"Balls Of Steel"

"Balls Of Steel"

by Gerard Wall

"This is Marshall Josep Broz Tito, former President of Yugoslavia who not only stood up to the biggest, most evil dictator in the history of mankind, Stalin, but publicly threatened to have him murdered.

After World War II, in which Yugoslavia held their own, they weren’t saved by the Soviets, or the Western Allies, so they could decide their own fate. Tito (the partisan leader) set about forming the combined states of Yugoslavia. They refused to be a part of the Soviet Bloc, we’ll do our own thing, thank you very much. This annoyed Stalin to the extent that he sent several assassins to kill Tito.

Marshall Tito’s response was exemplary - “Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. [...] If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second.”

Balls of steel, on this hombre. He died in 1980, at the age of 87."

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