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The Order of the People's Hero or the Order of the National Hero ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Orden narodnog heroja, Oрден народног хероја; sl, Red narodnega heroja, mk, Oрден на народен херој, Orden na naroden heroj), was a
Yugoslav gallantry medal, the second highest military award, and third overall
Yugoslav decoration.
[Orders and Decorations of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1945-90]
by Lukasz Gaszewski 2000, 2003 It was awarded to individuals, military units, political and other organisations who distinguished themselves by extraordinary heroic deeds during war and in peacetime. The recipients were thereafter known as People's Heroes of Yugoslavia or National Heroes of Yugoslavia. The vast majority was awarded to
partisans for actions during the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
. A total of 1,322 awards were awarded in Yugoslavia, and 19 were awarded to foreigners.
In 1998, the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...
decided to award the Order of the People's Hero again and decorated several military units, but no individuals.
History
Socialist Yugoslavia
The bulletin of the Supreme Command of the
People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia
The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene: , or the National Liberation Army, sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska (NOV), Народноослободилачка војска (НОВ); mk, Народноослобод ...
no. 12–13 (December 1941 and January 1942) announced the establishment of the
title
A title is one or more words used before or after a person's name, in certain contexts. It may signify either generation, an official position, or a professional or academic qualification. In some languages, titles may be inserted between the f ...
of "People's Hero" for heroic and self-sacrificing participants of the
People's Liberation War. The first person to be awarded the title was
Petar Leković
Petar Leković (23 November 1893 – 13 June 1942), was a Serbian soldier active in both World War I and World War II. A stonecutter by profession, Leković was declared the first Order of the People's Hero, People's Hero of Yugoslavia.
As a sol ...
. A total of 22 persons were awarded this title. On 15 August 1943, the title was formalized as an order together with
Order of the People's Liberation
The Order of National Liberation ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Orden narodnog oslobođenja, Орден народног ослобођеља) was a decoration of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the fifth-highest decoration in the series of Yugosla ...
,
Order of Bravery
The Order of Bravery ( bg, Орден за Храброст) is a Bulgarian order which existed during the Kingdom of Bulgaria and currently exists in the Republic of Bulgaria. It was the second highest in the Kingdom of Bulgaria and is the fourt ...
,
Order of the Partisan Star, Order of Brotherhood and Unity and the
Medal for Bravery
The Medal for Bravery (Serbo-Croatian: ''Медаља за Храброст'', Macedonian: ''Медал за Xраброст'') was a Yugoslav military award created in 1943 for achievements in the line of duty during World War II. It was initial ...
. At the same time, all the persons who already held the title of the People's Hero were awarded the order.
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The Order consists of an oval gold badge showing a soldier with rifle and banner superimposed upon a rayed star surrounded by a wreath of laurel. The badge is suspended from a red ribbon, with a narrow white stripe towards each edge. The design for this and the other Orders were undertaken by the painter
Đorđe Andrejević Kun Đorđe ( sr-Cyrl, Ђорђе;transliterated Djordje) is a Serbian given name, a Serbian variant, derived from Greek '' Georgios'' (''George'' in English). Other variants include: Đurđe, Đurađ, Đura, Đuro, Georgije. It may refer to:
* Đo ...
and the sculptor
Antun Augustinčić
Antun Augustinčić (4 May 1900 – 10 May 1979) was a Croatian sculptor active in Yugoslavia and the United States. Along with Ivan Meštrović and Frano Kršinić he is considered one of the three most important Croatian sculptors of the 20th ...
. Before 29 November 1943, the title of People's Hero was awarded by the Central Committee of
KPJ
Bryan Kevin Porter Jr. (born May 4, 2000), also known by his initials KPJ, is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played high school basketball for Rainier Beach Hig ...
, after 1945 it was awarded by the Presidium of the
People's Assembly of Yugoslavia, and starting in 1953 by the
President of Yugoslavia
The president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, or the president of the Republic for short, was the head of state of that country from 14 January 1953 to 4 May 1980. Josip Broz Tito was the only person to occupy the office. Tito ...
.
[
From its inception until around 1993, the Order had been awarded nearly 1,400 times. Marshal ]Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz ( sh-Cyrl, Јосип Броз, ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (; sh-Cyrl, Тито, links=no, ), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman, serving in various positions from 1943 until his deat ...
was awarded the Order three times: in 1944, 1972, and 1977. The holders of the order were entitled to certain benefits, like free fares on public transport, and pensions for the surviving family members of deceased people's heroes. Although the benefits have since been downscaled, post-Yugoslav countries still provide certain benefits to people's heroes. Many schools and streets in post-war Yugoslavia were named after people's heroes, and many of the names remain, to varying degrees in different successor countries.
Not only people, but cities, military units and organizations were also awarded the order. Eight cities in Yugoslavia were awarded the order and proclaimed "hero cities": Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a ...
, Cetinje
Cetinje (, ) is a town in Montenegro. It is the former royal capital (''prijestonica'' / приjестоница) of Montenegro and is the location of several national institutions, including the official residence of the president of Montenegro ...
, Drvar
Drvar (, ) is a town and municipality located in Canton 10 of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The 2013 census registered the municipality as having a population of 7,036. It is situated in western Bos ...
, Ljubljana
Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center.
During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the ar ...
, Novi Sad
Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...
, Prilep
Prilep ( mk, Прилеп ) is the fourth-largest city in North Macedonia. It has a population of 66,246 and is known as "the city under Marko's Towers" because of its proximity to the towers of Prince Marko.
Name
The name of Prilep appear ...
, Pristina
Pristina, ; sr, / (, ) is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. The city's municipal boundaries in Pristina District form the largest urban center in Kosovo. After Tirana, Pristina has the second largest population of ethnic Albanians and ...
, and Zagreb
Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slop ...
.[
]
Serbia and Montenegro
Following the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...
was formed, and later renamed Serbia and Montenegro
Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...
. In 1998, it passed a law that continued to use some of the decorations of former Yugoslavia, among them Order of the People's Hero, making it, at the time, the fourth-highest order after the Order of Yugoslavia, the Order of the Yugoslav Star
The Order of the Yugoslav Star sr, Орден југословенске звезде, ''Orden jugoslovenske zvezde'' sl, Red jugoslovanske zvezde mk, Орден на југословенската ѕвезда, ''Orden na jugoslovenskata zvezda'' ...
and the Order of Freedom.[Orders and Decorations of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1990-]
by Lukasz Gaszewski 2000, 2003
The Serbian media ridiculed several proposals to decorate 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 ...
with the Order of the People's hero because he would have had to decorate himself. It was never given to any individuals, but several military units active in the Kosovo War
The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started 28 February 1998 and lasted until 11 June 1999. It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the war ...
were decorated:
*124th Police Intervention Brigade, Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia ( sr, Mинистарство унутрашњих послова, Ministarstvo unutrašnjih poslova; abbr. MUP) or the Ministry of Interior, is a cabinet-level ministry in the Governmen ...
*126th Brigade for Air Reconnaissance, Military of Yugoslavia
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 ar ...
* 250th Air Defence Missile Brigade, Military of Yugoslavia
*37th Motorized Brigade, Military of Yugoslavia
*63rd Parachute Brigade, Military of Yugoslavia
Notable recipients
Because of the large number of awards, only people with Wikipedia articles are listed. Date of the award(s) is given in parenthesis. Those marked with a dagger
A dagger is a fighting knife with a very sharp point and usually two sharp edges, typically designed or capable of being used as a thrusting or stabbing weapon.State v. Martin, 633 S.W.2d 80 (Mo. 1982): This is the dictionary or popular-use de ...
(†) have died during the war. They were all awarded posthumously, except for Petar Leković who was awarded the order ''before'' he died in the WWII.
