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Article: Yugoslav Leader, Dissident Milovan Djilas Dies at 83
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- The Washington Post
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- April 21, 1995
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Milovan Djilas, 83, a wartime partisan leader who was a vice
president of Yugoslavia before breaking with his lifelong political
past to denounce communism and become the very model of Eastern
Europe's heroic imprisoned dissidents, died April 20 at his home in
Belgrade. He had a heart ailment.
He had an unlikely background for a dissident. He spent World War
II fighting both right-wing Yugoslav forces and the German armies
that had invaded and occupied most of Yugoslavia. After the war, he
held a variety of senior cabinet and Communist Party posts. He became
one of Yugoslavia's four vice presidents in January 1953 and
president of the Federal People's Assembly in December 1953.
Mr. Djilas ...