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When the man officially proclaimed as “the one our mother will never give birth to again” unexpectedly died in his eighty-eighth year, Yugoslavia plunged into chaos. Despite the slogan “Even after Tito – Tito,” the country was left without a real center of power.
Every local political strongman suddenly imagined himself as a caliph in his own backyard, eager to rule in place of the absent authority—except, of course, for the one whose destiny had allegedly been foretold by a young woman in black, with a flower in her hair, announcing that he would become the New Tito.
But alongside those ambitions, another voice emerged. A growing number of citizens rejected the very idea of a new supreme leader. During the protests in Belgrade in 1990, banners reading “We Don’t Want a New Tito” made that message unmistakably clear.
The crossed-out portrait on the placard symbolized more than opposition to a single politician—it marked a public refusal to repeat history, to accept another cult of personality, and to surrender once again to authoritarian rule disguised as continuity.