People's Hero of Yugoslavia
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The Order of the People's Hero was a Yugoslav
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the Yugoslav state that existed from the abolition of the Yugoslav monarchy until it was dissolved in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars. It was a socialist state and a federation made up of six socialist republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia,...

 gallantry medal, the second highest military award, and third overall Yugoslav decoration. It was awarded to individuals, military units, political and other organisations who distinguished themselves by extraordinary heroic deeds during war and in peacetime. The recipients were thereafter known as People's Heroes of Yugoslavia. The vast majority was awarded to partisans
Partisans (Yugoslavia)
The Yugoslav Partisans, or simply the Partisans were a Communist-led World War II anti-fascist resistance movement in Yugoslavia...

 for actions during the Second World War. A total of 1322 awards were awarded in Yugoslavia, and 22 were awarded to the foreigners.

After the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia, the Order of the People's Hero was awarded in Serbia and Montenegro
Serbia and Montenegro
Serbia and Montenegro was a country in southeastern Europe, formed from two former republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia : Serbia and Montenegro. Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, it was established in 1992 as a federation called the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia...

.

History

The bulletin of the Supreme commaned of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia no. 12–13 (December 1941 and January 1942) announced the establishment of the title
Title
A title is a prefix or suffix added to someone's name to signify either veneration, an official position or a professional or academic qualification. In some languages, titles may even be inserted between a first and last name...

 of "People's Hero" for heroic and self-sacrifing participants of the People's Liberation War
People's Liberation War
The Yugoslav FrontThe Yugoslav Front, is also known as the National Liberation War . started in April 1941 when the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was quickly overrun by Axis forces and partitioned between Germany, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Croatia and client regimes in Serbia with German Banat.The war was...

. The first person to be awarded the title was Petar Leković. On 15 August 1943, the title was formalized as an order together with Order of the People's Liberation
Order of the People's Liberation
The Order of the People's Liberation was a decoration of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia, the fifth highest decoration in the series of Yugoslav decorations. The order was founded by Josip Broz Tito on 15 August 1943...

, Order of Bravery
Order of Bravery
The Order of Bravery is a Bulgarian order during the Kingdom of Bulgaria and the Republic of Bulgaria. It is the most esteemed Bulgarian order and the second highest in the Kingdom of Bulgaria and forth highest in the Republic of Bulgaria...

, Order of the Partisan Star, Order of Brotherhood and Unity and the Medal for Bravery.

The Order consists of an oval gold badge showing a soldier with rifle and banner superimposed upon a rayed star surrounded by a wreath of laurel. The badge is suspended from a red ribbon, with a narrow white stripe towards each edge. The design for this and the other Orders were undertaken by the painter Đorđe Andrejević Kun and the sculptor Antun Augustinčić
Antun Augustincic
Antun Augustinčić was a prominent Croatian sculptor. Along with Ivan Meštrović and Frano Kršinić he is considered one of the three most important Croatian sculptors of the 20th century...

. From its inception until around 1993, the Order had been awarded nearly 1,400 times. Marshal Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz Tito
Marshal Josip Broz Tito – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, Tito was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad, viewed as a unifying symbol for the nations of the Yugoslav federation...

 was awarded the Order three times: in 1944, 1972 and 1977.

The holders of the order were entitled to certain benefits, like free fares on public transport, and pensions for the surviving family members of deceased people's heroes. Although the benefits have since been downscaled, post-Yugoslav countries still provide certain benefits to people's heroes. Many schools and streets in post-war Yugoslavia were named after people's heroes, and many of the names remain, to varying degrees in different successor countries.

Several cities in Yugoslavia were awarded the order, and proclaimed Hero Cities: Beograd, Cetinje
Cetinje
Cetinje , Цетиње / Cetinje , Italian: Cettigne, Greek: Κετίγνη, Ketígni) is a town and Old Royal Capital of Montenegro. It is also a historical and the secondary capital of Montenegro , with the official residence of the President of Montenegro...

