Английская Википедия:Branko Mamula

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Branko "Đuro" Mamula (Шаблон:Lang-sr-Cyrl; 30 May 1921 – 19 October 2021) was a Serbian politician and Yugoslav officer who participated in World War II in Yugoslavia. He was later the Minister of Defence of Yugoslavia from 1982 to 1988.

Biography

Mamula was born in Kordun in May 1921 to an ethnic Serb family. He joined League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia in 1940 and at the start of World War II in Yugoslavia in 1941 he joined the Yugoslav Partisans. In 1942, he joined Communist Party of Yugoslavia. During the war, he was put in charge of numerous units, moving through the ranks of the Partisans. Before he became the Defence Minister, he held the rank of admiral as Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav People's Army from 1979 to 1982. After becoming Defence Minister in 1983, he was promoted to Admiral of the fleet. He lived in Opatija from 1985 until 1991.[1][2]

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The entrance to Branko Mamula's former villa in Opatija, Croatia, with signpost in English: "Mamula is Gone".

Mamula remarked on the Yugoslav People's Army's (JNA) failure to respond to Slobodan Milošević's rise in Serbia, in his 2000 book Шаблон:Lang (Шаблон:Translation): Шаблон:Blockquote

From 2007, he lived in Tivat, Montenegro. Mamula turned 100 in May 2021.[3] He died on 19 October 2021, from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Montenegro.[4]

Honours

National Honours

Foreign Honours

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