* Mirče Acev (1945†)
* Vera Aceva
Vera Aceva - Dosta (November 24, 1919 in Oreovec (Prilep Municipality, Prilep) – November 10, 2006 in Skopje) was a Macedonians (ethnic group), Macedonian communist, participant in the World War II in Yugoslavia and a national hero of SFRJ.
...
(1953)
* Božidar Adžija (1945†)
* Nisim Albahari
Nisim Albahari (Tešanj, 1916 — Sarajevo, 1991), was a Yugoslav Partisans, Yugoslav Partisan, People's Hero of Yugoslavia and political leader in the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Biography
Nisim Albahari was born on January 2 ...
(1953)
* Mihailo Apostolski
Mihailo Apostolski ( mk, Михаило Апостолски; born Mihail Mitev Apostolov, bg, Михаил Митев Апостолов; sr, Михаило Митић or Mihailo Mitić; November 8, 1906 – August 7, 1987) was a Yugoslav gen ...
(1953)
* Ljupčo Arsov
Ljupčo Arsov (19 May 1910 – 18 November 1986) was a Macedonians (ethnic group), Macedonian communist politician. He was the Prime Minister of Macedonia from December 1953 to June 1961.
Honours and awards
*Order of the People's Hero (1953).
...
(1953)
* Viktor Avbelj
Viktor Avbelj (February 26, 1914 – April 6, 1993) was a Yugoslav Partisan and Slovenian politician. He was a member of the League of Communists of Slovenia.
As a student, he joined the Communist Party in 1937. From September to December 1942, h ...
(1951)
* Maks Baće Milić
Maksimilijan "Maks" Baće, also known as Milić (12 December 1914, Pakoštane – 4 December 2005, Split), was a Yugoslav and Croatian revolutionary.
Biography
Born in Pakoštane (near Zadar) and raised in Split, he studied philosophy in Zagr ...
(1953)
* Vlado Bagat
Vlado Bagat (20 October 1915 – 1 June 1944) was a Yugoslav soldier.
A native of Split, Bagat joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1939. After the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941, Bagat was involved in creation of the first Partisan ...
(1948†)
* Slobodan Bajić Paja
Slobodan Bajić Paja (1916–1943)
) was a Yugoslav Partisan and recipient of the Pe ...
(1952†)
* Filip Bajković
Filip Bajković (20 May 1910 – 15 February 1985) was the President of the Executive Council of Montenegro from 16 December 1951 to 12 July 1962. From 12 July 1962 to 5 May 1963, he was the President of the People's Assembly of Montenegro.
Bio ...
(1953)
* Vladimir Bakarić
Vladimir Bakarić (; 8 March 1912 – 16 January 1983) was a Yugoslav and Croatian communist revolutionary and a politician.
Bakarić helped to organise the partisan resistance in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II. From 1948 ...
(1952)
* Mitar Bakić
Mitar Bakić ( sr, Митар Бакић; Berislavci near Podgorica, 7 November 1908 - Belgrade, 25 November 1960), was a Yugoslav politician, general and People's Hero of Yugoslavia. During World War II, he was political commissar of the 4th ...
(1951)
* Rajka Baković (1953†)
* Aleš Bebler (1953)
* Anka Berus
Anka Berus (1903–1991), was a Croatian politician (Communist). She was a member of the resistance during the Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted f ...
(1953)
* Milan Blagojević Španac (1945†)
* Vera Blagojević
Vera Blagojević ( sr, Вера Благојевић, 16 May 1920 – 18 March 1942) was a Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav medical student and Communism, Communist political activist. During World War II, she was captured by the Gestapo in 194 ...
(1953†)
* Jakov Blažević
Jakov Blažević (24 March 1912 – 10 December 1996) was a Croatian politician who served as president of the Executive Council of the Socialist Republic of Croatia, People's Republic of Croatia, a constituent Republic of the Socialist Federative ...
(1953)
* Antun Blažić (1951†)
* Mate Blažina
Mate Blažina (10 March 1925 – 15 April 1945) was a Croatian antifascist, military commander and Order of the People's Hero, Yugoslav National Hero. After the capitulation of Italy, he joined the partisan movement. He contributed to the liberatio ...
(1953†)
* Hasan Brkić
Hasan Brkić (16 July 1913 – 14 June 1965) was a Yugoslav and Bosnian communist politician and a partisan. He was also the recipient of People's Hero of Yugoslavia. From 1963 to 1965 he was President of the Executive Council of the Socialist ...
(1953)
* Zvonko Brkić
Zvonko Brkić (18 September 1912 – 27 August 1977) was a Croatian politician who served as the president of the Executive Council of the Socialist Republic of Croatia, People's Republic of Croatia, a constituent republic of the Socialist Federat ...
(1953)
* Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz ( sh-Cyrl, Јосип Броз, ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (; sh-Cyrl, Тито, links=no, ), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman, serving in various positions from 1943 until his deat ...
(1944, 1972, 1977)
* Boško Buha
Boško Buha ( sr-cyr, Бошко Буха; 1926 – 27 September 1943) was a young Yugoslav Partisan and an honored icon of the Yugoslavian resistance during World War II.
Early life
Boško Buha was born into a Serb family in the Slavonian ...
(1951†)
* Rade Bulat
Rade Bulat (28 August 1920 – 25 January 2013) was a Yugoslav Partisan and communist activist. He was one of the last three living recipients of the Order of the People's Hero in Croatia.
Biography
Bulat was born August 28, 1920 in Vrginmost, Sis ...
(1953)
* Marija Bursać
Marija Bursać ( sr-Cyrl, Марија Бурсаћ; 2 August 192023 September 1943) was a member of the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II in Yugoslavia and the first woman proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia. Bursać was b ...
(1943†)
* Anka Butorac
Anka Butorac (1903 – January 19, 1942) was a Croatian communist who died in World War II and was proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia.
Anka Butorac was born in Lika, Croatia. She joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and the Partisans ( ...
(1949†)
* Rudi Čajavec
Rudi Čajavec (1 April 1911 – 2 July 1942) was a Yugoslav pilot (from Zgošća, Bosnia and Herzegovina), best known as the first airman of Partisan air force.
Rudi Čajavec was born in Zgošća, Kakanj municipality, Bosnia to a family that o ...
(1951†)
* Marijan Čavić
Marijan Čavić-Grga (10 March 1915 – 1941) was a Yugoslav communist. He was captured in Karlovac and executed 1941 in the Jasenovac concentration camp.
Biography
He was secretary of the local committee of the League of Communists of Croatia ...
(1953†)
* Zdravko Čelar
Zdravko Čelar ( sr, Здравко Челар; Rašinovac near Bosanski Petrovac, 15 September 1917 - Rakovac (Srbac), Rakovac near Srbac, July 1942), was a Yugoslavia, Yugoslav Yugoslav partisans, partisan, posthumously awarded with Order of th ...
(1942†)
* Jelena Ćetković
Jelena Ćetković (21 August 1916 – 14 May 1943) was a revolutionary, fighter for Women's rights, women’s rights, participant in the National Liberation Front (Yugoslavia), National Liberation Front, and National Hero of Yugoslavia.
Biography ...
(1952†)
* Rodoljub Čolaković
Rodoljub "Roćko" Čolaković ( sr-cyr, Родољуб Чолаковић; 7 June 1900 – 30 March 1983) was a Yugoslav politician and writer who served as the 1st Prime Minister of PR Bosnia and Herzegovina and as the Minister for PR Bosnia ...
(1953)
* Krste Crvenkovski
Krste Crvenkovski () (July 16, 1921 in Prilep – July 21, 2001 in Skopje) was a
Yugoslav Communist political leader in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia. He was a leader of the League of ...
