Ribichich, Mitya

Mitya Ribichich
Mitya Ribichich
	Mitja Ribičič
	June 29, 1982 - June 30, 1983
Predecessor	Dusan Dragosavac
Successor	Dragoslav Markovich
	May 18, 1969 - July 30, 1971
The president	Josip Broz Tito
Predecessor	Mika Shpilyak
Successor	Jemal Biedich
	1973 - 1974
Predecessor	Ratomir Dugonic
Successor	Petar Stambolic
Birth	; Trieste , Kingdom of Italy
Death	; ;
Father
Children
The consignment	Union of Communists of Yugoslavia
Education	;
Battles	National liberation struggle

Mitya Ribichich ( Slovenian. Mitja Ribičič ; May 19, 1919 , Trieste - November 28, 2013 , Ljubljana ^[1] ) - Yugoslav ( Slovenian ) politician, one of the leaders of the SFRY , chairman of the Union Executive Council of the SFRY (1969-1971), Chairman of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (1982-1983), Chairman of the State Security Committee of the SFRY (OZNA).

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Biography

Slovenian by origin. The son of the writer Josip Ribichich. Since 1938 he studied law at the University of Ljubljana . In his student years he met in the works of Marx and Lenin, became a member of the left youth organization. After the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia, in 1941 joined the Communist Party of Slovenia .

A participant in World War II, an anti-fascist , partisan, fought in the ranks of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia . He was the secretary of the District Committee of the Communist Party of Slovenia in the Moravian-Lithuanian District, the political commissar of the 6th Brigade “Slavko Schlander” and the commissar of the Fourth Operational Zone. In 1944-1945 was trained in Moscow at the NKVD schools. After returning from the Soviet Union, the assistant chief of OZNA Slovenia became an assistant.

In 1945, Ribichich was tasked with organizing “battle groups” to combat the remnants of Nazi collaborators ^[2] . After a series of operations to destroy collaborators, Ribichich was appointed head of a specially created department, which was to deal with clergy, armed gangs and the remnants of bourgeois parties.

After the war, he became one of the most prominent politicians in Yugoslavia. In 1947-1951 He was Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, worked as the Republican Prosecutor of Slovenia, State Secretary of the Republic for Internal Affairs. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Union of Communists of Slovenia and the Executive Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Then - a member of the Executive Council of the Republic of Slovenia, a member of the Parliament of Slovenia (1951-1963). At the end of the war, Ribicic until 1983 served as deputy chairman of the Slovenian parliament.

Member of the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia, (1963, 1967, 1969).

Chairman of the Union Executive Council of Yugoslavia (1969-1971).

Chairman of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (from June 29, 1982 to June 30, 1983).

Chairman of the State Security Committee of the SFRY (OZNA).

His son Cyril Ribićić is a modern Slovenian politician (first a reformist communist, then a social democrat) and a member of the Slovenian Constitutional Court.

Prosecution

In May 2005, Slovenian authorities accused him of genocide and the murder of 234 people after the end of World War II, as well as of intimidation and persecution of opponents of the communist regime ^[3] . He was the first of the former Yugoslav leaders to be charged in independent Slovenia with the post-war hunt for Nazi collaborators. Due to lack of evidence, the case was closed, but in October 2013 the investigation resumed after declassifying a number of archives: Ribicic is credited with organizing the forced eviction of more than 16 thousand Germans from Slovenia, as well as the blame for the starvation of 39 young children in camps of migrants ^[4] .

Notes

↑ Mitja Ribičič, Controversial Politician, Has Died
↑ Slovenian authorities now claim that Ribichich’s “fighting” comrades not only hunted for soldiers, but also killed civilians who were considered collaborators, and their bodies were buried in ditches and pits. The killings continued until 1946, and the bodies of the victims are found throughout the country to this day. After the war, the anti-fascist formations of Slovenia shot without trial, according to some reports, about 12 thousand Slovenes. According to investigators, the order to liquidate Nazi accomplices could come from the head of local departments of OZNA ( People’s Protection Department ), but the orders should have received approval from Ljubljana.
↑ Anti-fascist overdone (Russian)
↑ Mitja Ribičič ponovno ovaden (Slovenian)

Literature

Mitya Ribichich (People and Events) // New Time . - M. , 1969. - No. 28 . - S. 18 .

Links

Ribičič: Ličnost u centru pažnje

[1] Mitja Ribičič, Controversial Politician, Has Died

[2] Slovenian authorities now claim that Ribichich’s “fighting” comrades not only hunted for soldiers, but also killed civilians who were considered collaborators, and their bodies were buried in ditches and pits. The killings continued until 1946, and the bodies of the victims are found throughout the country to this day. After the war, the anti-fascist formations of Slovenia shot without trial, according to some reports, about 12 thousand Slovenes. According to investigators, the order to liquidate Nazi accomplices could come from the head of local departments of OZNA ( People’s Protection Department ), but the orders should have received approval from Ljubljana.

[3] Anti-fascist overdone (Russian)

[4] Mitja Ribičič ponovno ovaden (Slovenian)