Jovan "Jovo" Kapičić, born Jovan Kapa, (Cyrillic: Јован Јово Капичић); 2 September 1919 – 9 December 2013) was a Yugoslav

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and post-war communist politician.''Narodni heroji Jugoslavije''. Belgrade: Mladost, 1975 He was awarded the

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on 10 July 1950.

Early and personal life

Kapičić was born on 2 September 1919 in the Italian city of

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where the

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authorities had set up a large base for the Italian-supported exiled soldiers of the

Royal Montenegrin Army The Royal Montenegrin Army (in Serbian/ Montenegrin: ''Војска Краљевине Црне Горе''; ''Vojska Kraljevine Crne Gore'') or the Army of the Kingdom of Montenegro, was the army of Kingdom of Montenegro. Creation of the army T ...

following their unsuccessful 1919

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against the Karađorđević dynasty. He was born with the surname Kapa, which he later changed to Kapičić. Jovo's father Milo Kapa was born in Ugnji near

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, Montenegro, and he completed a theology degree. Later he was a theology professor and in 1918, he became a ''

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'' and joined the

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. Along with Jovo, Milo had two more sons (Pavle and Vlado) and a daughter Anka. Jovo was also an Ambassador of

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in 1956 after the

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. Jovo joined the

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in 1936. Jovo's son

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is a retired basketball player and his grandson

Stefan Kapičić Stefan Kapičić (; born 1 December 1978) is a Serbian actor best known for his role voicing Colossus in the Deadpool franchise. He is also one of three members of the Council for Film Industry of Montenegro. Early life Kapičić was born 1 D ...

is an actor.

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