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What is the coolest line in history?
In 1949, Josip Broz Tito and Joseph Stalin were not on particularly good terms with one another.
Tito, the Yugoslav communist revolutionary, had been trying to free Yugoslavia from Soviet influence, which had caused a rift between the two leaders. Infuriated, Stalin sent a team of trained assassins to try to capture and kill Tito to stop what he considered to be a rebellion against the Soviet Union.
Luckily for Tito, he was able to successfully intercept and evade all of the assassins that Stalin had sent. But simply avoiding Stalin’s assassins just wasn’t enough for Tito. In fact, he decided to go one step further and explicitly assert superiority over him, so he sent a message to Moscow which was basically the verbal equivalent of laughing in Stalin’s face:
“Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them 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 a second.”[1]
Tito lived until 1980 before dying of natural causes at the
age of 87, and neither Stalin nor anyone else ever tried to get him killed
again.
Wellawaththe – 1950 to 1960
Ceylon 100 years ago
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