of TRAITORS and Nazi collaborators

    • @AABB-zb6dv
      @AABB-zb6dv 5 лет назад +393

      @@MyKakec That's not true. Yugoslavia under Tito was not closed state, people came and left all the time. 100s of thousands yugoslavs worked abroad, mostly in Germany.
      Also, foreign tourism to Yugoslavia was an important part of Yugoslavian economy because it was huge.

  • @Svarog187
    @Svarog187 5 лет назад +4726

    Fun Fact: Yugoslavians were the only people who could cross the German Wall legally.

    • @arianmartic7965
      @arianmartic7965 5 лет назад +575

      It just proves what powerfull of a country we were!

    • @jeromedragon5287
      @jeromedragon5287 5 лет назад +291

      @@arianmartic7965 too bad you couldn't learn to live together, how is it now? We don't get much news over here except bs

    • @arianmartic7965
      @arianmartic7965 5 лет назад +478

      @@jeromedragon5287 Well now we are just EU and Nato puppets, we are now german cock suckers and cheap slaves. And ustashas and fake socialists are doing this to us...

    • @XxpauldadudexX
      @XxpauldadudexX 5 лет назад +190

      @Arian Masters EU, Nato, Germans, Utashas, fake socialists...who ya gonna blame next, your granma?

    • @arianmartic7965
      @arianmartic7965 5 лет назад +287

      @@XxpauldadudexX My blame is also on us too, mainly ofc. Whats your point? I know my history... my blame is based on what happend. Facts brother. Where are you from btw?

  • @AmperSand666
    @AmperSand666 2 года назад +971

    He fought Hitler, he downed two american warplanes, confronted Stalin - quite unique and impressive performance.

    • @Bokicazver
      @Bokicazver 2 года назад

      And American did NOTHING!

    • @AlenB29
      @AlenB29 2 года назад +21

      he didnt down two american warplanes that was done by Serbs long after he was dead

    • @Darko_CC
      @Darko_CC 2 года назад +34

      @@AlenB29 this also happened after WW2 when Tito was claiming Italian territory with majority Slavs and the Americans were patrolling over it and ignoring his demands.

    • @mrclean29
      @mrclean29 2 года назад +9

      He did not. The Serbians did destroy two US airplanes long after his death, it was Slobodan Milosevic to be precise.
      On his list of “accomplishments” though, you should add that he murdered tons of innocent men, women and children in Istria and forced more than 290.000 Istrian people out of there, a genocide and an ethnic cleansing of the region to favor Slovenians and Croats that alone erased over 3000 years of Istria’s history.

    • @mrclean29
      @mrclean29 2 года назад

      @@Darko_CC “with majority slavs”

  • @jyotiradityaguleria907
    @jyotiradityaguleria907 5 лет назад +1957

    In Yugoslavia, it's not "me and the boys"
    it's
    "Me and the Broz"

    • @doookkk
      @doookkk 5 лет назад +96

      *_We_* and the Broz

    • @user-ri5oc5rw5b
      @user-ri5oc5rw5b 5 лет назад +18

      The broz gang

    • @thanmad
      @thanmad 5 лет назад

      Draza Mihailovic as Spiderman

    • @_Jebb_
      @_Jebb_ 5 лет назад +11

      "Tito i ja" (Tito and Me) - 1992
      Name of a serbian Pro-Yugoslav love movie made in 1992.

    • @mantis8326
      @mantis8326 5 лет назад +4

      The broz and I****

  • @poremechen
    @poremechen 5 лет назад +2626

    Fun fact: On his funeral were "four kings, 31 presidents, six princes, 22 prime ministers, and 47 ministers of foreign affairs, from both sides of the Iron Curtain. In total 128 countries out of the 154 UN members at the time were represented."

    • @Madferit1991
      @Madferit1991 5 лет назад +29

      Mangupski zaista!

    • @Ladovinka513
      @Ladovinka513 5 лет назад +476

      They all wanted to be sure he's actually dead before tearing up Yugoslavia

    • @tenhirankei
      @tenhirankei 5 лет назад +76

      "and a partridge in a pear tree!"

    • @silverdragon710
      @silverdragon710 5 лет назад +32

      Inspektor prince phillipe too

    • @whatever2981
      @whatever2981 5 лет назад +144

      Maybe so, but my Mom was there before his death and on his last day, on call working in the ER in the hospital. Fun fact, she was later also in the ER team for Bill Clinton when he visited Slovenia. She later died, aged 46. She helped save many lives and killed nobody. No kings were at her funeral. Her name was Janja. She is sorely missed.

  • @Jay-dm9ql
    @Jay-dm9ql 5 лет назад +3049

    Tito: I survived so many assassination attempts
    Fidel Castro: Hold my poisoned milkshake please

    • @kodyeldridge5847
      @kodyeldridge5847 5 лет назад +208

      Rasputin: hold my moscow mule.

    • @levvy3006
      @levvy3006 5 лет назад +298

      Castro once fucked an American female assassin so good she turned Communist. The dude was a real life James Bond.

    • @patternwhisperer4048
      @patternwhisperer4048 5 лет назад +73

      @@levvy3006 wait, is this actually true? Thats hilarious

    •  5 лет назад +14

      @@patternwhisperer4048 yeah right...

    • @Jay-dm9ql
      @Jay-dm9ql 5 лет назад +26

      @@levvy3006 The female assassin was his wife right? Correct me if I'm wrong

  • @Asgart12
    @Asgart12 3 года назад +32

    I'm a Hungarian (national minority) born in Serbia (Vojvodina) and my dad told me that he and his friends loved to travel to Budapest to attend concerts once or twice a year, and to just have fun. Hungary was a lot cheaper place back then, and with the money he made in Yugoslavia (a lot) he could party a lot more in Hungary. They were drinking on the stairs of the venue before a show one time and the Hungarian communist police started to raid the place hitting young people with police batons to disperse the crowd. When they got to my dad and his friends, they just casually showed their Yugoslav passports, with one hand (beer in the other hand) and the police officers apologized immediately and went on, leaving them alone. That was the power of the Yugoslav passport. Since then I heard similar stories from other people.

  • @DonSolaris
    @DonSolaris 5 лет назад +1552

    His funeral was spectacular though. Absolutely every world leader came, from Mrs.Thatcher to Sadam to Guadaffi. It was a freak show in way...

    • @CroSchauma
      @CroSchauma 5 лет назад +188

      Every one except American president Jimmy Carter who didn't show up, he sent his mother...

    • @matovicmmilan
      @matovicmmilan 5 лет назад +19

      Don Solaris
      I am not sure but I think Gaddafi wasn't present at Tito's funeral...

    • @reapthewhirlwind2114
      @reapthewhirlwind2114 5 лет назад +197

      Delegations from the IRA were present in the same room as Thatcher. Talk about a powderkeg.

    • @truelightningstriker5803
      @truelightningstriker5803 5 лет назад +29

      @@CroSchauma And his vice president Walter Mondale with her.

    • @lazarsjojic
      @lazarsjojic 5 лет назад +63

      @@matovicmmilan not correct. He was there in a big way. He installed his tent and create house in his tradition. He made big deal out of it. He brought camels and everything.

  • @HikoSeijuroXIII
    @HikoSeijuroXIII 4 года назад +876

    Stalin: Who are you and how did you get in here?
    Tito: I'm a locksmith and I'm a locksmith.

    • @hambogumble4123
      @hambogumble4123 4 года назад +12

      👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

    • @jayclean5653
      @jayclean5653 3 года назад +11

      Naked gun?

    • @zahfa7608
      @zahfa7608 3 года назад +16

      @@jayclean5653
      Police Squad, well you're technically correct.

    • @sashakraus671
      @sashakraus671 3 года назад +6

      brilliant

    • @krejziks3398
      @krejziks3398 3 года назад +6

      @@jayclean5653 Tito's profession was locksmith

  • @borisbubonja
    @borisbubonja 5 лет назад +1468

    "Our communism comes from the hills and forests of Yugoslavia, not pre-packaged from Moscow."

    • @manjur597
      @manjur597 4 года назад +27

      So true

    • @Red_Lanterns_Rage
      @Red_Lanterns_Rage 4 года назад +11

      lolz
      that's actually hilarious....
      😈

    • @AbeCastDrums
      @AbeCastDrums 4 года назад +39

      Based

    • @ryanchan2302
      @ryanchan2302 4 года назад +4

      He's not wrong

    • @AbeCastDrums
      @AbeCastDrums 3 года назад +39

      @Mad Max haha wtf? Tito's communist partisans freed Yugoslavia of the Nazis, Fascist Italians and Ustasha nazi fanatics. You're insane if you think otherwise.

