Friday, November 23, 2018

mosa pijade , communist leader, pencil sketch by Dr k Prabhakar rao


 MOSA PIJADE,  communist RESISTANCE.in Yugoslavia  TO NAZIS, WW II

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Dr K Prabhakar Rao said...

Moša Pijade (Serbian Cyrillic: Мoшa Пиjaдe; 4 January 1890 – 15 March 1957), nicknamed Čiča Janko (Чича Јанко, lit. "Uncle Janko") was a Serbian and Yugoslav communist, a close collaborator of Josip Broz Tito, former President of Yugoslavia, and full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He had Jewish parentage.He is thought to have had a major influence on Marxist ideology as exposed during the old regime in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.[citation needed] In 1925, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison because of his 'revolutionary activities' after World War I. He was discharged after 14 years in 1939 and imprisoned again in 1941 in the camp Bileća. He was a close associate of Marshal Tito who led reistance forces in Yugoslavia during nazis occupation in WW II.