Josip Broz Tito citations

Josip Broz Tito , né Josip Broz le 7 mai 1892 officiellement à Kumrovec et mort le 4 mai 1980 à Ljubljana , communément appelé le maréchal Tito, est un homme d'État yougoslave.

Josip Broz participa durant l'entre-deux-guerres aux activités du Parti communiste yougoslave clandestin, puis mena diverses missions en Europe pour le compte du Komintern. Il utilisa, pendant cette période, les noms de guerre de « Walter », puis de « Tito ». Revenu en Yougoslavie à la fin des années 1930, il prit la tête du Parti communiste. Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il prit la tête de la résistance communiste en Yougoslavie et parvint, au bout de quatre ans de conflit sanglant, à triompher de l'ensemble de ses adversaires et à réunifier sous sa bannière la Yougoslavie qui avait été démembrée à la suite de l'invasion de 1941.

S'étant assuré le monopole du pouvoir dès 1945, il fonda après-guerre le régime communiste yougoslave, dont il resta le principal dirigeant jusqu'à sa mort en 1980, avec les titres officiels de président du Conseil exécutif , puis de président de la République . Il était également « maréchal de Yougoslavie » , le grade le plus élevé de l'armée de ce pays, dont il fut le seul titulaire. En tant que chef de gouvernement puis chef d'État, Tito utilisait de manière officielle le nom de Josip Broz Tito , en accolant son nom de guerre à son nom de naissance.

La Yougoslavie ayant rompu avec l'URSS en 1948, Tito opta ensuite, pendant la guerre froide, pour une politique de neutralité et de bonnes relations avec l'Ouest. Il fut, à ce titre, l'un des fondateurs du mouvement des non-alignés. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. mai 1892 – 4. mai 1980
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Josip Broz Tito: Citations en anglais

“Kosovo is now the biggest problem confronting Yugoslavia”

Tito, as quoted in Julie Mertus' Kosovo: how myths and truths started a war (University of California Press, 1999), p. 22
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“If you saw what I see for the future in Yugoslavia, it would scare you.”

As said to former Foreign Minister Mirko Tepavac in 1971. (Yugoslavia: A State that Withered Away, Dejan Jović, Purdue University Press, 2009, p.45)
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“Those Chetniks up there who are now firing on us will have joined us within a year.”

Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 185.
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“No country of people's democracy has so many nationalities as this country has. Only in Czechoslovakia do there exist two kindred nationalities, while in some of the other countries there are only minorities. Consequently in these countries of people's democracy there has been no need to settle such serious problems as we have had to settle here. With them the road to socialism is less complicated than is the case here. With them the basic factor is the class issue, with us it is both the nationalities and the class issue. The reason why we were able to settle the nationalities question so thoroughly is to be found in the fact that it had begun to be settled in a revolutionary way in the course of the Liberation War, in which all the nationalities in the country participated, in which every national group made its contribution to the general effort of liberation from the occupier according to its capabilities. Neither the Macedonians nor any other national group which until then had been oppressed obtained their national liberation by decree. They fought for their national liberation with rifle in hand. The role of the Communist Party lay in the first place in the fact that it led that struggle, which was a guarantee that after the war the national question would be settled decisively in the way the communists had conceived long before the war and during the war. The role of the Communist Party in this respect today, in the phase of building socialism, lies in making the positive national factors a stimulus to, not a brake on, the development of socialism in our country. The role of the Communist Party today lies in the necessity for keeping a sharp lookout to see that national chauvinism does not appear and develop among any of the nationalities. The Communist Party must always endeavour, and does endeavour, to ensure that all the negative phenomena of nationalism disappear and that people are educated in the spirit of internationalism. What are the phenomena of nationalism? Here are some of them: 1) National egoism, from which many other negative traits of nationalism are derived, as for example — a desire for foreign conquest, a desire to oppress other nations, a desire to impose economic exploitation upon other nations, and so on; 2) national-chauvinism which is also a source of many other negative traits of nationalism, as for example national hatred, the disparagement of other nations, the disparagement of their history, culture, and scientific activities and scientific achievements, and so on, the glorification of developments in their own history that were negative and which from our Marxist point of view are considered negative. And what are these negative things? Wars of conquest are negative, the subjugation and oppression of other nations is negative, economic exploitation is negative, colonial enslavement is negative, and so on. All these things are accounted negative by Marxism and condemned. All these phenomena of the past can, it is true, be explained, but from our point of view they can never be justified. In a socialist society such phenomena must and will disappear. In the old Yugoslavia national oppression by the great-Serb capitalist clique meant strengthening the economic exploitation of the oppressed peoples. This is the inevitable fate of all who suffer from national oppression. In the new, socialist Yugoslavia the existing equality of rights for all nationalities has made it impossible for one national group to impose economic exploitation upon another. That is because hegemony of one national group over another no longer exists in this country. Any such hegemony must inevitably bring with it, to some degree or other, in one form or another, economic exploitation; and that would be contrary to the principles upon which socialism rests. Only economic, political, cultural, and universal equality of rights can make it possible for us to grow in strength in these tremendous endeavours of our community.”

Concerning the National Question and Social Patriotism http://www.marxists.org/archive/tito/1948/11/26.htm Speech held at the Slovene Academy of Arts and Sciences, November 26, 1948, Ljubljana
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