Out of context Tito:

“Which is the squirrel?” Tito and Ranković pictured acing a cognitive test (cca 1960)

Prince Charles in Yugoslavia, Oct 1978

“U Jugoslaviji kao i u svijetu veoma se cijene napori koje Vaša svetost ulaže za miroljubivo rješavanje međunarodnih sporova i akutnih socijalnih i ekonomskih problema čovječanstva.”

Antique store finds

Socialist wellbeing (велбинг) and self-care

Out of context Tito

Out of context Tito (feat. Branko Mikulić):

Kardelj & Tito as makeup experts

In 2026, don’t forget the importance of the subjective factor

Uppsala

Stockholm

Baby, you can drive my car

Out of context Tito

Senate Democrats announcing deal to extend government funding

Out of context Tito:

The infinite loop of Serbian history

As Yugoslav war criminals used to say after destroying Dubrovnik and Mostar, he will build it even “older and prettier”

Out of context Tito:

The original No Kings protest

Out of context Tito:

Asterix and the Normans

Le Perche

Arromanches Port Winston Gold Beach

A letter asking for the DC public library to be named after MLK “And yet you persist with those monuments to all the Fascists, which made our country sick, racist, violence torn place that it is”

Cure for baldness suggested by a Washington DC community newsletter cca 1939 that involves “invigorating electrical treatment followed by warm tar applications.”

Mental image: a mosquito pulling out “that thing” on Yugoslavia

Latinka Perović

Out of context Tito

“How many divisions does the Pope have?” still needs to be answered

Fun(eral) fact: Joe Biden attended Edvard Kardelj’s and Pope Francis’s funerals

In 1992, facing an economic catastrophe, the Milošević regime suggested to its people to “eat roots” (“ješćemo korijenje,” Branko Kostić).

“The beginning of the crucial battle against the amassed administration,” Politika in 1988 at the hight of Milosevic’s purge of untrustworthy civil servants

One of Yugoslavia’s obsessions was the possibility of a “new Yalta,” i.e., the superpowers’ agreement at the expense of small nations. Here we are, 34 years after Yugoslavia’s dissolution:

Tito out of context

A prescient warning

In the late 1980s Serbian communists pioneered anti-DEI policies and the purge of the Federal administration from “disloyal” cadres (the so-called “anti-bureaucratic revolution”)

Happy new year

Jimmy Carter’s toast to Tito

Jimmy Carter (1924-2024) Cover page of NIN (illustrated by Bora Likić) during Tito’s last visit to Washington in 1978

As a society, we are playing the USSR in the 1980s bingo ❌Malfunctioning technology ❌Officials hiding illness ❌Aging leaders

Austria-Hungary

An Apple ad (Yugoslavia, 1985)

“Apocalypse Today” Dnevnik, 1987 (reprinted in Borba)

Marginalia

From the ash heap of history (but literally). I found these next to the garbage container in Belgrade in the 2000s