, Drvar
Drvar
Drvar is a town and municipality in western Bosnia and Herzegovina, located on the road between Bosansko Grahovo and Bosanski Petrovac, also near Glamoč. It is administratively part of Canton 10 of the Federation....

, Ljubljana
Ljubljana
Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...

, Novi Sad
Novi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....

, Prilep
Prilep
Prilep is the fourth largest city in the Republic of Macedonia. It has a population of 66,246 citizens. Prilep is known as "the city under Marko's Towers" because of its proximity to the towers of Prince Marko.-Name:...

, Pristina
Pristina
Pristina, also spelled Prishtina and Priština is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous municipality and district....

 and Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...

.

After the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (later renamed Serbia and Montenegro
Serbia and Montenegro
Serbia and Montenegro was a country in southeastern Europe, formed from two former republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia : Serbia and Montenegro. Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, it was established in 1992 as a federation called the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia...

) continued to use some of the decorations of former Yugoslavia, among them Order of the People's Hero. In the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Order of the People's Hero was the fourth highest order after the Order of Yugoslavia, Order of the Yugoslav Star
Order of the Yugoslav Star
Order of the Yugoslav Star was the highest National order of merit awarded in Yugoslavia. It was divided into four classes. The highest class, the Yugoslav Great Star was the highest state decoration awarded in Yugoslavia...

 and the Order of Freedom
Order of Freedom
Order of Freedom was the highest military decoration awarded in Yugoslavia, and the second highest Yugoslav state decoration after the Yugoslav Great Star. It was awarded to the commanders of large military units for skillful leadership and for the outstanding courage of the troops...

.

Notable recipients



Notable recipients of the order include:

  • Božidar Adžija
    Božidar Adžija
    Božidar Adžija was a Yugoslav left-wing politician and publicist.A native of Drniš, of Croat and Serbian descent, Adžija participated in World War I as a soldier in Austro-Hungarian Army....

  • Maks Baće Milić
    Maks Bace Milic
    Maksimilijan "Maks" Baće, also known as Milić , was a Croatian and Yugoslav revolutionary.Born in Pakoštane and raised in Split, he studied philosophy in Zagreb, became a student organizer and a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1934...

  • Vlado Bagat
    Vlado Bagat
    Vlado Bagat was a Croatian and Yugoslav soldier.A native of Split, Bagat joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1939. After the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941, Bagat was involved in creation of the first Partisan units in Dalmatia and took part in actions against Italian occupation force...

  • Vladimir Bakarić
    Vladimir Bakaric
    Dr. Vladimir Bakarić was a Croatian communist and a politician in Socialist Yugoslavia.Bakarić helped organize Partisan resistance in Croatia during World War II. From 1948 to 1969 he was the chairman of the Croatian League of Communists, and as such was a close collaborator of President Josip...

  • Josip Broz Tito
    Josip Broz Tito
    Marshal Josip Broz Tito – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, Tito was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad, viewed as a unifying symbol for the nations of the Yugoslav federation...

  • Marija Bursać
    Marija Bursac
    Marija Bursać was a Bosnian Serb and Yugoslav communist who died while fighting for the Partisans during World War II.Marija Bursać was born in Kamenica near Drvar, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes...

  • Boško Buha
    Boško Buha
    Boško Buha was a young Yugoslav Partisan who used to be one of the greatest icons of World War II in the former Yugoslavia.Boško Buha was born to Serbian parents in the Slavonian village of Gradina, near Virovitica in today's Croatia...

  • Rade Bulat
    Rade Bulat
    Rade Bulat is a former Yugoslav Partisan and communist activist. , he was one of three living recipients of the Order of the People's Hero in Croatia....

  • Anka Butorac
    Anka Butorac
    Anka Butorac was a Croatian communist from Croatia who died in World War II and was proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia....

  • Krste Crvenkovski
    Krste Crvenkovski
    Krste Crvenkovski was a Communist political leader in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia. He was a leader of the League of Communists of Macedonia .He was a political opponent to the dominant political course of Lazar Koliševski in 1970s....

