Milo Bošković

Milo Bošković (Cyrillic: Мило Бошковић; 20 October 1911 – 21 September 1944) was a physician, participant in the National Liberation War and national hero of Yugoslavia.

Biography Education He was born on 20 October 1911 in the Montenegrin village of Gornji Brčeli, in Crmnica, near the coastal city and port of Bar. His father Ivo worked in the United States, and Milo stayed in Montenegro with his mother and brothers. He finished elementary school in his hometown, and high school in Cetinje. He studied medicine at the University of Bologna, where he graduated in 1937 with the highest possible grade of 110 of 110. He died after the war in a gunfight against the Chetniks as an officer of OZNA (Security Agency of communist Yugoslavia).

His brother Petar Bošković (1931–2011) was a Yugoslav and Serbian diplomat. He was an ambassador of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the Republic of Cyprus. In 1999, he was a witness at the trial of Jasenovac camp commander Dinko Šakić, who was then sentenced to 20 years in prison. Their sister Velika was a fighter in the Yugoslav Partisans movement engaged with the Fourth Proletarian Montenegrin task force brigade.

Museum The house where the printing press was housed and where Milo Bosković lived was converted on May 1, 1950, into a museum dedicated to the secret printing press and was part of the Belgrade City Museum. The museum exhibit represented the work of all printing presses that operated during the occupation in the territory of Belgrade. In the same year, a commemorative plaque was placed on the house, and on 17 May 1965 the building was declared a cultural monument of exceptional importance. The museum was closed to visitors in August 2000 and the house was returned to its heirs after a legal dispute with the Administrative authorities of the Municipality of Belgrade.

The TV series The work of the secret printing press of the Central Committee of the party, as well as Milo's bravery, self-sacrifice, patriotism, and overall contribution to the war, are described in many books dealing with the national liberation war in Belgrade, and a separate highlight of the unique aspects describing the printing press's work was given by Dragan Marković in the book "The Written Offs". During the filming of the famous and very popular TV series in the former Yugoslavia Otpisani("The Written Offs"), the writers devoted an episode to her work entitled "The Printing Office". Also, the names of the characters have been changed, whenever instead of Dr. Bosković and student Zagorka, doctor Jankovic (Zoran Milosavljević) and Olivera (Svetlana Bojković) appear.