Filip Lakuš
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Filip Lakuš (24 March 1888 – 3 August 1958) was a Croatian and Yugoslavian politician. Lakuš was among the leaders of the
1920 Croatian Peasant Rebellion The 1920 Croatian Peasant Rebellion, which is also known as the Križ Republic ( hr, Kriška republika) occurred from 4 to 12 September 1920 in the countryside north-west and west of Zagreb in the recently established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats ...
in and around Križ. He was a member of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) and the group that split from the party known as the Croatian Republican Peasant Party (HRSS). In 1943, Lakuš joined a faction of the HSS cooperating with the Yugoslav Partisans against the Axis powers following the World War II
invasion of Yugoslavia The invasion of Yugoslavia, also known as the April War or Operation 25, or ''Projekt 25'' was a German-led attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers which began on 6 April 1941 during World War II. The order for the invasion was p ...
. He was a delegated to the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Croatia (ZAVNOH) as well as the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ). He was appointed to the presidencies of both ZAVNOH and AVNOJ. In 1945, he was appointed a member and a vice-president of the presidium of the Parliament of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia and subsequently of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia and a member of the Yugoslav Agrarian Council until retirement in 1952.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lakus, Filip 1888 births 1958 deaths People from Veliko Trgovišće Croatian Peasant Party politicians