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4 unusual facts about Yugoslav


Dragiša Pavlović

Dragisa Pavlovic ( 5 October 1943 - Belgrade, 9 September 1996 ) was a Serbian and Yugoslav communist politician, known primarily as one of the top figures who publicly opposed Slobodan Milosevic and tried to prevent his rise to power.

Goran Čengić

Goran Čengić (1946 – 14 June 1992) was a Yugoslav handball player who played for RK Bosna Sarajevo, RK Mlada Bosna, RK Crvena Zvezda and the Yugoslavia national handball team.

Ivo Andrić

In terms of what language or dialect he wrote in, he wrote in Serbo-Croatian, which was officially considered one language in Yugoslavia; he had been a believer in Yugoslav unity and Pan-slavism.

Luis Ortiz Monasterio

There is also influence from an artist named Ivan Mestrock, a Yugoslav artist whose works he saw in art magazines from Europe.


1973–74 FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup

KK Crvena Zvezda defeated Spartak Brno in the final, held in Udine, to become the first Yugoslav team to win the competition, after unsuccessful appearances by KK Crvena Zvezda itself and Jugoplastika Split in the two previous finals.

1981 protests in Kosovo

In March and April 1981, a student protest in Priština, the capital of the Yugoslav and Serbian province of Kosovo, led to widespread protests by the Kosovo Albanians demanding more autonomy within the Yugoslav federation.

1999 NATO bombing of Novi Sad

A press release one year on from the bombing by then NATO Secretary General Robertson, claims that NATO encountered complications from Yugoslav military use of civilian buildings and human shields.

Balli Kombëtar

Similarly in Kičevo, Gostivar and Tetovo, the remaining Ballists tried to remain in control of the region after the Yugoslav Partisans announced victory.

Battle of the Barracks

The agreement was confirmed the next day in Geneva when the Geneva Accord was signed by Tuđman, Milošević and the Yugoslav defence minister, JNA General Veljko Kadijević.

Bektashi Order

Subsequently the Bektashi community of Macedonia has sued the Macedonian government for failing to restore the tekke to the Bektashi community, pursuant to a law passed in the early 1990s returning properties previously nationalized under the Yugoslav government.

Božina Ivanović

After being forced out of power in early 1989 by Milo Đukanović, Svetozar Marović and Momir Bulatović in the wake of "anti-bureaucratic revolution", the 58-year-old Ivanović semi-retired from politics though he still continued holding official rank and fringe influence within Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro (transformed Montenegrin branch of Yugoslav Communist League) for some time afterwards.

Branislav Babić

Obojeni Program were one of the first Yugoslav bands to have a video played on MTV's 120 Minutes and they were also on John Peel's tracklistings in year 2002.

Branko Stanković

He is also famous because of his incident with one of the most popular Yugoslav players during that time, Dragan Stojković Piksi.

Ciril Ribičič

The congress ended in the dissolution of the Yugoslav Communist Party, after the Slovene delegation decided to withdraw in protest against the domination of Serbian Communists who had embraced Serbian nationalism.

Danilo Stojković

Stojković's numerous comedic portrayals of the "small man fighting the system" made him popular with Serbian and ex-Yugoslav audiences, most of them coming in collaborations with either director Slobodan Šijan or scriptwriter Dušan Kovačević - or both.

Dejan Savić

Dejan Savić made his debut in a time of sanctions for the Yugoslav 1994.

Ferdo Kozak

As a fierce opponent of Yugoslav centralism and nationalism, Kozak was among the founders of the left liberal journal Sodobnost, which he edited together with Josip Vidmar, Fran Albreht and Stanko Leben.

FK Donji Srem

With time, the location of Pećinci begins to have more and more features of an urban area contributing mostly for this the proximity to the important Belgrade-Zagreb highway by which the Serbian, and former Yugoslav, capital city of Belgrade is just 41 kilometers away.

