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Miladin Popović | |
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 Popović,c. 1942 | |
| Born | (1910-09-23)23 September 1910 Lopate,Kingdom of Montenegro |
| Died | 13 March 1945(1945-03-13) (aged 34) |
Miladin Popović (Serbian Cyrillic:Миладин Поповић; 23 September 1910 – 13 March 1945) was aYugoslav Partisan and secretary of the Regional Committee of theCommunist Party of Yugoslavia (OK KPJ) ofKosmet (Kosovo). He was one of the organizers of thepartisan fighting in Kosovo. He was posthumously given theHero of Yugoslavia award.
An active communist in Kosovo, he was arrested on 18 July 1941 nearRožaje, and sent to aconcentration camp nearPeqin inAlbania. He managed to escape with the support of the Albanian communists a few months later.[1]
He andDušan Mugoša were the Yugoslav delegates that in 1941 helped the Albanian communist groups unite and create theCommunist Party of Albania.[2] The two had been sent to Albania on the directive of the Central Committee of theCommunist Party of Yugoslavia (CK KPJ), chosen for their revolutionary experience and political knowledge, to be available to the Albanian communists; they were the most active regarding Yugoslav–Albanian alliance.[3] This claim was disputed by the Albanians, who maintained that Popović was not sent as a delegate by the Yugoslav Party, but was only present at the founding of the Communist Party of Albania as a result of his imprisonment inPeqin and his rescue on the orders ofEnver Hoxha andQemal Stafa.[4] Mugoša and Popović of whom were members of the Regional Committee KPJ (OK KPJ) ofKosmet (Kosovo).[5]
Popović left Albania in September 1944.[1] He was killed on 13 March 1945[6] inPristina by two Kosovar Albanians, Haki Taha and Qazim Vula, both members of the anticommunistAlbanian National Democratic Movement. Taha killed himself right after murdering Popović,[7] whereas Vula was arrested and given a life sentence, but managed to escape from the prison ofNiš, and fled to Albania, where he was again arrested. Vula died in 1987.[8] Sources disagree about the motives of Taha and Vula: while the Yugoslavian regime said that the two killers were motivated by anti-Serbian sentiments, communist Albania's version was that they were used as kamikaze by the Yugoslav secret police (UDBA), who wanted to eliminate Popović for his pro-Albanian sentiments.[7]
Inside theCPA and theCPY relationship, Popović always took a pro-Internationalism and pro-Albanian stance.[1] In 1943, he sent a letter theCentral Committee of the CPY regarding theself-determination of Kosovo: "We have stressed the slogan of self-determination for the future. The Albanian people could not be mobilized against the 'liberator' occupier in this way... the CC of the CPY [must] take a concrete stand and define the form of the self-determination of the Albanians in Yugoslavia.".[9]
Дугим радом и убеђивањем на састанцима с појединцима и с по двојицом-тројицом, другови Миладин Поповић и Душан Мугоша сломили су групашки отпор код већине албанских другова. Они су успели да их убеде како је Партија неопходна радпим масама у њи- ховој борби за ослобођење од капиталистичке експлоатације и импе- ријалистичког поробљавања. Тај рад довео је до састанка 8 новем- бра 1941 године, на коме је било присутно преко двадесет ...
повић и Душан Мугоша најактивније учествовали (они су дошли у Албанију по директиви ЦК КПЈ да своје револуционарно искуство и политичко знање ставе на располагање албанским комунистима), на састанку који је одржан у ...
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