A younger generation of reformer politicians in the republics' Communist Party organizations gave the movement momentum in an effort to overcome the Party monopoly and to expand various civil rights. The right to take pride in one's history was a prominently featured topic. This irritated President Josip Broz Tito's communist government. Among the issues raised was the practice by the Yugoslav People's Army to send people on mandatory military service into other republics rather than leaving them in their home republic.