Saturday, February 17, 2018

Pencil sketch of a Nazi By Dr K Prabhakar Rao



IVOLOLA RIBAR.. YUGOSLAVIA .... WW II

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Dr K Prabhakar Rao said...

Ivan Ribar (23 April 1916 – 27 November 1943), known as Ivo Lola or Ivo Lolo, was a Yugoslav communist politician and military leader of Croatian descent.In the 1930s, he became one of the closest collaborators of Josip Broz Tito, leader of the Yugoslav Communist Party In 1936, Ribar became secretary of the Central Committee of SKOJ (Young Communist League of Yugoslavia).During World War II in Yugoslavia, Ribar was among the main leaders of the Yugoslav Partisans and was a member of the Partisans' Supreme Command. During the war, he founded and ran several leftist youth magazines.In 1942, Ribar was among the founders of the Unified League of Anti-Fascist Youth of Yugoslavia (USAOJ)He was killed by a German bomb in 1943 near Glamoč while boarding an airplane for Cairo, where he was to become the first representative of Communist Yugoslavia to the Middle East Command.In 1944, Ribar was awarded the title of People's Hero of Yugoslavia. Lola was the older of two sons by Ivan Ribar, the first President of Yugoslavia. His brother was another People's Hero, Jurica Ribar.