46 Years Since Tito's Death: The Day Yugoslavia Became a Question Without an Answer

On May 4, 1980, at the Clinical Centre in Ljubljana, Josip Broz Tito died - lifetime president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Today marks 46 years since that day. More than 200 heads of state and officials from across the world attended his funeral in Belgrade - a number no other leader at the time could match.

Tito led Yugoslavia for 35 years. He commanded the anti-fascist resistance and the People's Liberation Army in World War II, and was one of the founders of the Non-Aligned Movement - a bloc of nations outside both NATO and the Warsaw Pact. He built a system that held together six peoples, two alphabets, three religions and countless tensions inside a single federation.

Forty-six years on, his legacy remains split. For some he is a symbol of social justice and international standing. For others - a dictator who jailed and persecuted his opponents. Neither picture is complete without the other. Citizens from every former Yugoslav republic still visit his tomb in Belgrade - the "House of Flowers" in Dedinje. That, in itself, says something.