Ljubo Čupić

Čedomir "Ljubo" Čupić (; 1913 – 9 May 1942) was a Yugoslav law student, political commissioner of Communist resistance movement in Nikšić, Montenegro and decorated war hero of Yugoslavia.

He became known on a wider scale for the photo of him taken moments before he was shot by Chetniks who captured him, showing him with shackles on his hands and smiling. He is a recipient of the Order of the People's Hero, a Yugoslav medal for gallantry. He is commonly referred to by media as "Yugoslav Che Guevara".

Biography He was born in 1913 in Argentina, one of the ten children in an immigrant working-class Montenegrin family. His parents were Sava and Stana from the village of Zagarač. One of his brothers was Vukan Čupić, a famous pediatrician who founded the 'Mother and Child Institute', a paediatric clinic in Belgrade.

During the 1930s, he moved to Nikšić,

In 2018, a statue dedicated to him was revealed in his hometown of Nikšić.