Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito had pushed the development of military industries in the republic with the result that Bosnia and Herzegovina was saddled with a host of industrial firms with little commercial potential.

A vehement campaign against " Titoism " was immediately started in the Eastern Bloc, describing agents of both the West and Tito in all places engaging in subversive activity.

According to Hoxha, Josip Broz Tito had agreed that " Kosovo was Albanian " but that Serbian opposition made transfer an unwise option.

Anti-Yugoslav members of the Albanian Communist Party had begun to think that this was a plot by Tito who intended to destabilize the Party.

It has also been suggested by Jože Pirjevec that Stalin was assassinated by the order of Josip Broz Tito in retaliation for assassination attempts on Tito.

A letter was found in Stalin's office from Tito that read: " Stop sending people to kill me.

Marshal Josip Broz Tito (; born Josip Broz ; Cyrillic: Јосип Броз Тито ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980 ) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman, serving in various roles from 1945 until his death in 1980.

While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, due to his successful economic and diplomatic policies, Tito was " seen by most as a benevolent dictator ," and was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad.

Tito was the chief architect of the " second Yugoslavia ", a socialist federation that lasted from WWII until 1991.

Tito was also involved in recruiting for the Dimitrov Battalion, a group of volunteers serving in the Spanish Civil War.

Subsequently Tito was appointed Secretary-General of the still-outlawed CPY.

Tito was named President of the National Committee of Liberation.

On 7 March 1945, the provisional government of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia ( Demokratska Federativna Jugoslavija, DFY ) was assembled in Belgrade by Josip Broz Tito, while the provisional name allowed for either a republic or monarchy.

This government was headed by Tito as provisional Yugoslav Prime Minister and included representatives from the royalist government-in-exile, among others Ivan Šubašić.

After the overwhelming electoral victory, Tito was confirmed as the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DFY.

In the first post war years Tito was widely considered a communist leader very loyal to Moscow, indeed, he was often viewed as second only to Stalin in the Eastern Bloc.

Although Tito was formally an ally of Stalin after WWII, the Soviets had set up a spy ring in the Yugoslav party as early as 1945, giving way to an uneasy alliance.

In addition, Tito was openly supportive of the Communist side in the Greek Civil War, while Stalin kept his distance, having agreed with Churchill not to pursue Soviet interests there, although he did support the Greek communist struggle politically, as demonstrated in several assemblies of the UN Security Council.

However, Tito did not attend the second meeting of the Cominform, fearing that Yugoslavia was to be openly attacked.

The assumption in Moscow was that once it was known that he had lost Soviet approval, Tito would collapse ; ‘ I will shake my little finger and there will be no more Tito ,’ Stalin remarked.

He also notably portrayed the role of Dick Johnson in a highly celebrated performance of La fanciulla del West at La Scala in 1956, opposite Gigliola Frazzoni and Tito Gobbi, which was broadcast live on Italian radio.

In contrast, the East is ably led by such stalwart heroes as Khrushchev, Tito, and Mao.

The Orioles defeated the Chicago White Sox in the ALCS thanks to a 10th-inning homer by Tito Landrum in the deciding game.

After disagreements between Yugoslavian leader Josip Broz Tito and the Soviet Union regarding Greece and the People's Republic of Albania, a Tito-Stalin split occurred, followed by Yugoslavia being expelled from the Cominform in June 1948 and a brief failed Soviet putsch in Belgrade.

Hoxha alleged that Tito had made it his goal to get Albania into Yugoslavia, firstly by creating the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Aid in 1946.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the Sri Lankan Civil War, the Afghan Mujahideen in the Soviet war in Afghanistan, George Grivas and Nikos Sampson's Greek guerrilla group EOKA in Cyprus, Aris Velouchiotis and Stefanos Sarafis and the EAM against the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the German Schutztruppe in World War I, Josip Broz Tito and the Yugoslav Partisans in World War II, and the antifrancoist guerrilla in Spain during the Franco dictatorship, the Kosovo Liberation Army in the Kosovo War, and the Irish Republican Army led by Michael Collins during the Irish War of Independence.

On 10 April 1941, Slavko Kvaternik proclaimed the Independent State of Croatia, Tito responded by forming a Military Committee within the Central Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party.

On 21 December 1941, the Partisans created the First Proletarian Brigade ( commanded by Koča Popović ) and on 1 March 1942, Tito created the Second Proletarian Brigade.

During the period, Tito evidently enjoyed massive popular support due to being generally viewed by the populace as the liberator of Yugoslavia.

In 1948, motivated by the desire to create a strong independent economy, Tito modeled his economic development plan independently from Moscow, which resulted in a diplomatic escalation followed by a bitter exchange of letters in which Tito affirmed that

On 26 June 1950, the National Assembly supported a crucial bill written by Milovan Đilas and Tito about " self-management " ( samoupravljanje ): a type of independent socialism that experimented with profit sharing with workers in state-run enterprises.

Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin visited Tito in Belgrade in 1955 and apologized for wrongdoings by Stalin's administration.

In the same year The Sugar Hill Gang featured a solo by Tito Puente on " The Sugar Hill Groove ".

In Yugoslavia, the communist Yugoslav Partisans led by Josip Broz Tito, held up an effective guerrilla resistance movement to the Axis occupiers.

Stalin's attempts to enforce submission of its Eastern European allies to the economic and political agenda of the Soviet Union sparked opposition and rejection in Yugoslavia by Tito.

King Peter II, American President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill joined Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in officially recognising Tito and the Partisans at the Tehran Conference.

The signature of the agreement was pushed by Winston Churchill, who had his people watching over the negotiations, on hand but hands off, as described in Eastern Approaches: Ralph Stevenson, ambassador to the government in exile, and Fitzroy MacLean, the soldier-ambassador liaison to Tito.

Pope John Paul's funeral brought together the single largest gathering in history of heads of state outside the United Nations, surpassing the funerals of Winston Churchill ( 1965 ) and Josip Broz Tito ( 1980 ).

In the hijinks that follow, Winston manages to get them lost in the ghetto, befriend a hooker named Rhonda ( Theresa Saldana ), and accidentally sell Tara to a diminutive pimp named Tito ( Trinidad Silva ).

Winston spends the remainder of the evening searching for Tara whilst seeking to avoid Tito's wrath after Tito discovers the identity of Tara's father.

Even so, Winston Churchill was a sympathizer of the Allied invasion of Croatian coast, so he initiated a discussion with Josip Broz Tito about invasion of the Istrian peninsula in August 1944.