Popovic-Gjoko, Dusko (Vranje, Serbia, 1913 – Tyranean prison, Albania, 17/18. Ⅴ 1943) – Professor of Philosophy, Communist Dian and Nob Organizer. It originated from a hospital family, settled in Skopje, where he finished high school and philosophical faculty, and then reported a doctoral dissertation at the Belgrade University (in the field of pedagogy). He showed literary ambitions. As a member of the SCAY and the CPY, he was arrested (in late 1934) and sentenced to one and a half, and he supported the sentence in the prison in Sremska Mitrovica. After leaving prison, he organized the first meeting of student representatives from all cities of Macedonia. He was one of the organizers of signing volunteers for defense of Czechoslovakia, on demonstrations against the Italian occupation of Albania, at the March demonstrations in Skopje (1941), etc. As a marked communist, until the April War (1941) he could not receive a civil service, and after the occupation he crossed in the illegality and acted in Skopje and in the western part of Macedonia to organize the NOB. The longest is Popovic’s reservoir, in Gostivar, Debar (early 1942) and Drimkol. He is one of the organizers and political commissar of the Mavrovo NOOP “Korab” (formed in early 1943). After the distribution of the Destination in Novo Selo (Gostivar) from Italian carabinic and ballists, with the tenth captured partisans, he was conducted in the tyrannical prison, where six of them were imposed and committed deaths with hanging (11. ⅴ 1943). BIB.: Literature and Pespins, “Venac”, St. 1, Belgrade, 1928; Omladina and Ljubav, “Venac”, 2, Belgrade, 1929; Gypsy Rama Durmish, SP. “Powered”, Skopje, 1931- 1932; Gazette, Almanac Sjhe Zhe for J. Serbia, Skopje, 1932, 66-72. Lit.: Jakim Sinadinovski, 1943 in the Tyranean political prison, “Nova Makedonija”, Skopje, 11. ⅹ 1953; Dejan Aleksic, Dusan Popovic-Gjoko, “Nova Makedonija”, Skopje, 17-19. Ⅴ 1959; Tome Bukleki, the Balsil was shaky as a dry branch, “Nova Makedonija”, Skopje, 11. ⅹ 1968; Dejan Aleksic, Dusko Popovic-Gjoko, Skopje, 1985. S. Ml. Golds Popovska.
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