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Born in 1892 in Kumrovec, Austria-Hungary, Josip Broz Tito was a metalworker who rose through the ranks of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and later led Communist resistance forces during WWII. In September 1943, as leader of the partisan forces fighting the Germans, he convened the Anti-Fascist Council of the National Liberation Committee of Yugoslavia, which then created a provisional revolutionary government. During the war he was the leader of the strongest resistance force in Yugoslavia, and after the war he became the de facto leader of the country, the members of the monarchy having fled the country for safety during the war. In 1948 Tito declared Yugoslavia a federation and became the country's marshal. In 1953 the people elected him as the first President of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia. He maintained the country's independence from the Soviet Communist Party and its influence, forging his own Yugoslavian form of socialism. Tito kept the various republics and ethnic groups unified as one country and maintained official neutrality toward both the Soviet Union and the United States. He remained president of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia until his death in 1980. (en-US)
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literature. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1995. Vol. 11, pp. 804-5