Koča Popovićの英語

Konstantin "Koča" Popović (Константин Коча Поповић) (14 March 1908 - 20 October 1992) was a communist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, 1937-1939 and Divisional Commander of the First Proletarian Division in Josip Broz Tito's Partisan army. Sometimes he was known as "the man who saved YPA" because he broke trough the German lines during the crucial Battle of Sutjeska and saved Tito and Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). Popović came from a prosperous Belgrade family and at university studied philosophy. After university he moved to Paris where he mixed with the Left Bank world of poets, writers, artists and intellectuals.