Haunting pictures show an abandoned communist college named after a former Yugoslavian leader in his hometown that has been left to rot.<br /><br />The Josip Broz Tito Political School in Kumrovec, Croatia, was once one of the most prestigious seats of political learning in the country when it opened in 1975.<br /><br />But it now sits as a relic with broken windows and a damaged roof, while its once impressive interior is full of dust, dirt and rubbish. <br /><br />Photos taken by urban explorer Kyle, from Leeds, show the deserted building in a sorry state of disrepair. <br /><br />Piles of discarded textbooks lie abandoned and rotten on the floor, while the college's long corridors lead to empty, abandoned bedrooms.<br /><br />Inside the bedrooms, posters of 90s pop icons TLC and Puff Daddy adorn the walls, an insight to the lives of displaced youngsters once housed there during the Balkan wars.<br /><br />In the college's main auditorium, the roof has collapsed in parts, leaving the mammoth room covered in dust and dirt, resembling a disaster zone.<br /><br />Moss has completely taken over large sections of the building, including the bar area which is now strewn with graffiti and empty beer bottles.<br /><br />Kyle said: "It's in a proper run down state. The roof is collapsing, there's a massive pile of books that have just been left and have rotted away.<br /><br />"Upstairs the rooms were pretty stripped out and on the lower floors, the decay started to fully set in with the floors and walls fully taken over by moss.<br /><br />"Once inside the auditorium, the decay was next level with the chairs and books fully rotted away.<br /><br />"It made me feel quite sad in a way to see all the books chucked in a pile and rotted and decayed beyond recognition."<br /><br />More than 1,500 students studied at the college by more than 600 academics in the 15 years in operated.<br /><br />It was so popular that a new facility had to be built, which boasted two conference halls, 145 bedrooms, a cinema and a sports hall when it was completed in 1981.<br /><br />After its closure as a college in 1990, it was first taken over by the Interior Ministry and then used by the Defence Ministry for training Croatian troops.<br /><br />It was later used to house refugees during the Balkan wars of the 1990s.<br /><br />But since its closure in 2003, the building has fallen into a state of disrepair. It was sold in 2019 to a Chinese investor, but remains derelict.<br /><br />Kyle, who tries to squeeze in as many urban explorations on his holidays as he can, added: "I was on my way to Zagreb and I got into a conversation with a taxi driver.<br /><br />"He started telling me about this school that was abandoned, so I wanted to explore it for myself.<br /><br />"It was very eerie, because I was on my own in this massive complex.<br /><br />"Overall I would rate it as my top explore completed in Croatia and one I would even probably put in my top five of all explores completed. <br /><br />"It was an amazing experience to explore such a unique building."<br /><br />The school was founded in 1975 in Kumrovec, a tiny village in Croatia, the birthplace of former Yugoslav prime minister and president Josip Broz Tito.<br /><br />He said at the time that the school was needed to give party members a stronger theoretical education.<br /><br />The last president of the Political School was Ivica Racan, who went on to serve as the prime minister of Croatia from 2000 to 2003.