  • Rudi Čajavec
    Rudi Cajavec
    Rudi Čajavec was a Yugoslav pilot , best known as the first airman of Partisan air force....

  • Rodoljub Čolaković
    Rodoljub Colakovic
    Rodoljub Čolaković was a Bosnian Serb and Yugoslav politician.A native of Bijeljina, Rodoljub Čolaković joined Socialist Party of Bosnia-Herzegovina in March 1919 as a student. Later he joined Crvena pravda, left-wing terrorist organisation in assassination of Yugoslav interior minister Milorad...

  • Peko Dapčević
    Peko Dapcevic
    Colonel General Peko Dapčević was a famous Yugoslav communist who fought in the Spanish Civil War, joined the Partisan uprising in Montenegro, and became commander of the Yugoslav 1st and 4th Armies....


  • Nada Dimić
    Nada Dimic
    Nada Dimić was a Yugoslav communist who died in World War II and was proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia....

  • Petar Drapšin
    Petar Drapšin
    Petar Drapšin was a Yugoslav Partisan commander.Drapšin was born to a family of farmers in the village of Turija near Srbobran. He was enrolled in a Belgrade high school when he first got introduced to Communist ideas through school's literary group. He joined SKOJ and in 1937 went to Prague for...

  • Stjepan Filipović
    Stjepan Filipovic
    Stjepan Filipović was a Croatian Partisan who was executed during World War II and posthumously declared a People's Hero of Yugoslavia....

  • Ivan Gošnjak
  • Petar Gračanin
    Petar Gracanin
    Petar Gračanin - Serbian military commander....

  • Većeslav Holjevac
    Veceslav Holjevac
    Većeslav Holjevac was a Croatian and Yugoslav soldier and communist politician.Holjevac was born in Karlovac, at the time in Austria-Hungary. He joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1939...

  • Blagoj Jankov Mučeto
  • Žikica Jovanović Španac
    Žikica Jovanovic Španac
    Živorad "Žikica" Jovanović , better known as Španac was a Yugoslav partisan and is credited for starting the anti-fascist struggle in Yugoslavia during World War II.-Before World War II:Jovanović was born in Valjevo, Central Serbia, related to an extended family of...

  • Edvard Kardelj
    Edvard Kardelj
    Edvard Kardelj also known under the pseudonyms Sperans and Krištof was a Yugoslav communist political leader, economist, partisan, publicist, and full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts...

  • Boris Kidrič
    Boris Kidric
    Boris Kidrič was a leading Slovenian Communist who was, jointly with Edvard Kardelj, one of the chief organizers of the Partisan struggle in Slovenia from 1941 to 1945....

  • Franjo Kluz
    Franjo Kluz
    Franjo Kluz was a Yugoslav pilot from Bosnia and a People's Hero of Yugoslavia. He is best known as one of the founders of the Partisan air force, serving as an officer in the RAF-trained 352 SqnSqn....

  • Lazar Koliševski
    Lazar Koliševski
    Lazar Koliševski was a Communist political leader in Socialist Republic of Macedonia and briefly the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia closely allied with Tito.- Early years :...


  • Rade Končar
    Rade Koncar
    Rade Končar was a Yugoslav Communist leader and legendary World War II resistance fighter.-Biography:...

  • Sava Kovačević
  • Josip Kraš
    Josip Kraš
    Josip Kraš was a Croatian communist and partisan who died in World War II and was proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia....

  • Nikola Ljubičić
    Nikola Ljubicic
    Nikola Ljubičić was the President of the Presidency of Serbia , a member of the Presidency of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , and the Minister of Defence of Yugoslavia...

  • Veselin Masleša
    Veselin Masleša
    Veselin Masleša was a Bosnian Serb writer, activist and war hero.Veselin Masleša was born in Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina, where he finished grade school and gymnasium...

  • Miloš Minić
    Miloš Minic
    Miloš Minić was a Serbian communist politician....

