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RADOSLAV RADE BITANGA, son of ANDRIJA, born on January 16, 1891, in Mostar. Graphic worker. A hardened pre-war communist, trade unionist, and fighter for workers’ rights, founder of the Typographic Workers Union, and a close associate of Gojko Vukovi\u0107, the founder of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) in Mostar and the husband of Zlatka Vukovi\u0107<\/a>. He became a member and official of the KPJ from its establishment. He came from a Croat family originating from the village of Rakitna in the Posu\u0161je region and became an orphan at the age of 9. He was raised by innkeeper Kramer, who sent him to learn the typographic trade in Mostar. According to M. Konjhod\u017ei\u0107, “as a very young man, he joined the struggle of workers for a better life.” In the parliamentary elections of 1938, he was the list leader of the People’s Work Party for the whole of Herzegovina. He was arrested several times (he served three years in Sremska Mitrovica with Gojko Vukovi\u0107 as his mentor), and for the last time on September 2, 1940, due to a protest general strike in Mostar in which over 2,000 workers, all companies, artisan workshops, and the brown coal mine participated. The strike was provoked by the ban on the activities of “Vele\u017e” as a gathering place of progressive ideas. He was sent to Lepoglava prison. In the same group, other members of the Mostar party organization were arrested: Nikola Abramovi\u0107 Bjelica<\/a>, Mustafa Bjelavac<\/a>, Mustafa Alajbegovi\u0107, Smajo Brki\u0107, Hasan Kreso<\/a>, Slavko Bala\u0107<\/a>, Luka Kne\u017ei\u0107<\/a>. In the second group, Mustafa Humo<\/a>, Velija Hujdur<\/a>, Vasilije To\u0161i\u0107<\/a>, Mile \u0106e\u0107ez<\/a>, Ljubo Ajvaz<\/a>, Rade Majstorovi\u0107<\/a>, and Rudolf Hrozni\u010dek<\/a>. He was killed by the Usta\u0161e in 1941. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Husband of Darinka Bitanga<\/a>, father of Ne\u0111o<\/a> and Neda Bitanga. Remembered as “a big man, (…) pure goodness, a comrade whom people loved, and he loved people in return.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the war, a graphic design institute in Mostar was named after Rade Bitanga. In 1965, a bust of Rade Bitanga was unveiled. The current fate of the bust is unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RADOSLAV RADE BITANGA, son of ANDRIJA, born on January 16, 1891, in Mostar. Graphic worker. A hardened pre-war communist, trade unionist, and fighter for workers’ rights, founder of the Typographic Workers Union, and a close associate of Gojko Vukovi\u0107, the founder of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) in Mostar and the husband of Zlatka […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21232,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[305,320,308,309],"tags":[361,356,330,319,312],"prezime":[343],"class_list":["post-11907","partizan","type-partizan","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-35-g-en","category-logori-en","category-poginuli-1941-en","category-poginuli-u-hr-en","tag-bitanga-en","tag-hrvati-en","tag-foto-en","tag-lepoglava-en","tag-stari-komunisti-en","prezime-b-en","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"ptb_metabox":{"ptb_partizan_izvori":"

grupa autora (1986): Hercegovina u NOB\u00a0 2. dio<\/a>, Beograd; Seferovi\u0107, Mensur (1957): \u201eTajna partijske \u0107elije<\/a>\u201c, Sarajevo; Konjhod\u017ei\u0107, Mahmud (1981): \u201cMostarke\u201d<\/a>: fragmenti o revolucionarnoj djelatnosti i patriotskoj opredjeljenosti \u017eena Mostara, o njihovoj borbi za slobodu i socijalizam, Op\u0161tinski odbor SUBNOR-a Mostar; grupa autora: Spomenica Mostara 1941-1945.<\/p>\r\n

Photo of the memorial plaque:<\/em> S. Demirovi\u0107 (2018), photo of the fallen fighter: archives of K.D.Mileti\u0107, A. Zagor\u010di\u0107 (from the book \"Gojko Vukovi\u0107\").<\/p>","ptb_partizan_datum_rodzenja":"(1891. Mostar \u2013 1941. 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