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Aleksandar Ranković "Leka" (; 1909–1983) was a Yugoslav communist politician of Serbian origin 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 Serb unity; he ran Kosovo as a police state and made Serbs dominant in Kosovo's nomenklatura. Ranković supported a hardline approach against Albanians in Kosovo who were commonly suspected of pursuing seditious activities.

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  • Aleksandar Ranković
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  • Aleksandar Ranković "Leka" (; 1909–1983) was a Yugoslav communist politician of Serbian origin 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 Serb unity; he ran Kosovo as a police state and made Serbs dominant in Kosovo's nomenklatura. Ranković supported a hardline approach against Albanians in Kosovo who were commonly suspected of pursuing seditious activities.
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Office
  • Vice President of the People's Assembly of the PR Serbia
  • Chief of OZNA
  • Minister of the Internal Affairs of Yugoslavia
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serviceyears
  • 1941(xsd:integer)
term start
  • 1944-05-13(xsd:date)
  • January 1946
  • November 1944
Birth Date
  • 1909-11-28(xsd:date)
Branch
death place
  • Dubrovnik, Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
Spouse
  • Anđa Ranković
Nickname
  • Marko, Leka
Name
  • Aleksandar Ranković Leka
native name lang
  • Serbian
President
Party
  • Communist Party of Yugoslavia
Birth Place
  • Draževac, Obrenovac, Kingdom of Serbia
Awards
  • People's Hero of YugoslaviaOrder of the Hero of Socialist LabourOrder of the People's Liberation
term end
  • January 1946
  • July 1966
  • March 1946
death date
  • 1983-08-20(xsd:date)
Rank
Battles
restingplace
  • Belgrade, Serbia
native name
  • Александар Ранковић Лека
Occupation
  • Politician, soldier, worker
Nationality
  • Serb
Predecessor
  • Office established
abstract
  • Aleksandar Ranković "Leka" (; 1909–1983) was a Yugoslav communist politician of Serbian origin 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 Serb unity; he ran Kosovo as a police state and made Serbs dominant in Kosovo's nomenklatura. Ranković supported a hardline approach against Albanians in Kosovo who were commonly suspected of pursuing seditious activities. The popularity of Ranković's nationalistic policies in Serbia became apparent at Ranković's funeral in Serbia in 1983 where large numbers of people attended the funeral and many considered Ranković a Serbian "national" leader. Ranković's policies have been perceived as the basis of the Serbian nationalist agenda of Slobodan Milošević.
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