Stjepan Filipović
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Stjepan Filipović was a Yugoslav communist who led the Kolubara Company of the Valjevo Partisan Detachment during the 1941 Partisan uprising. He was captured and executed in 1942 in Valjevo. A photo o
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Monument to Filipović in Valjevo
Stjepan Filipović paste-up in Belgrade
"Death to fascism, freedom to the people!" was a motto of the Yugoslav Partisans. First introduced by the Communists, it was afterward adopted as the official slogan of the entire resistance movement.
Stjepan Filipović
…in Valjevo by a Serbian State Guard unit. As the rope was put around his neck, Filipović raised his arms and shouted Smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu! ("Death to fascism, freedom to the people!"). He urged the Yugoslav people to resist and implored them to never cease resisting. A photograph taken at this moment was widely reproduced and…
The slogan written on a wall in Split, September 1943