(19 Dec 2018) On Wednesday hundreds gathered in Montenegro as authorities unveiled a monument of Josip Brox Tito.
The unveiling came as a rare honor to the late Yugoslav communist dictator, who was widely denounced after the breakup of the former federation in the 1990s.
The ceremony in Podgorica marked the anniversary of the city's liberation from the Nazi German occupiers at the end of World War II by Tito's anti-fascists.
The crowd waved Montenegrin and old Yugoslav flags and sang songs about Tito's partisan movement, reflecting nostalgic sentiments that many in the former Yugoslavia still feel nearly three decades after the country dissolved in bloodshed.
While Tito imposed a communist dictatorship, Yugoslavs also enjoyed free travel and relative openness when compared to the rest of the Communist east.
Podgorica was known as Titograd (Tito's city) during the time of Yugoslavia.
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