Milan Blagojević ( sr-Cyrl, Милан Благојевић; 14 October 1905 – 28/29 October 1941), better known as Španac ( sr-Cyrl, Шпанац; ) was a

Yugoslav partisan The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, and Slovene language, Slovene: , officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska i partizanski odr ...

, Spanish-trained commando and republican volunteer in the

Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War () was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republican faction (Spanish Civil War), Republicans and the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the Left-wing p ...

and is credited for initiating the

anti-fascist Anti-fascism is a political movement in opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals. Beginning in European countries in the 1920s, it was at its most significant shortly before and during World War II, where the Axis powers were op ...

struggle in

Yugoslavia , common_name = Yugoslavia , life_span = 1918–19921941–1945: World War II in Yugoslavia#Axis invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, Axis occupation , p1 = Kingdom of SerbiaSerbia , flag_p ...

during

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. Partisan commander Milan Blagojević Španac was killed by the

Chetniks The Chetniks,, ; formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland; and informally colloquially the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist m ...

in October 1941 in Požega.Политика(Politika); (05.04.2015) Sud rehabilitovao streljanog zbog ubistva Milana Blagojevića(in serbian) (The court rehabilitated the person shot for the murder of Milan Blagojevic)

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1905 births 1941 deaths People from Topola Serbian people of World War II Yugoslav Partisans members Yugoslav communists Yugoslav military personnel killed in World War II Yugoslav people of the Spanish Civil War Recipients of the Order of the People's Hero International Brigades personnel People killed by Chetniks during World War II {{Yugoslavia-bio-stub

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