Edvard Kardelj
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Edvard Kardelj - Sperans (January 27, 1910 - February 10, 1979) was a Slovene prewar communist, antifascist, partisan, politician, statesman and publicist.
-->Kardelj was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (at that time Austria-Hungary).
He helped organize resistance in Slovenia in 1941 and accompanied Tito in figthing Axis powers during the Second World War. He was considered one of the main ideologists of Josip Broz Tito's communist regime in former Yugoslavia. He helped in carrying out Yugoslavia's break with the USSR in 1948 and in adapting the new independent course known as socialist self-management. He had major influence on the Yugoslav military intelligence service, the KOS.
He also led Yugoslav delegations in the late 1940s to negotiate with Stalin and deal with his demands that Yugoslavia acknowledge the Soviet Union's supremacy.
One of his most influental and contradictive work was a book Razvoj slovenskega narodnega vprašanja (The Development of Slovene national question) (1939).
From 1948 to 1953 Kardelj was Minister of Foreign affairs. From 1963 to 1967 he held the office of chairman of the federal parliament.
Kardelj died in Ljubljana (at that time Yugoslavia), and was mourned by many Slovenes to an extent comparable to the mourning that followed the death of Tito one year later.
Kardelj was a member of Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU) and was officially honored as a National Hero of Yugoslavia. Apart from many streets, the entire coastal town of Ploče in southern Croatia had been renamed to Kardeljevo in Kardelj's honour in 1950-1954 and 1980-1990. After the collapse of the communist regime, most of these were given back their previous names.
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