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    • Aleksandar Ranković (nom de guerre Marko, nicknamed Leka; Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Ранковић Лека; 28 November 1909 – 19 August 1983) was a Serbian and Yugoslav communist politician, considered to be the third most powerful man in Yugoslavia after Josip Broz Tito and Edvard Kardelj. Ranković was a proponent of a centralized Yugoslavia an… See more

    Early life

    Ranković was born in the village of Draževac near Obrenovac in the Kingdom of Serbia. Born into a poor family, Ranković lost … See more

    Interwar Yugoslavia

    After becoming a member of the then-illegal Communist Party in 1928, Ranković was named Secretary of the Communist Youth of Serbia. Undeterred by the January 6th Dictatorship, the group continued producing political flye… See more

    Born28 November 1909 · Draževac, Kingdom of Serbia
    Died19 August 1983 (aged 73) · Dubrovnik, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
    Cause of deathHeart attack
    Political partyCommunist Party of Yugoslavia (1928–1966)
    Communist Yugoslavia

    Ranković was a member of the Politburo from 1940. At the beginning of the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia Ranković was secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Croatia. Ranković was first membe… See more

    Death

    Ranković retired to Dubrovnik, where he died on 19 August 1983 after suffering a second heart attack.
    On Belgrade airport his coffin was awaited only by the representatives of the Veteran's Union (SU… See more

    Legacy

    In Serbia, the burial of Ranković was the first demonstration by the Serb public against the ideology of Titoism. Abiding by policies of Tito that restricted public sentiments of national division, state authorities … See more

    Awards

    Egypt:
    • Grand Cordon of the Order of the Nile (1956) See more

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