The philosopher Mihailo Markovic has died in the Serbian capital Belgrade aged 87.
He fought under Josip Broz Tito against the Nazis in the Second World War and shortly afterwards distanced himself from Stalinism. In the 1960s and 1970s, he pushed for a less hard line than that advocated by the then president Tito of Communist Yugoslavia.
He later became a prominent supporter of Slobodan Milosevic with whom he set up the Socialist Party of Serbia in 1990. He remained a loyal supporter of Milosevic even after the former Serbian leader was indicted by the Yugoslavia tribunal in The Hague.
photo: Mihailo Markovic (Wikipedia)
Mihailo Markovic (Wikipedia)
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