Rade Kon AR (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Rade Kon ar was a Yugoslav Communist leader and legendary World War II resistance fighter. ade Kon ar was born in the village of Kon arev Kraj near Plitvi ka Jezera, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary, to an ethnic Serb family. After finishing primary school, he left his home for Serbia in order to school himself to become a machinist. In 1934, Kon ar became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. He got a job in the Belgrade power company. In 1936 he was arrested by the Royal police and sentenced to one year in prison for his communist activity. After serving his sentence he went to Zagreb where he took a job in the local workshop of Siemens AG. There he organised a Party cell and led a strike. Because of that he quickly rose in Party ranks. In 1938 he became a member of the Zagreb local Party committee, and in 1939 he became the general secretary of the Croatian Communist Party. One year later he became a member of the Politburo of CPY.