{"id":157573,"date":"2024-12-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=157573"},"modified":"2024-12-10T18:02:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T16:02:39","slug":"the-one-and-only-nikola-pasic-a-statesman-in-an-epoch-of-glory-and-sacrifice-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/the-one-and-only-nikola-pasic-a-statesman-in-an-epoch-of-glory-and-sacrifice-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ONE AND ONLY, NIKOLA PA\u0160I\u0106: A statesman in an epoch of glory and sacrifice! (PHOTO)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nikola Pa\u0161i\u0107 was one of the most significant politicians in the history of Serbia <\/a>and Yugoslavia, the creator of the Vidovdan Constitution of 1921, the first constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. He served as the Prime Minister of both the Kingdom of Serbia and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, and was the founder and leader of the People’s Radical Party.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to some sources, Nikola Pa\u0161i\u0107 was born on December 6, 1845, in Zaje\u010dar, according to others on Saint Nicholas’ Day, i.e., December 19th, and according to still other sources, this politician was born on December 31st.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He began his education relatively late, at the age of eleven. He was educated at a time when, due to political circumstances in the Principality of Serbia, the Zaje\u010dar Gymnasium was frequently relocated, and so Pa\u0161i\u0107 also stayed in Negotin and Kragujevac for his studies. Although he started school late, which he finished at the age of 21, the data shows that he was an excellent student.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an excellent student, in 1868, the Serbian government sent him to study at the Polytechnic School in Zurich. Later, at this school, he received a degree in civil engineering but also acquired a high level of expertise in geodesy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nikola Pa\u0161i\u0107 \/ Wikimedia Creative Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After a year of practical work, Pa\u0161i\u0107 returned to his country and finally began his political career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a student, he became acquainted with the ideas of the United Serbian Youth – a movement founded in August 1866 in Novi Sad, which aimed to cultivate awareness of the past, establish a fraternal community, and advance the Serbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Zurich, he joined the circle of Serbian socialists led by Svetozar Markovi\u0107 – a literary critic and political activist – also from Zaje\u010dar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The life path of one of the greatest Serbian politicians was varied, and his political career was full of twists and turns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jovan Jovanovi\u0107 Pi\u017eon i Nikola Pa\u0161i\u0107 \/ Wikimedia Creative Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nikola Pa\u0161i\u0107 began his political career as a socialist in the movement of Svetozar Markovi\u0107, only to later, in 1881, found the People’s Radical Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the reign of the Obrenovi\u0107 dynasty, Pa\u0161i\u0107 was a “troublemaker” and, due to his leading role in the Timo\u010dka Rebellion of 1883, was even sentenced to death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rebellion was raised by representatives of the People’s Radical Party against the government of King Milan Obrenovi\u0107, but the royal army quickly suppressed it, and Pa\u0161i\u0107 fled to neighboring Bulgaria and spent several years in exile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He spent 11 years in political disgrace and returned to the political scene in 1903 after the May Coup – a state coup in which King Alexander Obrenovi\u0107 and his wife, Queen Draga, were killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nikola Pa\u0161i\u0107 \/ Wikimedia Creative Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It can be said that he went through several ideological phases: in his youth, he was a socialist and revolutionary, in his mature years a fighter for parliamentary democracy, while in his later years he became a conservative.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pa\u0161i\u0107 is known for the fact that after the Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913, which he initiated, the territory of Serbia doubled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nikola Pa\u0161i\u0107 had a direct connection with the leader of the Black Hand, Dragutin Dimitrijevi\u0107 Apis, who worked for the Serbian intelligence service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was the reason why Pa\u0161i\u0107 was suspected of complicity in the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne, Franz Ferdinand, by Gavrilo Princip, a representative of the Black Hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mirovni pregovori u Bukure\u0161tu 1913. godine. Nikola Pa\u0161i\u0107 sedi u sredini \/ Wikimedia Creative Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As Prime Minister in 1914, he was aware that the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum was written to be rejected and that Serbia, already exhausted by the Balkan Wars, was facing difficult years of a new, even more difficult conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pa\u0161i\u0107 was the one who established an authentic and modern model of Serbian civil politics, which could set its own national, economic, and cultural development goals, in accordance with the tradition formed at the end of the 19th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also helped cultural and scientific creators who reached the world’s top. He devised the policy of “the Balkans to the Balkan peoples” and enabled Serbia to become a strong military power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, this man is attributed to the term Greater Serbianism, as well as the idea of a “Greater Serbia,” although Pa\u0161i\u0107 never used that term or advocated such an idea, even at times when it was offered to him by his allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nikola Pa\u0161i\u0107 \/ Wikimedia Creative Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pa\u0161i\u0107 fought for a Yugoslav state, primarily through internal forces, with the ultimate goal of uniting all Serbs, who were dispersed and mixed with other peoples throughout almost the entire Yugoslav territory, in one state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

History shows that he was a wise, pragmatic, and persistent politician who was respected by like-minded people and political opponents, even by enemies. He uncompromisingly advocated for the democratic parliamentary system of the Serbian state and the so-called patriarchal democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within the museum in Zaje\u010dar, the Nikola Pa\u0161i\u0107 Endowment was founded in 1992, and the museum is located in a street named after him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He received more than one decoration, including the high Russian Order of the White Eagle with diamonds, the Russian Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky, the Romanian Order of Carol, the Turkish Order of Osmanli, and the Order of the Kara\u0111or\u0111e’s Star.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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