Josip Broz Tito, charismatic leader of the national liberation movement in Yugoslavia in 1941–1945 and later president of the state of Yugoslavia, was a figure with many mythological connotations. These were partly based on the image of the traditional southern Slavic folk hero. There were attempts to accommodate this stereotype to the modern political context. Tito's case gives rise to questions about the intersection of myth and reality, as well as historical distance and levels of reception.