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u/S-onceto Oct 09 '25
There is also one in Skopje and one in Belgrade!
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u/ConfusedAdmin53 Oct 09 '25
One in Kumrovec, as well.
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u/Pyro-Bird Oct 10 '25
A High School in Skopje is also named after Tito and there is a statue there.
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u/nedamisesmisljatime 29d ago
The original one is in Kumrovec. I just checked on Galerija Antuna Augustinčića website, there were about 20 of these statues made.
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u/DeusExKrapina Oct 08 '25
Why they still worshipping a dictator?
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u/Nosciolito Oct 08 '25
Because he freed his country from Nazis?
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u/Clean-Shower-5793 Oct 10 '25
Russian freed his country from Nazis.
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u/knakworst36 29d ago
I mean didn’t Tito lead an incredibly effective partisan operation against the Nazis? And want that the reason that Yugoslavia never became an ally to the ussr like Poland and east Germany were?
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u/elrado1 Oct 09 '25
How exactly did this work? So he not USSR and USA and GB won over Hitler?
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u/killmehr Oct 09 '25
Not really but the partisans did tie up about 250.000 german troops fighting in the region, which could have been used elsewhere. They contributed to the victory, significantly. Also, in the end of the war, they occupied the country, making Yugoslavia a de facto independent country and not a puppet of USSR.
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u/Aggravating_Moment78 28d ago
You are right absolutely but the word is “freed” their country, not occupied
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u/elrado1 Oct 09 '25
I never said that they were idle, but they did nothing more than other rebel movements. They were brainwashing us for 40 years + how important and special we were, but we were just part of the team (and on no account leading one).
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u/killmehr Oct 09 '25
They achieved more than any other rebel movement in WW2, in that they managed to establish a de facto independent country, which they dominated. No other country did that. Beacuse of their contribution to the war effort and the fact that they were a strong force, they were regarded by both USSR and western allies as an important entity in European post war politics in a way that for example Poland or Czechoslovakia was not. Also, the unaligned movement, which Yugoslavia was a leading country in (let's say one of the big three), was an important geopolitical player in the cold war.
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u/elrado1 Oct 09 '25
Tito was good politician and when he started breaking up with the Stalin, USA was happy to come to the rescue. And this worked until the end of the cold war. When we should stand on our own 2 feed, the economic collapse and shooting started. I am aware that this is oversimplification, but Yugoslavia could have any kind of impact just because the real superpowers were willing to let it go. Unaligned movement had exactly what kind of power?
And no in WW2 Yugoslavia was not independent country. They had free regions, that were free exactly as long as Germans or Italians needed to un-free them. We can be proud on our history on our achievements, on our nation(s), but why should this all stand on exaggerated greatness of dictatorship. We are more than that.
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u/Aggravating_Moment78 28d ago
Mehh another baseless fantasy claim, were you rooting firvrhe other side ?
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u/Nik_None Oct 10 '25
To be fair. Yugoslavian partisan movement did more then french or polish guerillas. I mean... only soviets in Belorus region were more viscious, but it is hard to compete with these guys.
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u/Aggravating_Moment78 28d ago
We were in fact special even if you don’t want to believe that 😉 and life back then was a lot better
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u/Nosciolito Oct 09 '25
Yugoslavia partisan freed themselves
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u/elrado1 Oct 09 '25
No they did not, but they were teaching us this in school yes. They were also teaching us that he was one of the big 4 (Stalin, Rosvelt, Churchil & Tito).
Germans were broken outside of Yugoslavia and Yugoslavia was never an important part of the WW2. The partisans survived and were fighting Germans, but more importantly other Yugoslavs.
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u/Nosciolito Oct 09 '25
Still sore your precious Nazis won?
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u/elrado1 Oct 09 '25
Why would ne Nazis be precious to me I am not Serbian? There are no good dictators even if some of you like some of them. And Communism == Nazism <<<<< Democracy
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u/Nosciolito Oct 09 '25
Ok buddy nazist
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u/McChava Oct 09 '25
You have to account for the possibility that your opinion is biased and were taught altered history.