(1953)
* Ljubo Čupić
Čedomir "Ljubo" Čupić ( sr-cyr, Чедомир Љубо Чупић; 1913 – 9 May 1942) was a Yugoslav law student, political commissioner of Communist resistance movement in Nikšić, Montenegro and a decorated war hero of Socialist Federal ...
(1953†)
* Božidarka Kika Damjanović-Marković
Božidarka "Kika" Damjanović-Marković (25 September 1920 – 17 January 1996) was a Yugoslav Partisans, Yugoslav Partisan commander as a participant in the World War II in Yugoslavia, Second World War in Yugoslavia.
After World War II, she parti ...
(1953)
* Peko Dapčević
Petar "Peko" Dapčević (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Петар Пеко Дапчевић; 25 June 1913 – 13 February 1999) was a Yugoslav communist who fought as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, joined the Partisan uprising in Montenegr ...
(1945)
* Karel Destovnik (1953)
* Milovan Đilas
Milovan Djilas (; , ; 12 June 1911 – 30 April 1995) was a Yugoslav communist politician, theorist and author. He was a key figure in the Partisan movement during World War II, as well as in the post-war government. A self-identified democrat ...
(1953, rescinded in 1957)
* Nada Dimić (1951†)
* Xhevdet Doda
Xhevdet Doda ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Џевдет Дода, Dževdet Doda; 1906–1945) was a Yugoslavian teacher by profession who was active in the resistance against German occupation in Kosovo during World War II. Doda was member of the Yugoslav Partis ...
(1973†)
* Robert Domany
Robert Domany (also spelled Domani; 16 February 19083 March 1942) was a Croatian Yugoslav Partisans, Partisan and a People's Hero of Yugoslavia.
Domany was born in Orahovica on 16 February 1908 to a Sephardi Jews, Sephardic Jews in Croatia, Jewis ...
(1953†)
* Petar Drapšin
Petar Drapšin ( sr-Cyrl, Петар Драпшин; 15 November 1914 – 2 November 1945) was a Yugoslav Partisan commander.
Early life and education
Drapšin was born to a family of poor peasant farmers in the village of Turija near Srbobr ...
(1953)
* Andreana Družina
Andreana Družina (26 January 1920 – 7 March 2021) was a Slovenian political commissar and partisan. She was awarded the Order of the People's Hero of Yugoslavia. Družina was born in Trieste, Kingdom of Italy, Italy, and died on 7 March 2021, ...
(1953)
* Ratomir Dugonjić
Ratomir "Rato" Dugonjić (10 January 1916 – 27 June 1987) was a Yugoslav Yugoslav Partisans, Partisan fighter in the antifascist liberation struggle of the people of Yugoslavia, Minister in the Communist Government, Ambassador with the Non-Align ...
(1953)
* Emin Duraku
Emin Duraku (1918 – 23 December 1942) was an Albanian partisan active during World War II, and a national hero of Albania.
Duraku was born in Gjakova in 1918. He was an early Albanian member of the Yugoslav communist movement. He returned t ...
(1952†)
* Ovadya Estreya (1953†)
* Stjepan Filipović (1949†)
* Čede Filipovski Dame (1949)
* Ivan Gošnjak
Ivan Gošnjak ( sh-Cyrl, Иван Гошњак; 10 June 1909 – 8 February 1980) was a Yugoslav communist who held numerous important offices in Yugoslavia during and after World War II, serving as the Minister of Defence from 1953 to 1967.
Iv ...
(1953)
* Petar Gračanin
Petar Gračanin (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар Грачанин; 22 June 1923 – 27 June 2004) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician and general in the Yugoslav People's Army.
Biography
Petar Gračanin was born on 22 June 1923 in Jagodina, then ...
(1951)
* Čedo Grbić
Čedo Grbić (8 April 1921 – 4 December 1994) was a Croatian Serb communist politician.
Grbić was born in Rajić, a village near Novska. In 1937, he became a member of the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) and a member of the ...
(1951)
* Janko Gredelj (1951†)
* Fadil Hoxha
Fadil Hoxha ( Serbian: Фадиљ Хоџа, ''Fadilj Hodža''; 15 March 1916 – 21 April 2001) was a Yugoslavian ethnic Albanian communist revolutionary and politician from Kosovo. He was a member of the Communist party and fought in the Yugosl ...
(1953)
* Većeslav Holjevac
Većeslav Holjevac (22 August 1917 – 11 July 1970) was a Croatian and Yugoslav soldier and communist politician.
Holjevac was born in Karlovac, at the time in Austria-Hungary. He joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1939. Following t ...
(1951)
* Avdo Humo
Avdo Humo (1 February 1914 – 24 January 1983) was a Yugoslav and Bosnian communist politician, writer and an Order of the People's Hero recipient.
Humo held highest positions in the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1972, Hum ...
(1953)
* Lizika Jančar (1953†)
* Vlado Janić Capo Vlado () is a Slavic masculine given name. Notable people with the given name include:
*Vlado Babić (born 1960), Serbian politician
*Vlado Badžim (born 1964), Slovenian football player and football coach
*Vlado Bagat (1915–1944), Croatian and Y ...
(1951)
* Blagoj Jankov Mučeto (1951†)
* Vera Jocić
Vera Jocić ( sr, Вера Јоцић; mk, Вера Јоциќ; 21 August 1923 – 22 May 1944) was a Yugoslav Partisans, Yugoslav partisan and People's Hero of Yugoslavia.
She was born in the village of Čento, Sindjelić, Kingdom of Serb ...
(1951†)
* Kuzman Josifovski Pitu (1945†)
* Blažo Jovanović (1952)
* Radovan Jovanović Radovan Jovanović (Cyrillic: Раде Јовановић ; Parcani (Sopot), Parcani, Sopot, 1904 - Slatina (Sopot), Slatina, Sopot, 25 September 1941) was a Serbian communist partisan.Zbornik dokumenata i podataka o narodnooslobodilačkom ratu naro ...
(1951†)
* Žikica Jovanović Španac
Živorad "Žikica" Jovanović ( sr-cyr, Живорад „Жикица" Јовановић; 17 March 1914 – 13 March 1942), nicknamed Španac (, "The Spaniard") was a Yugoslav partisan, Spanish-trained commando and republican volunteer in th ...
(1945†)
* Olga Jovičić
Olga Jovičić (Užička Požega, 3 February 1921 — Prozor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Prozor 11 July 1942) was a People's Hero of Yugoslavia.
Bibliography
She was born in 1921 in Užička Požega. She ended elementary school and high school in ...
(1951†)
* Jovo Kapičić
Jovan "Jovo" Kapičić, born Jovan Kapa, (Cyrillic: Јован Јово Капичић); 2 September 1919 – 9 December 2013) was a Yugoslav Yugoslav Partisans, General and post-war communist politician.''Narodni heroji Jugoslavije''. Belgrade: Ml ...
(1950)
* Osman Karabegović
Osman Karabegović (7 September 1911 – 24 June 1996) was a Yugoslav and Bosnian communist politician and a recipient of the Order of the People's Hero. He joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1932.
During World War II, he was one of ...
(1952)
* Elpida Karamandi
Elpida Karamandi ( rup, Elpida Caramandi, ) was an Aromanian Yugoslav Partisans, Yugoslav partisian and resistance fighter.
She born on 1 January 1920, in Florina, Greece, in an Aromanians, Aromanian family. Her mother was divorced from her husba ...
(1951†)
* Edvard Kardelj
Edvard Kardelj (; 27 January 1910 – 10 February 1979), also known by the pseudonyms Bevc, Sperans and Krištof, was a Yugoslav politician and economist. He was one of the leading members of the Communist Party of Slovenia before World War II. ...