  • @aSandwich.13
    @aSandwich.13 3 года назад +299

    "Nobody says 'no' to Stalin and lives."
    Tito: Hold my Pelinkovac

  • @dalmatiaball7687
    @dalmatiaball7687 5 лет назад +3158

    every axis soldier gangsta until forests start speaking serbo-croatian

    • @stefanvlad8472
      @stefanvlad8472 5 лет назад +12

      Dalmatian Mapper :))

    • @MONSTERKILL2013
      @MONSTERKILL2013 5 лет назад +88

      No, the forests spoke serbian

    • @dalmatiaball7687
      @dalmatiaball7687 5 лет назад +257

      @@MONSTERKILL2013 you just started a 4th balkan war

    • @MONSTERKILL2013
      @MONSTERKILL2013 5 лет назад +29

      @@dalmatiaball7687 Yes

    • @artgccdmn4627
      @artgccdmn4627 5 лет назад +28

      @@MONSTERKILL2013 Please calm down, It's Christmas. Sarbatori fericite si Srecnu novu godinu

  • @MrKruska11
    @MrKruska11 5 лет назад +1136

    Stalin: Sends assasin to kill Tito
    Tito: *pulls out reverse card*

  • @JojoBojob
    @JojoBojob 5 лет назад +2910

    The virgin Stalin
    Vs.
    The CHAD Tito

    • @Mullet-ZubazPants
      @Mullet-ZubazPants 4 года назад +193

      Broz before Joe's

    • @comradestefan7244
      @comradestefan7244 4 года назад +63

      More like Chad Stalin vs Giga Chad Tito

    • @Happy-cw6jx
      @Happy-cw6jx 4 года назад +35

      @@Mullet-ZubazPants Josip vs Josef

    • @bosbanon3452
      @bosbanon3452 4 года назад +7

      @@Happy-cw6jx iosef

    • @ngallardo1994
      @ngallardo1994 4 года назад +1

      This is the first comment that’s ever made me literally laugh out loud

  • @TheFonograf
    @TheFonograf 2 года назад +40

    I think that Charles Bukowski quote explains a lot regarding how it was in Yugoslavia in period 1945 - 1990: “The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting”. The truth is simple; the large majority of Yugoslav population loved Tito, because they had jobs, roof over their heads, most could afford a week holiday on the Adriatic, they enjoyed western style cultural life (hollywood films, rock'n'roll, levi's jeans), but most importantly they could see that wherever Tito went (and he travelled a lot), he was greeted as some sort of semi God. The attendance at his funeral tells its own story.

  • @markospas6249
    @markospas6249 5 лет назад +727

    My grandpa was a musician that played for Tito. He talked to him on several occasions. Once, my grandpa and his band played their clarinets for about 8-9 hours. Tito kept asking things like “When was the last time you ate? Are you ok?” when he found out they were playing so long

    • @mariocerin4105
      @mariocerin4105 5 лет назад +74

      Yeah, invited me to one of his banquets to gorge on caviar and the most expensive french wines. Had a great time with great music being played by your grandpa - no kidding!

    • @markospas6249
      @markospas6249 5 лет назад +44

      Mario Cerin Small world, huh?

    • @gil8132
      @gil8132 2 года назад

      I GOT IT

    • @saccorhytus
      @saccorhytus Год назад +2

      @@mariocerin4105 I can’t beleive Tito met Mario oh my god

    • @spicesmuggler2452
      @spicesmuggler2452 Год назад +2

      @@saccorhytus TITO MET MARIO TITO MET MARIO

  • @DarkKitarist
    @DarkKitarist 5 лет назад +594

    "AND I won't need to send another..." is the most badass thing ever said if you think about who Stalin was and what power he had, and who Tito was.

    • @sephikong8323
      @sephikong8323 5 лет назад +40

      It mostly worked because he played on his rampant paranoia. This bluff (it is unlikely that such attempt would be successful) made Stalin reconsider his acts as he didn't want to take the risk

    • @DarkKitarist
      @DarkKitarist 5 лет назад +48

      @@sephikong8323 it still stands as a testament that Stalin took Tito seriously. So my point still stands, because it takes massive brass balls to even do that in that time.

    • @TheVleckChannel
      @TheVleckChannel 5 лет назад +16

      As badass as the Spartans' reply to Philip of Macedonia when he threatened to destroy Sparta.

    • @DarkKitarist
      @DarkKitarist 5 лет назад +7

      @@TheVleckChannel True. And that kick thay Gerard Butler did in 300 was also cool.

    • @Ladovinka513
      @Ladovinka513 5 лет назад +2

      @@TheVleckChannel IF :)

  • @matejkmatejk3951
    @matejkmatejk3951 4 года назад +912

    Fun fact "goli otok" is literaly translated to naked island since there was nothing but rocks

    • @senadbibanovic5326
      @senadbibanovic5326 4 года назад +21

      Correction Barren Island*

    • @danicazivaljic7499
      @danicazivaljic7499 4 года назад +39

      Fun fact they killed people for making jokes on that island.

    • @handymode9958
      @handymode9958 4 года назад +11

      @@danicazivaljic7499 well do you really feel the need to make a (probably unfunny) joke in a communist regime?

    • @LjuboCupic1912
      @LjuboCupic1912 4 года назад +27

      Handy Mode Tito was more of a socialist than he was a communist. It was Ranković who was in charge of what happened on Goli Otok.

    • @DedaSpalioDjenku
      @DedaSpalioDjenku 4 года назад +18

      @@danicazivaljic7499 Ne seri danice. Niko nije bio ubijen zbog viceva, otkud ti te gluposti.. Da, bili su ljudi zatvarani tamo i da bili su i mučeni, ali da je neko bio ubijen zbog vica je čista izmišljotina

  • @pepper0604
    @pepper0604 2 года назад +82

    Fun fact: Tito was voted as a best dressed world leader.
    When visited Queen Elisabeth, the had a chat after dinner which lasted till 4 am. Queen was absolutely fascinated by Tito’s story and said to him, “ I can not believe how much you achieved in your life”. Also you can see in footage that she shook hands with him which she hardly ever did with anyone.

  • @tanjim6848
    @tanjim6848 5 лет назад +548

    Until today Tito remains the only foreigner to give a speech in my country's (Bangladesh) parliament. he was widely respected here.

    • @the4seasons4ever
      @the4seasons4ever 5 лет назад +7

      very true.he is very respected in your nation.

    • @zarni000
      @zarni000 4 года назад +2

      just goes to show how brainwashed you are

    • @ACR909
      @ACR909 4 года назад +25

      @@zarni000 care to explain?

    • @mcdzonlo8786
      @mcdzonlo8786 4 года назад +16

      I dident know that but its good to hear I still love tito and my family also and meny more from before jugoslavs countrys pozdrav from bosnia

    • @zarni000
      @zarni000 4 года назад

      @@mcdzonlo8786 truly pathetic

  • @M4dAf4ka
    @M4dAf4ka 5 лет назад +497

    Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, 1944, "Tito's decision to fight against the Nazis turning point in the history of World War II
    Charles de Gaulle, French President: "Tito is a fighter who despite the most difficult circumstances brought victory. Tito is a legendary hero ... "
    Heinrich Himmler, one of Hitler's closest associates, in 1944: "I wish you another example of persistence - perseverance of Marshal Tito. I must say he was an old communist, that Herr Josip Broz, that is a very strong man. Unfortunately, he is our opponent. This really deserves the title of Marshal ... He is our enemy, but I'd like to have a dozen Tito in Germany, people who would be leaders and that would have such determination and such strong nerves never to surrender, even though they are completely surrounded. This man has nothing, absolutely nothing. He was always surrounded, but that man has always found a way to break through. He never capitulated. We know best what our troubles behind on Yugoslav territory because they are so persistently struggling ... "

    • @unetortue3429
      @unetortue3429 5 лет назад +6

      De Gaulle really said that ? I thought he didn’t like Tito that much because of Mikhaïlovic death

    • @danilo16410
      @danilo16410 5 лет назад +15

      It may have been a turning point, because how I recall the story was that the resistence in Yugoslavia postponed Barbarossa for a month, is that correct? Which implies the Germans in Russia run faster in the winter, etc.

    • @praisetheomnissiah4475
      @praisetheomnissiah4475 5 лет назад +18

      @@danilo16410 No your thinking of Italy's invasion of Greece and north Africa which delated the Germans. Tito tied up alot of german divisions that would have gone to the eastern front though.

    • @DIgitusSmartas
      @DIgitusSmartas 5 лет назад +3

      @@danilo16410 Communist rising up against Germans stopped them and delayed their effort for more than month also Germans never thought even in a bad dream that they would have any problems with over running the country. % major offensives and they never won against bare handed country folks. Video is skewed a lot though.

