“As the old joke went, Yugoslavia had eight distinct peoples in six republics, with five languages, three religions (Orthodox, Catholic, and Muslim), and two alphabets (Roman and Cyrillic), but only one Yugoslav — Tito.” Apparently, there were really no Yugoslavs.
In his day, Tito was a giant. A partisan fighter in WWII, he stared down the Soviet Union and the US.
And the conglomerate known as Yugoslavia had years of “relative” peace because of him.
At the price of forceful ethnic suppression.
When Tito died, all hell broke loose!
One powerful guy.