(1951)
* Boris Kidrič
Boris Kidrič (10 April 1912 – 11 April 1953) was a Slovene politician and revolutionary who was one of the chief organizers of the Slovene Partisans, the Slovene resistance against occupation by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy after Operatio ...
(1952)
* Đuro Kladarin Đuro Kladarin (3 March 1915 - 1996) was a Croatian general. He served as President of the Chamber of Education and Culture of the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia.
Biography
Kladarin was born in Luščani, Austria-Hungary on 3 March 1915.
In 1941 ...
(1952)
* Filip Kljajić (1944†)
* Franjo Kluz
Franjo Kluz (19 September 1913 – 14 September 1944) was a Yugoslav pilot from Bosnia and a People's Hero of Yugoslavia. He is best known as one of the founders of the Partisan air force, and served as an officer in No. 352 Squadron RAF.
Earl ...
(1948†)
* Fana Kochovska
Fana is a borough of the city of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway. The borough makes up the southeastern part of the municipality of Bergen. The borough was once part of the historic municipality of Fana (municipality), Fana which was incorpo ...
(1953)
* Lazar Koliševski
Lazar Koliševski ( mk, Лазар Колишевски ; 12 February 1914 – 6 July 2000) was a Yugoslav communist political leader in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia and briefly in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He was clos ...
(1952)
* Rade Končar
Rade Končar ( sr-cyr, Раде Кончар; 6 August or 28 October 1911 – 22 May 1942) was a Serbs of Croatia, Croatian Serb politician and leader of the Yugoslav Partisans in the Independent State of Croatia and Governorate of Dalmatia, D ...
(1942†)
* Sava Kovačević
Sava Kovačević ( sr-cyrl, Сава Ковачевић; 25 January 1905 – 13 June 1943) was a Yugoslav Partisan divisional commander during World War II, and one of the heroes of the communist Partisan movement.
Early life
Kovačević was ...
(1943†)
* Veljko Kovačević (1951)
* Boris Kraigher
Boris Kraigher (February 14, 1914 – January 4, 1967) was a Slovenian communist politician.
Kraigher served as the president of the Executive Council of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia from December 15, 1953 to June 25, 1962. He was a member ...
(1953)
* Josip Kraš
Josip Kraš (26 March 1900 – 18 October 1941) was a Croatian communist and Partisans (Yugoslavia), partisan who died in World War II and was proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia.
Kraš was born in the village of Vuglovec (near Ivanec and ...
(1945†)
* Branko Krsmanović
Branko Krsmanović (1915–1941) was a participant in the International Brigades, Spanish Civil War and the Yugoslav Partisans#Operations, National Liberation struggle and Order of the People's Hero, national hero of Socialist Federal Republic of Y ...
(1945†)
* Vicko Krstulović
Vicko Krstulović (27 April 1905 – 28 September 1988) was a Yugoslavia, Yugoslav communist revolutionary, the most prominent Yugoslav Partisans, Partisan military commander from Dalmatia during World War II, and a post-war communist politician ...
(1952)
* Dušan Kveder
Dušan Kveder (9 April 1915 – 12 March 1966) was a Yugoslavia, Yugoslav soldier and diplomat from SR Slovenia, Slovenia who served in a number of official capacities during and after the Second World War, including a term as Military Commande ...
(1952)
* Petar Leković
Petar Leković (23 November 1893 – 13 June 1942), was a Serbian soldier active in both World War I and World War II. A stonecutter by profession, Leković was declared the first Order of the People's Hero, People's Hero of Yugoslavia.
As a sol ...
(1942†)
* Franc Leskošek
Frank Leskošek ( nom de guerre Luka; 9 December 1897 Celje – 5 July 1983 Ljubljana) was a Yugoslav politician and partisan commander.
Biography
Born in Celje, Slovenia, Leskošek worked as a locksmith in his youth. He was drafted in to the ...
(1952)
* Nikola Ljubičić (1953)
* Ivan Maček
Ivan Maček, nom de guerre Matija (28 May 1908 – 10 July 1993), was a Yugoslav Communist politician from Slovenia who served as the President of the People's Assembly of SR Slovenia from 1963 to 1967.
Biography
Maček was born in Spodnj ...
(1952)
* Vahida Maglajlić (1951†)
* Miha Marinko
Miha Marinko (8 September 1900 – 19 August 1983) was a Slovenian revolutionary and communist statesman who served as Prime Minister of Slovenia from June 1946 to 1953. During the latter part of 1953, he served as the president of the executive co ...
(1953)
* Moma Marković
Momčilo "Moma" Marković (Serbian Cyrillic: Момчило Мома Марковић; 16 November 1912 – 7 August 1992) was a Serbian communist politician.''Narodni heroji Jugoslavije''. Belgrade: Mladost, 1975
He was awarded the Order of the P ...
(1953)
* Veselin Masleša
Veselin Masleša ( sr-cyr, Веселин Маслеша; 20 April 1906 – 14 June 1943) was a Yugoslav writer, activist and Partisan.
Veselin Masleša was born to a Bosnian Serb family in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then occupied by ...
(1951†)
* Sergej Mašera (1973†)
* Petar Matić Dule
Petar Matić-Dule (born 6 July 1920) is a Yugoslav Partisans, Yugoslav Partisan participant in the World War II in Yugoslavia, lieutenant general of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), a former politician and socio-political worker, and the last li ...
(1951)
* Mile Mećava
Mile Mećava ( sr-Cyrl, Миле Мећава, ; 1915 – June 4, 1942) was a Yugoslav Partisan and a hero from World War II.
Early life
Mećeva was born in 1915 in a Serbian family from the village Vlaškovci, in the Condominium of Bosnia and ...
(1953†)
* Cvijetin Mijatović
Cvijetin "Majo" Mijatović ( sr-cyr, Цвијетин Мајо Мијатовић; 8 January 1913 – 15 November 1993) was a Yugoslav communist politician who served as President of the Collective Presidency of Yugoslavia from 1980 until 19 ...
(1953)
* Veljko Milatović
Veljko Milatović ( Serbo-Croat Cyrillic: Вељко Милатовић; 5 December 1921 – 19 October 2004) was a Montenegrin Communist partisan, politician, statesman serving once as the Speaker and once as President.[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 ...]
(1999)
* Ivan Milutinović
Ivan Milutinović (nickname Milutin; sr-cyr, Иван Милутиновић; 27 September 1901 – 23 October 1944) was a Yugoslav Partisan general and an eminent military commander who participated in World War II.
Before the war
In October ...
(1953†)
* Miloš Minić
Miloš Minić (Милош Минић) (August 28, 1914, Preljina, Čačak, Kingdom of Serbia – September 5, 2003, Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro) was a Yugoslav Serbian communist politician.
Biography
Minić graduated from secondary school in Č ...
(1953)
* Milutin Morača
Milutin Morača ( sr, Милутин Морача; 7 July 1914 – 17 December 2003) was a Yugoslav partisan, general of Yugoslav People's Army and People's Hero of Yugoslavia. His brother Pero, was historian and also a partisan.
Prior to Wor ...
(1951)
* Dušan Mugoša (1953)
* Mara Naceva (1953)
* Kosta Nađ
Konstantin "Kosta" Nađ ( hu, Nagy Kosztá; 13 May 1911 – 19 November 1986) was a Yugoslav Partisan Army general that fought during World War II.
Biography
Born on 13 May 1911 in Petrovaradin, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, he fought as a volu ...
(1951)
* Stefan Naumov
Stefan Naumov (27 October 192012 September 1942, Macedonian language, Macedonian: Стефан Наумов - Стив) was a Macedonians (ethnic group), Macedonian Yugoslav Partisan and one of the organizers of the League of Communists of Yugosl ...
