Rebirth of the Yugoslav identity


A man holding a Yugoslav flag in front of a memorial complex dedicated to Tito in Belgrade.

EVERY year, a small group of elderly people in well-worn World War II uniforms bedecked with communist paraphernalia queue in Belgrade to pay their respects to their former leader, Josip Broz Tito.

But decades after the bloody break-up of the Yugoslav federation, a younger contingency has also begun to fill the ranks to commemorate Tito’s death and pine the loss of a socialist federation that once united a divided region.

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