In depth recounting of my global wandering
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 …
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 …
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 …
Before we set off to visit the birthplace of Josip Broz who ruled Yugoslavia for more than three decades under his better-known moniker of Tito, our group will make a brief and previously unplanned stop in Zagreb. I hinted at …
The previous post left us standing at the Stone Gate which is where our tour ended, more or less. However, if you recall, I mentioned in the first of these Zagreb bag posts that Damir had asked our guide to …