(1945†)
* Nada Naumović (1951†)
* Gojko Nikoliš
Gojko Nikoliš ( sr-cyr, Гојко Николиш; 11 August 1911 – 11 July 1995) was a physician, historian and a participant in the Spanish Civil War and World War II in Yugoslavia.
He was the first Head of the Partisan Medical Corps, Lieut ...
(1951)
* Jordan Nikolov Orce (1945†)
* Marko Orešković
Marko Orešković (3 April 1895 – 20 October 1941) was a Croatian and Yugoslavia, Yugoslav Partisans (Yugoslavia), Partisan commander. He was also known by his nickname ''Krntija''.
He was born in Široka Kula, Gospić municipality, which w ...
(1945†)
* Đorđije Pajković
Đorđije "Đoko" Pajković (25 June 1917, Lužac, Berane, Kingdom of Montenegro – 17 January 1980, Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia) was a Yugoslav Montenegrin politician.
He was the leader of the League of Communists of Montenegro from Ju ...
(1953)
* Boško Palkovljević Boško (Cyrillic script: Бошко) is a Slavic male given name. It may refer to:
* Boško Abramović (born 1951), Serbian chess grandmaster
* Boško Anić (born 1968), retired Croatian footballer
* Boško Antić (1944–2007), Bosnian Serb footb ...
(1943†)
* Đoko Pavićević (1953)
* Kata Pejnović
Kata Pejnović (; sr-Cyrl, Ката Пејновић, ; 21 March 1899 – 1966) was a Croatian Serb feminist and politician.
Life
Kata Pejnović was born on 21 March 1899 in the village of Smiljan in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, then part ...
(1968)
* Slobodan Penezić (1952†)
* Vladimir Perić
Vladimir Perić ( sr-Cyrl, Владимир Перић; 28 December 1919 – 5/6 April 1945), best known by the ''nom de guerre'' Valter, was a Yugoslav Yugoslav Partisans, Partisan commander in German-occupied Sarajevo during World War II. ...
(1953)
* Dušan Petrović Šane
Dušan Petrović Šane ( Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Петровић Шане; 28 June 1914 – 21 June 1977) was a Yugoslav communist soldier and politician who served as President of the People's Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Serbia ...
(1952)
* Moša Pijade
Moša Pijade ( sr-Cyrl, Мoшa Пијаде; he, משה פיאדה; alternate English transliteration Moshe Piade; 4 January 1890 – 15 March 1957), nicknamed Čiča Janko (, lit. "Old Man Janko") was a Serbian and Yugoslav communist of J ...
(1953)
* Strašo Pindžur (1945†)
* Bojan Polak
Bojan Polak-Stjenka (28 November 1918 – 4 July 2004) was a Yugoslavia, Yugoslav military officer, Communist politician, and athlete of Slovene people, Slovene ethnicity.
Biography
Polak was born in Ormož on 28 November 1918, shortly after t ...
(1952)
* Koča Popović
Konstantin "Koča" Popović ( sr-cyrl, Константин "Коча" Поповић; 14 March 1908 – 20 October 1992) was a Yugoslav politician and communist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, 1937–1939 and Divisional Commander of the Fir ...
(1953)
* Miladin Popović
Miladin Popović ( sr-cyr, Миладин Поповић; 23 September 1910 – 13 March 1945) was a Yugoslav Partisan and secretary of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (OK KPJ) of Kosmet (Kosovo). He was one of the o ...
(1946†)
* Vladimir Popović (1952)
* Janko Premrl
Janko Premrl (nom de guerre Vojko; Italianized: ) (29 February 1920 – 22 February 1943)Ferenc, Tone. 1995."'Premrl, Stanko." ''Enciklopedija Slovenije'' vol. 9, pp. 1–5. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 296. was a Slovene Partisan.
Life
Pr ...
(1944†)
* Ognjen Prica
Ognjen Prica (27 November 1899 – 9 July 1941) was a Yugoslav communist politician and journalist known for his roles in the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia and the League of Communists of Croatia. He was a victim of the Nazi-backed ND ...
(1945†)
* Slobodan Princip
Slobodan Princip ( sr-cyr, Слободан Принцип; 25 May 1914 – 25 April 1942), nicknamed Seljo (Сељо), was a Yugoslav Partisans, Yugoslav Partisan fighter and the district staff chief of the Partisan Sarajevo area during World War ...
(1942†)
* Đuro Pucar
Đurađ "Đuro" Pucar "Stari" ( sr-cyr, Ђурађ Ђуро Пуцар, ; 13 December 1899 – 12 April 1979) was a Yugoslav and Bosnian politician.
During World War II he was a member of the Yugoslav Partisans and was later decorated with the Or ...
(1951)
* Lepa Radić
Lepa Svetozara Radić ( sr-Cyr, Лепа Светозара Радић; 19 December 1925 – 8 February 1943) was a Yugoslav Partisan and communist of Serbian origin who was awarded the Order of the People's Hero in 1951 for her role in the resist ...
(1951†)
* Darinka Radović (1953†)
* Joakim Rakovac
Joakim Rakovac (14 November 1914 – 18 January 1945) was an Istrian anti-fascist, partisan and national hero of Yugoslavia. The circumstances of his death and the identity of his murderers are debated, and he is thought by some to have been murde ...
(1952†)
* Aleksandar Ranković
Aleksandar Ranković ( nom de guerre Marko; sr-Cyrl, Александар Ранковић Лека; 28 November 1909 – 19 August 1983) was a Yugoslav communist politician, considered to be the third most powerful man in Yugoslavia after Jo ...
(1945)
* Ivo Lola Ribar
Ivan Ribar (23 April 1916 – 27 November 1943), known as Ivo Lola or Ivo Lolo, was a Yugoslav communist politician and military leader of Croatian descent. In the 1930s, he became one of the closest associates of Josip Broz Tito, leader of the ...
(1944†)
* Slavko Rodić
Slavko Rodić ( sr, Славко Родић; Sredice near Ključ, 7 July 1914 - Belgrade, 29 April 1949), was a Yugoslav partisan, general of Yugoslav People's Army and People's Hero of Yugoslavia.
Prior to April War, Rodić worked as survey ...
(1949)
* Vladimir Rolović
Vladimir Rolović (21 May 1916 – 15 April 1971) was a Yugoslav politician, diplomat, and a former high officer of the State Security Administration (UDBA). Holder of the " Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941" and as a former commander ...
(1971)
* Franc Rozman
Franc Rozman, nom de guerre Stane (Slovene convention: ''Franc Rozman – Stane'') or Stane MlinarKlanjšček, Zdravko. 1996. "Rozman, Franc – Stane." ''Enciklopedija Slovenije'', vol. 10. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, pp. 297–98. (27 March 19 ...
(1944†)
* Ivan Rukavina
Ivan Rukavina (January 26, 1912 – April 3, 1992) was army general of the Yugoslav People's Army, People's Hero of Yugoslavia and politician.
Rukavina was a member of the International Brigades and prominent Croats, Croatian and SFR Yugoslavia, ...
(1951)
* Ramiz Sadiku
Ramiz Sadiku (19 January 1915 – 10 April 1943) was an Albanian law student and one of the organizers of the anti-fascist uprising in Kosovo.''Narodni heroji Jugoslavije''. Belgrade: Mladost, 1975
He was posthumously awarded the Order of the Peop ...
(1945†)
* Vlado Šegrt
Vlado Šegrt (18 December 1907 – 1 August 1991) was a Yugoslav participant in the National Liberation Struggle and a socio-political worker in the Socialist Republics of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Yugoslavia. He was a reserve Major General and n ...
(1951)
* Ivan Šibl (1951)
* Velimir Škorpik (1952†)
* Slavko Šlander
Slavko Šlander, nom de guerre Aleš (20 June 1909 – 24 August 1941), was a Slovene communist, Partisan, and people's hero.
