Milisav Koljenšić (

Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet ( sr, / , ) is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, updated in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian, th ...

: Милисав Кољеншић; 31 December 1912 – 1963) was a Montenegrin

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with the

Yugoslav People's Army The Yugoslav People's Army (abbreviated as JNA/; Macedonian and sr-Cyrl-Latn, Југословенска народна армија, Jugoslovenska narodna armija; Croatian and bs, Jugoslavenska narodna armija; sl, Jugoslovanska ljudska a ...

(JNA). He is notable for being the maternal uncle of

Slobodan Milošević Slobodan Milošević (, ; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the president of Serbia within Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1997 (originally the Socialist Republic of Serbia, a constituent republic of ...

Career

Prior to the

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, he practiced law. In 1941, he joined the

Yugoslav Partisans The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene: , or the National Liberation Army, sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska (NOV), Народноослободилачка војска (НОВ); mk, Народноослобод ...

and the

Communist Party of Yugoslavia The League of Communists of Yugoslavia, mk, Сојуз на комунистите на Југославија, Sojuz na komunistite na Jugoslavija known until 1952 as the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, sl, Komunistična partija Jugoslavije mk ...

. During the war, he was the political commissar of several units. He later graduated from the Yugoslav People's Army Higher Military Academy. After the war he was head of the KOS department and head of the School Security Center.

Death and legacy

He died from suicide in 1963. He is interred in the Alley of People's Heroes in the

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. His wife Hristina "Kitka" Koljenšić (1922–2017) was interred next to him upon her death. An elementary school in Danilovgrad is named after him.''Vojna enciklopedija'', 2nd ed., 1978, Book 4, pg. 428

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Koljensic, Milisav 1912 births 1963 deaths People from Danilovgrad Yugoslav Partisans members Yugoslav communists Generals of the Yugoslav People's Army Montenegrin generals Montenegrin communists Slobodan Milošević Suicides by firearm in Serbia Burials at Belgrade New Cemetery