Koča Popović
| Konstantin Popović Константин Поповић |
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Koča Popović аs Foreign Minister
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| 2nd Vice President of Yugoslavia | |
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In office 14 July 1966 – 1967 |
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| President | Josip Broz Tito |
| Preceded by | Aleksandar Ranković |
| Succeeded by | Office dissolved |
| 3rd Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia | |
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In office 15 January 1953 – 23 April 1965 |
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| Prime Minister |
Josip Broz Tito Petar Stambolić |
| Preceded by | Edvard Kardelj |
| Succeeded by | Marko Nikezić |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
14 March 1908 Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia |
| Died | 20 October 1992 (aged 84) Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia |
| Political party | League of Communists of Yugoslavia |
| Spouse(s) | Veronika Vjera Bakotić Leposava Lepa Perović |
| Profession | Writer Soldier |
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 Kingdom of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia
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| Service/branch |
Royal Yugoslav Army International Brigades Yugoslav People's Army  Yugoslav Ground Forces
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| Years of service | 1926–1927 1937–1939 1941–1953 |
| Rank | Colonel General |
| Commands | Chief of the General Staff |
| Battles/wars |
Spanish Civil War, World War II |
Konstantin "Koča" Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Константин Коча Поповић; 14 March 1908 – 20 October 1992) was a Yugoslav communist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, 1937–1939 and Divisional Commander of the First Proletarian Division of the Yugoslav Partisans. Sometimes he was known as "the man who saved YPA" because he broke through the German lines during the crucial Battle of Sutjeska and saved Tito and Yugoslav Partisans. Popović was also among the founders of FK Partizan Belgrade, the football section of the Yugoslav Sports Association Partizan.
Popović came from a prosperous Belgrade family and spent the First World War in Switzerland.
In 1929 he moved to Paris to study Law and Philosophy. Here he mixed with the Left Bank world of poets, writers, artists and intellectuals. He became an active Surrealist, active in both the French and Serbian Surrealist groups. In 1931 Nacrt za jednu fenomenologiju iracionalnog (Outline for a Phenomenology of the Irrational) was published which he had co-written with Marko Ristić.
He then became involved with the then illegal Yugoslav Communist Party. In Paris there was a center run by Comintern and headed by Tito which was used to feed volunteers from the Balkans to the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Popović was drafted through this center along with a select group of Party members. Popović fought with Spanish Republican forces and not the International Brigades, holding the rank of artillery captain. At the close of the Spanish Civil War Popović escaped through France and made his way back to Yugoslavia.
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