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Josip Broz Tito was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who led Yugoslavia as prime minister from 1943 to 1963 and as president from 1953 until his death in 1980. He was the longtime leader of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and supreme commander of the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II. He was also one of the founders of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Josip Broz Tito was born on the 7th of May 1892 in Kumrovec, a village in the northern Croatian region of Zagorje, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was the seventh or eighth child of Marija and Franjo Broz. His father was a Croat and his mother a Slovene from the village of Podsreda.
In 1948 Tito modelled Yugoslavia's development plan independently from Moscow, seeking a strong independent economy, which led to a bitter exchange of letters and the Cominform's expulsion of Yugoslavia on the 28th of June 1948. Tito became the first and only successful socialist leader to defy Stalin's leadership in the Cominform. Stalin arranged assassination attempts on Tito, none of which succeeded.
Josip Broz adopted "Tito" as one of several pseudonyms while wanted by the police, and used it as a pen name for party journals in 1934, after which it stuck. He gave no reason for the choice except that it was a common nickname for men from the district where he grew up. Within the Comintern network his nickname was "Walter."
The Non-Aligned Movement was a bloc offering a "third way" for countries that wanted to stay outside the East-West Cold War divide. In 1961 Tito co-founded it with Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, India's Jawaharlal Nehru, Indonesia's Sukarno, and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah in an action called The Initiative of Five. In September 1961 Tito became its first Secretary-General.
After Tito's death on the 4th of May 1980, Yugoslavia's leadership became an annually rotating presidency that gave representation to all its nationalities and aimed to prevent an authoritarian leader. Twelve years later, as communism collapsed in Eastern Europe and ethnic tensions escalated, Yugoslavia broke into several independent states and descended into a decade of interethnic wars.