    • @DIgitusSmartas
      @DIgitusSmartas 5 лет назад +3

      @@praisetheomnissiah4475 mate you have no idea... Eastern front is lost for Germans because of Yugoslavs, your first sentence doesn't make any sense

  • @aldee2787
    @aldee2787 5 лет назад +1356

    I know people always say the good ole times were better. But in the case of Yugoslavia they actually were. Some people here said it was a communist country and Tito was a brutal dictator. Both is only technically true. In reality Tito was pretty mild - at least in the years I know, the 70s and 80s. Yugoslavia had its own version of communism, which was actually more a liberal socialism and nothing to be mistaken with maoism or stalinism.
    Yugoslavia was a stable and economically moderate wealthy country. Inflation was tolerable. Economy was rather ok. There was an enormous middle class. Very little poor and very little super rich. The normal people had good jobs. Supermarkets were relatively full, healthcare was highly rated and free, schools and universities were great and free as well, streets were populated by western cars, shops had the latest Italian fashion, people wore swiss watches and used german tech. People had money. In my class I think only one kids parents could not afford to send him to vacation both times when the whole class was skiing in the winter and beach partying in the summer. It was pretty common to own or have a neighbor or someone in your family to have a second small house in the mountains or on the coast. People were free to have own businesses and make good money. Or leave the country and work some other places. In my family there was a dentist who went to Germany and a surgeon who went to Sweden. They were highly educated and seeked by other countries.
    It was a liberal country. Arts were highly regarded. I know we were reading a lots of books in my school and discussing Picasso and Van Gogh. There was a vivid punk and rock scene. Lots of music festivals, lots of cinemas. People were partying all the time. Sports were highly regarded and there were lots to choose from, not like everybody wants to play only football nowadays. Kids in my class were playing basketball, handball, waterpolo, even arching and the whole range of olympic sports were very common. People were free to travel all around the world. I was in the States and no one thought of me as a communist. Yugoslavia had a pretty good reputation. Kids from my class spent the holidays in Munich, London and Paris, they went to the Dalmatian coast, to Italy, Greece and Spain.
    Yugoslavia hat a relatively free press. The newspapers would roast the mayor cause that one street was still not done, and they would expose that one state owned factory for producing garbage. The intellectuals were free to do their thing, the artists were free to do their thing, the normal people were living free and in safety. There was no fear to end up in prison for no reason like in Romania, there was no spies in your own family like in eastern Germany. No violence like in Uganda, no poverty like in Cuba. People could do whatever they wanted and say and criticize whatever they wanted. With one big exception: The communist party. It was a tabu. Nobody talked about that in publik, it was like an unspoken rule. But it was no big deal in your everyday life. People didn't care much about the communist party because it didn't interfere in any way in your normal life.
    Only negative things I remember - and negative by today standards, cause back then I didn't even know any other way of living - was the corruption and networking. Yugos were masters of networking. It was like a sport! How many people who you may need one day do you know? It was like real life Facebook having 500 friends. Need a new license plate for your new car? Well you could wait in line for days. Or be finished within 15 minutes cause the neighbors wife has her brothers friend working at the registration office. Have a date for the surgery in 12 weeks? Well if you played basketball with one of the hospital office secretaries sons you could have the date in two weeks. It was comical. But not that bad. It was more a competition. The other thing was the everyday corruption. Got pulled over for speeding? Well that's 100 Dinars with a receipt. Or 50 Dinars in cash with no receipt. Need to see a doctor today? Sorry we are full. Oh is that a 20 German Marks bill folded in your papers? Sit down sir, you are next!
    That was the life in Yugoslavia in the 70ies and 80ies.

    • @amalkic
      @amalkic 5 лет назад +87

      Well said.

    • @indiekiddrugpatrol3117
      @indiekiddrugpatrol3117 5 лет назад +195

      Cheers for that, you’ll shut up a lot of the American “patriots” who have no idea what life was like under Tito

    • @TheKres7787
      @TheKres7787 5 лет назад +141

      my mom worked at Goli Otok, basically Yugoslav gulag equivalent. Her story of the time at Goli otok were so mild that it was boring asking about it and I didn't much. She said she never witnessed anything bad happening

    • @bauzaque
      @bauzaque 5 лет назад +22

      How sad it passed. How to return?

    • @Cream12345Ice
      @Cream12345Ice 5 лет назад +106

      @@bauzaque with the ex Yugoslav countries being littered with nationalism, sadly returning is hard

  • @mochamadvitoyanuar4903
    @mochamadvitoyanuar4903 3 года назад +293

    Tito: "Hey Stalin, i have a joke for you"
    Stalin: "What's it?"
    Tito: "1980"
    Stalin: "I dont get it"
    Tito: "Exactly"

  • @seanbtwo
    @seanbtwo 5 лет назад +366

    He didn't need to poison Stalin with cyanide just reading a letter like that probably would have been enough to give him a stroke all by itself

  • @ottervonbismark7614
    @ottervonbismark7614 5 лет назад +215

    Fun Fact: Josip Broz Tito was also a fencing master. He competed in tournaments throughout his military career.

  • @MsCreepyChan
    @MsCreepyChan 5 лет назад +824

    Stalin: "That's it, someone kill this guy."
    Tito: "I'm about to end this man's whole career"

    • @heyhowareya9233
      @heyhowareya9233 4 года назад +8

      Nikola Rus wow man it’s almost like it says that in the video

    • @emamoro3649
      @emamoro3649 4 года назад +1

      @@backtothefront9696 yes, yes he said it :-) :-)

    • @eluilus4017
      @eluilus4017 2 года назад

      Stalin died after he eat with Beria

  • @dhuseinovic
    @dhuseinovic 3 года назад +251

    I am from former Yugoslavia, my grandparents were partisans. I didn't get to live for long in this country before it collapsed, but it was (going to be) glorious. My parents still can't get over this loss.

  • @epajebiga
    @epajebiga 4 года назад +1043

    Fun fact: He got Rolls Royce as gift from Queen Elizabeth II. He was only foregin leader that get such gift form her. Also, he was known as great womanizer... Just sayin...

    • @yungkornjaca
      @yungkornjaca 4 года назад +161

      Bet charles is his son

    • @JustMe-uc8wj
      @JustMe-uc8wj 4 года назад +156

      It is well known fact that Elisabeth was totally charmed by Tito and she didn't mind the protocol much in his company...

    • @Dec0y4711
      @Dec0y4711 4 года назад +35

      i wanted to press like but its at 69 so i cant

    • @archstanton9371
      @archstanton9371 4 года назад +55

      how about elephants from indira ghandi they are on brijuni island now

    • @RankinMsP
      @RankinMsP 3 года назад +4

      😆😆😆😆

  • @protoword10
    @protoword10 5 лет назад +673

    Remarkable, comprehensive short story about Tito. I was born and used to live in Yugoslavia during those days of Tito’s rule. This story is very accurate and well said!

    • @Biographics
      @Biographics  5 лет назад +74

      Thank you

    • @slobodanstojanovic8125
      @slobodanstojanovic8125 2 года назад +6

      @@Biographics No thank you on making best non-biased and all factual video about us Yugoslavs,me also lived in Yugo,still living in Serbia, and although being very anti-communist i still cant argue about truth about it,all the best to you

    • @rabijaalija6007
      @rabijaalija6007 Год назад +2

      Yes me too I was born and live under TITO ❤he was the best man ever for me it’s same life was much easy friendly never problems like now it’s 😞 for TITO 🌹🌹🌹👏👏😇😇

    • @vesna2953
      @vesna2953 Год назад +2

      I am from former Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia was bridge between west and east , our parents was able to travel ,was good health insurance ,and more....and I don't talk about politics ,just about life

  • @tata-ng2ko
    @tata-ng2ko 4 года назад +2443

    Tito is every ex yugoslavian grandmother’s love

    • @user-gv7fu2sm5j
      @user-gv7fu2sm5j 4 года назад +24

      Not for mine

    • @PatTheRiot
      @PatTheRiot 4 года назад +11

      hahahahah soooooooo fn true

    • @PatTheRiot
      @PatTheRiot 4 года назад +147

      @@user-gv7fu2sm5j Yo mama a chetnik lol

    • @sh0lle
      @sh0lle 4 года назад +30

      Only for the brainwashed ones.

