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The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was created by the unification of the Kingdom of Serbia (the Kingdom of Montenegro had united with Serbia five days previously, while the regions of Kosovo, Vojvodina and Vardar Macedonia were parts of Serbia prior to the unification) and the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (itself formed from territories of the former Austria-Hungary ...
League of Communists of Yugoslavia: Augustin Papić: 1917–2002 30 June 1971 15 May 1974 League of Communists of Yugoslavia: 1: Cvijetin Mijatović: 1913–1993 15 May 1974 15 May 1984 League of Communists of Yugoslavia: President of the Presidency: 15 May 1980 – 15 May 1981. 2: Branko Mikulić: 1928–1994 15 May 1984 15 May 1986 League of ...
Josip Broz (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Јосип Броз, pronounced [jǒsip brôːz] ⓘ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (/ ˈ t iː t oʊ /; [1] Тито, pronounced), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who served in various positions of national leadership from 1943 until his death in 1980. [2]
Leaders of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia No. Officeholder Took office Left office Tenure Term Birth PM Death Branch Ethnicity Ref. 1 Milan Gorkić: 8 December 1936 23 October 1937 319 days 4th (1928–48) 1904 1919 1937 No branch Czech [47] 2 Josip Broz Tito: 5 January 1939 4 May 1980 41 years, 120 days 4th–11th (1928–82) 1892 1920 ...
He served as the Vice President of the Yugoslav Presidency from 1989 to 1990 and then as the President of Yugoslavia from 1990 to 1991. Jovica Stanišić was head of the State Security Service (SDB) from 1992 to 1998. Veljko Kadijević was the Minister of Defence in the Yugoslav government from 1988 to 1992.
The Presidency had eight members elected by parliaments of each republic and autonomous province and proclaimed by the Federal Assembly of the SFRY, the ninth member was president of the Presidency of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. This ex officio membership of the LCY leader was abolished by the constitutional changes in autumn 1988. [3]
Operation Halyard (or Halyard Mission), known in Serbian as Operation Air Bridge (Serbian: Операција Ваздушни мост, romanized: Operacija Vazdušni most), [1] was an Allied airlift operation behind Axis lines during World War II.
The president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the head of state of that country from 14 January 1953 to 4 May 1980. Josip Broz Tito was the only person to occupy the office. Tito was also concurrently President of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia.