Alija Sirotanović [SEP] place of death
Alija Sirotanović
Alija Sirotanović (14 August 1914 – 16 May 1990) was a Yugoslav miner, Hero of Socialist Labour and perhaps the most famous of all Yugoslav udarniks. He was held up by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia to be a model of a hard-worker in the former Yugoslavia.
Early life and family.
Alija Sirotanović, a Bosniak, was born in Orahovo, a village in central Bosnia near the town of Breza, and grew up in Trtorići, another nearby village. He was born in
new dinars since 1965. He is still (as of 2013) popular as an icon of industrial worker in the former Yugoslavia.
A later banknote shows Alija Sirotanović.
See also.
- Alija Sirotanović, model for a 20,000 dinara banknote