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Excellent video. My family is Bosnian and my dad would explain the unity Tito displayed at all times for Slavs regardless of faith. He would tell me stories of how it didn’t matter whether you were Bosnian, Serb, Croat etc. no one cares about religion either. True unity, but once he passed, so did this ideology. Tito, I believe, was a true leader

I was very lucky to be born and raised during "dictatorship" of Tito. Access to education, healthcare and life in the west were unlimited. I finished all studies in Yugoslavia and transferred to USA where I make 6 digits income now. No, I did not have to escape. I only took my passport and asked for US entry Visa. Citizens of Yugoslavia did not need exit Visa. The only obstacle was US embassy, not Yugoslavia. Thank you Marshall Tito for kicking out Soviets. You had both brain and balls to remove Stain in 1948.

Whatever he was, we had a best passport in world during his reign!

Tito and his partisans were heroes, they saved my grandma that lived in village, when ustaše and germans arrived in her village they started rounding them up in trucks that were going to death camps, interesanting my grandma said to her family to enter in last truck (the third one) which was stopped by partisans and freed, other 2 trucks managed to go to death camps... so yeah without them my dad wouldnt be born and without him i would be born... truely lucky

I would say hero. Yes he was a dictator (and I can't believe I am saying this) but he was a good dictator, he kept everything in order, food drink and basic needs like housing all were so cheap. You don't get that anymore. I went to Slovenia on holiday with my family and the prices for stuff was very high, but I bet under Tito it would of been very cheap. Then to be fair, I have not been to any of the other ex Yugoslav countries. As soon as he died, it was the beginning of the end of Yugoslavia. Good video Steven! Keep up the good work!

Killing fascists is not a crime ~ An Italian

Tito was indeed a complex man. He made some bad things, but on the other hand, he created and kept Yugoslavia together. And from the modern perspective, he could do a bit more to repress the nationalisms that tore the country apart As, we got our independence, but at what cost?

Tito my hero may good give us yugoslavia back🇲🇰🇷🇸🇧🇦🇸🇮🇭🇷🇲🇪 we are one big family

He was ruthless until he found his grip over the country was firm. Then, he became that benevolent dictator. But every dictatorship has the same issue: the succession. Tito was worshiped as demigod and every aspect of the political life hinged on him. That never allowed the state institutions to develop sufficiently to survive the swarm of demagogues that are always watching for any vacuum in power. Still I respect Tito for his absolute personal rectitude. For instance, he never favored his family members. He drawn none of his sons to politics and all of them become middle class professionals that live of their work.

Wrong, check your facts, The Spanish Civil War was not communist vs non-communist but The Republican Government which was elected on elections in which there was liberal parties, anarchist, communist, social democrats and other republican forces vs the monarchist fascist Franco (helped by Mussolini and Hitler) who started military coup when the elected Government ended the Monarchy for what was voted in Power.

Dictator or not. This man was the Einstein of politics.

I think that Yugoslavia was economically made up of financial assistance from the West.

I could see an epic film been made about Tito. While not a perfect man, he was definitely an interesting and fascinating figure of the 20th century.

In my opinion he was a hero I was born and raised in Yugslavija And we are all brothers and sisters no matter what kind of religion you are.

You explanied each side of the story well done!Its hard to come by to non biased videos on youtube.

Hero. Always has been and always will be.

He was part of "Vražija Divizija" (Devil's Division) and they did commit war crimes in Serbia, so what you said was incorrect.

HEROOOOOOOOO!!!

Even thought Tito was a Dictator, and the Dictatorship was cruel for people, In Yugoslavia it does not look like it's cruel, tito was actually a good dictator, a good one. My grandpa and grandma would not live until now if he wasn't born, Tito was a true hero. A hearted, and a powerful person. I love him. Everything was fine, good and enjoyable in Yugoslavia until Tito died. So i choose that Tito is actually a hero.

May I suggest you consult someone from the region or someone familiar with the language to help you with your pronunciation?

The Slovenian army was the most professional army in Europe during the Second World War. It was created as a result of resistance against the occupier. Americans considered her an example of resistance against fascism and Nazism. A real professional army began to emerge only in the 1960s. The Americans also had a conscript army until 1973. Prisoners of war were killed in Slovenia by the Serbian-Herzegovina division, never by the real Slovenian army. After 1945, according to Tito's decree, the Slovenian Army, as the only real national army in Yugoslavia, was abolished...

He was a benelovent dictator, i was 8 years old when SFR Yugoslavia fell apart, our Christmas was celebrated on New Years with all the festivities like gifts and santa claus, our family was together, I think many people miss the Socialist Yugoslavia because everyone was normal and there was no war, the war was a big shitshow and evil

Whenever you think about Tito, I must agree that many former Yugoslav states were no longer the same after Tito's death. We Poles wished that we had such a Tito at home at the time when we were ruled by a Soviet puppet. Poland is now a free country but we can still feel the reeling impact on us.

