The Dictator that Scared Stalin

Josip Tito would not fear Stalin’s assassination attempts.

When we think of dictators, a few names come to mind. Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussain, and Pol Pot are a few familiar names. If we turn our eyes to Soviet Russia, the name of Joseph Stalin still sends shivers down some people’s spines.

Even Hitler was scared of Stalin. Hitler was so afraid of falling into Stalin’s hands he committed suicide when the Red Army was approaching his bunker in 1945.

During Stalin’s rule of the Soviet Union, he was famous for eliminating those that displeased him. Many state pictures show the early photoshop techniques that Stalin’s regime used to erase those that displeased Stalin. These men were removed from group pictures of Soviet leaders, and the men were removed from society in brutal and often fatal ways.

However, when the dictator of Yugoslavia found himself on the wrong side of Stalin’s wrath, many thought he would straighten up and fly right. However, Josip Broz Tito was not someone to be intimidated. And when Stalin sent assassins to remove Tito, he responded with a threat of his own.

Who Was Josip Broz Tito?

Tito, as he was often called, was born on May 7, 1892, in what is now Croatia. At the time, his homeland was…