Tito’s funeral in May of 1980. A total of 128 countries sent delegations which included 4 kings, 31 presidents, 6 princes, 22 prime ministers, and 47 ministers of foreign affairs – it was one of the largest state funerals in history
Tito’s funeral in May of 1980. A total of 128 countries sent delegations which included 4 kings, 31 presidents, 6 princes, 22 prime ministers, and 47 ministers of foreign affairs – it was one of the largest state funerals in history
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What country was Tito from ?
I think I can identify Prince Phillip, Helmut Schmidt, Brezhnev, Honecker and Kim Il-sung.
I’m quite shocked to see so many democratic countries sent delegates to a dictator’s funeral. Hypocrisy at its best.
Can you imagine a bomb going off under that stand? How… interesting history would have been.
What do you expect for the guy who was meant to have shagged Elizabeth Taylor. Legend.
They were all to a person looking at the corpse with an eye to ripping it to pieces with their teeth for their own countries’ profit.
That’s why they made a show of wearing mourning clothes. Because back then Yugo was seen as a critical region for the balance of power between 1st and 2nd worlds.
These days, not so much. If a Serb leader dies, you can get an ambassador with a wrinkled suit to show up with a sympathy letter signed by a president or chancellor, but only with one of those “autosign” machines. It’s the darndest thing with geo politics. The “geo” is always changing. Action in 1914 kicked off a World War, now an assaniation in Balkans would kick off the front page of a regional newspaper and that’s it.