    • @markospain5349
      @markospain5349 4 года назад +16

      He was for mine

  • @milos1534
    @milos1534 2 года назад +79

    When he was asked in one interview "Who do you trust most of anyone else?" , he said "the barber". They asked him rather confused, expecting totaly different answers.. "Why barber", on what which he replied "Because he holds his razor every morning on under my neck, and he can kill me any time he likes, but don't "

  • @rasras21a
    @rasras21a 5 лет назад +218

    Kingdom of Yugoslavia was occupied by Germany, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria,not by Romania,they didn't take part in war against Yugoslavia .

    • @deviantan021
      @deviantan021 5 лет назад +3

      Yes, true

    • @dady9315
      @dady9315 5 лет назад +20

      And also Alexandar the I was dead in 1939 (he died in 1934), so Tito telling his 24000 boys to rebel against him in 1939 is kinda impossible.

    • @saintajora3181
      @saintajora3181 5 лет назад

      Exactly, thanks for pointing that out.

    • @ras573
      @ras573 5 лет назад

      Жив био, имењаче!

    • @rasras21a
      @rasras21a 5 лет назад

      @@ras573 Поздрав !

  • @darkocuskar6204
    @darkocuskar6204 4 года назад +401

    First time when Queen Elizabeth came to visit Tito in Yugoslavia, they spent hours talking. Being so impressed by him she said : If this man is a metal worker, then I'm not a Queen !

  • @connorh2215
    @connorh2215 4 года назад +443

    “Your either with us or against us” Tito: haha middle finger go up

  • @ViraL_FootprinT.ex.e
    @ViraL_FootprinT.ex.e 4 года назад +201

    His letter to Stalin was pretty straight to the point, huh?

  • @justinpachi3707
    @justinpachi3707 5 лет назад +297

    Yugoslavia: None of our differences as fellow South Slavs matter under the rule of Tito.
    Tito: dies
    Yugoslavia : I don’t feel so good (Balkan Wars start)

    • @leserb9228
      @leserb9228 5 лет назад +34

      A small mistake i have to point out... Balkan wars were 2 wars that happened in 1912 and 1913, involveing Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, Bulgaria and Ottomans in first one, and Romania instead of Montenegro in Second one....
      After Tito died, The Yugoslav wars started in 1991

    • @NapoleonBonaparte5
      @NapoleonBonaparte5 5 лет назад +6

      The differences or more precisely past events did not matter cuz his secret police said so, the majority of people at the end of WW2 did not join his cause out of love.

    • @hanagreg
      @hanagreg 5 лет назад +2

      srpski car that’s not a very small mistake.

    • @eddieed9684
      @eddieed9684 5 лет назад +1

      Then we start seeing "Kosovo is Serbia" in youtube comments every single day

    • @kolobara08
      @kolobara08 5 лет назад +5

      @@leserb9228
      A small mistake I have to point out... 'Yugoslav Wars' suggest that in whole of ex-Yu there was war present which was not the case at all. Serbia hasn't seen any war nor did Montenegro. Macedonia and Vojvodina also haven't seen any war and Slovenia around 10 days (a symbolic shots fired to smear peoples eyes).
      Wars were present in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo and 80% of 'Yugoslav Wars' happened in Bosnia alone.

  • @MM-jq1nx
    @MM-jq1nx 4 года назад +778

    One thing that was not mentioned is: He was absolutely adored by people of Yugoslavia. (With the exception of the small number who were undermining the system and being under surveillance of his secret service). Masses of people who loved their leader because he brought peace and freedom , free education, free health system, he gave rights to women and so on...

    • @namakubi7728
      @namakubi7728 4 года назад +29

      And what were women to do with those rights when they couldn’t vote until 1990. 🤣🤣🤣
      Peace and freedom? Im an artist and I know the history of art in yugoslavia. No one besides regime artists prospered during YU. Yugoslavia was the biggest dungeon of art and culture.

    • @sweetLemonist
      @sweetLemonist 4 года назад +120

      What the hell are you rumbling about? The women were allowed to vote since 1945 and so they did

    • @milepod
      @milepod 4 года назад +87

      @@namakubi7728 the statement about art and culture is mostly false: Yugoslavia had a rich culture, counter-culture and yes, also plenty of artistic suppression by the authorities. It was a complex place, so any one-sided statement will not do to describe it in its entirety.

    • @namakubi7728
      @namakubi7728 4 года назад +6

      @@sweetLemonist Vote about what, when there weren’t elections?

    • @sweetLemonist
      @sweetLemonist 4 года назад +15

      @@namakubi7728 You are beyond ignorant and misinformed. I have no words.. You have google for all your doubts

  • @octavian2381
    @octavian2381 5 лет назад +733

    Stalin: *Can't assassinate Tito*
    Guys who tried to kill Rasputin: *First time?*

    • @mikegibus
      @mikegibus 5 лет назад +37

      The difference being that Rasputin was actually killed

    • @octavian2381
      @octavian2381 5 лет назад +7

      I'm not so sure

    • @bosnianantediluvian4067
      @bosnianantediluvian4067 5 лет назад +3

      Paul von Hindenburg I mean, they succeeded

    • @historiculgeomocule5569
      @historiculgeomocule5569 5 лет назад +4

      They never managed to kill him.

    • @mrprimor227
      @mrprimor227 5 лет назад +22

      @@historiculgeomocule5569 his assassins eventually threw him in a river and he drowned so eventually they killed him.

  • @larsrons7937
    @larsrons7937 2 года назад +76

    I visited Croatia, Yugoslavia, in 1985, stayed with a local family and got to know their friends. 5 years after his death there were still huge poster etc. of Tito everywhere, and our general impression was that the locals really liked Tito. I haven't experienced this anywhere else, and I have been to a number of (then) present or former dictatorships. As for dictators, it seem like Tito was special.

    • @danilo16410
      @danilo16410 2 года назад

      Every strong individue is nowadays a dictator for the west which polititians pees while sitting on the toilet.

    • @ivanjelenic5627
      @ivanjelenic5627 2 года назад +3

      My uncle and aunt kept Tito's picture as the first thing you see when you enter their house, until my uncle died a couple of years ago. My uncle especially loved him, and he kinda resembled Tito too, funnily enough. RIP

    • @DonDon45-i5h
      @DonDon45-i5h Год назад +5

      not everyone who doesnt have a stupid two-party system is a "dictator"

    • @larsrons7937
      @larsrons7937 Год назад

      Oh, I see we have a trollski on visit. Someone who must live with a twoparty system to be able to judge it stupid.

    • @DonDon45-i5h
      @DonDon45-i5h Год назад

      @@larsrons7937 i think the whole world knows its stupid lol

  • @minhtrungle9117
    @minhtrungle9117 5 лет назад +1077

    bae: Hey Tito, come over !
    Tito: Can't, I'm busy rebuilding Yugoslavia
    bae: Stalin is not home tonight.
    Tito: I know.

  • @amanfrombosniaandherzegovi4026
    @amanfrombosniaandherzegovi4026 5 лет назад +467

    My Bosniak (Muslim) grand father has a calendar in his house full of Tito pictures that he modifies annually so that he can use it. He has had it for at least 10 years.

    • @nikolatesla8508
      @nikolatesla8508 5 лет назад +50

      I'm also the grandson of Bosnian Muslim and I remember from when I was a kid that all the Bosnians liked Tito

    • @jcristero2476
      @jcristero2476 5 лет назад +19

      perakole Bosniaks don’t exist

    • @ventolus2068
      @ventolus2068 5 лет назад +7

      @@nikolatesla8508 we still do.

    • @ventolus2068
      @ventolus2068 5 лет назад +3

      @@jcristero2476 in your Dreams only.

    • @swamifakkananda4043
      @swamifakkananda4043 5 лет назад +2

      @@jcristero2476 HOW SO????? MY NAME IS WANNABE MARSHAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @Brakvash
    @Brakvash 4 года назад +529

    Everyone: *BRUH*
    Jugoslavs: *BROZ*

  • @A_Ducky
    @A_Ducky 2 года назад +141

    I was 4 years old and Tito's death was the first time I "learned" of the concept of death. I remember asking Mom why are all the people outside on the streets crying. One of my earliest memories, along with grandpa's passing that same year. Loss of two great men. R.I.P. 🥀

    • @arandommemer9926
      @arandommemer9926 2 года назад +6

      That just shows how loved Tito was among the common people of Yugoslavia, also my condolences, I'm sure your grandfather was a great man

    • @A_Ducky
      @A_Ducky 2 года назад +1

      @@arandommemer9926
      Thank you! Grandpa was a self learned man born in 1900. 2 world wars. He saved the village in the 2nd one by making some kind of dynamite at home and blowing up a bridge which was the only access for Nazis to the village. Ppl still write stories about his deeds (like doctoring etc, not just war stuff).
      Would you believe that quality of life under Tito's communism was better than now when we're all capitalist but no one has jobs coz politicians steal all the world aid meant for (re)building factories? And I'm not a proponent of communism btw, just facts.

