Tito
Auction of Tito’s belongings

-13 limos; 2 Mercedes cabriolets, 6 seats, bulletproof – from 508.000 dollars, 10 Mercedes normal, 1 Rolls Royce Phantom 1960 – from 206.000 dollars,
-10 BMW escort motor bikes,
- Yacht Baltik, a gift from East German president Walter Ulbricht,
- Iron fence, made by Tito as apprentice,
- 60 books written by Tito,
- Framed honor doctorates from worldwide universities and academies of sciences and arts.

They started with the books. After a long struggle they succeeded in selling one. Therefore, the sale was stopped. After all, we all know what our president had in mind.
Let’s pass on to more interesting things: the vehicles went for gold. People with a smile on their face happily held their car keys. Motor bikes proved more problematic, this kind of travel habits has not been rooted yet in this part of the world. Well, the two left will be sold in Italy next week. Though it seemed the highlight of the auction, the yacht was sold a bit below the requested price. However the iron fence, a proof of labor and skills of our president, even though it was a unique piece, was sold below all expectations.
The honor doctorates aroused a different kind of interest. People checked them carefully. Some with admiration; most with distrust, until one person declared: “Nothing of this is true anyway, he was a locksmith! What do locksmiths know about international law?” “He was not even a good locksmith, how could he be an economist, uf!” Some people had a different opinion. It was all real. The Tito who was born in Kumrovec and had become a locksmith was killed on the Russian front. The Tito who got all this doctorates was a Russian sent by the Informburo to control the situation in the country. Yes, and he was educated. He spoke German with an accent demonstrating noble origins. He spoke Serbo-Croatian language with a presumable Polish accent - the proof he was born somewhere near Vienna. He played piano, something the real Tito never learned. Some people remembered the story when Tito returned home from the Russian front and his neighbors did not recognize him. One man even claimed that a document with the names of the soldiers fallen on the Russian front in 1915 really exists and that it includes also the name of Josip Broz, Tito’s real name. Everybody agreed that they would purchase with pleasure such document since it is more important and more interesting than any of the doctorates they have been presented with. After all one can be intelligent without going to prestigious schools. The value of a man is to be seen through his achievements – and the 12 Mercedes, Rolls Royce, 10 motorcycles and yacht that were sold during this auction are good enough to prove the president’s skills. People left the auction house, fully satisfied and waiving their car keys in their hands.