He was born in Dolenja Vas near Prebold, Duchy of Styria, Austria-Hungary (now part of Slovenia). Due to being e ...
(1943†)
* Milan Spasić
Milan Spasić (November 8, 1909 – April 17, 1941) was a naval Lieutenant of the Royal Yugoslav Navy. During the Invasion of Yugoslavia, April War, Spasić, along with his fellow Lieutenant Sergej Mašera, scuttled the destroyer in the Bay of Kot ...
(1973†)
* Mika Špiljak
Mika Špiljak ( or ; 28 November 1916 – 18 May 2007) was a Croatian politician who spent most of his political career as a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in the SFR Yugoslavia.
Early years
He was born in Odra Sisačka (part o ...
(1953)
* Drago Štajnberger
Drago Štajnberger (born Adolf Steinberger; 15 February 19163 March 1942) was a History of the Jews in Croatia, Croatian-Jewish Yugoslav Partisans, Partisan and a People's Hero of Yugoslavia.
Štajnberger was born on 15 February 1916 in Zagreb to ...
(1943†)
* Petar Stambolić
Petar Stambolić (; 12 July 1912 – 21 September 2007) was a Serbian communist politician who served as the President of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia from 1963 to 1967 and as President of the Presidency from 1982 until 1983.
Biog ...
(1953)
* Dragi Stamenković (1953)
* Mladen Stojanović
Mladen Stojanović ( sr-cyr, Младен Стојановић; 7 April 1896 – 1 April 1942) was a Bosnian Serb and Yugoslav physician who led a detachment of Partisans on and around Mount Kozara in northwestern Bosnia durin ...
(1942†)
* Blagoj Stračkovski (1953†)
* Borko Temelkovski
Borko Temelkovski (1919 – 2001) was a Macedonian politician and communist leader born in Prilep, Yugoslavia.
Temelkovski learned about hardship and unionism at a young age. As a worker he became a member of the Workers Union in early 1938. Later ...
(1953)
* Milan Tepić
Milan Tepić ( sr-Cyrl, Милан Тепић; 26 January 1957 – 29 September 1991) was a major in the Yugoslav People's Army during the Croatian War of Independence.
In September 1991, Tepić was tasked with defending an ammunition storage in ...
(1991†)
* Hristijan Todorovski Karpoš
Hristijan Todorovski - Karpoš (3 September 1921 in Kumanovo – 7 February 1944 Biljača) was a Macedonian communist partisan during the Second World War.
As a student he was accepted in the communist youth organization SKOJ. Because of hi ...
(1945†)
* Vida Tomšič
Vida Tomšič ''née'' Bernot (26 June 1913 – 10 December 1998) was a Slovenian communist before World War II, Yugoslav Partisans, Partisan fighter during the War, prominent communist politician, women's activist, and Order of the People's Hero, ...
(1953)
* Jovan Veselinov
Jovan Veselinov Žarko (20 January 1906 – 8 February 1982) was a Serbian communist politician. He served as President of Serbia, Prime Minister of Serbia and as a Chairman of the League of Communists of Serbia. He was a Partisan fighter in Wor ...
(1952)
* Veljko Vlahović
Veljko Vlahović (Cyrillic: Вељко Влаховић; 2 September 1914 – 7 March 1975) was a Montenegrin politician and career army officer. He was one of the more prominent members of the Montenegrin branch of the Yugoslav Communist Party fro ...
(1953)
* Rada Vranješević
Rada Vranješević ( sr-cyrl, Рада Врањешевић; 25 May 1918 – 26 May 1944) was a Yugoslav political activist and resistance leader in Bosnia during the Second World War.
Family
Vranješević was born in the village of Rekavice ...
(1951†)
* Majda Vrhovnik
Majda Vrhovnik ( nom de guerre LojzkaLeben, Andrej. 2003. ''V borbi smo bile enakopravne: uporniške ženske na Koroškem v letih 1939–1955'' Klagenfurt: Drava, p. 55.) (14 April 1922 – 4 May 1945) was a Slovene communist and medical student ...
(1951†)
* Bogdan Vujošević Bogdan Vujošević (26 January 1912, in village Doljani, near Podgorica – 10 July 1981, in Belgrade), WW2 veteran, Lieutenant General of the Yugoslav People's Army and recipient of the Order of the People's Hero of Yugoslavia.
Biography
Vujoš ...
(1953)
* Ratko Vujović
Ratko Vujović (16 December 1916 – 29 October 1977) was a Yugoslavian political activist and soldier. After the Second World War, Vujović was the first elected President of FK Partizan.
Biography
Ratko Vujović was born on 16 December 1916 in ...
(1953)
* Svetozar Vukmanović
Svetozar Vukmanović - Tempo ( sh-Cyrl, Светозар Вукмановић - Темпо; 3 August 1912 – 6 December 2000) was a leading Montenegrin communist and member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. D ...
(1951)
* Boro Vukmirović
Borko "Boro" Vukmirović (Cyrillic: Борко Боро Вукмировић; 1 August 1912 – 10 April 1943) was one of the organizers of the anti-fascist uprising in Kosovo.''Narodni heroji Jugoslavije''. Belgrade: Mladost, 1975
He was posthumo ...
(1945†)
* Žarko Zrenjanin
Žarko Zrenjanin "Uča" ( sr-Cyrl, Жарко Зрењанин, ; 11 September 1902 – 4 November 1942) was a Partisans (Yugoslavia), partisan and National Hero of Yugoslavia. The city of Zrenjanin, in Serbia, is named after him, since 1946. ...
(1944†)
Josip Broz Tito Bihać 1942.jpg, Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz ( sh-Cyrl, Јосип Броз, ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (; sh-Cyrl, Тито, links=no, ), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman, serving in various positions from 1943 until his deat ...
was awarded the order three times.
Tito sa narodnim herojima iz Bosne i Hercegovine.jpg, President Tito with People's Heroes from PR Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Bosna i Hercegovina, Социјалистичка Pепублика Босна и Херцеговина), commonly referred to as Socia ...
(1955)
Tito sa narodnim herojima iz Crne Gore.jpg, President Tito with People's Heroes from PR Montenegro
The Socialist Republic of Montenegro ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Crna Gora, Социјалистичка Република Црна Гора), commonly referred to as Socialist Montenegro or simply Montenegro, was ...
(1955)
Tito sa narodnim herojima iz Hrvatske.jpg, President Tito with People's Heroes from PR Croatia (1955)
Tito sa narodnim herojima iz Slovenije.jpg, President Tito with People's Heroes from PR Slovenia
The Socialist Republic of Slovenia ( sl, Socialistična republika Slovenija, sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Slovenija, Социјалистичка Република Словенија), commonly referred to as Sociali ...
(1955)
Tito sa narodnim herojima iz Srbije i Makedonije.jpg, President Tito with People's Heroes from PR Serbia
, life_span = 1944–1992
, status = Constituent state of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia
, p1 = Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia
, flag_p1 = Fla ...
and PR Macedonia
The Socialist Republic of Macedonia ( mk, Социјалистичка Република Македонија, Socijalistička Republika Makedonija), or SR Macedonia, commonly referred to as Socialist Macedonia or Yugoslav Macedonia, was ...
(1955)
Foreign citizens recipients of the order
Source:
* Sergey Biryuzov
Sergey Semyonovich Biryuzov (; 21 August 1904 – 19 October 1964) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union and Chief of the General Staff.
Early life and prewar service
Biryuzov was born in Skopin, in the Ryazan Governorate of the Russian Empire, in ...
