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| After spending several months in the hospital, Josip Broz is sent to the working camp in the ]s in Autumn ]. In April ] he is arrested for organizing demonstrations of prisoners of war; later he escapes the camp and joins the demonstrations in ] on July 16-17, ]. He fleds the police to ], but is arrested and locked in the Petropavlovsk fortress for three weeks. He is then sent to a prison camp in Kungur, but escapes from the train and instead in November enlists in the ] in ]. In the Spring ], he applies for the membership in the Russian ]. | After spending several months in the hospital, Josip Broz is sent to the working camp in the ]s in Autumn ]. In April ] he is arrested for organizing demonstrations of prisoners of war; later he escapes the camp and joins the demonstrations in ] on July 16-17, ]. He fleds the police to ], but is arrested and locked in the Petropavlovsk fortress for three weeks. He is then sent to a prison camp in Kungur, but escapes from the train and instead in November enlists in the ] in ]. In the Spring ], he applies for the membership in the Russian ]. | ||
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Josip Broz Tito was born on May 7, 1892 in Kumrovec, Croatia. He died on May 4, 1980 in Ljubljana.
Leader of Yugoslavia during and after World War II.
Josip Broz was born on May 7, 1892 as the seventh child in the family of Franjo and Marija Broz in Kumrovec (now W Croatia). After spending some of his childhood years with his mother's father in Podsreda, Josip enters the primary school in Kumrovec and finishes it in 1905. In 1907, moving out of the rural environment, he starts working as a locksmith apprentice in Sisak. There he becomes aware of the labour movement and celebrates May 1 for the first time. In 1910 he joins the Union of metallurgy workers and at the same time the Social-democratic party of Croatia and Slavonia. Between 1911 and 1913, Josip Broz works for shorter periods in various places of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Since Autumn 1913, Josip Broz serves military service; in May 1914 he wins a silver medal for the second place at a fencing competition of Austro-Hungarian Army in Budapest. At the outbreak of the First World War, he is sent to Ruma. Due to the anti-war propaganda, he is arrested and imprisoned in the Petrovaradin fortress. In 1915, he is sent to Galicia to fight against Russia. In Bukovina, Josip Broz is seriously injured from a grenade from a Russian howitzer. In April, the whole batallion falls into Russian captivity.
After spending several months in the hospital, Josip Broz is sent to the working camp in the Urals in Autumn 1916. In April 1917 he is arrested for organizing demonstrations of prisoners of war; later he escapes the camp and joins the demonstrations in Sankt Petersburg on July 16-17, 1917. He fleds the police to Finland, but is arrested and locked in the Petropavlovsk fortress for three weeks. He is then sent to a prison camp in Kungur, but escapes from the train and instead in November enlists in the Red Army in Omsk. In the Spring 1918, he applies for the membership in the Russian Communist Party.
July 4, 1941 Tito called for armed resistance against Nazi Germany.
1941-1945 Chief Commander of National Liberation Army
1945-1953 Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia
1953-1980 President of Yugoslavia
1961 Co-founds, with Egypt's and India's
Tito's greatest strength was suppressing nationalist insurrections and maintaining unity throughout the country. Without Tito's call for unity, the people of Yugoslavia could not hold together. Ethnic divisions and conflict grew, and eventually erupted into gruesome civil wars (Croatian war, Bosnian war, Kosovo War)