Milorad Drašković ( sr-cyr, Милорад Драшковић; 10 April 1873 – 21 July 1921) was a Serbian politician who was the Minister of Internal Affairs of the

Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 1918 to 1929, it was officially called the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, but the term "Yugoslavia" () has been its colloq ...

Death

Drašković was a staunch anti-communist and enacted several pieces of anti-communist legislation, notably the Obznana. On 21 July 1921, Drašković was gunned down by

Alija Alijagić Alija Alijagić (20 November 1896 – 8 March 1922) was a Bosnian communist and assassin known for killing Milorad Drašković, the Ministry of the Interior (Yugoslavia), Minister of the Interior of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The C ...

, a member of the

communist Communism () is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, di ...

organization '' Crvena Pravda''. The

Communist Party of Yugoslavia The League of Communists of Yugoslavia, known until 1952 as the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, was the founding and ruling party of SFR Yugoslavia. It was formed in 1919 as the main communist opposition party in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats a ...

condemned the act. Nevertheless, this inspired King Alexander to make a law concerning protection of the state that made the communist party illegal.Politika #4766: Od danas..., pg. 1, 2 August 1921, accessed 29 January 2015.

Personal life

He had four children: Radoje, Bojana, Slobodan, and Milorad. His son Slobodan was sent to a Nazi concentration camp in the Second World War and later emigrated to the United States. There he became a member of the Serbian National Defense Council as well as the John Birch Society but later left due to being disillusioned with its pacifism.

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