Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Uroš Drenović
Uroš Drenović[edit]
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The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 27, 2022 by Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:53, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
Uroš Drenović (1911–1944) was a Bosnian Serb officer of the Royal Yugoslav Army who became a Chetnik commander during World War II. He was one of the leaders of the popular uprising against the Ustaše in the fascist puppet state the Independent State of Croatia in mid-1941, but eventually betrayed the communist-led Partisans and sided with the royalist and Serbian nationalist Chetniks, whose ideology more closely matched his own. He was defeated by the Partisans and fled to Ustaše-held territory where, out of military and political necessity, he concluded a collaboration agreement with them on 27 April 1942. He later collaborated with the Italian and German occupiers against the Partisans. Drenović was killed in an Allied air raid in May 1944. Despite his extensive collaboration, he and his Chetniks are celebrated in Republika Srpska, the Serb-majority entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, creating significant controversy. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): It has been quite some time since a Chetnik bio has run as TFA, I think the last one was Kosta Pećanac on May 5, 2015.
- Main editors: Peacemaker67
- Promoted: September 25, 2021
- Reasons for nomination: 80th anniversary of Drenović signing a collaboration agreement with the fascist Ustaše
- Support as nominator. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:32, 24 February 2022 (UTC)