Osman Karabegovic

3rd President of the Executive Council of the People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1956-1963. was a Yugoslav and Bosnian communist politician and a recipient of the Order of the People's Hero. He joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1932. In World War II, he was one of the leaders of the Yugoslav Partisans in Bosnia-Herzegovina. After the war, he held various posts in the Socialist Yugoslavia. In 1972, after he criticized the lack of democracy in the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he was expelled from the League of Communists of Yugoslavia as a critic of the Yugoslav model of workers' self-management and lack of democracy in the SR Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was a strong supporter of Slobodan Miloševiæ in 1980s and 1990s, and opposed Alija Izetbegoviæ in Bosnia and Herzegovina.