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uncle brian
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tito
josep broz, known as Tito, was a war hero and later president of Yugoslavia, he was the only eastern europe communist leader who was not overwhelmed by the soviet juggernaut, but remained free, and I'm speculating thats why he was able to visit Vietnam and have an island named after him, dont think the puppet presidents of Hungary, Poland, East Germany etc would have been able to do that! One of my uncles, and therefore a cousin of Bernard, was a partizan and killed by the Germans in WW2, I guess you could say Tito was his Boss!