Hundreds pay respects at Tito's resting place

Numerous admirers of Tito, delegations of the Union of Associations of Veterans of the National Liberation War (SUBNOR), associations and organizations that commemorate the NOB and Tito, have been gathering since this morning on the plateau in front of the Museum of the History of Yugoslavia, which also includes the House of Flowers, Tito's final resting place.

Many of them carried flags of the former SFRY and the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, "Titovka" hats, badges with Tito's image or signature, and medals and decorations of the former Yugoslavia.

Thousands of people from the former Yugoslavia visit the Josip Broz Tito Memorial Center and the House of Flowers every year on the day of his death on May 4 and May 25, when his birthday, or Youth Day, was celebrated in the former Yugoslavia.

Tito's name, in addition to the partisan movement and the anti-fascist struggle that decisively influenced the formation and existence of the former SFRY during World War II, is also associated with the founding of the Non-Aligned Movement, which brought together third world countries and was a unique balance between East and West.

Tito's funeral in Belgrade on May 8, 1980, was attended by more than 200 heads of state or government and high-ranking delegations from as many as 127 countries around the world.

Since 1980, according to available official data, the House of Flowers has been visited by more than 17 million people, including many tourists from Western Europe and America, and an increasing number of visitors from Asian countries - China, Japan, South Korea and Vietnam.