Veljko Vlahović

Veljko Vlahović
Vlahović in 1963
Birth nameVelimir Vlahović
Born(1914-09-02)2 September 1914
Trmanje, Montenegro
Died7 March 1975(1975-03-07) (aged 60)
Geneva, Switzerland
Buried
Belgrade New Cemetery
AllegianceInternational Brigades
Yugoslav Partisans
Yugoslav People's Army
Years of service1937–1939
1941–1955
RankGeneral major
Battles/warsSpanish Civil War
World War II
AwardsOrder of the Yugoslav Star
Order of the People's Hero
Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour
Order of National Liberation
Order of Lenin
Order of the Flag of the Republic of Hungary
Order of Polonia Restituta
RelationsMilinko Vlahović (father)

Veljko Vlahović (Cyrillic: Вељко Влаховић; 2 September 1914 – 7 March 1975) was a Montenegrin politician and career army officer. He was one of the more prominent members of the Montenegrin branch of the Yugoslav Communist Party from 1935 which established the SFR Yugoslavia following World War II. He studied in Belgrade, Prague, and the Sorbonne (in Paris), and finished his postgraduate studies in Moscow. He fought in the Spanish Civil War and was active in organizing the Communist Youth League of Yugoslavia (SKOJ).[1]

During World War II he directed the Free Yugoslavia radio. In 1944 he became editor of the Yugoslav communist daily, Borba. He also served as deputy Foreign Minister.

Vlahović was essential in organizing the documents for the Programme of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (Program Saveza komunista Jugoslavije, also known as the Ljubljana Programme, which laid the principles of Titoism) and the 10th Congress of the Party, both in 1958. As such, he kept a great authority alongside Josip Broz Tito as an ideological mastermind.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ "Narodni heroji Jugoslavije" (PDF). 1975. pp. 502–503. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011.

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