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Stolice Conference
Stolice conference was a military-political conference of the leadership of the Yugoslav Partisans, held on 26 September 1941 in the village of Stolice (now part of Brštica), near Krupanj in present-day Serbia. The conference was led by the general secretary of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and the commander of the Chief Headquarters Josip Broz Tito. It was attended by representatives of military and party leaders from Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and commanders of the nearest partisan detachments from Serbia. At the conference, experiences were presented, issues of further liberation struggle were discussed, and important decisions were made for strengthening and developing further struggle. Chief Headquarters had to be formed in all the provinces, and the General Staff was renamed the Supreme Headquarters. Also at the conference, a unique name for the fighter was adopted - a partisan and his outer mark - a red five-pointed star. Background I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1,166,763 million people live within the administrative limits of the City of Belgrade. It is the third largest of all List of cities and towns on Danube river, cities on the Danube river. Belgrade is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe and the world. One of the most important prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinča culture, evolved within the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thracians, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region and, after 279 BC, Celts settled the city, naming it ''Singidunum, Singidūn''. It was Roman Serbia, conquered by the Romans under the reign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Popović (diplomat)
Vladimir Popović Lukin (27 January 1914 – 1 April 1972) was a Yugoslav diplomat, communist politician and army general. He was a close associate of Josip Broz Tito. He was, during his career, a delegate to the UN, close associate of Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavia's envoy (ambassador) to the USSR, US, China, and Vietnam, member of the federal government of Yugoslavia, and chair of the Committee for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia, and secretary to the presidency until his death in 1972. Biography Popović was born in 1914 in Gornji Brčeli, near Bar, Kingdom of Montenegro. In 1932, he joined the Yugoslav Communist Party. From 1934 to 1937, he attended the NKVD School in Leningrad under the nickname of "Španac" (Spaniard) where he learned English, German, and Spanish language and diplomat protocols. In 1937 he graduated from the University of Belgrade's School of Medicine. That same year, he represented his fellow students at the World Youth Congres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rade Končar
Rade Končar ( sr-cyr, Раде Кончар; 6 August or 28 October 1911 – 22 May 1942) was a Croatian Serb politician and leader of the Yugoslav Partisans in the Independent State of Croatia and Dalmatia during the early stages of World War II in Yugoslavia. He became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) in 1934 and was arrested in 1936 when the Belgrade branch of the party was banned by Yugoslav authorities. After serving one year of hard labour in Sremska Mitrovica prison he was released and elected political secretary of the central committee of the Communist Party of Croatia (KPH) in Zagreb. In October 1940, he was made a member of the central committee of the KPJ at the Fifth National Conference of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Following the April 1941 Axis occupation of Yugoslavia Končar took part in the anti-fascist uprising which retook areas from German control in Serbia, and personally led attacks against Axis forces in Independent State of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filip Kljajić (Yugoslav Partisan)
Filip "Fića" Kljajić ( sr-Cyrl, Филип Фића Кљајић; 2 May 1913 – 5 July 1943) was a Yugoslav Partisan fighter during World War II and political commissar of the 1st Proletarian Brigade. Kljajić was killed during the Battle of Zvornik and posthumously awarded the Order of the People's Hero on 25 September 1944. Biography Kljajić was born in the village of Tremušnjak, in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, near the town of Petrinja, to a Croatian Serb family. Prior to the outbreak of the war, Kljajić was a shoemaker. World War 2 In early July 1943, the 1st Proletarian Brigade, with Kljajić serving as their political commissar (since 21 December 1941), attempted to liberate the occupied Bosnian town Zvornik from the Wehrmacht and the troops of the Axis puppet state, the Independent State of Croatia The Independent State of Croatia ( sh, Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH; german: Unabhängiger Staat Kroatien; it, Stato i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodoljub Čolaković
Rodoljub "Roćko" Čolaković ( sr-cyr, Родољуб Чолаковић; 7 June 1900 – 30 March 1983) was a Yugoslavia, Yugoslav politician and writer who served as the 1st Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina#Prime Ministers of PR Bosnia and Herzegovina (1945–1953), Prime Minister of PR Bosnia and Herzegovina and as the Minister (government), Minister for Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Provisional Government of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, Provisional Government of DF Yugoslavia led by Josip Broz Tito. He was a major general in the Yugoslav People's Army and in the Yugoslav Partisans, National Liberation Army during World War II. Biography Born in Bijeljina, Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary on 7 June 1900, Čolaković joined the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in April 1919 as a student. Later, he joined ''Crvena Pravda'' ("Red Justice" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sreten Žujović
