Milorad Drašković ( sr-cyr, Милорад Драшковић; 10 April 1873 – 21 July 1921) was a Serbian politician who was the

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of the

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Death

On 21 July 1921 Alija Alijagić, a member of the

communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, ...

organization '' Crvena Pravda'', shot and killed Drašković. Although Drašković was a staunch anti-communist and enacted several pieces of anti-communist legislation, the

Communist Party of Yugoslavia The League of Communists of Yugoslavia, mk, Сојуз на комунистите на Југославија, Sojuz na komunistite na Jugoslavija known until 1952 as the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, sl, Komunistična partija Jugoslavije mk ...

condemned the act. Nevertheless, this inspired King Alexander to make a law concerning protection of the state that made the communist party illegal.Politika #4766: Od danas..., pg. 1, 2 August 1921, accessed 29 January 2015.

Personal life

He had four children: Radoje, Bojana, Slobodan, and Milorad. His son Slobodan was sent to a Nazi concentration camp in the Second World War and later emigrated to the United States. There he became a member of the

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as well as the

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but later left due to being disillusioned with its pacifism.

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