Word: titos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blanket of secrecy reveal Josip Broz as an Austro-Hungarian Army private during World War I. Destiny, in the anonymous guise of a War Office bureaucrat, sent him to the eastern front. There, he was captured by (or deserted to) the Russians, was packed off to Siberia. In 1917, Tito entered the Red Army, fought in the Russian civil war, was chosen for special training as a Communist foreign agent, became indelibly indoctrinated with the century's great new faith. During his novitiate, he found time to marry a Russian girl who bore him a son, Zharko (today...
...proud father returned to his homeland which by then had become Yugoslavia. His chief baggage was Communist fanaticism. He promptly put it to use as a union organizer among the metal workers of Zagreb and Kraljevica. In 1929, Tito was arrested by the Yugoslav Royal Police and remained in jail until 1934. At this point, the biographical barometer registers ceiling zero...
Conflicting reports have Tito: 1) in Spain as a "trusted man" with the International Brigade; 2) in Vienna, Prague and Paris as a member of the Communist International's roving undercover political bureau; 3) in Vienna as a university student (Tito still speaks German with Vienna's sloppy accent); 4) in Switzerland; 5) in Moscow and Leningrad taking courses in partisan warfare at revolutionary finishing schools; 6) in Moscow, as Comintern representative of the Yugoslav Communists...
...Then, after Hitler's fateful invasion of Russia in 1941, Josip Broz suddenly emerged from the fog as Tito the Partisan, who fiercely fought Germans (as well as non-Communist Yugoslavs who followed the late General Draja Mihailovich).* His new revolutionary nom de guerre is variously explained as derived from: 1) the initials of Tajna Internacionalna Terroristicka Organizacija (Secret International Terrorist Organization); 2) St. Titus, a convert from paganism who, it is believed, also did missionary work in the Balkans; 3) a legendary 13th-Century Slav warrior called Tito, who is reported to have killed more Mongols than anyone...
...20th-century Tito quickly attained similar distinction: Winston Churchill himself reported that Tito was killing more Germans than anyone else in Yugoslavia. So Allied support switched from Mihailovich to Tito. After a brief period of misty enthusiasm-he was presented as charming, kindly, courageous, only incidentally Communist and a self-made marshal-the fog of mystery lifted for good. Marshal Tito emerged as one of the Kremlin's most faithful, fanatical, and efficient proletarian proconsuls...