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An example of creating a personality cult in postwar Yugoslavia: Josip Broz Tito vs. Arso Jovanović

In this discourse an explanation is given for the creation of the cult of Josip Broz Tito, the leader of the Yugoslav Partisan movement and the head of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ). Tito's cult was an integrating factor of socialist Yugoslavia and represented the basis of Yugoslav collective identity. In parallel with the construction of Tito's personality cult, the importance of Arso Jovanović, Tito's associate during the war, was diminished. During World War II Jovanović held the duty of the chief of Supreme Staff of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia (NOVJ), i.e. the Partisan army. Accordingly, Jovanović conducted military operations together with Tito and was second-in-command in the Partisan movement. However, after Jovanović had been liquidated for reasons that had nothing to do with the war, his role in World War II was greatly diminished, and Tito's personality cult was built up at the expense of his legacy.

Josip Broz Tito, Arso Jovanović, cult of personality, Partisan movement, socialist Yugoslavia, military operations

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