Dušan Dragosavac ( sr-cyr, Душан Драгосавац; 1 December 1919 – 21 December 2014)Dušan Dragosavac
was a Croatian Serb politician who served as

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of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from 20 October 1981 until 29 June 1982. Born in the village of Vrebac near

Gospić Gospić () is a town in the mountainous and sparsely populated region of Lika, Croatia. It is the administrative centre of Lika-Senj County. Gospić is located near the Lika River in the middle of a karst field ( Ličko Polje). Gospić is ...

, Dragosavac graduated from the

University of Zagreb The University of Zagreb ( hr, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, ; la, Universitas Studiorum Zagrabiensis) is the largest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of ...

Faculty of Law. He joined the

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(SKOJ) in 1941 and the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ) in 1942. During

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he was member of the

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. After the war he spent his entire career in politics and since the 1950s held various senior positions in the

League of Communists of Croatia League of Communists of Croatia ( sh, Savez komunista Hrvatske or SKH) was the Croatian branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ). It came into power in 1945. Until 1952, it was known as Communist Party of Croatia (''Komunistička ...

(SKH), the Croatian branch of the SKJ. He died on 21 December 2014, aged 95.

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1919 births 2014 deaths Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb alumni League of Communists of Croatia politicians Serbs of Croatia People from Gospić Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia members {{Croatia-politician-stub