Miloslav Samardžić ( sr-Cyrl, Милослав Самарџић; born 22 November 1963) is a Serbian writer who writes about contemporary Serbian and

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history. He is the owner of the publishing house and former magazine '' Pogledi''.

Biography

Samardžić was born on 22 November 1963 in

Aleksandrovac Aleksandrovac ( sr-cyr, Александровац) is a town and municipality located in the Rasina District of central Serbia. As of 2022, the town has a population of 5,586 inhabitants, while the municipality has 22,069 inhabitants. History Fr ...

where he completed elementary and high school (studying journalism). He graduated from the University of Kragujevac Faculty of Economics in 1989 (the marketing program). As a student, he completed the '' Večernje novosti'' journalist school in 1984 and became a correspondent from

Kragujevac Kragujevac ( sr-Cyrl, Крагујевац, ) is the List of cities in Serbia, fourth largest city in Serbia and the administrative centre of the Šumadija District. It is the historical centre of the geographical region of Šumadija in central Se ...

for the newspaper. He arrived at '' Pogledi'' (then a student newspaper of the University of Kragujevac) in 1984. He left ''Večernje novosti'' in 1986 as they didn't publish his articles which were critical of the country's regime. At the end of 1985, he became the editor of the University section of ''Pogledi'' and he became the

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in 1987. He remained the editor-in-chief until the magazine went defunct in 2005. He published his first book while living in the Kragujevac university residence in 1989. From 1989, he began studying the history of the

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, especially the Royal Yugoslav Army and the

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led by

Draža Mihailović Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović ( sr-Cyrl, Драгољуб "Дража" Михаиловић; 27 April 1893 – 17 July 1946) was a Yugoslavs, Yugoslav Serb general during World War II. He was the leader of the Chetniks, Chetnik Detachments ...

. He researched archival material in museums and archives mostly researching the documents of the Military Archive in Belgrade (the section of the archive dedicated to Chetnik history). He is a member of the Association of Writers of Serbia.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Samardzic, Miloslav 1963 births Living people People from Aleksandrovac Writers from Kragujevac Serbian journalists Serbian male writers Serbian anti-communists University of Kragujevac alumni