- Boris Kidrič
Boris Kidrič (
April 10 ,1912 –April 11 ,1953 ) was a leading Sloveniancommunist who was, jointly withEdvard Kardelj , one of the chief organizers of the Partisan struggle inSlovenia from 1941 to 1945.Kidrič was born in
Vienna , then capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as the son of the prominent Slovenian liberal literary criticFrance Kidrič . In the early 1930s, Kidrič was persuaded by the communist publicistVlado Kozak to join theCommunist Party of Yugoslavia . He soon rose to high political posts in theDrava Banovina and was among the founders of the autonomousCommunist Party of Slovenia in 1937.After the Axis
invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, he became the de facto leader of theLiberation Front of the Slovenian People . As such, he had a crucial role in theanti-Fascist liberation struggle in Slovenia between 1941 and 1945. In May 1945, after the end ofWorld War II , theSlovenian National Liberation Council appointed him as the first president of the Slovenian socialist government.He became a member of the Yugoslav
Politburo in 1948, and was in charge of the Yugoslav economy from 1946 until his death.He was awarded the title of
People's Hero of Yugoslavia , theSoviet Union 'sOrder of Kutuzov , and several other honors.He died of
leukemia inLjubljana in 1953. In 1959, a large monument was erected in his honour in front of the Slovenian Government Palace in Ljubljana, where it still stands despite some protests byanti-Communist groups and victims of Communist persecution.ee also
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People's Liberation War of Yugoslavia
*Titoism
*Slovensko domobranstvo Sources
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Janko Prunk , "Kidrič, Boris - Peter" in "Enciklopedija Slovenije " (Ljubljana:Mladinska knjiga , 1987-2002), book 5, 62-63.
*Božo Repe , "Rdeča Slovenija" (Ljubljana: Sophia, 2003).
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