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On this day in 1942, Yugoslav antifascist partisan Stjepan Filipović was hanged by the Nazis in what is now known as Serbia.

Filipović, then 26 years old, was a commander in the 1941 Partisan Uprising against the Nazi occupation forces and their collaborators.  In 1942, he was captured by the Nazis in Valjevo. While being dragged through the central streets of the city, Filipović shouted:

''Long live the liberators of the people! Down with the fascists and the quisling collaborators! Long live communism!''.

Right before he was hanged, with the noose around his neck, Filipović thrusted his hands into the air and shouted:

"Smrt fašizmu, sloboda narodu!"
("Death to fascism, freedom to the people!"⁣)⁣

The words became the slogan of the Yugoslav Partisan resistance movement which would liberate the country in 1945.

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