@historyhustle Not only did Tito fight in the Austro--Hungarian army but he was a lieutenant in Russia's NKVD. He actually was a POW in Russia, after the defeat of Austro-Hungary and misteriously managed to get into the NKVD. Although Stalin did not like him, Tito was responsible for the purges of Yugoslav Communist Party ( mostly while he was in Russia ). When he got back to Yugoslavia, it was not to recruit communists for the Spanish Civil war but to assert his power in the Yugoslav Communist Party. Again, he was not backed by Stalin to do this. Stalin backed Mustafa Golubic, born in Stolac, Yugoslavia, NKVD Colonel and one of Russia's best spies. This was the guy who organized the coup in the kingdom of Yugoslavia that nixed the German-Yugoslav pact and led to the March protests and Germany's attack on Yugoslavia. He was supposed to organize resistance against the Germans, once they occupied Yugoslavia. Tito saw him as a competitor for leadership and denounced him to the Germans, who executed him. Tito was also responsible for the purges of 5 previous general secretaries of the Yugoslav Communist Party and numerous others that he perceived as rivals (Ivo Lola Ribar) Tito was basically anti-Serb. After WWII, when forming the new Yugoslavia, he weakened Serbia by dividing its territory, creating two autonomous provinces: Vojvodina, and Kosovo and Metohija. Not only did he let Croatia back into the Yugoslav Federation (this was an enemy state) but he made them an equal republic. It was more logical to create autonomous provinces out of Croatia: Dalmatia and Krajina, but Tito was half Croat and even had several clandestine meetings with Pavelic during WWII. There was never an attempt to attack Jasenovac by the Partisans, although they knew of its existence from the beginning. Jasenovac was the biggest concentration death camp outside of Poland, located in Croatia. Eventually, 700,000 Serbs got exterminated there. Tito did not organize the Non-Aligned Movement by himself. It was organized through planning and collaboration with Nehru (India ), Nasser (Egypt), Nkrumah (Ghana) and Sukarno (Indonesia). It became a forum for 120 nations, the second biggest group after UN. Tito was part Croatian and part Slovenian. Do you really think that the Slovenian partisans would make a move on Bleiberg, without Tito's consent. Hell, he ordered it! Goli Otok was basically a political prison for Serbs that had sympathies towards Russia and was created in 1949, when Tito had a falling out with Stalin. Over 50, 000 Serbs were detained there and about 4,000 of them died there during the first 7 years of its existence It wasn't about mineral and other resources; it was about not deferring to Stalin and being Supreme commander of Yugoslavia. Tito had the APPEARANCE of a benevolent dictator, but he was not benevolent. He ruled Yugoslavia though a one-party system with an iron fist. Nonmembers were exploited, just like any other dictatorship. The brotherhood was a lie!

Tito will always live in Yugoslav hearts.

Great video. Thank you for clearing all my questions. This video was great at the way it was concise and still able to be very informative. It answered my questions but also presented that Tito was a flawed person and the decent qualities he had. I'd say he was a mixed bag. Did bad things and good things. Thanks for the great vid.

For the first time at the end of the war, partisan units, brigades, battalions were combined into larger units such as divisions, corps and armies. Towards the end of the war, we can mention the already established Yugoslav Army (which wasn't the same as the later Yugoslav People's Army, since the name is already different). I don't agree that Slovenian partisans committed a massacre in Bleibourg, because at that time the Yugoslav armies were advancing from the south. If we could talk about KNOJ members (National Defense Corps of Yugoslavia), VOS members, etc. which, above all, justifiably got down on them, since the Ustashas, Chetniks and the rest killed their entire families and then allegedly left them alive, this disgusting, which especially the Ustashas were, disgusted even the Germans. If the British forces hadn't rejected the collaborators and everyone else who found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, then I dare say the massacre would not have happened. Also, the British knew very well who they were dealing with, so they also rejected them, as they didn't want to get their hands dirty. But it is also necessary to think about why this retreating army didn't lay down its weapons and, when retreating towards Austria, killed, burned, robbed and slaughtered the civilians who met them across Slovenia. Also, read about the last battle on European soil, which was fought on Slovenian soil ( Battle of Poljana ) when Germany had already capitulated, the collaborators (mostly Ustaša) did not lay down their weapons and, as I have already mentioned, retreated armed to the teeth against Austria, unfortunately too late for them, otherwise their leaders escaped prematurely with the help of the Vatican. Let it last a long time and let it be said as much as possible, but it is really difficult as a foreigner to talk about the history of personalities, the country, the army, etc. about which you practically learnd nothing in the entire education. I could write a lot more, but it would be easier to make a video like this. Many things are true, but there are also many shortcomings. Greetings from Slovenia

Tito was a HERO best man that ever lived. Great leader who ever lived.

this information that Tito has sent a message to Stalin about the agent he will send is really true? And Stalin received it?

