“I knew that many things were wrong… I witnessed a great many injustices… But it was my revolutionary duty at the time not to criticize and not to help alien propaganda against [the Soviet Union], for at that time it was the only country where a revolution had been carried out and where Socialism had been built. I considered that propaganda should not be made against that country; that my duty was to make propaganda in my own country for Socialism.”

— Josip Broz Tito

Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 142.
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Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman 1892–1980

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