Greeks in Serbia

In May 1945, 4,650 Greek refugees, mostly male members of ELAS, settled in the Maglić village with the help of Yugoslav government.

Hans-Joachim Hoppe

In September 1997 in the final phase of the rule of Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević Hoppe has been OSCE-election observer during the parliamentary elections in Serbia.

Haustor

Two years later they formed Haustor, together with Ozren Štiglić (guitar) and Boris Leiner (drums), who also played in another prominent Yugoslav rock band Azra.

History of Montenegro

By some claims the airport was attacked because of operation Yugoslav pilots undertook on 26 April, when they (without knowledge of supreme command) flew over a border into Albania with 4 G-4 Super Galebs and bombed Rinas Airport which housed 24 AH-64 Apache helicopters and parts of 82nd Airborne Division.

Humanitarian Law Center

In April 2008 the submission of evidence by HLC about war crimes committed in Lovas, Croatia, led to the Belgrade War Crimes Chamber began the trial of 14 indictees for their alleged role in the killing of 70 Croatian civilians in the first war crimes trial of former Yugoslav National Army officers.

Ikarus MM-2

Flight tests conducted pre-test pilot Vasilije Stojanovic as the aircraft showed excellent properties, the Air Force Command has bought the prototype test pilot, which is 4 April 1941 flew in from Zemun in Kraljevo togedet with experiment group Yugoslav Royal Air Force.

Ilija Stanić

Ilija Stanić (born 19 October 1945 in Colopeci near Konjic, Yugoslavia) was an agent of UDBA Yugoslav secret police, who is believed to have assassinated Vjekoslav Luburić, a Croatian Ustasha General responsible for war crimes in Jasenovac concentration camp during World War II.

Ivan Aničin

Ivan Aničin, (born 25 March 1944 in Bor, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is Yugoslav and Serbian nuclear physicist, particle physicist, astrophysicist, and cosmologist, university Full Professor and Distinguished (teaching/research) Professor of scientific institutes in Belgrade (Serbia), Bristol (United Kingdom), Grenoble (France), and Munich (Germany).

Ivan Renko

Ivan Renko was a fictitious Yugoslav basketball player created by Bobby Knight when he was the head coach for the Indiana University Hoosiers.

Ivo Robić

Of the Kaempfert composed international hit of 1966 Strangers in the Night he sang the Yugoslav and German versions Stranci u Noći with lyrics by Marija Renota and Fremde in der Nacht with lyrics by Kurt Feltz.

Janez Skok

Janez Skok (born June 18, 1963 in Ljubljana) is a Yugoslav-born, Slovenian slalom canoer who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s.

Joseph Kruk

Kruk was a member of the executive between June 1928 and October 1930, sharing the seat with the Yugoslav socialist leader Živko Topalović (like Drobner had done as well).

Jovan Bijelić

Jovan Bijelić (Cyrillic Јован Бијелић) (Kolunić near Bosanski Petrovac, June 30, 1884 or June 19, 1886 - Belgrade, March 12, 1964) was a Serbian painter, one of the most important Yugoslav visual artists between the world wars.

Koča Popović

Popović was among the founders of FK Partizan Belgrade, the football section of the Yugoslav Sports Association Partizan.

Kosovo Railways

There are former Yugoslav diesel-electric class 661 locomotives built by General Motors, former NSB Di 3 locomotives ("NOHABs") imported from Norway (also a construction by General Motors, but build in Sweden by the NoHAB works), and a single Vossloh G1700-2 BB.

Leteće zvezde

Other domestic shows followed at Podgorica, Niš and Vršac, culminating in the first overseas appearance of a Yugoslav Air Force display team for nearly two decades.

Margita Stefanović

During her time with the band she also collaborated on the albums of many other Yugoslav bands such as Karlowy Vary produced by Tomo in der Mühlen, Elvis J. Kurtović & His Meteors, Van Gogh, Babe, etc.

