";s:4:"text";s:4042:" Tito sprang from the depths of Yugoslavia's struggle for freedom, from within the bosom of her exciting history of struggle, of national suppression, of factional strife, to unify his people and lead them to glory. Tito was no Hitler, nor was it ever his goal to destroy Yugoslavia. Tito's Partisans fought the Germans more actively during this time. Slovenia and Croatia each declare independence. Lepa Brena in the Media Ana Hofman, “Lepa Brena: Repolitization of musical memories on Yugoslavia,” Glasnik Etnografskog instituta, Vol. This gave parity representation to each of the six republics in the Yugoslav federation, even though Serbia was by far the biggest. Marshal Tito did so many good things for Yugoslavia that it would take a book to write them all down. Whole country was able to keep together only with Tito. However, in January 1953 a new constitution heralded the introduction of ‘self-governing socialism’. Tito’s new incarnation of Yugoslavia aimed for a more equitable division of powers. For 35 years, Josip Broz Tito held Yugoslavia together despite its mix of nationalities, languages and religions. But there was one man who could, and did: Tito. However, Tito did not attend the second meeting of the Cominform, fearing that Yugoslavia was to be openly attacked. And it did. Spomenik, like the word monument in English, denotes a structure dedicated to remembering an event and marking a location.
Tito’s Yugoslavia was a oneparty Communist state and the party was dominated by apparatchiks and imbued with the values of the bureaucracy. Post-Tito Yugoslavia faced significant fiscal debt in the 1980s, but its good relations with the United States led to an American-led group of organizations called the "Friends of Yugoslavia" to endorse and achieve significant debt relief for Yugoslavia in 1983 and 1984, though economic problems would continue until the state's dissolution in the 1990s. He was the first Communist leader in power to defy Soviet hegemony, a backer of independent roads to socialism, and a promoter of the policy of nonalignment between the two hostile blocs in the Cold War.