Stevan Doronjski (26 September 1919 – 14 August 1981) was a Yugoslav civil servant from

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who served as President of the Presidency of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the ruling party of the nation. Doronjski was born in 1919 in the village of Krčedin in the Srem region of Serbia to a peasant family. He studied veterinary medicine at the

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and joined the Communist Party in 1939. He fought with the Partisans in

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and after the war held a number of political posts in the newly formed

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. Doronjski died on 14 August 1981 at the age of 61.

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