I&#x27;m not knowledgeable about history of the Balkans, so I&#x27;ve actually googled. Tito is traditionally portrayed as a mild and benevolent dictator, because he had a split with Stalin and it was beneficial during the Cold War.<p>However, looking a bit further reveals massacres between 1945 to 1947. The Wikipedia article about his secret police has &quot;A List Of People Assasinated&quot; by them...<p>And since we are talking about cherry-picking, this is a problem I have with people claiming to be &quot;on the left&quot;: this selective blindness to obvious horrendous crimes by the regime and abuse of power that these things lead to.