Filip Filipović (politician)
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Filip Filipović was a Serbian mathematician, one of the founders of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and its first secretary. He spent most of his last ten years in the Soviet Union, where he was exe
Filip Filipovic
Preserved 1920 local elections slogan "Vote for Filip Filipović", written on a wall in Belgrade. Filip Filipović was elected mayor of Belgrade in 1920, but, refusing to pledge the oath to the King, he was not permitted to assume the office.
Members of the leadership and former members of parliament from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in the prison in Požarevac in 1922. Filipović is seated in the middle.
Great Purge
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The Great Purge or Great Terror, also known as the Year of '37 and the Yezhovshchina, was a political purge in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938. After the assassination of Sergei Kirov by Leonid Nik
Filip Filipović (politician)
…the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and its first secretary. He spent most of his last ten years in the Soviet Union, where he was executed during the Great Purge. Filip Filipović was born in Čačak on June 21, 1878. His father, Vasa Filipović, was a professor at the gymnasium in Čačak, where he taught mathematics…
Residents searching for relatives among the exhumed victims of the Vinnytsia massacre, 1943
Excerpt from NKVD Order No. 00447
Leningrad party leader Sergei Kirov with Stalin and his daughter, Svetlana, in 1934
Bolshevik revolutionaries Leon Trotsky, Lev Kamenev, and Grigory Zinoviev