Vladimir Ćopić

Vladimir "Senjko" Ćopić (8 March 1891 – 19 April 1939) was a Croatian communist and leader of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia from April 1919 to August 1920. During the Spanish Civil War, in the period from 1937 to mid-1938, he was the commander of the XV International Brigade.[1]

Vladimir Ćopić during Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).

Like General "Gal", he had been conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I, and subsequently captured by the Russians.[2] He was killed in Stalinist purges in 1939 along with many other leading Yugoslav communists. He was rehabilitated on June 10, 1958 by a decision of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union.[3]

His brother, Milan Ćopić, was in the International Brigades' prison at Camp Lucász.

References and sources
  1. Ivan Očak: Još jednom o Vladimiru Ćopiću
  2. Cecil Eby, Comrades and Commissars, pp 66-67
  3. http://books.google.rs/books?id=UWALiF59JU4C&pg=PA116&dq=Sima+Markovi%C4%87&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xSrUU4LLLazE4gSkq4H4AQ&ved=0CG8Q6AEwDw#v=onepage&q=Sima%20Markovi%C4%87&f=false
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