Vladimir Dedijer

Politician

1914 – 1990

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Who was Vladimir Dedijer?

Vladimir Dedijer was a Bosnian Serb Yugoslav partisan fighter, communist politician and Josip Broz Tito's official biographer.

Dedijer's family originated from Čepelica, Bileća in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1941 Dedijer became the political commissar for a Yugoslav Partisan unit in Kragujevac. During World War II he was an editor of the Yugoslav Communist Party newspaper Borba, and member of the agitprop section to the General Staff.

After the war he was a member of Yugoslav delegation on 1946 Paris peace conference and on several sessions of United Nations General Assembly. In 1952 he became a member of the Party's Central Committee and the following year he was appointed to the Federal Assembly. In 1955 he was charged along with Milovan Đilas for disseminating "hostile propaganda", but served no jail time. The trial was closed to both the press and public. Dedijer was removed from politics following the trial. He was granted a passport by Yugoslav authorities in 1959 and was allowed to leave the country with his family. From then on, he devoted himself to writing history and teaching. He was later chairman of the self-appointed Russell Tribunal.

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Born
Feb 4, 1914
Belgrade
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Died
Nov 30, 1990
Boston

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on July 23, 2013

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