On the 47th anniversary of the death of the celebrated Montenegrin revolutionary Veljko Vlahović, the delegation of UBNOR and anti-fascists visited the monument on Kolašin's Upper Thorn Square and his memorial bust in the city center.
Vlahović died on March 7, 1975, in the cantonal hospital in Geneva. He was born in Rovci in 1914. He participated in the Spanish Civil War as a fighter of the International Brigades. At the end of January 1937, with a group of 26 Yugoslav students, he illegally moved from Prague to Spain via Paris. His famous letter to the students of the University of Belgrade originates from the first days of his stay in Spain, in which he invites them to the action of providing all-round help to the Spanish people in the fight for their freedom.
The April War and the occupation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1941 found him in Moscow. Vlahović then intensified work on the ties of Yugoslav communists and citizens with the homeland and worked on the popularization of the national liberation movement.
In Moscow, on November 11, 1941, together with Đuro Salaj, he organized the radio station "Free Yugoslavia", "through which the truth about the struggle of the people of Yugoslavia against the occupiers and domestic traitors penetrated into the world". He returned to Yugoslavia at the end of 1944 and assumed the position of head of the Administration for Agitation and Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.
He is the bearer of the Partisan Monument in 1941 and a large number of Yugoslav and foreign high decorations. He was awarded the Order of National Hero on November 27, 1953
Veljko's entire family participated in NOB.
After the war, he was, among other things, a member of the Executive Committee and a member of the Presidency of the USSR Yugoslavia (until June 1966), president of the Commission for International Relations of the USSR, a member of the Central Committee of SUBNOR Yugoslavia...
He was a member (1950) and head of the Yugoslav delegation at the General Assembly of the United Nations and a member of the Yugoslav delegation at the First Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries in Belgrade, September 1961.
The monument to Vlahović, the work of the famous sculptor Oto Logo, was erected in Kolašin on September 22, 1989.
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