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Josip Broz Tito

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Yugoslavia is, along with Iran, the only nation which, under difficult circumstances... stood up to Joseph Stalin. It was not easy to unify the ethnic groups, to modernize a nation like Yugoslavia, and one must recognise that marshal Tito has fulfilled an extraordinary task. God willing, his successors will show themselves to be just as capable.
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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Réponse ? l'Histoire (Albin Michel, 1979), p. 190.

 
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