I don't remember Tito's Yugoslavia being like this!

To launch the latest edition of Serbian art-fashion magazine FAAR, focusing on Tito as a pop icon, a special fashion and art show was held in Belgrade. Here is FAAR's editor Duška Jovanić posing with a štafeta mladosti, the baton of youth that used to be relayed all across ex-Yugoslavia by selected members of the Mladina (Youth Communist League) who had earned the right to participate in running with the baton for a few kilometres after performing exemplary work and achievements. However, I do know of occasions when bystanders by accident were handed the baton of youth and carried on running. The baton would make its way to Belgrade by the 25th May for Dan mladosti - the Day of Youth and Tito's official birthday (Tito's actual birthday is still unknown) in time for a huge mass gymnastics display (like the ones now only to be found in North Korea) performed in honour of the 'great marshal'.

FAAR's show also featured a fashion show inspired by the style of Tito's most famous wife Jovanka, who was 32 years his junior. I have to say that I don't remember Mrs Broz ever being that thin. Now this is how I remember Jovanka, who happens to now live a less than glam life on a meagre pension in Belgrade.
Yes, these stylised, airbrushed visions of the past are just so much better than the real thing.