The author of the present article reflects upon the reasons which enabled Tito to be the leader of Yugoslavia for as much as four and a half decades. He establishes that this was firstly probably due to the fact that the situation Yugoslavia had created for itself in the that time international circumstances was acceptable to both blocs, and secondly that his leadership was based on three internal pillars: a unified state's communist party, a strong and centralised army with major political influence and Tito as the supreme authority incorporating the three highest state functions (party president, state president and the supreme commander of the army). Titoism did not offer a universal concept by which the prolonging or at least maintaining of the existence of Yugoslavia could be possible for a longer period of time after Tito's death. In the period following the European bipolarity and Communism, the Yugoslav nations should have found some other solution, which they eventually were not capable of doing.