↑ (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002) in Yugoslavia's ruin: the bloody lessons of nationalism, a patriot's warning (p. 58) "Without denying his Croatian and Slovenian roots, he always identified himself as a Yugoslav".
↑ Nikolaos A. Stavrou (ed.), Mediterranean Security at the Crossroads: a Reader, p.193, Duke University Press, 1999 ISBN 0-8223-2459-8
↑ Vjekoslav Perica, Balkan Idols: Religion and Nationalism in Yugoslav States, p.103, Oxford University Press US, 2004 ISBN 0-19-517429-1
↑ Richard West, Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia, p.211, Carroll & Graff, 1996 ISBN 0-7867-0332-6 "In one of his talks with Church officials, Tito went so far as to speak of himself 'as a Croat and a Catholic', but this comment was cut out of the press reports on the orders of Kardelj."
↑ Shapiro, Susan; Shapiro, Ronald (2004). The Curtain Rises: Oral Histories of the Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. McFarland. ISBN978-0-7864-1672-1."...All Yugoslavs had educational opportunities, jobs, food, and housing regardless of nationality. Tito, seen by most as a benevolent dictator, brought peaceful co-existence to the Balkan region, a region historically synonymous with factionalism."
↑ Melissa Katherine Bokovoy, Jill A. Irvine, Carol S. Lilly, State-society Relations in Yugoslavia, 1945–1992; Palgrave Macmillan, 1997 p. 36 ISBN0-312-12690-5"...Of course, Tito was a popular figure, both in Yugoslavia and outside it."
↑ Martha L. Cottam, Beth Dietz-Uhler, Elena Mastors, Thomas Preston, Introduction to political psychology, Psychology Press, 2009 p. 243 ISBN1-84872-881-6"...Tito himself became a unifying symbol. He was charismatic and very popular among the citizens of Yugoslavia."
↑ Peter Willetts, The Non-aligned Movement: The Origins of a Third World Alliance (1978) p. xiv
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