Aleksandar Ranković Politician
Aleksandar Ranković (nom de guerre Leka; Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Ранковић Лека; 1909–1983) was a Yugoslav communist of Serb 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 the Socialist Autonomous Province of 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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| 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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| service end | 1945 |
| service start | 1941 |