Joška Broz
Serbian politician
Josip "Joška" Broz (Serbian Cyrillic: Јосип "Јошка" Броз; 6 December 1947 – 3 June 2025) was a Serbian politician. A self-professed Yugoslav, Broz was the grandson of Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito and one of the most prominent supporters of the Titoist legacy within the former Yugoslavia.
Broz led Serbia's Communist Party from its formation in 2009 and served in the National Assembly of Serbia from 2016 to 2022, sitting with the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) parliamentary group.
Background and private career
Broz was born in Belgrade, in what was then the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. He was the eldest son of Tito's son Žarko Broz and Tamara Veger, a Russian. He earned a degree from the Belgrade University Faculty of Forest Management, and at different times worked at military game preserves (where he learned to cook wild game) and as a forester, metal worker, and policeman in charge of security for his grandfather. Although he was in frequent contact with Tito, he was not raised in affluent conditions and did not become wealthy by inheritance; a 2002 newspaper profile described him as living in a small, dilapidated house in Belgrade's Dedinje area and working as a cook in Zemun. "I am not sorry because the family has nothing," he was quoted as saying. "My grandpa raised me to be a modest man, not different from ordinary people." He added that his modesty helped him to survive the tragedies that befell Serbia and Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
Broz consistently defended Tito's political legacy and rejected charges that his grandfather was a dictator.
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