- Rodoljub Čolaković
Rodoljub Čolaković ( _sr. Родољуб Чолаковић) (1900 - 1983) was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician.
A native of
Bijeljina , Rodoljub Čolaković joined Socialist Party ofBosnia-Herzegovina in March 1919 as a student. Later he joined Crvena pravda, left-wing terrorist organisation in assassination of Yugoslav interior ministerMilorad Drašković . For his role in those events Čolaković received 12 years in prison. During serving of the sentence he made friends with many notable Yugoslav Communists, includingMoše Pijade with whom he translatedDas Kapital and other classic texts ofMarxism toSerbo-Croatian .After release, Rodoljub Čolaković emigrated to
Soviet Union and later took part inSpanish Civil War on Republican side.This experience served him well because in 1941 he was one of the organisers of popular uprising following Axis invasion of Yugoslavia. He was, among other things, political commissar of Partisan detachments in
Bosnia-Herzegovina .In 1943 he was founder and first editor of
Oslobođenje newspaper.After the war he was prime minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina and served in many important government and Party positions.
He described his war activities in five volume 1955 book "Zapisi iz oslobodilačkog rata" (Recordings of People's Liberation War). Also, he is an author of books "Kuca oplakana" (House of mourning) and "Kazivanja o jednom pokolenju" (Memories of one generation), in which he described his revolutionary and prison experience.
He received title of
People's Hero of Yugoslavia .
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