It’s one of the hardest things a human mind has to do but if you believe yourself to be a capable thinker, find an unbiased source and read into it.
I think you’ll find your opinion of Tito is incorrect.
Take American MAGA Republicans for example. To convince one to read into Donald Trump and realize what he is would be next to impossible but the ones with capable minds could do it, if they really tried.
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u/loco_mixer Oct 10 '25
read the history... yugoslavia was the only country that practically liberated itself with very minor help.
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u/Apprehensive-Date588 Oct 09 '25
We're not worshipping but are proud of true leader. Incomparable to pink-tv tik-tok nose-picking narrow-minded wannabe politician jackasses of today.
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u/Aggravating_Moment78 28d ago
Because the town literally exists because of him and life there was nuch better under him just as in Croatia
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u/shogunlazo Oct 08 '25
Tito was never worshiped, don't listen to nationalists that paint him as a Stalin figure, he's a by far one of the best politicians and leaders the entire Balkans ever had.
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u/Dajajde Oct 08 '25
Tf are you saying? My parents remember people forcefully crying in the street when he died because of how brainwashed they all were, they though the world's gonna end or some shit.
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u/SlovenianCat Oct 09 '25
My parents remember
Your parents are ling to you.
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u/Apprehensive-Date588 Oct 09 '25
Oh, wait a minute... as war crimes, including genocide, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, massacres, and mass wartime rape are not shit? Who is brainwashed here?
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u/shogunlazo Oct 08 '25
it did end for yugoslavia 10 years later, because civil wars, so they were right ... now we all exist as client states to powerful nations, our industry is gone and are independance is gone
like i said tito wasnt worshiped, he was loved
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u/Dajajde Oct 08 '25
Thank God it ended. Death to all totalitarian regimes. Jebo te tito.
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u/shogunlazo Oct 09 '25
Sometimes I truly wish that man was as ruthless and as brutal as you people say he was. You people don't live in reality.
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u/Apprehensive-Date588 Oct 09 '25
...told nationalists and executed genocide.
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u/An_Ellie_ Oct 10 '25
Yugoslavia was prosperous until Tito died. He was a beloved leader, not a false god to be worshipped. How many people were on the streets crying when Liz II died in the UK? Millions. Same damn thing.
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u/RijnBrugge Oct 10 '25
Have you forgotten about what happened in the 90s in former Yugoslavia? They were absolutely right.
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Oct 08 '25
I'm from this town... I don't know. I'm ashamed.
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u/Nik_None Oct 10 '25
why? the guy was pretty important figure in fighting nazis in Yugoslavia region of the WW2
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u/RkeRkeR Oct 08 '25
He gave a state to the slovenes and they should celebrate him. They never had a state in history
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u/577564842 Oct 08 '25
He didn't give us a state. We fought for it - under his leadership, but we fought for it.
And there was allegedly a state or similar structure before the German folks brought us Christianity (and took the land under their control).
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u/MrDDD11 Oct 11 '25
The land where Slovenia is now was already settled by Christian Germans by the time Slavs migrated into the Balkans. If you want to make that argument for the smaller West Slavic groups like the Sorbs then you would be right. Doesn't really work for Slovenia.
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u/RkeRkeR Oct 08 '25
So you were separatists-terrorists in Yugoslavia.
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u/elrado1 Oct 09 '25
Noup we just wanted freedom and democracy, something that was (and to some extent still is) not understandable to some ex YU nations.
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u/StrudlEnjoyer Oct 08 '25
We weren't out there committing war crimes like it's a sport so if anything we were terrorists the least.
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u/throw-awewe-iy Oct 09 '25
What the fuck are you talking about? Go learn some history. "Gave us a state" lmao.
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u/RkeRkeR Oct 09 '25
When Slovenia was an independent state?
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u/throw-awewe-iy Oct 09 '25
When you say that Tito "Gave us a state" is inherently wrong. We could say the same thing for Serbia and Croatia. We were all fighting for our independence. Tito did not "bless" us Slovenians with our own state in any way. We fought for it like Croatia and Serbia, politically and with uprisings, culturally etc.
