25 Facts About Hamdija Pozderac

Hamdija Pozderac was a Yugoslav communist politician from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Hamdija Pozderac served as the 4th President of the People's Assembly of SR Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1971 to 1974.

Hamdija Pozderac was forced to resign from politics due to a corruption scandal in September 1987.

Hamdija Pozderac was considered one of the most influential and powerful politicians in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the communist era.

Hamdija Pozderac was removed due to the Agrokomerc Affair of 1987, which the Yugoslav press compared to the American Watergate scandal.

Hamdija Pozderac was born in Cazin to an established Bosnian Muslim family which exerted strong influence in the westernmost part of the Bosnian region of Bosanska Krajina known for its strong resistance to the fascist Independent State of Croatia regime during World War II.

Hamdija Pozderac held various military and public posts in the Bosanska Krajina region during the war and was ordained with several military and public honors.

Hamdija Pozderac was a close ally of Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia for 27 years.

Hamdija Pozderac was highly educated, holding a philosophy degree from the University of Belgrade.

Hamdija Pozderac studied in Moscow, published several sociological studies, and was a professor of political science at the University of Sarajevo.

Hamdija Pozderac's politics centered on his involvement in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia that he ideologically followed.

Hamdija Pozderac held various high positions in the government of SR Bosnia and Herzegovina and SFR Yugoslavia in the 1970s and 1980s and exerted considerable influence on the politics of the communist party.

Hamdija Pozderac was president of the Federal Constitutional Commission of Yugoslavia which he held for nearly 20 years.

Hamdija Pozderac provided the political backing to Agrokomerc, at the time small local food manufacturer which would later become one of the largest food manufacturing corporations in the former Yugoslavia.

Hamdija Pozderac reaffirmed his political opposition to Serbian nationalism and in particular to the politics of Slobodan Milosevic, who was allegedly seeking to revert the constitutional amendments of the 1970s that awarded the Muslims the status of a constituent ethnicity.

Izetbegovic would later supersede Hamdija Pozderac becoming the President of the Presidency of SR Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1990.

Attacks on Hamdija Pozderac culminated with the "Agrokomerc Affair" that began in 1987.

Hamdija Pozderac, who contributed to the initial growth of Agrokomerc, was indicted of being aware of the financial dealings of the company.

The political blow to Hamdija Pozderac came from Abdic's statement that he was in possession of audio tapes with conversations that would prove Hamdija Pozderac's involvement in the scandal.

Hamdija Pozderac is criticized for his ideological following of the communist doctrines and for setting processes that did not honor certain liberties viewed in the western world as the core democratic principles, such as the freedom of speech.

Hamdija Pozderac was criticized for being a cog of nepotism and although he did not subscribe to that tactic himself he certainly took advantage of it.

Hamdija Pozderac was the follower of the conviction that political, legal, philosophical, religious, literary, artistic and other progress is based on the economic progress.

Hamdija Pozderac is credited for implementing processes that led the economic revitalization of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which contributed to strengthening the cultural independence and identity Bosnia within Yugoslavia.

Hamdija Pozderac cannot be viewed as a movement leader but as a patient and principled politician who saw the opportunity for change by working within the system.

Hamdija Pozderac has continually worked on protection of the sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina within Yugoslavia and while he did begin some processes for which he would be criticized, many consider that without his involvement in the Yugoslav politics at the time, Bosnia may have not had the political nor other potency to pursue to independence in the 1990s.