(1964)
* Ivan Bulkin (1945)
* Reshit Çollaku (1945†, rescinded in 1948)
* Pavel Dmitrienko
Pavel (Bulgarian language, Bulgarian, Russian language, Russian, Serbian language, Serbian and Macedonian language, Macedonian: Павел, Czech language, Czech, Slovene language, Slovene, Romanian language, Romanian: Pavel, Polish language, Po ...
(1945)
* Enver Hoxha
Enver Halil Hoxha ( , ; 16 October 190811 April 1985) was an Albanian communist politician who was the authoritarian ruler of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985. He was First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania from 1941 unt ...
(1946, rescinded in 1948)
* Boris Kalinkin
Boris may refer to:
People
* Boris (given name), a male given name
*:''See'': List of people with given name Boris
* Boris (surname)
* Boris I of Bulgaria (died 907), the first Christian ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire, canonized after his d ...
(1944)
* Ivan Konstantinov
Ivan () is a Slavic languages, Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John (given name), John) from Hebrew language, Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. T ...
(1945)
* Semyon Kozak
Semyon Antonovich Kozak (russian: Семён Антонович Козак; – 24 December 1953) was a Ukrainian Soviet Army lieutenant general who was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his command of a division during World ...
(1944)
* Vojo Kushi
Vojo Kushi (, August 3, 1918 – October 10, 1942) was an Albanian and Yugoslav communist guerilla fighter (partisan) and one of the founders of the Communist group based in Shkodër, following the Italian occupation of Albania in April 1939. He wa ...
(1945†, rescinded in 1948)
* Luigi Longo
Luigi Longo (15 March 1900 – 16 October 1980), also known as Gallo, was an Italian communist politician and secretary of the Italian Communist Party from 1964 to 1972. He was also the first foreigner to be awarded an Order of Lenin.
Early l ...
(1980)
* Rodion Malinovsky
Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky (russian: Родио́н Я́ковлевич Малино́вский, ukr, Родіо́н Я́кович Малино́вський ; – 31 March 1967) was a Soviet military commander. He was Marshal of the Sovi ...
(1964)
* Alexander Managadze
Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia (ancient kingdom), Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.
Variants li ...
(1945)
* Grigoriy Okhrimenko Grigory, Grigori and Grigoriy are Russian masculine given names.
It may refer to watcher angels or more specifically to the egrḗgoroi or Watcher angels.
Grigory
* Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009), Russian novelist
* Grigory Barenblatt (1927201 ...
(1945)
* Alexander Shornikov
Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia (ancient kingdom), Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.
Variants li ...
(1944)
* Vladimir Sudets
Vladimir Alexandrovich Sudets (russian: Владимир Александрович Судец; 23 October 1904 - 6 May 1981) was a Soviet air commander during World War II, commanding the 17th Air Army, and later became Marshal of the aviation ...
(1964)
* Ludvík Svoboda
Ludvík Svoboda (25 November 1895 – 20 September 1979) was a Czech general and politician. He fought in both World Wars, for which he was regarded as a national hero, (1946)
* Fyodor Tolbukhin
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin (russian: Фёдор Ива́нович Толбу́хин; 16 June 1894 – 17 October 1949) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union.
Early life and military career
Tolbukhin was born into ...
(1945)
* Vasiliy Ulisko
Vasili, Vasily, Vasilii or Vasiliy (Russian language, Russian: wikt:Василий, Василий) is a Russian masculine given name of Greek language, Greek origin and corresponds to ''Basil (name)#Given name, Basil''. It may refer to:
*Vasili ...
(1945)
* Andrey Vitruk
Andrey Nikiforovich Vitruk (russian: Андрей Никифорович Витрук; 7 July 1902 – 1 June 1946) was a Soviet Union, Soviet military officer, a Major General of the Soviet Air Forces and a Hero of the Soviet Union.
Early l ...
(1945)
* Pavel Yakimov
Pavel ( Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian and Macedonian: Павел, Czech, Slovene, Romanian: Pavel, Polish: Paweł, Ukrainian: Павло, Pavlo) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cognate of the name Paul (derived from the Greek Pavlos). Pavel ...
(1944)
* Vladimir Zhdanov
Vladimir Ivanovich Zhdanov (russian: Владимир Иванович Жданов; 29 April 1902 – 19 October 1964) was a colonel-general of tank troops in the armed forces of the Soviet Union. He was a major general in the Soviet Red Army duri ...
(1944)
* Michał Żymierski Michał () is a Polish and Sorbian languages, Sorbian form of Michael (name), Michael and may refer to:
* Michał Bajor (born 1957), Polish actor and musician
* Michał Chylinski (born 1986), Polish basketball player
* Michał Drzymała (1857–1937 ...
(1946)
Hero Cities
Eight cities were the Order of the People's Hero (one in each Socialist Republic and Socialist Province), and granted the title "Hero City". Dates of the award are given in parenthesis.
* Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a ...
(20 October 1974)
* Cetinje
Cetinje (, ) is a town in Montenegro. It is the former royal capital (''prijestonica'' / приjестоница) of Montenegro and is the location of several national institutions, including the official residence of the president of Montenegro ...
(7 May 1975)
* Ljubljana
Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center.
During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the ar ...
(7 May 1970)
* Novi Sad
Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...
(7 May 1975)
* Prilep
Prilep ( mk, Прилеп ) is the fourth-largest city in North Macedonia. It has a population of 66,246 and is known as "the city under Marko's Towers" because of its proximity to the towers of Prince Marko.
Name
The name of Prilep appear ...
(7 May 1975)
* Priština
Pristina, ; sr, / (, ) is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. The city's municipal boundaries in Pristina District form the largest urban center in Kosovo. After Tirana, Pristina has the second largest population of ethnic Albanians an ...
(7 May 1975)
* Drvar
Drvar (, ) is a town and municipality located in Canton 10 of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The 2013 census registered the municipality as having a population of 7,036. It is situated in western Bos ...
(17 May 1974)
* Zagreb
Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slop ...
(history
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) (7 May 1975)
Public and political organizations recipients of the order
* Young Communist League of Yugoslavia (SKOJ
League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia, commonly known in English as the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia, or simply Communist Youth, was the youth wing of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia from 1919 to 1948. Although it was banned just two y ...
)[, volume 2, page 432]
* District committee of SKOJ for Drvar
Drvar (, ) is a town and municipality located in Canton 10 of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The 2013 census registered the municipality as having a population of 7,036. It is situated in western Bos ...
* Union of Veterans of People's Liberation War ( SUBNOR)
* Union of the Spanish War veterans of Yugoslavia
World War II military units recipients of the order
*Brigades
** 1st Proletarian Strike Brigade[, volume 2, page 407] (1958)
** 2nd Proletarian Strike Brigade (1958)
** 3rd Proletarian (Sandžak
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) Strike Brigade (1958)
** 4th Proletarian (Montenegrin) Strike Brigade (1958)
** 5th Proletarian (Montenegrin) Strike Brigade (1958)
** 6th Proletarian (East Bosnian) Strike Brigade (1958)
** 1st Lika
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Proletarian Strike Brigade (1977)
** 2nd Lika Proletarian Strike Brigade (1977)
** 3rd Lika Proletarian Strike Brigade (1974)
** 1st Krajina Krajina () is a Slavic toponym, meaning ' frontier' or 'march'. The term is related to ''kraj'' or ''krai'', originally meaning 'edge'Rick Derksen (2008), ''Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon'', Brill: Leiden-Boston, page 244 a ...
