The news is destined to surprise anyone who still ignores it: Josip Broz Tito, the bloodthirsty “Marshal Tito”, it still is today Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, decorated with Grand Cordon. The highest honorific title of the Italian Republic. It was awarded by the then head of state Giuseppe Saragat, In the 1969. The honor granted to still appears on the website of the Presidency of the Republic Tito, responsible for crimes committed in the Istrian-Dalmatian lands, from the foibe to the exodus of refugees.
To ask the current president of the republic, Sergio Mattarella, two city councilors of Trieste are responsible for removing such an ignominious honor, cities among the most involved and therefore sensitive to the drama of the foibe and the Istrian-Dalmatian exodus: Paolo Rovis of the New Center-Right e Claudio Giacomelli of Brothers of Italy.