Mátyás Seiber

His output includes Ulysses (1947), a cantata on words by James Joyce and a clarinet concertino; scores to animated films, including Animal Farm (1954); a setting of the Scottish "poet and tragedian" William McGonagall's work, The Famous Tay Whale (written for the second of Gerard Hoffnung's music festivals); three string quartets; and choral arrangements of Hungarian and Yugoslav folk songs.

Memić

Seid Memić, Bosnian singer and the vocalist for the Yugoslav rock band Teška industrija

Muhammed Memić (born 1960), Yugoslav handball player who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics

Miloš Radanović

After a breaf, half season, spell in FK Sutjeska, in 2004, he moves to the ambitious FK Budućnost Banatski Dvor, a club that was playing in the Second Yugoslav League but, was promoted, the next season, to the First League of FR Yugoslavia.

Nedić

Milan Nedić (1877–1946), Serbian general and politician, chief of the general staff of the Yugoslav Army

Pavle Vuisić

Famous actor Orson Welles said in interview for former Yugoslav television RTZ that he considered Pavle Vuisić as the best actor in the world.

Radio Television of Kosovo

While Radio Pristina started transmission immediately after the World War II in Prizren 1945 (later to be transferred to Pristina) and it was founded by Parlament of Kosovo province, television transmission started on 26 November 1975 RTP was part of JRT and had its building in Kosovo's capital Pristina (then a Yugoslav Autonomous Province).

Reformists of Vojvodina

It was founded in October 13, 1990 as the Alliance of Reformist Forces of Yugoslavia for Vojvodina (Savez reformskih snaga Jugoslavije za Vojvodinu) within the unified Yugoslav political movement from that time, whose founder was federal Yugoslav prime minister, Ante Marković.

Republic of Užice

The 1974 Yugoslav partisan feature film The Republic of Užice covers the events surrounding the existence of the Republic of Užice.

Šime Spitzer

On 31 December 1939 three Yugoslav excursion boats, "Car Nikola", "Car Dušan" and "Kraljica Marija" were carrying refugees to a winter harbor in the city of Kladovo when the Danube river froze.

Slavomir

Slavomir Miletić, Yugoslav sculptor from Bosnia and Herzegovina, now living in the Netherlands

Soko 522

Some of its prominent movie roles were in the Yugoslav Oscar candidate Battle of Neretva and Kelly's Heroes, starring Clint Eastwood.

Sremska Mitrovica prison

On August 7, 1992, an agreement was reached between Yugoslav Prime Minister Milan Panić and Croatian Prime Minister Franjo Gregurić in Budapest for a mass exchange of prisoners.

Vladan Milojević

Born in Aranđelovac, Milojević began playing football in the youth team of Red Star Belgrade, before playing for the first team of Yugoslav league sides FK Bečej and FK Radnički Novi Beograd.

Vuk Drašković

He first worked for the state newsagency Tanjug as its African correspondent stationed in Nairobi, Kenya, before taking a job as press advisor in the Yugoslav Workers Union Council (SSRNJ).

Yugoslav Republican Alliance

The Yugoslav Republican Alliance (Jugoslovanski Republicansko Zdruzenje) was a political party founded in 1917 founded in exile in Chicago, United States, by the fusion of the Slovene Republican Alliance with Croats and other South Slav people.

Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989

The Yugoslavian national final to select their entry, Yugoslav Final 1989, was held on 4 March at the Grand Hall of the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad, and was hosted by Dina Čolić and Boško Negovanović.

Yutel

However, Yugoslav Secretary of Defense and JNA chief of staff, general Veljko Kadijević reneged on the earlier promise, saying that JNA needs its frequencies for flight path control and doesn't have sufficient funds in its budget to service a television network thereby effectively killing Yutel's plans of broadcasting independently of the local constituent republic TV centers.

Zorica

Zorica Vojinović (born 1958), former Yugoslav/Serbian handball player


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