Pepca Kardelj (
née Pepca Maček; February 20, 1914 — April 15, 1990) was a
Slovene Partisan and political activist. She fought as a communist partisan during
World War II in Yugoslavia
World War II in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia began on 6 April 1941, when the country was swiftly conquered by Axis forces and partitioned between Germany, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria and their client regimes. Shortly after Germany attacked the US ...
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Life and career
Kardelj became a member of the
League of Communists of Slovenia in 1935, and she was the only woman present at the founding congress of the League of Communists of Slovenia.
[ In 1941 she became involved in the Yugoslav resistance movement.]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 ar ...
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Kardelj was found dead on April 15, 1990. She died under mysterious circumstances, and it has been speculated that her death may have been related to a critique she published a few weeks earlier criticizing the regime.]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 ...
, and her cousin was President of the Slovenian People's Assembly Ivan Maček.[
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Selected awards
*Order of Merit for the People, degree I ( sl)[
*Order of Brotherhood and Unity, degrees I and II ( sl)][
* Yugoslav Order of Bravery][
* Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941][
]
References
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1914 births
1990 deaths
Slovene Partisans