Lazar Koliševski
| Lazar Koliševski Лазар Колишевски |
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| 2nd President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia | |
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In office 4 May 1980 – 15 May 1980 |
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| Prime Minister | Veselin Đuranović |
| Preceded by | Josip Broz Tito |
| Succeeded by | Cvijetin Mijatović |
| 6th President of the People's Assembly of PR Macedonia | |
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In office 19 December 1953 – 26 June 1962 |
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| Prime Minister |
Ljupco Arsov Aleksandar Grlickov |
| Preceded by | Dimce Stojanov |
| Succeeded by | Ljupco Arsov |
| 1st President of the Executive Council of PR Macedonia | |
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In office 16 April 1945 – 19 December 1953 |
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| President |
Metodija Andonov - Čento Dimitar Vlahov |
| Preceded by | Position created |
| Succeeded by | Ljupčo Arsov |
| 1st Chairman of the League of Communists of Macedonia | |
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In office 1945 – July 1963 |
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| Preceded by | Position created |
| Succeeded by | Krste Crvenkovski |
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12 February 1914 Sveti Nikole, Serbia |
| Died | 6 July 2000 (aged 86) Skopje, Macedonia |
| Nationality | Yugoslav/Macedonian |
| Political party | League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ) |
| Awards | Order of the National Hero of Yugoslavia |
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| Allegiance | Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Service/branch | Ground Forces (KoV) |
| Years of service | 1941–1980 |
| Rank | Major General |
| Commands |
Yugoslav Partisans Yugoslav People's Army |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
Lazar Koliševski (Macedonian: Лазар Колишевски [ˈlazar kɔˈliʃɛfski];(12 February 1914 – 6 July 2000) was Yugoslav communist political leader in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia and briefly in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He was closely allied with Tito.
Lazar was born in Sveti Nikole, Serbia in 1914. His family were poor farmers. Koliševski's mother was Aromanian and his father was Bulgarian. Both died during the First World War. Once left an orphan, he was taken by his maternal Macedonian Aromanian aunts in Bitola and later was sent to a technical school in Kragujevac, . Here, Lazar began to follow politics and learn about communism. During the 1930s he became an prominent activist of the Yugoslav Communist Party.
As Nazi forces entered Belgrade in April 1941, Bulgaria, the German ally in the war, took control of a part of Vardar Macedonia, with the western towns of Tetovo, Gostivar and Debar going to Italian zone in Albania. Lazar, now 27, joined up with the Yugoslav Partisans in the struggle against Bulgaria and its local adherents. After the Bulgarians had taken control of the eastern part of the former Vardar Banovina, the leader of the local faction of Communist Party of Yugoslavia, Metodi Shatorov had defected to the Bulgarian Communist Party and seriously weakened the Partisans. Vardar Macedonia soon became a field of competition between different small Yugoslav Partisan detachments. Later in fall of 1941 Koliševski became the Secretary of the local Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party. In late 1941 he was arrested and sentenced to death by a Bulgarian military court. He wrote an appeal for clemency to Bulgarian Tsar, where he claimed to be "[...]a son of Bulgarian parents who [has always] felt and feels himself Bulgarian, and despite the dreadful slavery has preserved his Bulgarian lifestyle, language and mors " and had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment.
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