  • @letshavefun5210
    @letshavefun5210 4 года назад +2271

    We don't smoke in the white house
    Tito: good for you
    Edit: damn this is the most likes I have gotten on any comment thank you

    • @mrgreen9848
      @mrgreen9848 4 года назад +5

      Stolen

    • @letshavefun5210
      @letshavefun5210 4 года назад +32

      @@mrgreen9848 he actually said that in the street when he walked without escort pal I Macedonia well then it was yugoslavia

    • @stza16
      @stza16 4 года назад +1

      Stolen

    • @gaprisun9465
      @gaprisun9465 4 года назад

      @@stza16 Stolen

    • @zenicablues0728
      @zenicablues0728 4 года назад +1

      This one is so goood 😂👍

  • @BlueOrion-dc9yk
    @BlueOrion-dc9yk 4 года назад +139

    Fun fact: while tito was in america he was provided with original cuban fresh cigars straight from cuba

    • @aleksandarstojanoski5427
      @aleksandarstojanoski5427 4 года назад +41

      he smoked one of them in the White House with Nixon who said, we don't smoke in the white house, tito replied, that is nice and continued smoking.

    • @NIKOLAP7
      @NIKOLAP7 3 года назад

      @@aleksandarstojanoski5427 After that remark, nobody mentioned the ban of smoking until the end of the meeting.

    • @michaelcap9550
      @michaelcap9550 3 года назад +4

      He probably smoked unfiltered Camels at recess in elementary school.

  • @MultiErgio
    @MultiErgio 5 лет назад +1103

    Fun Fact: Current first lady Melania Trump was one of Tito's pioneer girls

    • @MrDeicide1
      @MrDeicide1 5 лет назад +10

      U again, Fake Rocco !
      Quit impersonating me !

    • @MultiErgio
      @MultiErgio 5 лет назад +10

      @@MrDeicide1 Happy?

    • @vasakq
      @vasakq 5 лет назад +73

      Well, we all were... not that we had any choice, though.

    • @kurosumomo
      @kurosumomo 5 лет назад +214

      Every child in Yugoslavia born before 1985, I believe, took the pioneer oath when they entered school, becoming part of the communist youth, but as my husband tells me, that had no impact what so ever on his life, he took the oath and that was about it.

    • @NikolaAvramov
      @NikolaAvramov 5 лет назад +17

      Everybody was, back in the day, sure.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 4 года назад +66

    1:00 - Chapter 1 - The Young sergeant
    3:45 - Chapter 2 - Becoming a communist
    7:20 - Chapter 3 - Tito begins
    8:50 - Chapter 4 - Dangerous times, dangerous men
    12:30 - Chapter 5 - A tale of two island
    14:55 - Chapter 6 - A note to Stalin
    17:10 - Chapter 7 - Leader of the non aligned
    21:30 - Chapter 8 - Death & legacy

  • @DrugBa642
    @DrugBa642 4 года назад +859

    I am Bosniak, but I was born and raised in Sarajevo, among mosques, churches, cathedrals and synagogues, and I have never had a problem with it, and I am even glad. I have a friends of Serbs and Croats and we are in good agreement, thank God for that, unfortunately the former Yugoslavia was one of the best countries in the World in its time, until our father Tito died, now we are all small and weak

    • @1czv13
      @1czv13 4 года назад +71

      We can all agree i think that the whole Balkan is small and weak. Saying that as a Serb.

    • @bratmojmojbrat7727
      @bratmojmojbrat7727 4 года назад +9

      @@1czv13 And we were always weak and ruled by strong.

    • @spektrumyt.
      @spektrumyt. 4 года назад +17

      But they had the #1 best air force at a point. Even 3rd best army at one point.

    • @ban1176
      @ban1176 4 года назад +49

      We were never weak. Balkan people have faught all great power in the world from Persian empire to the NATO. Balkan people were everything but not weak.

    • @MangoghTV
      @MangoghTV 4 года назад +1

      Agreed

  • @revolzyy
    @revolzyy 4 года назад +253

    Fun facts: A lot of people that lived in Yugoslavia (90%) (also my parents, grandparents etc. used to live there) say till this day that they loved life in Yugoslavia and that Tito was a good leader.

    • @bigsmoke8816
      @bigsmoke8816 4 года назад +25

      How couldnt they? Jobs were plentiful and tax rates were 2%

    • @dangerboy544
      @dangerboy544 2 года назад +8

      Hahhaha 90%??? Ya maybe for bosniaks and serbs

    • @MPresheva
      @MPresheva 2 года назад +3

      I can confirm that. I was born and raised in Tito's time.

    • @Bokicazver
      @Bokicazver 2 года назад +2

      The best part of my life! Now I am living in the USA...

    • @opiliones4202
      @opiliones4202 2 года назад

      Source???

  • @wilsoniloh4161
    @wilsoniloh4161 5 лет назад +94

    Tito always found himself caught in between two geopolitical rivalries yet he was able to survive it, thumbs up mate.

    • @Svarog187
      @Svarog187 5 лет назад +13

      Fun Fact: Yugoslavians were the only people who could cross the German Wall legally.

    • @somedesertdude1308
      @somedesertdude1308 5 лет назад

      @@Svarog187 jup

  • @patrickisles4570
    @patrickisles4570 2 года назад +58

    Tito seems like a rad dude. Anyone who isn't afraid of Stalin and pissed off Hitler is legit in my mind. 💪

  • @ПетарМилковски
    @ПетарМилковски 5 лет назад +331

    Also when the earthquake happened in Macedonia in 1963, he arrived the next day to see the country and also almost everyone from the world came to help Skopje recover.From the USA to the USSR.
    This was told by my grandmother!:)

    • @justnoob8141
      @justnoob8141 5 лет назад +7

      Kinda surprise me that USSR can swnd some charity to other country consider their main spending is military, unless it was by official then fair enough

    • @lukabogdanovic4658
      @lukabogdanovic4658 5 лет назад

      @@justnoob8141 USSR helped Yugoslavia with money and military

    • @homo-sapiens-dubium
      @homo-sapiens-dubium 4 года назад

      My dad was actually on a ride with his dad and brother when the earthquake made some barells fall onto his foot, luckily just hurting - and making him remember that moment

    • @voxa3789
      @voxa3789 4 года назад

      @@justnoob8141 yugoslavia in the ussr had a lot of privileges compared to other countries, all because tito was a dense guy

    • @toshockamazeandamuze8531
      @toshockamazeandamuze8531 4 года назад

      @@voxa3789 never heard the word dense associated with marshall.

  • @DivoGo
    @DivoGo 5 лет назад +625

    To tell Stalin, STALIN! “Stop trying to kill me......I’ll send one assassin and I won’t have to send another.”
    That ladies and gentlemen is a badass in action! Keep up the good work Simon!✌🏾👍🏾❤️

    • @DJBigMD
      @DJBigMD 5 лет назад +13

      my grandpa fought on his side at srenski front. tito ordered the macedonians to fight there instead of fighting their own battle in southern macedonia. but that's a whole other story.

    • @danielkrtalic3261
      @danielkrtalic3261 5 лет назад +1

      Divo2Go 2017 true ahaha

    • @elainebmack
      @elainebmack 4 года назад

      I love badass folks!

    • @zarni000
      @zarni000 4 года назад +2

      just goes to show how terrifying his secret police was and what a despot the yugoslavs lived under...worse than stalin in terms of total control.

    • @dzonikg
      @dzonikg 4 года назад +1

      @@zarni000 Yugoslav secret police during Tito was very powerful ..they were killing Ustase and Chetniks all over west europe and no one from west Europe was even dear to complane(something like Israels MOSSAD..i bet they could kill US president if they wanted ) but inside off country he left it to be very free so even critic off communist party was allow in media and everywhere

  • @Bareege
    @Bareege 5 лет назад +339

    As a kid in Los Angeles in the early 50s, I remember watching an airplane skywriting a message. I asked my dad what the message said, he told me it read "No Guns for Tito" For some reason I still remember that.

    • @Tomes23
      @Tomes23 5 лет назад +30

      Isn’t it amazing how the mind catalogues certain information into our long term memory?

    • @yohatch
      @yohatch 4 года назад +4

      Wait, what? Why?

    • @thereforeayam
      @thereforeayam 4 года назад +14

      Tito was bankrolking Greece's civil war that was communusts against more nornals, like a battle over 'way of life' (Truman's interpretation). The communists lost, Tito was told to shut 'er down, had trouble shuttin' off the spigot, took him a year. Mostly vast military aid, he was sending. The Greece war ws 1946-1949. It must've been 1950 or '51.

