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Božidar Magovac (13 October 1908 – 24 January 1955) was a
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n journalist and politician, a prominent member of the
Croatian Peasant Party The Croatian Peasant Party ( hr, Hrvatska seljačka stranka, HSS) is an agrarian political party in Croatia founded on 22 December 1904 by Antun and Stjepan Radić as Croatian Peoples' Peasant Party (HPSS). The Brothers Radić believed that t ...
(). A native of
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, between December 1939 and April 1941, Magovac was the editor of HSS newspaper ''Seljački dom'' (Peasant Home) jointly with
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, when the
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happened. In 1943, he moved to the territory held by
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and led a faction of the HSS cooperating with them against the
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. He called on the HSS members to follow his example in a proclamation distributed as leaflets and broadcast by the
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. During the second session of the
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(''Zemaljsko antifašističko vijeće narodnog oslobođenja Hrvatske'', ZAVNOH) established and dominated by the
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(''Komunistička partija Hrvatske'', KPH) as the supreme representative body in Croatia, Magovac founded the HSS executive committee as the top governing body of the HSS in the national liberation movement. There he published the ''Slobodni dom'' (Free Home) as a party newspaper. As a ZAVNOH delegate, Magovac was also appointed a member of the
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(''Antifašističko vijeće narodnog oslobođenja Jugoslavije'', AVNOJ) led by the
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(''Komunistička partija Jugoslavije'', KPJ). Magovac was appointed by the AVNOJ the vice-president of the
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. Soon afterwards, Magovac came into conflict with the KPH secretary Andrija Hebrang over independence of the HSS within the Partisan national liberation movement and his resistance to denounce HSS president
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a traitor for his reluctance to support the Partisans and his passivity. In turn, KPH helped Magovac's opponents within the HSS executive committee to isolate him politically and replace Magovac as the leader of the body by
Franjo Gaži Franjo Gaži (Hlebine, 13 February 1900 – Zagreb, 15 November 1964) was a Croatian and Yugoslavian politician. In 1935 Yugoslavian parliamentary election he was the designated alternate of Croatian Peasant Party (''Hrvatska seljačka stranka'' ...
. Magovac was
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on the Vis Island from late 1944 until May 1945 when he moved to Zagreb. After the war, Magovac tried to revive political activity of the HSS with
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. He was arrested and imprisoned for six years in November 1948 on trumped-up charges. He died in Zagreb in 1955.


See also

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Croatian Peasant Party during World War II During World War II, the Croatian Peasant Party (''Hrvatska seljačka stranka'', HSS) splintered into several factions pursuing different policies and alliances. Prior to the German invasion of Yugoslavia, it was the most powerful political par ...


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