  • Kosta Nađ
  • Nada Naumović
    Nada Naumović
    Nada Naumović was a Yugoslav student, recipient of the Order of the People's Hero of Yugoslavia from December 20 1951. She was an active participant in the work of the Progressive high school pupils and university youth...

  • Marko Orešković
    Marko Oreškovic
    Marko Orešković was a Croatian Partisan commander. He was also known by his nickname Krntija....

  • Boško Palkovljević Pinki
  • Moša Pijade
    Moša Pijade
    Moša Pijade , nicknamed Čiča Janko was a prominent Yugoslavian/Serbian Communist of Sephardic Jewish origin, a close collaborator of Josip Broz Tito, former President of Yugoslavia, and full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.In his youth, Pijade was a...

  • Koča Popović
    Koca Popovic
    Konstantin "Koča" Popović was a communist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, 1937-1939 and Divisional Commander of the First Proletarian Division in Josip Broz Tito's Partisan army...


  • Ognjen Prica
    Ognjen Prica
    Ognjen Prica was a Yugoslav left-wing politician.A native of Ilidža , Prica became interested in politics while studying mathematics and physics at University of Zagreb. In 1921 he became the member of Communist Party of Yugoslavia and one of the founders of SKOJ - Communist Youth League of...

  • Lepa Radić
    Lepa Radić
    Lepa Svetozara Radić was a partisan executed at the age of 17 for shooting at German soldiers during World War II. She was the youngest winner of the Order of the People's Hero of Yugoslavia, which was awarded posthumously on 20 December 1951....

  • Vladimir Rolović
    Vladimir Rolović
    Vladimir Rolović , was a SFRY politician, Ambassador of Yugoslavia and National Hero of Yugoslavia who was murdered by Ustasha Croatian emigration while serving as Ambassador in Stockholm.- Biography :...

  • Ivo Lola Ribar
    Ivo Lola Ribar
    Ivan "Ivo Lola" Ribar , was a Yugoslav communist politician of Croatian descent, who achieved National Hero status thanks to his contributions in the fight against fascism...

  • Velimir Škorpik
    Velimir Škorpik
    Velimir Škorpik was a Croatian and Yugoslav Partisan commander, best known for his role in development of the Yugoslav Partisan navy after the invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941....

  • Slavko Šlander
    Slavko Šlander
    Slavko Šlander - Aleš was a Slovene communist, partisan and national hero. He was born in Dolenja vas near Žalec, Slovenia. Due to being executed by shooting in Maribor as a hostage during the World War II he was proclaimed the National Hero of Yugoslavia on October 25, 1943...

  • Mika Špiljak
    Mika Špiljak
    Mika Špiljak was a Croatian politician in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.He was born in Odra Sisačka . His father Dragutin was a railway worker. Špiljak began working at the age of 16...

  • Milan Tepić
    Milan Tepic
    Milan Tepić , was a major of former Yugoslav People's Army, ethnic Serb from village Komlenac near Kozarska Dubica under Kozara mountain...

  • Hristijan Todorovski Karpoš
    Hristijan Todorovski Karpoš
    Hristijan Todorovski - Karpoš was a Macedonian communist partisan during the Second World War.As a student he was accepted in the communist youth organization SKOJ...

  • Veljko Vlahović
    Veljko Vlahovic
    Veljko Vlahović was a Montenegrin member of the Yugoslav Communist Party from 1935. He studied in Belgrade, Prague, and the Sorbonne , and finished his postgraduate studies in Moscow. He fought in the Spanish Civil War and was active in organizing the Communist Youth League of Yugoslavia...

  • Svetozar Vukmanović-Tempo
    Svetozar Vukmanovic-Tempo
    Svetozar Vukmanović "Tempo" was a leading Montenegrin communist and member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia...

  • Žarko Zrenjanin
    Žarko Zrenjanin
    Žarko Zrenjanin "Uča" was a partisan and National Hero of Yugoslavia. The city of Zrenjanin, in Serbia, is named after him, since 1946....



