Boris Kidrič

Boris Kidrič was a Slovene and Yugoslav politician and revolutionary who was one of the chief organizers of the Slovene Partisans, the Slovene resistance against occupation by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy after Operation Barbarossa in June 1941. He became the de facto leader of the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People. As such, he had a crucial role in the anti-Fascist liberation struggle in Slovenia between 1941 and 1945. After World War II he was, together with Edvard Kardelj, a leading Slovenian politician in communist Yugoslavia.

10 April 1912

Born on the same birth day (10 April): Andile Jali • Benjamin Heath • Christopher Simmons • Delphine Seyrig • Haley Joel Osment • Helen McElhone • Ian Callaghan • Jacques Castérède • John Watkins (South African cricketer) • John Whitehurst • Katrina Leskanich • Ken Griffey Sr. • Leonidas Polk • Louis Rougier • Margaret of York (1472) • Prafulla Chandra Sen

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