    • @thereforeayam
      @thereforeayam 4 года назад +2

      ...if he was buying guns there then sending them to Greece, come to think of it, he was doing that maybe instead of taking the Marshall Plan money (if he was eligible. He both took & refused...I'm supposed to write a history paper, "Tito took guns for Marshall cash" might pass wit' da prof)

    • @ljubastojanovic608
      @ljubastojanovic608 4 года назад +15

      Never mind the Greece. In early 50s USA send a millitary help to Yugoslavia to opoose Stalin and to show the world that is a possible, USA word for this was "Keep them above the water". Later the help turn to be signifficant because without Yugoslavia the South of the NATO (Turcs - Greece - Italia ) was helpless against eventual USSR campaign. Not because Americans loved Tito but for their one interest ( the biggest anticomunist Churchil turn to help Tito in 1944 for the same reason). USA delivered even Sabre airplains and newest heliochopters tested in Corean war. There was campaign in USA against this but the Secretary of the State responded that for that sum of many USA could held one one division in Europe, and this way thay have 12 division of experienced and tough wariors on their side. Of course, not everything was send as help. Yugoslavia eg. was buing spare parts. The last order was paid but not delivered as Tito was turning to USSR after Stalin dead.

  • @catthebird
    @catthebird Год назад +37

    My mom actually saw him in person when she was still very young. He come to visit a memorial site very close to my hometown. It's interesting to hear her and her peers accounts of the day. It was a very prideful moment for them, and she recalls it as a fond memory.
    Side note: it's interesting to see that so many people have great stories of Tito. Whether it's a personal experience, or a story passed down from our parents, it's interesting to see the impact the man had on the world around us

  • @snakesson
    @snakesson 5 лет назад +1152

    When you do decide to make that video about the fall of Yugoslavia, my sincerest recommendation is to disable Comments.

    • @linusfotograf
      @linusfotograf 5 лет назад +70

      snakesson and to really study pronounciations of Yugoslav names and places

    • @ivucica
      @ivucica 5 лет назад +64

      And check facts in great, great detail. Even this video was riddled by errors, and the events of the 90s are even more controversial.

    • @rikidiki8940
      @rikidiki8940 5 лет назад +73

      For foreigner or anyone in general war in the 90s is impossible to explain its just a bunch of random dudes driving tanks around while everything around them is falling apart that topic is best to leave alone as every side has its facts battles stats and outcomes that are to say the least questionable as any info on the internet is biased by one side all time..

    • @williamgson4055
      @williamgson4055 5 лет назад +69

      You mean like
      K O S O V O J E S R B I J A

    • @flyingdonkey9797
      @flyingdonkey9797 5 лет назад +39

      Oh Boy here it comes

  • @SoorajBeniwal
    @SoorajBeniwal 5 лет назад +240

    We are studying about non align movement and joseph broz Tito here in india
    Our whole class is watching

    • @mmescarlettziegfieldvonbis4551
      @mmescarlettziegfieldvonbis4551 5 лет назад +14

      I have a feeling that a lot of Indian people have an interest in Tito.

    • @SoorajBeniwal
      @SoorajBeniwal 5 лет назад +28

      @@mmescarlettziegfieldvonbis4551 India favored non align movement

    • @s.majstorovic5598
      @s.majstorovic5598 5 лет назад +35

      I'm from the former Yugoslavia. Ours and the Indian people's friendship was forged during the Cold War by Tito and Nehru. Long live India, long live Yugoslavia!

    • @mmescarlettziegfieldvonbis4551
      @mmescarlettziegfieldvonbis4551 5 лет назад +5

      @Ruturaj Shiralkar Actually, I didn't know that. How so?

    • @leon_De_Grelle
      @leon_De_Grelle 5 лет назад +10

      Next semester class is about how streets are not toilets.

  • @hamvak
    @hamvak 5 лет назад +191

    16:56 "If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow. And I won't have to send another."
    At that point all I could hear was DMX's " X Gon Give It To Ya"

    • @wallnusschef1386
      @wallnusschef1386 4 года назад +1

      Massive Cringe

    • @jross9919
      @jross9919 4 года назад +1

      Tito the man with balls of titanium

    • @ivantomic8474
      @ivantomic8474 4 года назад

      @police-and-military-are-welfare-whores ..c'mon....wasnt that bad

  • @megamillionfreak
    @megamillionfreak 4 года назад +56

    I saw him in real life once, in early 1978 in Dubrovnik, when he walked into hotel Libertas there. i was not even 6.

  • @bestsport9044
    @bestsport9044 5 лет назад +324

    I have no idea where you have found the "devil's island" name, Goli Otok literally means "Naked Island".

    • @grungrlistener
      @grungrlistener 5 лет назад +13

      LoL google dobro zeznuo ga :D

    • @hydroscape
      @hydroscape 5 лет назад +15

      I'm slav and confirm your statement.

    • @pamcam4385
      @pamcam4385 5 лет назад +53

      Barren Island; probably better translation

    • @DoubleUppp
      @DoubleUppp 5 лет назад +2

      Da li si stvarno toliko glup da mislis da se sve bukvalno prevodi?

    • @anzerupnik1442
      @anzerupnik1442 4 года назад +3

      @@pamcam4385 Naked Island sounds sillier.

  • @tomabjegovic5675
    @tomabjegovic5675 5 лет назад +127

    You said at 8:35 Tito planed to overturn Alexander I in 1940, but Alexander was killed in 1934.

    • @Pandacous
      @Pandacous 5 лет назад +3

      I will shake my little finger at you and you will be gone- Biographics

    • @paulsdancing5429
      @paulsdancing5429 5 лет назад

      Toma Bjegovic good point, I missed it.

    • @ComptGeorges
      @ComptGeorges 5 лет назад +8

      He also said that Romania invaded Yugoslavia. Which is not true.

    • @martinsafranko2625
      @martinsafranko2625 5 лет назад +1

      da, nije li kralj bio kralj petar

    • @mustimon
      @mustimon 5 лет назад

      @@aleksandarsimikic9223 never was serbian ultra nationalists killed tito

  • @jd8808
    @jd8808 4 года назад +198

    I would argue Titoism wasn’t a step towards liberalism, as you put it. It was a step towards socialism. Real socialism i.e. society itself controls the means of production (cooperatively by the people closest to production) rather than the Bolshevik oligarchy in Moscow.

    • @catvideis
      @catvideis 4 года назад +11

      Absolutely! I couldn't agree more!

    • @sleepingbackbone7581
      @sleepingbackbone7581 4 года назад +8

      it was in the name: Socialist Federal Republic Yugoslavia. it was only based on comunism but much softer than in other places.

    • @bassofd00m
      @bassofd00m 3 года назад +4

      Based

    • @jannahm1788
      @jannahm1788 2 года назад +14

      I believe that had more socialist countries followed Tito's example then perhaps they would still exist and the beautiful ideology wouldn't have the nefarious reputation it does today. True socialism is possible and Yugoslavia proved it.

    • @simonriley4131
      @simonriley4131 2 года назад +5

      @@jannahm1788 Lybia and Burkina Faso proved it as well. Unfortunately Muammar Gaddafi and Thomas Sankara were both liquidated unlike Tito..

  • @francispitts9440
    @francispitts9440 2 года назад +47

    Having grown up in our house with my father’s parents living with us, it kept me informed about world events. My grandfather was in WW I and technically WW II but he was state side. He was very aware of that region of the world and how volatile it was. I remember he spoke about Tito with a respect for his ability to survive and his combat experience. My grandfather saw that same war and how it happened. He felt that area was a powder keg for another world war. So I have a strong memory of this guy and history. It’s one of the many reasons I was fortunate to live with my grandparents who had experienced so much of that history.

  • @Dante26able
    @Dante26able 4 года назад +27

    I was born on the 4 of may 1980...Banja Luka..... Dad crying tears of joy and sorrow

  • @augustuslightwriter
    @augustuslightwriter 5 лет назад +387

    We have a major Road in New Delhi (India) near Parliament named after him as a Honour and Respect

    • @ivanamrki
      @ivanamrki 5 лет назад +40

      Nehru, Gandhi and Indira have streets in Belgrade I am not sure about other cities..

    • @dcmhsotaeh
      @dcmhsotaeh 5 лет назад +6

      OK with great foreign leaders getting these honours but South Indians don't like the fact that their historical figures don't get roads and circles named after them Delhi needs to have a more Pan Indian face

    • @sanjinadum9634
      @sanjinadum9634 5 лет назад +4

      @@ivanamrki I don't know about the street names... but in Brioni there is still the elefant as Indira's gift to Tito. Been there last summer.

