Dobroslav Ćulafić
Yugoslav politician (1926–2011)
Dobroslav "Toro" Ćulafić (17 January 1926 – 3 June 2011) was a Yugoslav politician from Montenegro who served as Secretary of the Interior of SFR Yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989.
Educated in Belgrade and later a partisan fighter in World War II, Ćulafić became an active member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia after he joined in 1943. He served in a number of government positions before the collapse of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.
“Dobroslav Ćulafić” enters the record as yugoslav politician (1926–2011). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dobroslav, Ćulafić and Yugoslav can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q516548. VIAF identifies the subject as 34021960. The Library of Congress control number is no91029080. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1926, 2011, 1984 and 1989.
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