Aleksandar Ranković

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Yugoslav politician (1909-1983)

PoliticiansLived 1909 to 1983 · aged 73

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Aleksandar Ranković was a Serbian and Yugoslav communist politician, considered to be the third most powerful man in Yugoslavia after Josip Broz Tito and Edvard Kardelj.

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Ranković's grave in Belgrade

Awards 10

1954Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour

1945People's Hero of Yugoslavia

Order of Suvorov, 1st class

Order of Kutuzov, 1st class

Order "For Merit to the People"

Order of Brotherhood and Unity

Order of Bravery

Order of the Partisan Star

Order of the People's Liberation

Order of the People's Hero

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SpouseAnđa Ranković

SpouseSlavka Ranković

Connected to Aleksandar 6

Lazar MojsovAlso won Order "For Merit to the People"

Pavel RybalkoAlso won Order of Suvorov, 1st class

Edvard KardeljAlso won Order of Brotherhood and Unity

Max Aitken, 1st Baron BeaverbrookAlso won Order of Suvorov, 1st class

Garegin NzhdehAlso won Order of Bravery

Moša PijadeAlso won Order "For Merit to the People"

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Aleksandar Ranković was a Serbian and Yugoslav communist politician, considered to be the third most powerful man in Yugoslavia after Josip Broz Tito and Edvard Kardelj. Ranković was a proponent of a centralized Yugoslavia and opposed efforts that promoted decentralization that he deemed to be against the interests of the Serbian people; he ensured Serbs had a strong presence in Serbia's Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo's nomenklatura. Ranković cautioned against separatist forces in Kosovo who were commonly suspected of pursuing seditious activities.