Jovan Veselinov Žarko (20 January 1906 in Kumane – 8 February 1982 in

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) was a Serbian communist politician. He served as President of Serbia, Prime Minister of Serbia and as a Chairman of the League of Communists of Serbia. He was a

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fighter in

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, and was proclaimed

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Famed economist and politician

Edvard Kardelj Edvard Kardelj (; 27 January 1910 – 10 February 1979), also known by the pseudonyms Bevc, Sperans, and Krištof, was a Yugoslav politician and economist. He was one of the leading members of the Communist Party of Slovenia before World War II ...

was shot and wounded on a hunting trip in 1959 by Veselinov. Although the official police investigation concluded that Veselinov had been shooting at a wild boar and a ricochet from a rock struck Kardelj, it was suggested at the time that the assassination attempt was orchestrated by his political rival

Aleksandar Ranković Aleksandar Ranković (nom de guerre Marko, nicknamed Leka; sr-Cyrl, Александар Ранковић Лека; 28 November 1909 – 19 August 1983) was a Serbian and Yugoslav communist politician, considered to be the third most powerful ...

or Ranković's ally Slobodan Penezić.Ramet, Sabrina P. "Yugoslavia." In ''Eastern Europe: Politics, Culture, and Society Since 1939'', pp. 159–189. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, p. 166.

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