Tito's grave

I decide to go and see Tito's grave in the museum of 25 may. I want to find out more about this man who half of the Serbs despise and the other half has no opinion at all. catch a bus from what seems to be a bus station only to be told by the driver that it is not a bus station. He lets me in. He looks in the mirror and asks me with a smile if i want to sit next to him. There is no chair, he pulls a little stool and puts his jumper on it so i can sit down. He offers to take me on a tour around Belgrade and shows me the important sights. His father is from Kosovo, fought for the Serbian army during war and decided to settle down in Serbia, his mother is from a little village near Belgrade. We take a trip around Belgrade and he tells me in his broken about the NATO bombings, shows me on my map the important landmarks, his favourite football team, he keeps chatting and chatting and tells me what i need to visit in Belgrade. We pass the museum and he says i may stay on the bus and get off when we turn around. I get off, wave at him, he smiles and wishes me a pleasant day. I walk up the stairs hoping to see Tito only to find out that the museum is now closed and I should come back tomorrow. I did not see Tito and got a tour of Belgrade instead.

History and Josef Tito: On 28 June 1914 Austria-Hungary used the assasination of Archduke Ferdinand by a Bosnian Serb to invade Serbia, sparking the WWII. After the war, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Vojvodina, Serbia and its Kosovo province, Montenegro and Macedonia formed the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes under the king of Serbia. In 1929 the country became Yugoslavia. In March 1941 Yugoslavia joined the fascist Tripartite Alliance. This sparked a military coup and an abrupt withrawal from the Alliance. Germany replied by bombing Belgrade.
The communist party, under Josip Broz Tito, assisted in the liberation of the country and gained power in 1945. It abolished the monarchy and declared a federal republic. Serbia's size was reduced, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia were granted republic status but Kosovo and Vojvodina were denied it.
Tito broke with Stalin in 1948 and Yugoslavia became a nonaligned nation - belonging to neither of the post-WWII power blocks led by the USA and the USSR (as a result of this they were the only country from forme Eastern Bloc allowed to travel abroad).

My notes: hence the negativity from some Serbs about Tito, *Tito should have created Great Serbia and not Yugoslavia*