Tito tomb at risk as Serbs argue over Yugoslav legacy

In a move akin to kicking Lenin out of Moscow's Red Square, the mayor of Belgrade wants to rid the Serbian capital of the tomb of Tito, the socialist leader who held Yugoslavia together for decades.

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Nationalist Aleksandar Sapic wants to send Tito - the wartime resistance leader who liberated the country from the Nazis - back to his native Croatia, despite his tomb in the Museum of Yugoslavia attracting 120,000 visitors a year.

Sapic insists Tito has to go if Serbia is to “move away from communism” and wants to turn his mausoleum into a museum of Serbian history.

“The communist regime has literally brought nothing good to the Serbian people,” said the mayor, who instead wants to put up a statue to a controversial Chetnik leader who fought against Tito during World War II.