This is how Tito looked like as a convict: This was a strictly guarded secret, but after his release from prison it all started (PHOTO)

Josip Broz Tito, as some call him, the favorite son of our nations and nationalities, was imprisoned in 1928, and little is known about that period of his life. 

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The information can be found in Broz biography that he was sentenced to 5 years in prison, and little is known how Tito spent his time "behind bars" . The story about period of Marshal's life hides behind the photos of the lifelong president of SFRY. 

According to the historical data, Tito returned to Zagreb in 1920 where he joins the ranks of Communist party of Yugoslavia. In the same year, the political party was forbidden by the king's decision.

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When he lost his job in 1921, he starts working in a mill in a place called Veliko Trojstvo, and he lived there with his wife until late spring in 1925. He had three children there. 

First child died in Zagreb, and little son Hinko was burried in Trojstvo, who died eight days after the birth, and daughter Zlatica, whose life was extinguished after 17 months. One year before he left Veliko Trojstvo his son Zarko was born, the only one that lived out of four of his children from his first marriage. 

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He returns to Zagreb in April 1927. The court in Ogulin sentences him to seven months in prison, and four months suspended, for communist propaganda. After he went out of prison, Tito unites the Party that was divided into different fractions.

When demonstrations were organized in Jun 1928, the flier that called for workers to rise up was signed by Josip Broz. Police issued a great search for him on 20th Jun 1928.

Tito was arrested on 4th August 1928 and he was sentenced to 5 years in prison. At the beginning of 1929 he was brought to serve his sentence in Lepoglav. A year later, Mosa Pijade comes to him in Lepoglav, an old and experienced communist at the time. The two started working together on organizing the Party units. One of two portraits of Tito were saved from the time, done by Mosa Pijade, who was also a famous painter. 

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At the beginning of 1931, Josip Broz was suddenly transferred to prison in Maribor, which had the reputation to be the worst in Yugoslavia. He served his sentence there but he was not immediately released. He was taken to Ogulin, where he was supposed to stay for another three and a half months. It was at the end of March 1934 when he left prison, but he was instructed to stay in his birth place Kumrovac and that he cannot leave it. 

In April he leaves Kumrovec and leaves to Samobor. He became illegal and for the first time name Tito is mentioned. 

(Telegraf.co.uk)