Dušan Dragosavac is a former Yugoslav politician of Serb

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 ethnicity from Croatia

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 who was Chairman of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia

League of Communists of Yugoslavia

League of Communists of Yugoslavia , before 1952 the Communist Party of Yugoslavia League of Communists of Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian: Savez komunista Jugoslavije/Савез комуниста Југославије, Slovene: Zveza komunistov Jugoslavije, Macedonian: Сојуз на комунистите на Југославија, Sojuz na...

 from 20 October 1981 until 20 June 1982.

Born in the village of Vrebac near Gospić

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, Dragosavac graduated from the University of Zagreb

University of Zagreb

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 Faculty of Law. He joined the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia

Young Communist League of Yugoslavia

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 (SKOJ) in 1941 and the League of Communists of Yugoslavia

League of Communists of Yugoslavia

League of Communists of Yugoslavia , before 1952 the Communist Party of Yugoslavia League of Communists of Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian: Savez komunista Jugoslavije/Савез комуниста Југославије, Slovene: Zveza komunistov Jugoslavije, Macedonian: Сојуз на комунистите на Југославија, Sojuz na...

 (SKJ) in 1942. During World War II

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 he was member of the Yugoslav Partisans. After the war he spent his entire career in politics and since the 1950s held various senior positions in the League of Communists of Croatia

League of Communists of Croatia

League of Communists of Croatia was the Croatian branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia . Until 1952, it was known as Communist Party of Croatia .- History :...

(SKH), the Croatian branch of the SKJ.