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American History

Wolf Frankula

(3,839 posts) Wed Apr 8, 2026, 07:47 PM 9 hrs ago

Has any American President ever received a Tito letter?

As far as anybody knows. (Yes I know it would be kept a secret.)

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Has any American President ever received a Tito letter? (Original Post) Wolf Frankula 9 hrs ago OP

Care to explain what you're talking about? Nt Fiendish Thingy 9 hrs ago #1

It was a letter to Stalin: NNadir 9 hrs ago #2

Like we're all supposed to know that? Fiendish Thingy 7 hrs ago #4

Partisans were fierce, or so I heard. Need to read up on them, and on the Basques bucolic_frolic 9 hrs ago #3

Fiendish Thingy

(23,323 posts)

1. Care to explain what you're talking about? Nt

Reply to Wolf Frankula (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 07:58 PM

9 hrs ago

NNadir

(38,125 posts)

2. It was a letter to Stalin:

Reply to Fiendish Thingy (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 08:06 PM

9 hrs ago

"Stalin: Stop sending people to kill me! We’ve already captured five of them, one with a bomb and another with a rifle… If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send another”
― Josip Broz Tito

Fiendish Thingy

(23,323 posts)

4. Like we're all supposed to know that?

Reply to NNadir (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 10:08 PM

7 hrs ago

I know a lot of stuff, and I guessed who Tito was, but otherwise…

bucolic_frolic

(55,278 posts)

3. Partisans were fierce, or so I heard. Need to read up on them, and on the Basques

Reply to Wolf Frankula (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2026, 08:15 PM

9 hrs ago

Basques were instrumental in spiriting resistance in and out of France. These 2 groups were rather outsized in importance during WWII.

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