3 hours agoZagreb removes Tito's name from a square in downtown (Photo)
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)Zagreb's Municipal Assembly in Croatia has voted to remove the name of former Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito from a square in the city's centre. By a vote of 29 to 20 against, the Croatian capital assembly approved President Milan Bandic's proposal to reappointed the square, which has so far borne the name [...]
Zagreb's Municipal Assembly in Croatia has voted to remove the name of former Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito from a square in the city's centre.
With a vote of 29 pro and 20 against, the Croatian capital assembly approved President Milan Bandic's proposal to reappointed the square, which has so far taken the name of Marshal Tito, BIRN reports.
The issue was put to the polls following pressure by right parties to wipe out the communist heritage of the past.
“With this movement, Marshal Tito has gone to history, and I hope that she will not return to”, said the head of the municipal assembly in Zagbre, Andrija Micelic, after the vote.
Josip Broz Tito had been president of Yugoslavia from 1944 to 1980, when he was dead.