    • @TheKres7787
      @TheKres7787 5 лет назад +10

      WHAT, you have Titos street in Delhi? Holy mother how come? Nice :D

    • @udayrathod3786
      @udayrathod3786 5 лет назад +6

      @@TheKres7787 Nehru and his family liked Tito and Tito liked them. Citizens of Yugoslavia and India dint had much of a bond like India and Russia have because not much cultural exchange took place and after the fall it just vanished.

  • @zlaya9315
    @zlaya9315 5 лет назад +127

    When he was visiting US in 19171 he pulled out a Cuban cigar in the White House. Nixon told him "You know, we don't smoke that here." He answered with a smile: "Good for you!" and light the cigar. :-)

    • @m4rs12
      @m4rs12 5 лет назад +27

      The conversation might not happened, but he did lit his cigar in white house though

    • @Mixer2904
      @Mixer2904 5 лет назад +12

      @Joe Al there is a picture where he smokes a cuban cigar in a white house, while talking with Nixon

    • @uncleruckus2974
      @uncleruckus2974 5 лет назад +3

      before signing the embargo against cuba
      JFK had his press secretary pierre salinger
      buy all the cuban cigars he could find

    • @hsehovic63
      @hsehovic63 5 лет назад +9

      @Joe Al you don't know history do you ?

    • @Ladovinka513
      @Ladovinka513 5 лет назад +4

      @Joe Al his response to Stalin assassination attempts is documented. Why do you think he would be afraid to piss on little bitch like jimmy carter ?

  • @maxmeggeneder8935
    @maxmeggeneder8935 4 года назад +154

    Tito is one of the greatest figures of the 20th century! Very underrated!
    Yugoslavia, under his leadership and the leadership of the communist party, was the only country to liberate itself from fascist occupation. Which would in itself be a great enough achievement to get a place of honor in the annals of history. But after that he built socialism, explored new ways to build a socialist society, played both superpowers and formed and led the non aligned movement. He also, often secretly, supported many oppressed peoples all over the world.
    Just one great man.

    • @Bokicazver
      @Bokicazver 2 года назад +4

      Thank you!

    • @maxmeggeneder8935
      @maxmeggeneder8935 2 года назад +4

      @@Bokicazver I am greatful to Tito and the Yugoslav, Italian and Austrian partisans who liberated the occupied countries and ended fascism.
      And also very greatful to the Red Army and the other allies for their role in defeating fascism and specifically Nazism .

    • @alladeenmdfkr2255
      @alladeenmdfkr2255 Год назад +2

      Could not agree more

    • @dirckthedork-knight1201
      @dirckthedork-knight1201 Год назад

      So you are gonna ignore all the purges and execution he was responsible of? Clown

  • @JakaPetric
    @JakaPetric 4 года назад +313

    Fun fact: we're related! His grandmother was my great, great grandmother.

    • @stza16
      @stza16 4 года назад +17

      Underrated comment.

    • @JakaPetric
      @JakaPetric 4 года назад +8

      Cheers mate ;)

    • @hogski5049
      @hogski5049 3 года назад +61

      You are the chosen one to bring back Yugoslavia

    • @dzombaj_ga
      @dzombaj_ga 3 года назад +11

      @@hogski5049 we don't need cancer again

    • @Guthix198
      @Guthix198 3 года назад +2

      Same also I'm related to you and everybody else famous and epicly swaglord people's of Chad.

  • @kazkk2321
    @kazkk2321 4 года назад +114

    Stalin unwillingly drove Tito towards the west . It is astounding that he was too smart for Stalin

    • @swampdonkey7552
      @swampdonkey7552 4 года назад +18

      Not realy, Stalin wasn't that smart to begin with

    • @RankinMsP
      @RankinMsP 3 года назад +10

      There are dogs too smart for Stalin.

    • @antonischatz.2133
      @antonischatz.2133 3 года назад +4

      Nearly everyone was smarter than Stalin back then.

    • @freddy4603
      @freddy4603 3 года назад +4

      @@swampdonkey7552 let's not underestimate that beast. Stalin is what you get when you mix paranoia, distrust of everyone around you, great leadership and organizational skills and some luck. I would add cruelty, but in the 20th century everyone was cruel.

    • @uselessthing3429
      @uselessthing3429 3 года назад +2

      @@antonischatz.2133 Xcept mao
      Mao was really fuckin braindead at the point of starve his population just to impress Stalin

  • @MostWanted053
    @MostWanted053 5 лет назад +442

    Believe it or not my grandfather was a Major in Tito's army. I have 3 pictures of my grandfather with Tito. R.I.P Grandpa!

    • @haloba5843
      @haloba5843 5 лет назад +8

      Jebo the Taj engleski u supak

    • @emilijaacer04
      @emilijaacer04 5 лет назад +8

      Moj pradeda je osnivac 63 padobranske brigade.

    • @MostWanted053
      @MostWanted053 5 лет назад +1

      @@emilijaacer04 Hrabro.

    • @bigmarv5656
      @bigmarv5656 5 лет назад +14

      EkiLWeN Si ponašate se kao deca. "Jebem ti ovo, jebem ti ono"

    • @user-vy2hv5pp7k
      @user-vy2hv5pp7k 5 лет назад +6

      Wow thats awesome dude, what was your grandpa's name?

  • @vuvuvu6291
    @vuvuvu6291 3 года назад +58

    When a father died and then the children kill each other for inheritance, it's a story we all know too well. To think we can learn from mistakes of the past but alas, gold is thicker than blood.

    • @ravennevermore8173
      @ravennevermore8173 3 года назад +2

      When Stefan Dusan died all of his duke subjects started fighting for power because his only successor was child. Then they got weak from infighting when Ottomans show up and Serbian empire collapsed.
      Sounds familiar?

    • @Lili-is4xf
      @Lili-is4xf Год назад

      Totally true, and may I add, these politicians who inherited the country, all wanted to emulate Tito, however they were all lowbrowed morons with sinister agenda.

  • @poremechen
    @poremechen 5 лет назад +292

    The last Yugoslavia was EU before EU. Multiethnic/religion country that had FREE public healthcare, education, drilled oil fields in Syria, Iraq etc. and mantained its own pharmacy, shipbuilding, produced submarines, cars, its own weapons and amunition and on verge creating its own first supersonic warplane.
    After the US/Russia intervention, the war broke out. Todays countries are torned with war, crime and corruption just new colonies once again. 30 - 40 years ago we had everything and were masters of our own fate and now we are in debt for life.

    • @GrimFaceHunter
      @GrimFaceHunter 5 лет назад +20

      There is no free anything. All that second Yugoslavia had was paid for with borrowed money. And for all but one year it ran a trade deficit.

    • @XxpauldadudexX
      @XxpauldadudexX 5 лет назад +39

      @GrimFaceHunter At least the Yugoslavs government invested the money in their people, infrastructure, and improved lives of the poorest.
      The money wasn't, as usual everywhere else, solely in the hands of a handful of greedy, gluttonous, fat cats...borrowed or not.

    • @stonedaurelius6496
      @stonedaurelius6496 5 лет назад +8

      and what lefr of yugoslavia is what will happen with any other multietnic state with free suff.

    • @GrimFaceHunter
      @GrimFaceHunter 5 лет назад +6

      @XxpauldadudexX And yet, it had greater inequality and bigger share of poor people than that "everywhere else".

    • @XxpauldadudexX
      @XxpauldadudexX 5 лет назад +16

      @@GrimFaceHunter nah, it was better than commie eastern europe and all 3ed world...only western Europe, Canada, Australia, etc, had free health care n stuff n was better off dude.

  • @richardscanlan3167
    @richardscanlan3167 4 года назад +134

    This man was one of the toughest leaders of WW2.Balls of steel.I would put the great Finnish leader Manneheim in the same class.Respect.

    • @utenteantimoralismo8549
      @utenteantimoralismo8549 3 года назад +1

      Every leader of ww2 was tough

    • @richardscanlan3167
      @richardscanlan3167 3 года назад +2

      @@utenteantimoralismo8549 don''t agree.

    • @utenteantimoralismo8549
      @utenteantimoralismo8549 3 года назад

      @@richardscanlan3167 why?

    • @richardscanlan3167
      @richardscanlan3167 3 года назад +17

      @@utenteantimoralismo8549 fair question.And I will answer it this way.
      If you look at the most significant wartime leaders - Churchill,Roosevellt,Stalin - all had something in common - they were vast,with almost limitless resources - that gave them an edge,and that was the deciding factor in defeating the axis.
      You look at others - Finland/Yugoslavakia,Poland - these countries are small,with limited resources and manpower - betrayed or outright ignored by the west - they fought on with almost insane courage v great odds.A lot of that came down to great leadership.
      It's why I rate them so highly.Just my take on it.

