Đuro Cvijić (pseudonym: ''Krešić''; born on 25 March 1896 in

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— died on 26 April 1938 in

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) was a Yugoslav communist from Croatia. He joined the

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(LCY) in 1919. He was elected the political secretary of the Central Committee of the

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(CPY) at the 4th Session of the Central Committee of the 3rd CPY Congress, which was in session from 27 November – 1 December 1927. From the party's founding on 23 April 1919 until 1928, Cvijić served as secretary of the Provincial Executive Committee of the CPY in Croatia and Slavonia. He also served as an ordinary member of the CPY Central Committee and the CPY Politburo. He was killed on charges of anti-revolutionary activity during the

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but was rehabilitated by a decision of the

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in 1963.

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