Milorad Drašković ( sr-cyr, Милорад Драшковић; 10 April 1873 – 21 July 1921) was a Serbian politician who was the
Minister of Internal Affairs
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of the
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
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Death
On 21 July 1921
Alija Alijagić, a member of the
communist
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organization ''
Crvena Pravda'', shot and killed Drašković. Although Drašković was a staunch anti-communist and enacted several pieces of anti-communist legislation, 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 ...
condemned the act. Nevertheless, this inspired
King Alexander to make a law concerning protection of the state that made the communist party illegal.
[Politika #4766: Od danas..., pg. 1, 2 August 1921, accessed 29 January 2015.]
Personal life
He had four children: Radoje, Bojana, Slobodan, and
Milorad Milorad (Cyrillic script: Милорад; Polish: Miłorad) is an old Serbian masculine given name derived from the Slavic elements: ''milo'' meaning "gracious, dear" and ''rad'' meaning "work, care, joy". The feminine form is Milorada. Nicknames: ...
.
His son Slobodan was sent to a Nazi concentration camp in the Second World War and later emigrated to the United States. There he became a member of the
Serbian National Defense Council
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as well as the
John Birch Society
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but later left due to being disillusioned with its pacifism.
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1873 births
1921 deaths
People from Gornji Milanovac
Finance ministers of Yugoslavia
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Serbian anti-communists
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University of Belgrade Faculty of Law alumni
Serbian politicians
Assassinated Serbian politicians
People murdered in Croatia
Deaths by firearm in Croatia
Burials at Belgrade New Cemetery
Construction ministers of Serbia
1921 murders in Europe
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