Sreten Žujović ( sr-cyr, Сретен Жујовић; 24 June 1899 – 11 June 1976) was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and veteran of World War I and long-time communist. Biography He was born into a wealthy family, and was a Serb by nationality. In early childhood he moved to Belgrade, where he completed his primary and secondary education. At the start of the First World War, he was in Belgrade, but he did not join the Serbian army, but the French Foreign Legion, after which he was sent to the Western Front, where he fought against the German troops. After his return from the war, he became involved in the labor movement and organized trade unions. Žujović first joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) at the age of 25 in 1924 in Belgrade, and worked as an organizer there before becoming a secretary of the party. When the communists became a threat to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, he was arrested and released but kept under surveillance by the police. In 1933 Žujevi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragoljub Mihailović
Dragoljub ( sr-cyr, Драгољуб) is a Serbian masculine given name, derived from Slavic '' drag-'' ("dear, beloved") and ''ljub'' ("love, to like"), both very common in Slavic dithematic names. It roughly means "dear love". It may refer to: * Dragoljub Brnović, Montenegrin footballer * Dragoljub Čirić, Serbian chess player * Dragoljub Janošević, Serbian chess player * Dragoljub Jeremić, footballer * Dragoljub Ljubičić, Serbian actor *Dragoljub Mićunović, Serbian politician * Dragoljub Mihailović, Chetnik leader * Dragoljub Milošević, football player and coach * Dragoljub Minić, Montenegrin chess player *Dragoljub Ojdanić, Serbian civil servant * Dragoljub Popović, judge * Dragoljub Simonović, Serbian footballer *Dragoljub Velimirović, Serbian chess player *Dragoljub Vidačić, basketball player and coach See also * Dragomir *Slavic names Given names originating from the Slavic languages are most common in Slavic countries. The main types of Slavic na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Struganik
Struganik is a village situated in Mionica municipality in Serbia and the birthplace of Field Marshal Živojin Mišić Field Marshal Živojin Mišić ( sr-cyrl, Живојин Мишић; 19 July 1855 in Struganik – 20 January 1921 in Belgrade) was a Field Marshal who participated in all of Serbia's wars from 1876 to 1918. He directly commanded the First Ser .... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivo Lola Ribar
Ivan Ribar (23 April 1916 – 27 November 1943), known as Ivo Lola or Ivo Lolo, was a Yugoslav communist politician and military leader of Croatian descent. In the 1930s, he became one of the closest associates of Josip Broz Tito, leader of the Yugoslav Communist Party. In 1936, Ribar became secretary of the Central Committee of SKOJ (Young Communist League of Yugoslavia). During World War II in Yugoslavia, Ribar was among the main leaders of the Yugoslav Partisans and was a member of the Partisan Supreme Headquarters. During the war, he founded and ran several leftist youth magazines. In 1942, Ribar was among the founders of the Unified League of Anti-Fascist Youth of Yugoslavia (USAOJ). He was killed by a German bomb in 1943 near Glamoč while boarding an airplane for Cairo, where he was to become the first representative of Communist Yugoslavia to the Middle East Command. In 1944, Ribar was awarded the title of People's Hero of Yugoslavia. Lola was the older of two sons of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandar Ranković
Aleksandar Ranković ( nom de guerre Marko; sr-Cyrl, Александар Ранковић Лека; 28 November 1909 – 19 August 1983) was a Yugoslav communist politician, considered to be the third most powerful man in Yugoslavia after Josip Broz Tito and Edvard Kardelj. Ranković was a proponent of a centralized Yugoslavia and opposed efforts that promoted decentralization that he deemed to be against the interests of the Serbian people;Melissa Katherine Bokovoy, Jill A. Irvine, Carol S. Lilly. State-society relations in Yugoslavia, 1945–1992. Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA: Palgrave Macmillan, 1997, p. 295. he ensured Serbs had a strong presence in Serbia's Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo's nomenklatura. Ranković cautioned against separatist forces in Kosovo who were commonly suspected of pursuing seditious activities.Independent International Commission on Kosovo. ''The Kosovo report: conflict, international response, lessons learned''. New York, New York, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Milutinović
Ivan Milutinović (nickname Milutin; sr-cyr, Иван Милутиновић; 27 September 1901 – 23 October 1944) was a Yugoslav Partisan general and an eminent military commander who participated in World War II. Before the war In October 1940, during the Fifth Land Conference of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia held in Zagreb, Milutinović was elected as a member of Politburo. At this conference Tito formulated the leftist strategy of the CPY as focused on a revolutionary seizure of power in the country in order to organize a Soviet-style administrative organization in Yugoslavia. Besides Milovan Đilas and Boris Kidrič, Milutinović would become one of the major proponents of the policy of leftist errors pursued during the Second World War. Second World War On 27 June 1941 Milutinović was elected as a member of the Supreme Staff of the National Liberation Partisan Units of Yugoslavia. During the Uprising in Montenegro, Chetnik commander Bajo Stanišić wanted to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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