Rodoljub Čolaković, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rodoljub Čolaković

Yugoslav partisan

Date of Birth: 07-Jun-1900

Place of Birth: Bijeljina, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Date of Death: 30-Mar-1983

Profession: politician, political commissar

Nationality: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Rodoljub "Rocko" Colakovic (Serbian Cyrillic: ??????? ?????????; 7 June 1900 – 30 March 1983) was a Bosnian Serb and Yugoslav politician. A native of Bijeljina, Rodoljub Colakovic joined the Socialist Party of Bosnia-Herzegovina in March 1919 as a student.
Later he joined Crvena Pravda ("Red Justice"), a left-wing terrorist organisation which assassinated Yugoslav interior minister Milorad Draškovic.
For his role in this event Colakovic was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
While serving his sentence he made friends with many notable Yugoslav communists, including Moše Pijade with whom he translated Das Kapital and other seminal Marxist texts into Serbo-Croatian. After his release, Rodoljub Colakovic emigrated to the Soviet Union and later took part in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side.