Slobodan Milosevic Essay

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1.0 Slobodan Milosevic Profile Milosevic Serbia has its roots in tribal Vasojevici. He was born and raised in Pozarevac, the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia during World War II. His parents separated after the war. His father, Svetozar Milosevic Serbian Orthodox deacon, shot himself in 1962 and his mother, Stanislava Resanovic, a school teacher and also an active member of the Communist Party, committed suicide in 1972. Milosevic went to study law at the University of Belgrade Law School, where he became head of the ideology of the committee of the Communist League of Yugoslavia (SKJ). While at the university, he befriended Ivan Stambolic, whose uncle Petar Stambolic had been a president of Serbian Executive Council. (FGC) After graduating from the University in 1966, Milosevic became an economic adviser to the Mayor of Belgrade. Five years later, he married Mirjana Markovic, which he had known since childhood. In 1968, Milosevic gain employment in the Tehnogas Company and became its chairman in 1973. By 1978, Stambolic sponsorship has enabled Milosevic to become the leader of Beobanka, one of Yugoslavia's largest bank; frequent trips to Paris and New York gave him the opportunity to learn English. On 16 April 1984, Milosevic was elected president of the elected president of the Belgrade League of Communists City Committee. On February 21, 1986, the Socialist People's Alliance Working unanimously to support him as presidential candidate for SKJ, Serbian branch of the Central Committee. Milosevic was elected by a majority vote at the 10th Congress of the Communist League of Serbia on May 28, 1986. (Google Book) 2.0 Role Milosevic was quick to seize the opportunity to manipulate angry crowds inflamed by nationalist feelings to gain control of the Communist Party leaderships in Montenegro and Vojvodina, two regions that, like Kosovo, were under Serbian authority.
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