Josip Broz Tito Square
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Josip Broz Tito Square (Russian
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: Площадь Иосипа Броз Тито) is a square in Moscow
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, close to the Profsoyuznaya metro station.

The square was named after the Yugoslavia
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n Communist leader Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz Tito
Marshal Josip Broz Tito – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, Tito was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad, viewed as a unifying symbol for the nations of the Yugoslav federation...

in 1981, one year after his death.
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