Vladimir Ćopić
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Nickname(s) | Senjko |
Born | Senj, Austria-Hungary | March 8, 1891
Died | April 19, 1939 Moscow, Soviet Union | (aged 48)
Allegiance | Spanish Republic |
Service | International Brigades |
Years of service | 1936-1939 |
Rank | Lieutenant Colonel |
Unit | XV International Brigade |
Commands | XV International Brigade |
Battles / wars | Spanish Civil War |
Vladimir "Senjko" Ćopić (Senj, 8 March 1891 – Moscow, 19 April 1939) was a Croatian politician, communist, one of the leaders of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. During the Spanish Civil War, in the period from 1937 to mid-1938, he was the commander of the XV International Brigade.
Like General "Gal", he had been conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I, and subsequently captured by the Russians.[1]
His brother, Milan Ćopić, was in the International Brigades' prison at Camp Lucász.
References and sources
- ^ Cecil Eby, Comrades and Commissars, pp 66-67