|
|
Article: Tito elected president of the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia: January 13th, 1953. (Months Past).(Biography)
- Article from:
- History Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2003 History Today Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
IN 1950 THE Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia unanimously resolved that the withering away of the state should begin immediately. The Yugoslav dictator, Marshal Tito, may have been amused. He had an engaging sense of humour, loved Laurel and Hardy films and relished Chaplin's The Great Dictator, while recognising its application to regimes like his. Tito's Yugoslavia was a one-party Communist state and the party was dominated by apparatchiks and imbued with the values of the bureaucracy. Withering away was not on the cards. However, in January 1953 a new constitution heralded the introduction of `self-governing socialism'. A new Federal Executive Council was to be elected by ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: Tito tackles abs
Joe Weider's Muscle & Fitness;
February 1, 1998 ;
700+ words
...Tito Raymond blows his whistle to get his team ... strength from declining during the season," Tito acknowledges. Though he competes as an amateur bodybuilder today, football was Tito's first passion, although he weighed only ...
|
|