Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito Presidental Guard Service Complete Uniform

Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito Presidental Guard Service Complete Uniform RRR

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Presidental Guard Also called Ordonans were in service of Presiden Josip Broz Tito as personal guard and as his personal servants.

This kind of uniform is such a rare find, really unique and quite interesting.

In the next text you can read about an interesting story behind a person who was in such a service to president TITO.

Aleksandar Agnoli, a Sarajevo man of Italian descent, twice a year, from 1975 to 1978, was Josip Broz Tito's personal bodyguard while hunting game in a hunting ground near Bugojno

Agnoli recalled some interesting details. Politicians at the time once posed with Tito in front of the skin of a slain bear, which was hung on a wall. It should not be mentioned that the bear was shot by Josip Broz.

In order to relax the atmosphere, Tito, before the flash lit up, joked in a way characteristic of him, says Agnoli.

- Comrades, I just got the news that comrade Nicolae Ceausescu caught a bigger bear than this one on the wall in the Carpathians. "Do you think we can stretch our bear a little more to continue to be the biggest caught bear in Europe?" Said the Yugoslav leader.

Tito enjoyed the hunt. He always had three rifles, but his favorite was the Winchester rifle.

According to Agnoli, he had standard procedures before going hunting.

Broz woke up around four in the morning to check what the weather would be like. Then he walked around Villa Gorica, drank coffee on the terrace, smoked Cuban cigars and browsed the newspapers. He then tested his weapon near the villa.

It is interesting to note that the newspapers about Tito arrived at Villa Gorica by helicopter, and the cigarettes directly from Fidel Castro. Agnoli remembers that the cigars were in aluminum packaging that read: "From Castro to Tito".

Alexander Agnoli was not accidentally found in Tito's security. He then worked in the State Security Service. Everyone who was near the marshal, from the cooks to the waiters and tailors, was never chosen by chance.

Agnoli says they have been checked almost a thousand times. He underwent such a procedure, and perhaps a mitigating circumstance was that he was once the youngest secretary of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, when he was only 19 years old.

He says about Tito that he is a great man. In contact with people, he was not overbearing at all.

"He was eighty, and he shaved every morning," he said.

He adds that he accidentally found out that Tito had no money in his wallet at all. Once when the marshal went to Livno, he realized that he had forgotten his wallet. That was the only reason for one vehicle to leave the convoy and return to the residence. The man who was sent to pick up the wallet was curious and looked at him.

"There was only a party card, an ID card and some other ID documents in the wallet," said Agnoli.

Those who should have known about Tito's arrival in Bugojno knew about it a month in advance. During that period, every stone was secretly checked. The following example best illustrates how Tito's security worked.

A photographer from the Sarajevo newspaper "Oslobođenje" went on a business trip to Bugojno together with a driver. Near this town they stopped for necessity and looked for the nearest tree by the road to relieve themselves.

Soon, an armed policeman appeared out of nowhere, pointing his automatic rifle at them.

"They showed him the accreditations, told him who they were and what they were, and he did not want to hear anything, so he told them: 'Maybe your accreditations are valid while driving, but in the forest they are not worth it to you,'" Agnoli recalls.

The photographer and the driver were detained and released shortly afterwards. However, not everything was perfect. Agnoli says security once made a mistake in Zenica. There, a large number of people gathered to see Tito.

While the convoy of vehicles was passing through Zenica, Tito and Jovanka were waving from one of the vehicles. Quite unexpectedly, a man approached the vehicle and threw something inside.

"The man threw only a pile of letters that fell on Jovanka's lap," said Agnoli.

The man was a worker in the ironworks in Zenica, from where he was fired. He complained to everyone and wrote letters to them, but there was no solution to his problem. So he collected all the letters, tied them up, and waited for Tito to come to his town. He thought that the marshal would help him, but instead he was detained, and it was rumored that he tried to assassinate.

That was the biggest problem in Agnoli's career. Shortly afterwards, Tito stopped coming to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The last time they drank coffee together was in Bikavac, when Tito was coming on the anniversary of the battle of Sutjeska.

- Some things should not be talked about yet, and maybe they will never be told - concludes Agnoli.

Dimensions for Blouse :

a: shoulder: 46cm

b: sleeves: 60cm

c: length: 82cm

Dimensions for Shirt:

a: shoulder: 50cm

b: sleeves: 60cm

c: length: 78cm

Dimensions for Pants:

e. waist: 46cm

f.  length of pants: 106cm

Size of Visor Hat: 57

Total weight: 2kg

 ITEM NO. w1692