Captured member of Tito’s Partisan resistance forces in Yugoslavia, Stjepan Stepo Filipović, shouts ”Death to fascism, freedom to the people!” (phrase which would become motto of Partisans) before he was hanged by German occupying forces in town of Valjevo, Serbia, 1942

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Stjepan Filipovic ( Opuzen , January 27, 1916 – Valjevo , May 22, 1942 ) was a Croatian communist and during the Ustanka in Serbia, the commander of the Kolubara Company Valjevo partisan detachment

The image of his heroic death has become a symbol of resistance to Fascism in the Second World War . It was proclaimed for the National Hero of Yugoslavia .