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Bakaric, Vladimir
1912 - Born on March 8th in Velika Gorica, near Zagreb, Austria-Hungary. Yugoslav politician.
1933 - He was a member of the Communist Party.
1945 - He headed the first postwar government of the Croatian national republic within the Yugoslav federation.
1971-1972 - He supported Tito's moves to suppress Croatian nationalism.
1974 - A Marxist theoretician who was, nevertheless, strongly opposed to the Soviet system, Bakaric helped frame the federal constitution designed to promote decentralization.
- He was the last survivor of Marshal Tito's World War II compatriots to retain high office within the party hierarchy, being a member of the Presidium of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and vice-president of the federal republic's collective Presidency.
1983 - Died on January 16th in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
- Under the system of rotation of offices instituted by Tito, Bakaric would have succeeded Petar Stambolic as head of state in May.
1933 - He was a member of the Communist Party.
1945 - He headed the first postwar government of the Croatian national republic within the Yugoslav federation.
1971-1972 - He supported Tito's moves to suppress Croatian nationalism.
1974 - A Marxist theoretician who was, nevertheless, strongly opposed to the Soviet system, Bakaric helped frame the federal constitution designed to promote decentralization.
- He was the last survivor of Marshal Tito's World War II compatriots to retain high office within the party hierarchy, being a member of the Presidium of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and vice-president of the federal republic's collective Presidency.
1983 - Died on January 16th in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
- Under the system of rotation of offices instituted by Tito, Bakaric would have succeeded Petar Stambolic as head of state in May.
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