Foreign citizens recipients of the order

Sergey Biryuzov Ivan Bulkin Andrey Vitruk
Andrey Vitruk
Andrey Nikiforovich Vitruk was a Soviet military officer, a Major General of the Soviet Air Forces and a Hero of the Soviet Union.-Early life:...

 Pavel Dmitrienko Vladimir Zhdanov
Michał Żymierski Pavel Yakimov Boris Kalinkin Semyon Kozak Ivan Konstantinov
Luigi Longo
Luigi Longo
thumb|right|Luigi Longo portrayed on a 1981 [[USSR]] postage stamp.Luigi Longo , also known as Gallo, was an Italian communist politician and secretary of the Italian Communist Party from 1964 to 1972.-Early life:...

 Rodion Malinovsky
Rodion Malinovsky
Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky was a Soviet military commander in World War II and Defense Minister of the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and 1960s. He contributed to the major defeat of Nazi Germany at the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Budapest...

 Alexander Managadze Grigoriy Ohrimenko Ludvík Svoboda
Ludvík Svoboda
thumb|Svoboda and [[I Corps |I Czechoslovak Army Corps]]Ludvík Svoboda was a Czechoslovak general and politician...


Vladimir Sutetz Fyodor Tolbukhin
Fyodor Tolbukhin
Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin was a Soviet military commander.-Biography:Tolbukhin was born into a peasant family in the province of Yaroslavl, north-east of Moscow. He volunteered for the Imperial Army in 1914 at the outbreak of World War I. He was steadily promoted, advancing from private to...

 Vasiliy Ulisko Alexander Shornikov

Hero Cities

Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

 Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...


Ljubljana
Ljubljana
Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...

 Novi Sad
Novi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....


Prilep
Prilep
Prilep is the fourth largest city in the Republic of Macedonia. It has a population of 66,246 citizens. Prilep is known as "the city under Marko's Towers" because of its proximity to the towers of Prince Marko.-Name:...

 Priština
Pristina
Pristina, also spelled Prishtina and Priština is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous municipality and district....

 
Titov Drvar Cetinje
Cetinje
Cetinje , Цетиње / Cetinje , Italian: Cettigne, Greek: Κετίγνη, Ketígni) is a town and Old Royal Capital of Montenegro. It is also a historical and the secondary capital of Montenegro , with the official residence of the President of Montenegro...



Public and political organizations recipients of the order

  • SKOJ
    Skoj
    Skoj is a cider-based soft drink, manufactured by the Swedish Skoj Beverage Group. Skoj is the Swedish word for fun.Skoj is 15 percent fruit juice sweetened with sugar...

     (Young Communist League of Yugoslavia)
  • OK SKOJ (Municipality comity of SKOJ) of Drvar
    Drvar
    Drvar is a town and municipality in western Bosnia and Herzegovina, located on the road between Bosansko Grahovo and Bosanski Petrovac, also near Glamoč. It is administratively part of Canton 10 of the Federation....


  • SUBNOR (Union of Veterans of People's Liberation War
    People's Liberation War
    The Yugoslav FrontThe Yugoslav Front, is also known as the National Liberation War . started in April 1941 when the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was quickly overrun by Axis forces and partitioned between Germany, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Croatia and client regimes in Serbia with German Banat.The war was...

    )
  • Union of the Spanish War
    Spanish Civil War
    The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...

     veterans of Yugoslavia


WWII units

  • 1st Proletarian People's Liberation Strike Brigade
    Brigade
    A brigade is a major tactical military formation that is typically composed of two to five battalions, plus supporting elements depending on the era and nationality of a given army and could be perceived as an enlarged/reinforced regiment...