Proletarian Strike Brigade (1975)
** 3rd Krajina Proletarian Strike Brigade (1958)
** 7th Krajina Strike Brigade (1958)
** 1st Dalmatia
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n Proletarian Strike Brigade (1958)
** 2nd Dalmatian Proletarian Strike Brigade (1958)
** 3rd Dalmatian Strike Brigade (1958)
**12th Slavonia
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n Proletarian Strike Brigade (1977)
**13th Proletaraian Strike Brigade "Rade Končar" (1972)
**1st Slovenia
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n Proletarian Brigade "Tone Tomšič" (1974)
**2nd Slovenian People's Liberation Strike Brigade "Ljubo Šercer" (1979)
**10th Herzegovinian Strike Brigade (after 1952: 17th Proletarian) (1958)
** 1st Vojvodina
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Strike Brigade (after 1958: 18th Proletarian) (1973)
**1st Macedonian- Kosovan Proletarian Strike Brigade (after 1951: 15th Proletarian)
**3rd Serbia
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n Proletarian Brigade (1977)
**7th Banija
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n Strike Brigade "Vasilj Gačeša" (1958)
**8th Banijan Strike Brigade (1958)
**16th Banijan Strike Brigade (1958)
**15th Majevica
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Its highest peak is Stolice, some 16 kilometres east of Tuzla, in the far southe ...
Strike Brigade (1958)
*Batallions and regiments
** 2nd Krajina Krajina () is a Slavic toponym, meaning ' frontier' or 'march'. The term is related to ''kraj'' or ''krai'', originally meaning 'edge'Rick Derksen (2008), ''Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon'', Brill: Leiden-Boston, page 244 a ...
People's Liberation Partizan Regiment
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In Medieval Europe, the term "regiment" denoted any large body of front-line soldiers, recruited or conscripted ...
"Dr Mladen Stojanović
Mladen Stojanović ( sr-cyr, Младен Стојановић; 7 April 1896 – 1 April 1942) was a Bosnian Serb and Yugoslav physician who led a detachment of Partisans on and around Mount Kozara in northwestern Bosnia durin ...
" (1972)
** Escort Battalion of the Supreme Command of People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia (1958)
** Workers' Battalion of the Užice
Užice ( sr-cyr, Ужице, ) is a city and the administrative centre of the Zlatibor District in western Serbia. It is located on the banks of the river Đetinja. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 59,747. The Cit ...
People's Liberation Partizan Regiment (1979)
*Army institutions
** Central Hospital of People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia (1968)
** Partizan Hospital on Petrova Gora (1971)
**Security and Intelligence Service (Varnostno-obveščevalna služba)
Statistics
A total of 1,322 persons were awarded in Yugoslavia by 1981. Most of the awarded were men (1231) and 91 were women. Most People's Heroes were either miner
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s or industrial workers (34%), 19% were university and high school students, 18% were farmworker
A farmworker, farmhand or agricultural worker is someone employed for labor in agriculture. In labor law, the term "farmworker" is sometimes used more narrowly, applying only to a hired worker involved in agricultural production, including harv ...
s and 13% were experts of all kinds.[, volume 2, page 463]
Most of the awarded were very young. Half of them joined the Army before their 25th birthday, and only 325 of them were over 30. 42% of the Heroes who died in the war were between 16 and 26 years old, 38% were between 27 and 34. Three Heroes were less than 17 years old when they died. Milka Bosnić was the youngest recipient of the order, she was just 15 when killed during the Raid on Drvar
Raid, RAID or Raids may refer to:
Attack
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* Corporate raid, a type of hostile takeover in business
* Panty raid, a prankish raid by male college ...
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Most recipients were awarded in the years following World War II, most of them between 1951 and 1953. Tito was the only person to be awarded multiple times, he was awarded the order three times. Of the 955 recipients who died in the war, 77% were killed in combat, about 15% were executed or died in prison, and about 7% died from wounds. Most of the Heroes died in 1943 (about 30%) and in 1942 (27.5%). Nine of them were killed after the war officially ended during the fight with the remaining enemy forces. 55 People's Heroes committed suicide to escape arresting.][
Most of the recipients of the Order were born in ]Croatia
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(21.9%), followed by Bosnia and Herzegovina
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(20.6%), Montenegro
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(18.7%), Central Serbia
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(15%) and Slovenia
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(11.05%). Most of those who died during World War II died in Bosnia and Herzegovina (32%). In 1957 there were 410 living People's Heroes, in 1975 there were 367, and in 1981 there were 343 living Heroes.[
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See also
* Orders and medals of Socialist Yugoslavia
Orders, decorations, and medals of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia were created during the Second World War and used throughout the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The first decorations were created on March ...
* Orders and medals of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Orders and medals were awarded in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (and later Serbia and Montenegro) between 1998 and 2006. Before the 1992 Breakup of Yugoslavia, the Orders and medals of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia were awarded ...
* Hero of the Soviet Union
The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for ...
** Hero City
**Hero Fortress
Hero Fortress ( Russian: крепость-герой, ''krepost'-geroy'') is the honorary title awarded in 1965 to the Soviet Brest Fortress in Brest, Belarus, (previously part of the Byelorussian SSR) for the defence of the frontier stronghold du ...
** Hero of the Russian Federation
Hero of the Russian Federation (russian: Герой Российской Федерации, Geroy Rossiyskoy Federatsii), also unofficially Hero of Russia (russian: link=no, Герой России, Geroy Rossii), is the highest honorary title ...
**Hero of Belarus
Hero of Belarus ( be, Герой Беларусі, Łacinka ''Hieroj Biełarusi''; russian: Герой Беларуси, Geroj Belarusi) is the highest title that can be bestowed on a citizen of Belarus. The title is awarded to those "who perfor ...
**Hero of Ukraine
Hero of Ukraine (HOU; uk, Герой України, ''Heroi Ukrainy'') is the highest national title that can be conferred upon an individual citizen by the President of Ukraine. The title was created in 1998 by President Leonid Kuchma and as ...
** People's Hero of Kazakhstan
The title of People's Hero of Kazakhstan ( kk, Халық қаһарманы, Halyq qaharmany) is the highest distinction conferred by the Republic of Kazakhstan, along with the Order of the Golden Eagle.
Overview
According to the Law on State ...
*Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic
The title Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic was the highest distinction in the Mongolian People's Republic (MPR). It was modeled on the Soviet Union's highest award, the Hero of the Soviet Union title.
History
Soon after the victory of th ...
* Hero of the People
The Hero of the People ( sq, Hero i Popullit; Heroinë e Popullit) was the highest Hero (Title), title bestowed upon the citizens of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania.
Creation
Founded on July 9, 1945, the title was awarded by the Presi ...
(People's Socialist Republic of Albania)
*Hero of the People's Republic of Bulgaria
The Hero of the People's Republic of Bulgaria ( bg, Герой на Народна република България) was awarded to Bulgarian and foreign citizens for merits in defending Bulgaria and other countries allied to Bulgaria. Establis ...
* Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
The title of the Hero of the Czechoslovak Republic was established 1955. The name of the title was changed to Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1960. Awarded 31 times to some Czechoslovak war heroes, to the general and later president ...
*Hero of the Socialist Republic of Romania
The title Hero of the Socialist Republic of Romania ( ro, Erou al Republicii Socialiste România) was the highest distinction in the Socialist Republic of Romania. It was modeled on the Soviet Union's highest award, the Hero of the Soviet Union tit ...
*Hero of the Republic
Hero of the Republic () is a North Korean honorific title. It was created on 30 June 1950 as Hero of the Korean People's Republic (). It was the first title created in the country. Despite having been created just five days after the Korean War ...
(North Korea)
*Hero of the Republic of Cuba
The honorary title Hero of the Republic of Cuba ( es, Héroe de la República de Cuba) is the highest decoration awarded by the Republic of Cuba. It is equivalent to other hero titles common in the Socialist Bloc. The decoration is physically rep ...
References
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External links
ZAKON O OSNOVNIM PRAVIMA LICA ODLIKOVANIH ORDENOM NARODNOG HEROJA
(''Law on Basic Rights of Persons Awarded the Order of the People's Hero'')
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