Dušan Dragosavac ( sr-cyr, Душан Драгосавац; 1 December 1919 – 21 December 2014)Dušan Dragosavac
was a Croatian Serb politician who served as

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of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from 20 October 1981 until 29 June 1982. Born in the village of Vrebac near

Gospić Gospić () is a town in the mountainous and sparsely populated region of Lika, Croatia. It is the administrative centre of Lika-Senj County. Gospić is located near the Lika River in the middle of a karst field ( Ličko Polje). Gospić is the ...

, Dragosavac graduated from the

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Faculty of Law. He joined the

Young Communist League of Yugoslavia , SKOJ mk, Сојуз на комунистичката младина на Југославија, СКМЈ sl, Zveza komunistične mladine Jugoslavije, ZKMJ , colorcode = red , founded = 1919 , dissolved = 1948 , succeeded by = League of S ...

(SKOJ) in 1941 and the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ) in 1942. During

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he was member of the

Yugoslav Partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene: , or the National Liberation Army, sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska (NOV), Народноослободилачка војска (НОВ); mk, Народноослобод� ...

. After the war he spent his entire career in politics and since the 1950s held various senior positions in the League of Communists of Croatia (SKH), the Croatian branch of the SKJ. He died on 21 December 2014, aged 95.

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1919 births 2014 deaths Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb alumni League of Communists of Croatia politicians Serbs of Croatia People from Gospić Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia members {{Croatia-politician-stub