Radivoje Jovanović

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Radivoje Jovanović Bradonja (Serbian Cyrillic: Радивоје Јовановић Брадоња; 10 November 1918 – 22 June 2000) was a Yugoslav Partisan leader. A skilled military organizer, he was a prominent figure in the 1941 defence of the Republic of Užice and later took part in the 1944 Belgrade offensive that liberated the city from German occupation forces. After World War II, he was a politician and administrator in Serbia and Yugoslavia. His political career ended in the late 1960s.

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Early life and career Jovanović was born in the village of Zarube near Valjevo in what was then the Kingdom of Serbia; forty-one days after his birth, Serbia merged into the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Jovanović graduated from the Military Academy in 1940 as an artillery second lieutenant.

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Partisan Jovanović returned to his native region and joined the Partisans in April 1941, after the invasion of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers. He took part in the July 1941 uprising in Serbia, becoming commander of the Kolubara company of the Valjevo Partisan detachment. In August 1941, his company destroyed the German garrison at the Lajkovac railway station. He was wounded in battle at Ljig the following month but did not leave his position and was credited for saving his unit from destruction. Subsequently, as deputy commander of the Užice Partisan detachment, he created a plan for the defence of the city that was recognized as vastly superior to that prepared by the general staff. Although the July 1941 uprising was marked by cooperation between Partisan and Chetnik forces, the two armies had become hostile toward each other by autumn of the same year. Jovanović has been described as the Partisan officer most responsible for uncovering a Chetnik conspiracy against the Partisan forces, and on 2 November 1941 he inflicted the first serious military defeat on the Chetniks. He took part in the Battle of Kadinjača on 29 November and was credited for particular bravery on that occasion, notwithstanding that…Citește mai mult

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Military career after World War II Jovanović attended the Đerzhinski Artillery Academy in Moscow from 1946 to 1948, after which time he returned to Yugoslavia. He became the commander of artillery in the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and was responsible for developing the concept of national defense with a focus on territorial defense. He retired in 1959 with the rank of Lieutenant General. Jovanović was recognized with Yugoslavia's Order of the People's Hero in 1949.

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Politician and administrator Jovanović joined the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (LCY) in August 1941, and on 7 November of the same year he commanded a Partisan military parade in Užice commemorating the anniversary of the October Revolution. During World War II, he was a member of the presidency of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ). He was elected to the federal committee of the People's Front of Yugoslavia in 1949 and to the federal committee of the successor Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia (SSRNJ) in 1953. He initially appeared on a People's Front electoral list for the 1945 Yugoslavian parliamentary election, though he withdrew from the contest before the final version of the list was released. Jovanović was chosen as a candidate member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia in January 1949. He later appeared in the eighth position on the People's Front list for Serbia in the 1950 Yugoslavian parliamentary election; as there were no other approved lists, this was tantamount to election. As a member of the Yugoslavian parliament's Federal Council, he served on the committee for people's power and the committee for economic planning and…Citește mai mult

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Later life Jovanović attended an AVNOJ reunion event in 1983, a few months after Ranković's funeral. At the time of the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1990, Jovanović accused the United States of America, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and The Vatican of plotting a war against Yugoslavia on an anti-Serbian basis. Jovanović died in 2000.