Batrić Jovanović (1922 - 2011) was a Montenegrin

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politician, member of the partisan movement in World War II, and author from

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. He represented

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in the

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parliament.

Biography

Jovanović was born on 3 June 1922 in the village of Donja Morača near

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. He came from a farming family, and his parents were Milovan and Jelisaveta Jovanović. He finished high school in Peć in 1940 and after matriculation he entered the Faculty of Law in Belgrade. During his studies, he joined the student revolutionary movement and soon became a member of the then illegal Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ). He died on 16 February 2011 in Belgrade, Serbia. "Umro Batrić Jovanović"
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Books

*''Communist Party of Yugoslavija in Montenegro 1919-1941'' 1959 *''Montenegro in Second World War and Socialist Revolution'' 1960 *''Trinaestojulski ustanak'' (1984) *''Kolashin region in socialistic revolution'' (1985) *''Montenegrins about themself'' (''Crnogorci o sebi'') (1986) *''Negating serb origins of montenegrins is crime of Tito and Stalin'' (''Rasrbljivanje Crnogoraca: Staljinov i Titov zlocin'') 2003

References

Montenegrin politicians Serbian writers Place of birth missing (living people) Serbs of Montenegro 1922 births 2011 deaths {{Montenegro-writer-stub