Josip Broz (Cyrillic: Јосип Броз, pronounced Yosip Broz; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito, was a yugoslav communist serving various roles from 1948 until his death. He was the leader of the partizans (communist guerillas) in WWII and later became the leader of the Republic of Yugoslavia. He is a controversial figure since most of the former yugoslavs praise him, but he still receives a fair amount of criticism. He created equality and communism in his regime, but sent any political opponents to Goli Otok ( Croatian for barren island), an island with a prison and concentration camp, where many people were executed. All in all, his regime killed about 500,000 people. He forbid rightist ideologies such as patriotism. According to some he did a lot of improvements.