Dobrica Ćosić
| Dobrica Ćosić | |
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Dobrica Ćosić in 1961
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| 1st President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | |
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In office 15 June 1992 – 1 June 1993 |
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| Prime Minister |
Aleksandar Mitrović (acting) Milan Panić Radoje Kontić |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Zoran Lilić |
| 15th Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement | |
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In office 15 June 1992 – 7 September 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Branko Kostić |
| Succeeded by | Suharto |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Dobrosav Ćosić 29 December 1921 Velika Drenova, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
| Died | 18 May 2014 (aged 92) Belgrade, Serbia |
| Resting place | Belgrade's New Cemetery |
| Nationality | Serbian |
| Awards |
NIN Award (1954, 1961) Pushkin Medal (2010) |
Dobrica Ćosić (Serbian Cyrillic: Добрица Ћосић, Serbian pronunciation: [dɔ̂brit͡sa t͡ɕɔ̌ːsit͡ɕ]; 29 December 1921 – 18 May 2014) was a Serbian politician, writer, and political theorist. He was the first president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1992-93. Admirers often refer to him as the "Father of the Nation", due to his influence on modern Serbian politics and national revival movement in the late 1980s; opponents often use that term in an ironic manner.
Ćosić was born as Dobrosav Ćosić in 1921 in the village of Velika Drenova near Trstenik, then in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Some sources have incorrectly stated his birthdate as 4 January 1922.
Before the Second World War he was able to attend vocational agriculture school in Aleksandrovac. He joined the communist youth organization in Negotin in 1939. When the Second World War reached Yugoslavia in 1941, he joined the communist partisans. After the liberation of Belgrade in October 1944, he remained active in communist leadership positions, including work in the Serbian republican Agitation and Propaganda commission and then as a people's representative from his home region. In the early 1950s, he visited the Goli otok concentration camp, where the Yugoslav authorities imprisoned political opponents of the Communist Party. Ćosić maintained that he did so in order to better understand the Stalinist mind. In 1956 he found himself in Budapest during the Hungarian revolt.
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