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Monument dedicated to Nexhat Agolli in
Skopje
.
Nexhat Agolli
(
Albanian
:
Nexhat Agolli
;
Serbo-Croatian
: Не?ат Аголи, Ned?at Agoli) (1914–1949) was a
Yugoslav
Albanian
jurist and politician. He served as Deputy President of the
Anti-Fascist Assembly for the People's Liberation of Macedonia (ASNOM)
in 1944; and, after World War II, as Minister of Social Works of Macedonia. In 1949, he was arrested for opposing
Josip Broz Tito
's
Informbiro
policies, and died while imprisoned.
Life
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Born in
Debar
,
Kingdom of Serbia
, Agolli studied in
Krume
,
Tirana
and
Rome
, where he later worked as an assistant professor of law at the
Sapienza University of Rome
. In 1942 he joined the communist
National Liberation Movement of Albania
and served in
Albanian
and
Bulgarian
occupation zones of Yugoslavia (modern Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia and Macedonia). In December 1944 he was elected deputy president of ASNOM.
[1]
When the
Communist Party of Yugoslavia
was expelled from the
Cominform
in 1948, Agolli supported the pro-Soviet factions with the party. He was convicted and sent to the political prison at
Goli Otok
,
[2]
where he died on April 28, 1949.
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