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| | Tito not forgotten in former Yugoslavia |
 | | KUMROVEC, Croatia (AFP) - Twenty-five years after the death of former Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito, the citizens of his shattered federation still cling to nostalgic memories of better days under his benign dictatorship. |
 | | He appreciated all classes, notably the poor," said Josip Banjsak, 58, a guard at the Tito museum in his native village of Kumrovec, northwestern Croatia. |
 | | In 2004, some 22,000 people, most of them Croatians and Slovenians, visited Kumrovec to pay their respects and see his childhood home, which has been restored to its original 19th-century-village style. |
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