    • @utenteantimoralismo8549
      @utenteantimoralismo8549 3 года назад +2

      @@richardscanlan3167 yes but all the Leaders of that time were serious, classy, smart, badass and charismatic. And all of them would have done everything for the motherlands and people... They are sons of hard times, so great.

  • @m4rs12
    @m4rs12 5 лет назад +148

    Yes, it's because he was made of *titonium*
    I'll see myself out...

    • @__-kd8oz
      @__-kd8oz 5 лет назад +15

      TITONIUM > stallinium .. XD

    • @the4seasons4ever
      @the4seasons4ever 5 лет назад +6

      BEST COMMENT AWARD! THEN SEE YOURSELF OUT!

    • @cageybee7221
      @cageybee7221 5 лет назад +2

      titonium may be strong but Castro Iron is invincible!

    • @the4seasons4ever
      @the4seasons4ever 5 лет назад +1

      @@cageybee7221 you comment was unlawful and you falafacy untenable.😁

  • @Ghost88320
    @Ghost88320 2 года назад +56

    The only flaw Tito had was that he wasn't immortal. When he died, Yugoslavia died with him.

  • @thornndog
    @thornndog 5 лет назад +387

    Good topic! Tito is one of the most important but under rated world leaders post WWII. Good stuff!

    • @gabriellavedier9650
      @gabriellavedier9650 5 лет назад +2

      Your picture. Max Heartfield "A hand has five fingers"? You have excellent taste

    • @thornndog
      @thornndog 5 лет назад +17

      Gabriel LaVedier thanks man, I’m just a guy who hates Nazis. It’s a generational tradition!

    • @dylanbednarz4430
      @dylanbednarz4430 5 лет назад +8

      @@thornndog as it should be nazi ideaology should be hated as with hate in all its forms

    • @thornndog
      @thornndog 5 лет назад +5

      @@dylanbednarz4430 Could not agree more! As an American, fascism/ Nazism have just been on my mind recently...

    • @r2zdena
      @r2zdena 5 лет назад +5

      @@dylanbednarz4430 the guy is the biggest evildoer in history of yugoslav nations, if he was still alive it would be hard for me not to hate him..it is hard not to hate beasts

  • @reichgeneral1513
    @reichgeneral1513 4 года назад +153

    When tito dies,yugoslavia had collapsed too with him. Without tito there is no a leader that will unify yugoslavia.

    • @rejvaik00
      @rejvaik00 4 года назад +10

      That's such a shame, if the balkanites could just fucking unite under a single national identity like Germany did in the 1870s they could have been a major power

    • @theskiypdee
      @theskiypdee 3 года назад +5

      @@rejvaik00now that you say that, i guess tito was kind of like bismarck

    • @johanmikkael6903
      @johanmikkael6903 3 года назад +5

      @@theskiypdee Bismarck United germany atleast held longer, what a shame that Tito died.

    • @jacquesschrap8932
      @jacquesschrap8932 3 года назад +7

      @@rejvaik00 Biggest Facts, Yugoslavia would be the powerhouse of Europe, They had everything and anything. Travel destinations, Agriculture, Booming industrial engineering.
      The West didn't want that so they ruined it.

    • @manjelos
      @manjelos 2 года назад +1

      @@johanmikkael6903 Germany was unified bit earlier. At this time was possible to redirect national ideas of single states and convert in all German idea. This affected feelings and also language. In Yugoslavia was this 1918 way to late, there was strong national ideas formed and there was no will to make kind of "Yugoslav" nation. But even in Germany today there is visible that Bavaria for example is more Bavaria as German. Ok, this is more bit cultural and much less political (but any way, instead of all German party CDU in Bavaria is CSU, which is always part of CDU)

  • @unetortue3429
    @unetortue3429 5 лет назад +156

    I’m a simple man.
    I see a video about Tito, I click.

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri 5 лет назад +2

      Normie

    • @unetortue3429
      @unetortue3429 5 лет назад +3

      @@Perririri Why would I be a normie ?

    • @cheesecake9072
      @cheesecake9072 5 лет назад

      Because all ex-yug People would do the same

    • @jansova7550
      @jansova7550 5 лет назад +1

      @@cheesecake9072 OH MY GOD IT'S YOU!!!! Man I have to say you were always my favorite Jackson brother.

  • @thatgreenscorpion8221
    @thatgreenscorpion8221 Год назад +15

    "I am the leader of one country, which has two alphabets, three languages, four religions, five nationalities, six republics, surrounded by seven neighbours, a country in which live eight ethnic minorities."
    - *Josip Broz Tito* -

  • @Arcaryon
    @Arcaryon 4 года назад +706

    Tito is one of the few leaders that truly earned to be called a benevolent dictator.

    • @degla232
      @degla232 3 года назад +43

      If you agreed with him ;)

    • @marinodezelak1180
      @marinodezelak1180 3 года назад +123

      I wouldn't go as far as to call him benevolent... but he certainly was nothing like what people immagine when they hear "dictator".

    • @redcrown5154
      @redcrown5154 3 года назад +8

      unless you were a serb

    • @marinodezelak1180
      @marinodezelak1180 3 года назад +1

      @@redcrown5154 What's the difference?

    • @don_peleon
      @don_peleon 3 года назад +10

      @Miloš Đošić hahahahahahahahaah daj se odi ljecit

  • @darthbane1629
    @darthbane1629 5 лет назад +140

    P.S. I Did Watch His Funeral,I Can't Believe That all The Leaders At that Time From all Countries That Existed 1980 ,Come to His Funeral,What a Badass one in a million,I Salute Him 😎 !!!.

    • @sjoormen1
      @sjoormen1 5 лет назад +6

      If you would borrowed money from half of the world and you would die, there would be on your funeral everybody who hoped getting mony back also.

    • @RisXXX
      @RisXXX 5 лет назад +1

      Ha ha ha ha... yeah right, he borrowed money from Mozambique, Mali, Bangladesh, Albania and Haiti :D

    • @doookkk
      @doookkk 5 лет назад

      Yeah, 720 _official_ guests, and thousands or even ten-thousands more!

  • @marinoduckic1421
    @marinoduckic1421 5 лет назад +68

    The men between East and West when it was the most dangerous to be between them. He managed to balance perfectly. Not only that he balance between them he opposed them with Non-aligned movement. He was the leader to turn to when you wanted something in global affairs. The men who escaped from the most ruthless men of all time Hitler and Stalin. The men who gatherd Partisans to fight under his guidence to liberate Yugoslavia. Where ever he went he was welcomed with highest honours. His funural was the biggest political gathering in the history of humanity, everyone came to say the last goodbay to great leader. He gave the people of Yugoslavia peace, sovereignty, free education, free health care, jobs for everyone with free houseing and very affordable cars. He gave those people global meaning, beacuse Yugoslavia was big player in global affairs. To say at least Tito's Yugoslavia was probably the most prosperous country to live in at his time. Tito is the greatest figure of 20th century.

  • @TheZemun
    @TheZemun Год назад +9

    Interesting fact :
    The voice of Josip Broz Tito was included (among others) in a recorded message to unknown civilization which was then stored in Voyager 1 Space Probe and sent to Space ...

  • @halldorfannarsigurgeirsson7741
    @halldorfannarsigurgeirsson7741 5 лет назад +224

    Real Yugoslavs be like: Broz B4 Hoes!

  • @reapertalesans8304
    @reapertalesans8304 5 лет назад +36

    As a Serb, I am happy to see people talk about Tito.
    He and some other leaders are just as important as Cherchil, Stalin and Hitler, say. - It's good to see someone talk about him.
    Thank you. 👌

  • @JovanaK1D
    @JovanaK1D 5 лет назад +547

    My grandpa still have picture of him in his living room 😂😂

    • @silverdragon710
      @silverdragon710 5 лет назад +41

      My grandma too! xD

    • @livianegidius9772
      @livianegidius9772 5 лет назад +17

      @@silverdragon710 and my

    • @jumpinnemo5044
      @jumpinnemo5044 5 лет назад +30

      Oh, mine has a communist yugo flag, Tito's portraits and a lot more

    • @yugoslaviaist
      @yugoslaviaist 5 лет назад +34

      I’m 22 and I have his picture in my room and a bust on my desk.
      Pozdrav iz Tuzle 😊

    • @GTAmaniac1
      @GTAmaniac1 5 лет назад +3

      @@yugoslaviaist kakav ti je zrak?