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- Ivan_Gošnjak abstract "Ivan Gošnjak (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Гошњак; 10 June 1909 – 8 February 1980) was a Croatian communist who held numerous important offices in Yugoslavia during and after World War II, serving as the Minister of Defence from 1953 to 1967.Ivan Gošnjak was a carpenter by profession and joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1933. In 1935 Gošnjak was sent to Moscow and was enrolled for one year at the Lenin School where he also attended lectures by \"comrade Walter\", better known by his World War II-era codename Tito. In 1936 Gošnjak was sent to a military barracks in Ryazan where he was given the designation \"Number 36\", instead of his real name and was given military instruction before being sent as a volunteer to the Spanish Civil War in January 1937. A great admirer of Joseph Stalin, Gošnjak was appointed captain in the International Brigades. After the defeat of the republican forces in Spain, Gošnjak was detained in France in 1939. After the capitulation of France in 1940 Gošnjak escaped from the camp, going in 1941 to Germany as a worker. In Germany he used a fake passport, and in July 1942 returned to Croatia and immediately joined Tito's partisans.As a Spanish civil war veteran, he was given command of all Croatian partisan units in 1943. Gošnjak was appointed as deputy commander-in-chief at the end of the war, a post which he held until 1950.In 1946 Tito wanted to send him to complete his military studies at the Soviet Voroshilov Military Academy, but Gošnjak asked him for permission to stay in Belgrade and work in the Central Committee. Tito agreed and later appointed him as deputy Defence Minister (1950–1953). At the Fifth Yugoslav CP congress Gošnjak was elected a member of the Politburo and later was made a member of the Executive Committee (the new name for the Politburo), elected at the sixth (1952), seventh (1958), and eighth (1964) party congresses.In 1953 Gošnjak became Defence Minister, a post which he held until 1967 when he was replaced by General of the Army Nikola Ljubičić. In 1963 he was considered for promotion in rank General, but he was never promoted.Stalin could never forgive Gošnjak for taking, as a former student of the Lenin School, Tito's side during the Informbiro period. At the Rajk Trial in Budapest (1949) General Gošnjak was accused \"of having been a Gestapo agent from 1941 onward\". But General Gošnjak and his comrade, General of the Army Kosta Nađ (who was also accused of having been a Gestapo agent), \"were from 1941 to 1945 commanders of strategic units of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia, and toward the end of the war commanded corps that dealt the Germans heavy blows.\"General Ivan Gošnjak retired from active military service in 1974 and since then he was a member of the Council of Federation, and advisor body to President Tito. He is buried in the Alley of Distinguished Citizens in Belgrade, Serbia.".
- Ivan_Gošnjak award Order_of_Freedom_(Yugoslavia).
- Ivan_Gošnjak award Order_of_the_Peoples_Hero.
- Ivan_Gošnjak battle Spanish_Civil_War.
- Ivan_Gošnjak battle World_War_II.
- Ivan_Gošnjak birthDate "1909-06-10".
- Ivan_Gošnjak birthPlace Austria-Hungary.
- Ivan_Gošnjak birthPlace Ogulin.
- Ivan_Gošnjak birthYear "1909".
- Ivan_Gošnjak country Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia.
- Ivan_Gošnjak deathDate "1980-02-08".
- Ivan_Gošnjak deathPlace Belgrade.
- Ivan_Gošnjak deathPlace Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia.
- Ivan_Gošnjak deathYear "1980".
- Ivan_Gošnjak militaryBranch International_Brigades.
- Ivan_Gošnjak militaryBranch Yugoslav_Peoples_Army.
- Ivan_Gošnjak militaryCommand "Yugoslav People's Army".
- Ivan_Gošnjak militaryRank General_of_the_army.
- Ivan_Gošnjak orderInOffice "2ndFederal Secretary of People's Defense of Yugoslavia".
- Ivan_Gošnjak party League_of_Communists_of_Yugoslavia.
- Ivan_Gošnjak predecessor Josip_Broz_Tito.
- Ivan_Gošnjak serviceEndYear "1939".
- Ivan_Gošnjak serviceStartYear "1936".
- Ivan_Gošnjak successor Nikola_Ljubičić.
- Ivan_Gošnjak termPeriod Ivan_Gošnjak__1.
- Ivan_Gošnjak thumbnail Ivan_Gošnjak.jpg?width=300.
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- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Austria-Hungary.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Belgrade.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Belgrades_New_Cemetery.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Budapest.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Captain_(armed_forces).
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Category:1909_births.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Category:1980_deaths.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Category:Central_Committee_of_the_League_of_Communists_of_Yugoslavia_members.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Category:Croatian_communists.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Category:Croatian_people_of_the_Spanish_Civil_War.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Category:Croatian_soldiers.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Category:Generals_of_the_Yugoslav_Peoples_Army.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Category:International_Brigades_personnel.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Category:People_from_Belgrade.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Category:People_from_Ogulin.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Category:Recipients_of_the_Order_of_the_Peoples_Hero.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Category:Yugoslav_Partisans_members.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Category:Yugoslav_communists.
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- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Commander-in-chief.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Croatia.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink French_Third_Republic.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink General_(Yugoslav_Peoples_Army).
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- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Gestapo.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Independent_State_of_Croatia.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Informbiro_period.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink International_Brigades.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink International_Lenin_School.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Joseph_Stalin.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Josip_Broz_Tito.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Kosta_Nađ.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink League_of_Communists_of_Yugoslavia.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink László_Rajk.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Military_Academy_of_the_General_Staff_of_the_Armed_Forces_of_Russia.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Ministry_of_Defense_(Yugoslavia).
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Moscow.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Nazi_Germany.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Nikola_Ljubičić.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Ogulin.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Order_of_Freedom_(Yugoslavia).
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Order_of_the_Peoples_Hero.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Politburo.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Ryazan.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Serbia.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Spain.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Spanish_Civil_War.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Yugoslav_Partisans.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Yugoslav_Peoples_Army.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Yugoslav_volunteers_in_the_Spanish_Civil_War.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLink Yugoslavia.
- Ivan_Gošnjak wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ivan Gošnjak".
- Ivan_Gošnjak after Nikola_Ljubičić.
- Ivan_Gošnjak allegiance Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia.
- Ivan_Gošnjak awards Order_of_Freedom_(Yugoslavia).
- Ivan_Gošnjak awards Order_of_the_Peoples_Hero.
- Ivan_Gošnjak battles Spanish_Civil_War.
- Ivan_Gošnjak battles "World War II".
- Ivan_Gošnjak before Josip_Broz_Tito.
- Ivan_Gošnjak birthDate "1909-06-10".
- Ivan_Gošnjak birthPlace Austria-Hungary.
- Ivan_Gošnjak birthPlace Ogulin.
- Ivan_Gošnjak branch International_Brigades.
- Ivan_Gošnjak branch Yugoslav_Peoples_Army.
- Ivan_Gošnjak caption "Ivan Gošnjak, 1966.".
- Ivan_Gošnjak commands Yugoslav_Peoples_Army.
- Ivan_Gošnjak dateOfBirth "1909-06-10".
- Ivan_Gošnjak dateOfDeath "1980-02-08".