Hundred-year-old WW II Yugoslav hero decorated

NEWS 06.07.202016:01
MINISTARSTVO ZA RAD, ZAPOSLJAVANJE, BORACKA I SOCIJALNA PITANJA

Lieutenant general of the former Yugoslav Peoples' Army (JNA) Petar Matic, nicked-named Dule, who turned 100, received a decoration as the last living 'people's hero' from the WW II in ex-Yugoslavia, the Beta news agency reported on Monday.

The original decoration given to Matic by the late communist leader of ex-Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito was stolen in the 1990s.

Serbia’s Minister of Labour, Employment, Social and Veterans’ Issues, Zoran Djordjevic said the Government was glad to manage „to find the decoration on the antique market and give it back to Matic for his jubilant birthday.“