Hero of all good moral things

He was playing 4D chess.

Tito was above else a skillfull statesman. That is in my opinion undisputable. As for the hero/villain question, he was imho more hero than villain. He was the one who led the resistance and with his partisans liberated Yugoslavia with symbolic help from Soviets. While he was tough on his political opponents, Yugoslavia become newly industrialized country with relatively solid living standards (economically unsustainable though). However, eventually he failed to create sound basis and unifying factors to ensure survival of Yugoslavia.

he was our hero and always will be

Tito is hero

How was he a dictator?

Tito je bio Tito

Ok this is epic

Also wrong, check your facts, "Goli Otok" was not jail for "dissidents", nor patriots or nationalists, it was a jail in which communists went, it was a jail built as the reaction to the split with the Informbiro and Stalin and in there were imprisoned people who supported the "Resolution of The Informbiro about Yugoslavia and Tito" which was calling to communists in SFRY to violently overthrow the Yugoslav leadership of the CPY. It is true that "Goli Otok was a terrible place, but it was full of Stalinists and not of "dissidents".

He was a good guy and he actually gave Kosovo some autonomy and was about to make it an republic but he died and then Slobedan Melosovic took power and did ethnic cleansing.

1:28 communists vs fascists

Fell apart as nazi ustase wanted pure catholic state

Why did you put serbian flag to thumbnail? 😂

Speech of Tito was like Jo Biden today

Tito was a hero. Yes he was brutal, but his brutality held a region plagued by ethnic conflict together and made them stronger.

Tito heroj i genije. ❤️

Hero. Tito is hero

@historyhustle You don" know anything about Tito!

The one who "prevented the Serbs" from remembering the First World War, and gave pensions to the Thessaloniki fighters, visited Zejtinlik and awarded the Order of the National Hero and the Star of Karadjordje, while rehabilitating Apis and the "black hands". The one who "did not allow the Serbs" to be baptized, but he helped the Patriarchate of Peć, stood financially behind the reconstruction of Žiča and Manasija and allowed the restoration of the Virgin of Ljeviška, while two of his ministers and the mayor of Novi Sad were Orthodox priests, and the official newspaper of the Church of Orthodoxy thanked him for 35 years of prosperity, peace and happiness. who "hated everything Serbian", but wrote a speech on the anniversary of the First Serbian Uprising, took a picture with Karadjordjev's picture, organized the anniversary of the Battle of Cers and allowed the filming of the best Serbian war film, March on the Drina. The one who "was an Ustasha", so he killed 40,000 Ustasha in Blajburg, overthrew the NDH, killed almost its entire government and half of its emigration, and reduced the Republic of Croatia to a smaller territory than Banovina Croatia, which was given by the much-loved monarchist and mode. The one that was "hidden by Jasenovac" by teaching in textbooks that the number of people killed was 700,000, and children were taken there to pay homage to the monument built by his government. The one who "was against the Kosovo spirit of the Serbian people", but in 1953 built the Tower in Gazimestan "to hide it".

I would say absolutely a hero. Tito led what was by far and away the most successful partisan/anti-Axis movement of the war, and one of the most successful in history. Yes, I realize he ruled Yugoslavia for decades after the war, but you have to consider the time, place, and alternatives. Yugoslavia was always going to be in the USSR/communist sphere of influence after the war. Had Tito not risen to power, there would have almost certainly been a staunchly Stalinist, and far more repressive leader been in power in Yugoslavia. What Tito accomplished in charting a course for Yugoslavia, largely independent (and in fact hostile to) Stalin was nothing short of miraculous. The fact that Tito was widely admired by the West, the post-Stalin Eastern Bloc, and the non-aligned world should be proof enough of his success as a leader. Equally impressive is simply managing to keep the region together for decades. Just look at what happened to Yugoslavia the second communism collapsed in the region - the country fractured into numerous ethnostates, after a long and ugly period of war/mass killings/ethnic cleansing.

wtf? who was he villian for, to nazis?

Tito is villain because he wanted yugoslavia to have no allies and he wanted serbia to collapse because he was a croat

Tito is MEGA GAY Слобода или смрт! ☦🏴‍☠️ Draza is the real hero, Tito was against Serbs.

Only Draza is good.

He was a hero. Definently.

Respectfully, The Bleiburg Genocide of Croatian soldiers AND civilians was and still is the largest mass murder of any European ethnicity since WWII. British estimates are 700,000; US estimates are 450,000. 90+ % of the victims were Croatians fleeing the Communist Yugoslav (‘Partisan’) army. The Croatian army was led by nationalists. You incorrectly state that Tito was not responsible. TITO planned, implemented and executed the Bleiburg Genocide! Tito, according to Western intelligence, was one of the 20th century’s Top 10 mass murderers. Source (1): Dr. Josip Jurcevic. Thank you.