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Dragoslav "Draža" Marković (Serbian: Драгослав Дража Марковић; 28 June 1920 – 20 April 2005) was a Serbian communist politician, serving as President and Prime Minister of Serbia.
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Dragoslav "Draža" Marković (Serbian: Драгослав Дража Марковић; 28 June 1920 – 20 April 2005) was a Serbian communist politician, serving as President and Prime Minister of Serbia.
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Biography He was born in 1920, in the village of Popović near Sopot. His parents Milorad "Mića" and Anka, were teachers who had three other children. He finished elementary school in his native village and then went to Belgrade to attend the Third Belgrade Gymnasium. Under the influence of his left-wing father and brother Moma, who was already one of the leaders of the party organization at the Faculty of Medicine, he joined the youth revolutionary movement. In 1937, as a pupil of the eighth grade of the gymnasium, he was arrested for communist activity. After three weeks in custody, he was expelled from school. He moved to Pančevo where he finished eighth grade and graduated. After finishing high school, he enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade. During the Second World War, he fought as a member of the Partisans. In 1958, he became the Education Secretary in the Executive Council of the Socialist Republic of Serbia, and in 1960, he was elected a member of the Executive Committee of the Central Committee of the SR of Serbia. From 1963 to 1967, he acted as Ambassador of Yugoslavia to Bulgaria. From 1967 to 1969, he was the President…