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Despite the elections, it’s a bit of an understatement to say that the nascent Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia was far from being a stable country let alone some sort of federal democratic republic. Maybe not quite Fifty Ways but …

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At the end of the previous entry, I’d taken the oath as a Pioniri but more importantly taken you through some of the events that shaped the early life of Josip Broz. The onset of the Second World War loomed …

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Military Service. When we left Josip Broz at the end of the previous post, he had completed his locksmithing apprenticeship, joined the Metal Workers’ Union, and the Social-Democratic Party of Croatia and Slavonia. Then, at age 21, he was conscripted …