Article: Tito elected president of the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia: January 13th, 1953. (Months Past).(Biography)

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 ...

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