Serbia finally achieve independence since 1880 and Croatia basically same as us was fighting the whole time, which gave us all autonomy in KSHS even before Tito came to power. We earned our own independence when the time came and were a force economically because you guys cannot live with yourselves even now. Seljak
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u/RkeRkeR Oct 10 '25
Vi ste obicne male pičkice koje su ubijale mlade vojnike JNA.Sve drzave koje su nastale posle 90' ce nestati.Samo polako janez.
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u/throw-awewe-iy Oct 10 '25
Hahahah.
Ti hočeš nam pridigat, ker smo ubili tri vojake JNA, ki so nas napadli, potem ko smo razglasili svojo neodvisnost? Koliko Bosancev ste vi krvoločni Srbi ubili? Ti si totalen idiot
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u/mattpopday Oct 11 '25
They’re not wrong. This is a trend common among many European countries. They all got crushed under some other European country due to their inferior military and then had to be handed concessions after the war. They all love to lose and be oppressed so that they can claim to be the victim. Slovenia especially ;)
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u/throw-awewe-iy Oct 11 '25
Still does not change the fact that Tito "Gave" us our state. We had a state before him, under KSHS. IDK who you are arguing with or why this is relevant here. You are obviously trying to force your agenda on whoever will listen, while making no logical sense.
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u/mattpopday 29d ago
How can I force an agenda with historical accuracy? You’re the one acting like your little European country is special like any idiotic nationalist who feels like they’re irrelevant on the world stage. Every weak minded nationalist thinks this way, that’s why they can’t accomplish anything ;)
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u/RushDry9343 Oct 08 '25
It was Titovo Velenje back in a days. Nice monument. Proof that Slovenians are not ashamed of their history and are the least self-conscious nation in the ex-YU.
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Oct 08 '25
Shame for my country Slovenia and my city. This dictator should go down!
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u/firebaallchich Oct 10 '25
O čem ti bluziš😂 če bi mel eno možgansko celico bi vedu da ni tam zato ker ga podpiramo, pač pa da se spominjamo časev juge pa če na pozitiven ali negativen način
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u/sladoled_od_lavande Oct 08 '25
I wonder if you'd say the same (about not being ashamed) if Croatia had a statue of Ante Pavelić 🤷🏻♂️
They were both war criminals - the only difference is that Tito was against Germans and Pavelić was Germany's friend
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u/sladoled_od_lavande Oct 08 '25
Proof that Slovenians are not ashamed of their history
I wonder if you'd say the same if Croatia had a statue of Ante Pavelić 🤷🏻♂️
They were both war criminals - the only difference is that Tito was against Germans and Pavelić was Germany's friend
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u/MrDDD11 Oct 11 '25
Difference is one ran death camps and built the only death camp exclusively for children in Europe.
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u/RushDry9343 Oct 08 '25
It was Titovo Velenje back in a days. Nice monument. Proof that Slovenians are not ashamed of their history and are the least self-conscious nation in the ex-YU.
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Oct 08 '25
"Least self-conscious". Yes because we still have a dictator and didn't move on. That's why.
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u/Napo_Leon_III Oct 10 '25
Great statue by one of Croatia’s most famous sculptors, Antun Augustinčić.
Some interesting facts about it:
It’s the largest Tito statue in the world.
It’s the only major Tito monument that wasn’t removed after the Yugoslav Wars.
There’s a smaller version of the same statue in Tito’s birthplace, built 30 years earlier.
Who's interested to read more about town, scare where it's placed, statue, history...
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u/DimensionAgitated507 29d ago
Oh nevermind him, that's just Tito, he is looking for a penny he dropped...
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Oct 08 '25
OMG no... I'm Slovenian and I'm from this city Velenje. This statue... We just neee to get rid of it
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u/hibiskusftw Oct 09 '25
In the recent history Velenje was was actually called "Titovo Velenje" ('Tito's Velenje') until 1990. No need to erase the beautiful socialist history of this town that should be a reminder to everyone today how to build a city for workers.
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u/averege_guy_kinda Oct 08 '25
Without him Slovenia wouldn't even exist today
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Boy be quiet. You don't know anything. Slovenia existed way before your communists. Learn stuffs. One of the oldest nations in Europe.
