Nationalists want Tito gone


A damaged bust of Tito at his memorial complex in Belgrade. — AFP

IN a move akin to kicking Lenin out of Moscow’s Red Square, the mayor of Belgrade wants to rid the Serbian capital of the tomb of Tito, the socialist leader who held Yugoslavia together for decades.

Nationalist Aleksandar Sapic wants to send Tito – the wartime resistance leader who liberated the country from the Nazis – back to his native Croatia despite his tomb in the Museum of Yugoslavia attracting 120,000 visitors a year.

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