reigning order
Image:
Tito salutes parading troops, tanks
and artillery on a rainy day in Belgrade. Behind him is the Yugoslav Assembly
building where his coffin was on view after his death. (Photo credit:
National Archives, USA)
Sound:
An American News Reel story during
the Cold War period reports on joint military exercises undertaken by
NATO and Yugoslavia. It extolls Tito's virtues as a military
leader and praises Yugoslavia's non-alignment with the Soviet Union. (credit:
National Archives, USA)
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greeting
Image:
Tito traveled the former Yugoslavia
in his "blue train" promoting his program of Brotherhood and
Unity city by city. The people would mass along the tracks or at the
train stations to greet him and shake his hand. When he died, his coffin
was placed on his train which then traveled throughout Yugoslavia, passing
crowds of mourners who lined the tracks and waited in train stations
decorated with his portrait and sombre banners.(credit: licensed from
Radio Television Serbia, RTS - All rights reserved)
Music: Many
songs were composed extolling Tito's virtues. Here is an excerpt from
a popular song Comrade Tito which vows "Tito we will
follow you." (credit:
unknown, acquired from Tito's Homepage, an award-winning website
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martial shadows
Image:
Cases containing dozens of medals
won by Tito for military valor are carried to the foot of his coffin which
lies on display in the Yugoslav Assembly Building in Belgrade. Family
and Yugoslav dignitaries are in sombre attendance, May 1980. (credit:
licensed from Radio Television Serbia, RTS - All rights reserved)
Sound: air-raid sirens and
gun salute which were sounded at Tito's funeral. These are undoubtedly
the same air-raid sirens that sound over Belgrade today as NATO bombs
the city in punishment for President Melosovic's continued program of
ethnic cleansing in Kosovo province. (credit: licensed from Radio Television
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bitter
tears
Image:
A few of the many thousand mourners
who lined up for hours to file past Tito's coffin as it lay in the Yugoslav
Assemby Building in Belgrade. Mourners were of all classes, ages, genders,
races -- the common people and world dignitaries alike, from both great
and young nations, both communist and capitalist. (credit: collage
of materials licensed from Radio Television Serbia, RTS - All rights reserved)
Music: an excerpt from sombre
music played to accompany the on-going televsion coverage of Tito's death
and funeral. Footsteps of those filing past the coffin may be heard in
the background. Composer unknown. May 1980. (credit: licensed from Radio
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ethnic 'cleansing'
Image:
The fracturing of Yugoslavia along
ethnic lines began several years after Tito's death and has been accompanied
by particularly vicious hatred, violence, and a program of ethnic cleansing
and genocide. Whereas Bosnia was the site of much of this conflict in
the early 1990s, at the end of the millenium, Kosovo has become the new
killing fields. In this photo, a young Bosnian Muslim man is doused with
water by two Serb police after being thrown out a window.(Photo credit:
AP/World Wide Photos)
Sound:
excerpt from a Tito speech on
the fraternity and unity of the nationalities of the former Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. (credit: unknown, acquired from Tito's
Homepage, an award-winning website published in Llublyana, Slovenia.)
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my brother's keeper?
Image:
The Mostar bridge in Bosnia is
blown-up by Croat soldiers in 1993 cutting off the Croat population on
one side of the river, from the Muslim population on the other. During
Tito's rule these two groups had lived and worked together as neighbors.
Note the date and time stamp in the lower left corner which pin-points
this moment in history. (credit: amateur video shot during the event).
Sound: The sound of Tito's
funeral train with an excerpt of music written to accompany television
coverage. When he ruled Yugoslavia, Tito traveled the country on his "blue
train" tirelessly selling his program of unity and brotherhood to
peoples who had lived in mutual suspicion and hatred for centuries. When
he died, his coffin was placed aboard this same train which then traveled
throughout Yugoslavia so all could mourn him. Everywhere crowds lined
the tracks singing songs and carrying signs which read "Tito we
will follow you. From your path we will not stray."
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