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...weeks before Tito's death, a member of Yugoslavia's new collective leadership observed that "we will not look for a new Tito, because there isn't one, and there will be none for a long time to come." Indeed, it was hard to imagine any lesser mortal replacing the gregarious and vital Tito, who, almost without challenge, had ruled Yugoslavia for nearly 35 years and his country's Communist Party for 41. He was, for many years, the Kremlin's least favorite Marxist-a maverick who wrested Yugoslavia from Moscow's grasp...
...Tito reveled in the applause, just as he relished a number of decidedly unproletarian luxuries. He dressed in stylishly tailored suits, as well as bemedaled uniforms that Churchill once called Tito's "gold-lace straitjacket." He traveled in a Mercedes-Benz limousine, a lavish yacht and a special train; among his other perks of office were half a dozen residences, several hunting lodges and a villa on the Adriatic isle of Brioni. He savored good food and drink and had an appreciative eye for pretty women. In 1977 Tito and his third wife Jovanka, 55, had a falling...
...Union in Zagreb. His native Croatia was at that time a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Conscripted into the Emperor's army in 1913, he was sent to the eastern front early in World War I. During a Russian attack in 1915, a Circassian cavalryman impaled Tito with his lance, nearly killing him; he spent 13 months in a Russian prison hospital. He was an inmate of the Kungur prison camp near Perm in 1917 when the news arrived of Tsar Nicholas II's abdication; citizens promptly freed Kungur's prisoners...
...Tito spent the next three years in the Soviet Union before returning to the new country that had been carved out of the old Habsburg Empire after World War I-the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later renamed Yugoslavia...
...still shouting "Long live the Communist Party of Yugoslavia!" as he was led away to serve a five-year prison sentence. He did more organizing work for the party after his release, traveling about Europe with forged credentials. In the mid-'30s he began using the alias "Tito," a common name in his home district. (It was one of many pseudonyms: in correspondence with Moscow, he was always "Valter," and it was by that name that Stalin knew...