Marhsal Josip Broz Tito

Josip Broz Tito
Author; Neil Burnett
Posted by Luka Ilić

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Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav revolutionary and states man, was born on May 7, 1892, in Kumrovec, near Zagreb, then Croatia under the rule of Austrian Hungarian Empire. His father was a Croat and his Mother was  Slovene. He was apprentice to a locksmith in 1907 and he worked as an itinerant metal worker in various Austro-Hungarian and German centers and he was drafted into the Austrian Hungarian army in 1913. Where he completed noncommissioned- officer- training.  He became a sergeant and was transferred to the Russian front in early 1915 where he was seriously wounded and captured by the Russians. He was hospitalized and then sent to prisoner of war camps, where he became acquainted with Bolshevik propaganda.  He participated in the demonstrations in Petrograd, and after the October Revolution, joined a Red Guard unit Omsk (Siberia), and later joined the South Slav section of the Bolshevik party. In October 1920 he returned to Croatia which then became a part of the newly established Kingdom of the Serbs Croats and Slovenes, also known as Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY). The same year the State banned communist activities and CPY begun to work underground. Tito served as a local and regional party functionary and trade union organizator in Croatia and Serbia until 1927 when he became organizational secretary of the CPY committee for Zagreb in 1928.  He led the street demonstrations against the authorities and successfully restored the CPY’s vitality but was arrested by the authorities in August 1928.  During his trial he defended himself with extraordinary courage but he was sentenced to five- years of prison.  At the same time King Alexander established the royal Yugoslav dictatorship, and the government arrested the most of the CPY leaders. Broz was released in March 1934 and it was in that time that he assumed the pseudonym Tito which he used in underground party work. From February 1935 to October 1936 he worked in COMMINTERN (The Soviet Sponsored Organization of International Communism)  in the Soviet Union. By 1937 he was involved in the CPY’s underground work in Yugoslavia. During 1937n and 1938 Joseph Stalin purged devastate the CPY leadership, and assassinated the top most leaders and veterans. And Tito gained the COMMINTERN’s mandate to become the CPY’s new secretary general in 1939.  At that time the CPY had some 7000 members not counting the additional 17,200 members of the young communist league. At an underground congress of CPY held in October 1940, Tito propsed the CPY’s leftist strategy focused on armed revolution and on a Soviet- style federalist solution to Yugoslavia’s nationality conflict.