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Yugoslav naval officer and politician (1921–2021) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Branko "Đuro" Mamula (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранко "Ђурo" Мамула; 30 May 1921 – 19 October 2021) was a Serbian politician and Yugoslav officer who participated in World War II in Yugoslavia. He was later the Minister of Defence of Yugoslavia from 1982 to 1988.
Branko Mamula Бранко Мамула | |
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4th Federal Secretary of People's Defence of Yugoslavia | |
In office 5 May 1982 – 15 May 1988 | |
Prime Minister | Veselin Đuranović Milka Planinc Branko Mikulić |
Preceded by | Nikola Ljubičić |
Succeeded by | Veljko Kadijević |
9th Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav People's Army | |
In office 10 July 1979 – 5 May 1982 | |
Minister | Nikola Ljubičić |
Preceded by | Stane Potočar |
Succeeded by | Petar Gračanin |
Personal details | |
Born | Slavsko Polje, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (now Croatia) | 30 May 1921
Died | 19 October 2021 100) Tivat, Montenegro | (aged
Nationality | Yugoslav |
Political party | League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1942–1990) League of Communists – Movement for Yugoslavia (1990–1992) |
Awards | Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour |
Military service | |
Allegiance | Yugoslavia |
Branch/service | Yugoslav People's Army |
Years of service | 1941–1988 |
Rank | Admiral of the fleet |
Commands | |
Battles/wars | World War II |
Mamula was born in Kordun in May 1921 to an ethnic Serb family. He joined League of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia in 1940 and at the start of World War II in Yugoslavia in 1941 he joined the Yugoslav Partisans. In 1942, he joined Communist Party of Yugoslavia. During the war, he was put in charge of numerous units, moving through the ranks of the Partisans. Before he became the Defence Minister, he held the rank of admiral as Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav People's Army from 1979 to 1982. After becoming Defence Minister in 1983, he was promoted to Admiral of the fleet. He lived in Opatija from 1985 until 1991.[1][2]
Mamula remarked on the Yugoslav People's Army's (JNA) failure to respond to Slobodan Milošević's rise in Serbia, in his 2000 book Slučaj Jugoslavija (transl. Case Yugoslavia):
The military leadership of the JNA bears responsibility for not carrying out a coup d'état. Instead, it allowed the nationalist leaders and the separatist behaviour of the two western republics to push the JNA into the hands of Greater Serbian nationalism, which unscrupulously utilised the Army in the inter-ethnic war, and eventually rejected it.[3]
From 2007, he lived in Tivat, Montenegro. Mamula turned 100 in May 2021.[4] He died on 19 October 2021, from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Montenegro.[5]
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