  • 2nd Proletarian People's Liberation Strike Brigade
  • 3rd Proletarian People's Liberation Strike Brigade
  • 4th Montenegrin Proletarian People's Liberation Strike Brigade
  • 5th Montenegrin Proletarian People's Liberation Strike Brigade
  • 6th East Bosnian Proletarian People's Liberation Strike Brigade
  • 10th Herzegovinian Proletarian People's Liberation Strike Brigade

  • 1st Lika
    Lika
    Lika is a mountainous region in central Croatia, roughly bound by the Velebit mountain from the southwest and the Plješevica mountain from the northeast. On the north-west end Lika is bounded by Ogulin-Plaški basin, and on the south-east by the Malovan pass...

     Proletarian People's Liberation Strike Brigade
  • 2nd Lika Proletarian People's Liberation Strike Brigade
  • 1st Vojvodina
    Vojvodina
    Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...

     Proletarian People's Liberation Strike Brigade
  • 2nd Krajina People's Liberation Proletarian Regiment
    Regiment
    A regiment is a major tactical military unit, composed of variable numbers of batteries, squadrons or battalions, commanded by a colonel or lieutenant colonel...

     "Dr Mladen Stojanović"
  • Side Battalion
    Battalion
    A battalion is a military unit of around 300–1,200 soldiers usually consisting of between two and seven companies and typically commanded by either a Lieutenant Colonel or a Colonel...

     of the Supreme Command of People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia
  • Workers' Battalion of the Užice
    Užice
    Užice is a city and municipality in western Serbia, located at the banks of the Đetinja river. It is the administrative center of the Zlatibor District...

     People's Liberation Proletarian Regiment
  • Central Hospital of People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia
  • Partizan Hospital on Petrova Gora
    Petrova Gora
    Petrova Gora is a mountain range in central Croatia. The mountain used to be named Gvozd , but was renamed after 1097 to honour Petar Svačić, the last native king of Croatia who died on the mountain in a battle against Coloman of Hungary.During World War II, Petrova Gora was the location of the...



Kosovo War units

  • 124th Police Intervention Brigade, Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs
  • 126th Brigade for Air Reconnaissance, Military of Yugoslavia
  • 250th Air Defence Missile Brigade, Military of Yugoslavia

Statistics

A total of 1,307 awards were awarded in Yugoslavia by 1957.

By sex
1,220 were male and 87 were female.

By place of birth (not ethnicity)
  • Croatia
    Croatia
    Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

     - 282
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

     - 284
  • Serbia
    Serbia
    Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

     (including Kosovo
    Kosovo
    Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...

    )- 256
  • Montenegro
    Montenegro
    Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...

     - 247
  • Slovenia
    Slovenia
    Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

     - 156
  • Macedonia
    Republic of Macedonia
    Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...

     - 63
  • abroad - 17


By social status
  • 506 workers
  • 207 peasants
  • 404 intellectuals
  • 78 former members of the Royal Yugoslav Army
    Royal Yugoslav Army
    The Royal Yugoslav Army was the armed force of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from the state's formation until the force's surrender to the Axis powers on April 17, 1941...

  • 73 clerks
  • 39 other occupations
  • 5 unknown


By year when they joined Partisans
658 of them were also members before World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

. The majority, 1,261, joined partisans in 1941; there were 41 heroes from 1942 and five from 1943.

By the way they died
Of the National Heroes who died in the war, there were:
  • 624 killed in combat
  • 104 shot themselves
  • 55 other suicides
  • 30 died from fatal injuries
  • 20 killed in prison
  • 13 hanged
  • 12 massacred
  • 4 died of disease
  • 3 buried alive
  • 3 strangled
  • 1 impaled
    Impalement
    Impalement is the traumatic penetration of an organism by an elongated foreign object such as a stake, pole, or spear, and this usually implies complete perforation of the central mass of the impaled body...

  • 1 burned on a skewer
    Skewer
    A skewer is a thin metal or wood stick used to hold pieces of food together. They are used while grilling or roasting meats, and in other culinary applications....

  • 5 died in accidents

See also

  • Orders and medals of Socialist Yugoslavia
    Orders and medals of Socialist Yugoslavia
    Orders, decorations, and medals of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia were created during the Second World War and used throughout the existence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia...

  • Orders and medals of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
    Orders and medals of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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    Hero of the Soviet Union
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