Mirjana "Mira" Marković (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирјана "Мира" Марковић) (born on July 10, 1942 in Požarevac, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is the leader of the Yugoslav Left political party (JUL/ЈУЛ is the Serbian acronym) and the widow of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević.
Marković is the daughter of Moma Marković, a wartime communist partisan and Vera Miletić. Her aunt was Davorjanka Paunović, private secretary and mistress of Josip Broz Tito. Her...
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Mirjana "Mira" Marković (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирјана "Мира" Марковић) (born on July 10, 1942 in Požarevac, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is the leader of the Yugoslav Left political party (JUL/ЈУЛ is the Serbian acronym) and the widow of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević.
Marković is the daughter of Moma Marković, a wartime communist partisan and Vera Miletić. Her aunt was Davorjanka Paunović, private secretary and mistress of Josip Broz Tito. Her mother was a member of Tito's partisans during the war. She was captured by German troops and allegedly released sensitive information, under torture. Upon return, she was executed by the partisans, allegedly under the orders of her own father. However, according to her grandmother, the story is a little different. Her father had betrayed her to Gestapo in order to get rid of her, and she was captured as a Partisan courier, wearing clothes which included a handkerchief with flowers. She was then executed in Banjica prison by the Germans.
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