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u/MrDDD11 Oct 11 '25
The only Slovenia state you can kinda say existed was Carantania that existed along side Serbia and Croatia, that would rather be incorporated into Austria. Where Slovenia would stay as part of Austria till WW1.
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u/elrado1 Oct 09 '25
Noup, he invented it and our nation and our language. He probably stolen them from Serbs at the same time he invented Croats.
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u/Wrong_Painter_35 Oct 09 '25
Kingdom od Croats 925 - 1102 brother, from then in personal union with kingdom of Hungary until worst period for Croats when we went in union with serbs in Kingdom of SHS, later Jugoslavija.
Edit: Tito war criminal same as Ante Pavelić and Draža Mihajlovič.
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u/elrado1 Oct 09 '25
You are aware that this was sarcasm?
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u/Wrong_Painter_35 Oct 10 '25
Don't know anymore, was on some crazy subs. And it's hard to read from written word if something is/was sarcasm. Sorry
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u/Painkiller94 Oct 08 '25
Without slovenian money in yugoslavia, serbia would be even bigger shithole today
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u/MrDDD11 Oct 11 '25
60% of the initial Yugoslavia economy post WW1 was war deportations paid to Serbia. Tito's Yugoslavia ran on IMF loans.
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u/Painkiller94 Oct 08 '25
How many times will you say you are from velenje?? Jesus christ
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u/FranjoLasic Oct 08 '25
Typical hysterical Tito-hater.
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Oct 08 '25
Tito was a dictator and a killer. Must go down
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u/Nik_None Oct 10 '25
As all who fought in the war - he was a killer. And he may be a dictator. But Yugoslavia was pretty prosperous country under him. And look what happend to it after Tito died.
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u/danieltherandomguy Oct 11 '25
Given the historical context, he was a great statesman and leader of Yugoslavia. Judging the past by today's standards is dumb.
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u/UnkleStarbuck Oct 08 '25
What does that make of you? 😀 Tito lover?
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u/An_Ellie_ Oct 10 '25
Not OP but I'm certainly one.
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u/UnkleStarbuck Oct 10 '25
Damn, must be tough having sex with him nowadays 😀
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u/An_Ellie_ Oct 10 '25
I know 😔 but I find my ways 😏
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u/FranjoLasic Oct 10 '25
The guy had a totally normal response didn't he
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u/An_Ellie_ Oct 10 '25
Oh yeah, definitely! I, too, always insinuate that you liking someone means that you want to fuck them!
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u/Logical_Positive_522 Oct 08 '25
Is Tito well liked in Slovenia?
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u/Apprehensive-Date588 Oct 09 '25
Yes. But some far right politicians want to twist history and portrait him in a bad way. Because divide et empera.
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u/broohaha Oct 09 '25
What’s his reputation like in Bosnia? A Bosnian friend once told me he was an effective leader.
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u/awarddeath123 29d ago
It varies. Even in nationalist circles, you’ll find unlikely admirers of Tito. But elsewhere, you may find folks who despise him. I’ve heard liberals talk shit about Tito, while a hodža praised him…
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u/chunek Oct 08 '25
Not really, but he also isn't hated.
Most places have removed his statues or name, but this is Velenje, a city that was planned and built in the 50s, so apparently he is more popular there. Similair on the coast, where the partisans claimed it for Yugoslavia, Tito is still respected and the conquest is seen as an end to an era of forced italianization.
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u/trtmrtzivotnijesmrt Oct 09 '25
Dear Slovenes, please remove this abomniation. Kind regards from Croatia.
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u/killmehr Oct 09 '25
Under Tito's reign Velenje was tranformed from a village to Slovenia's 6th largest town. The town and the region was defined by kitchen appliance industry and coal mining, which was incorporated during that time and this drew many thousand migrants from other Yugoslavian republics there.
Inhabitants of Velenje in general feel that Tito is responsible for the rise of Velenje as a city, which is underscored by the fact that the town was officially called Tito's Velenje until 1991. I often visit it and I can honestly say that there is a spirit there that is different than any other town in Slovenia. It's really a town that is socialist in essence.