# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/milan-basta
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:31:58.787Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/milan-basta"
name: "Milan Basta"
slug: "milan-basta"
description: "Milan Basta was a Yugoslav World War II general, a member of the Partisan Movement and a publicist. Croatian Serb, he was born in 1921 in Kurjak, a village in Lika – a region in today's Croatia. He attended grammar school in Zagreb, Croatia where he joined the League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia (SKOJ) in 1939. In 1941 he became a member of the Communist Party of Croatia. After joining the Yugoslav Partisans, he participated actively in the preparation of the uprising against the German occupier. During the liberation war in Yugoslavia he was appointed political commissar of the “Krbava” battalion, 2nd Lika Detachment and 3rd Lika Proletarian Brigade. He was the head of the political department of the 20th division and 12th Vojvodina Brigade. In 1945 he performed the duty of the political commissar of the 51st Vojvodina Division which took part in the battles at the Yugoslav-Austrian border."
tagline: "Yugoslav general and publicist (1921-2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yugoslav_General_Milan_Basta_WWII.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1921-03-01"
deathDate: "2007"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.206156
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Basta"
    title: "Milan Basta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Basta"
    title: "Milan Basta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Basta"
    title: "Milan Basta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Basta"
    title: "Milan Basta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0"
    title: "Милан Баста"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17402335"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump