President Tito's Funeral, Yugoslavia ('Underground')

President Tito was buried on May 8th, 1980 in Belgrade, capital of Yugoslavia (now Serbia). 209 delegations from 128 countries gathered to pay their last respect.

38 heads of state, 4 kings, 6 princes, 7 vice-presidents, 6 presidents of parliament, 22 prime ministers, 47 ministers of foreign affairs, and other state and/or party representatives. Among them there were Leonid Brezhnev, Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Saddam Hussein, Sandro Pertini, Yasser Arafat, Helmut Schmidt, Kim Il-sung, king Carl XVI Gustaf, king Olav V, king Hussein of Jordan, Francesco Cossiga, Masayoshi Ohira, Hua Guofeng, Kenneth Kaunda, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Todor Zhivkov, Kurt Waldheim etc.

Based on the number of attending politicians and state delegations, it was at the time the largest statesman funeral in history, surpassed only by the funeral of Roman Pope John Paul II, 25 years later. They came from both sides of the Cold War.

(Taken from Kusturica's 1995 Palme d'Or winning film 'Underground').

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Yugoslavia
• Tito
• funeral
• 1980
• Brezhnev
• Thatcher
• Pertini
• Waldheim
• Arafat
• Guofeng
• Ceausescu
• Hussein
• Lili
• Marleen
• Kusturica

[93pavlaka]

zasto je ovde nacisticka pesma?

[arven979]

@93pavlaka Objašnjeno je bar 5 puta do sad među komentarima, pogledaj.

[stanovicius]

yes it was communist but not bound to fail... if only yugoslavia split to a more open society (after titos death) where you could be proud of your heritage (croat, serb, slovene etc) and also split the republics in yugoslavia based on regions NOT nations. ex. croatia would be: Dalmacija, Slavonija, Istra etc. AND have a new capital (build a new one) and not have it centred around belgrade... you would have a great unified country... I´m coming out with a book soon!

[serbianforestman]

Austrougarskom kaplaru savrseno pristaje ova pesma, sta je tu cudno?

Pogledajte granice Srbije pre II.sv.rata pa pogledajte nakon AVNOJ-a i sve je jasno. Sve ono sto nacisti nisu uspeli da dovrse u dva svetska rata on je uspeo u miru nakon toga. Zato mu se i odaje pocast sa ovakvom pesmom.

[CaptainKadmos]

epic

[RZMaslic]

@TheAnimeStop it wasn't communist and all nations are bound to fail so the latter part of your comment isn't saying anything...

[TheAnimeStop]

I haven't spent much time on the subject, but from what I can gather is Tito held Yugo together for years! However, he was communist, and it was a communist country. It was bound to fail...

[azandhind4eva]

@bakegosan86 fuck the west.

[DrawSStudios]

so long old friend, comrade Tito



[daltonagre]

History buried Tito and his useless Yugoslavia.

[kerelberel]

@nachingal

I like it.

[nachingal]

This wasn't a nazi song.

It's a German poem from the 1890's, used by the nazi´s of course.

But also recorded in english by Marlene Dietrich.

It's a song for the soldiers, no matter the band.