SECRET AGENT MUSTAFA GOLUBIĆ: Stalin's man originally from Serbia

Mustafa Golubić, since he was an excellent student, became one of the main people of Apis, so he went to Russia and became Stalin's man. He returned to Belgrade during the Second World War

In the first half of the twentieth century, there was no important historical event in the Balkans in which Mustafa Golubić did not participate. He was born in 1891, in a family neither poor nor rich. As a gifted child and as the best student of the elementary school in Stolac, the municipality sent him to the high school in Sarajevo. His schooling was interrupted due to the First Balkan War, from which he left with the rank of sergeant of the Serbian army and the Order of Obilić for his courage. After graduating in 1913, with a scholarship from the government in Belgrade, he went to study law in Lausanne and Geneva, and then to Paris, where he joined the Black Hand, which was headed by Dragutin Dimitrijević Apis.

In 1914, Apis appointed him a clerk in the Užice Army, and in 1915 he sent him to Russia to collect volunteers for the Serbian army. He is returning with a thousand new warriors at a time when the Serbian army is already largely retreating through Albania. At the Apis trial in 1917, Golubić was sentenced to one year, but he fled to France.

He returned to Belgrade in 1918, and the Serbian authorities arrested him in 1921 on suspicion that he was preparing to assassinate King Alexander. Details about this assassination are not known, but it is known that Golubić once swore in front of witnesses on Terazije, while the king's car was passing, that he would avenge Apis. He went to Paris, then to Vienna, where he was arrested four times at the request of Belgrade. It is not known when he started working for the Soviet intelligence service, but he quickly gained such a reputation that he entered the Kremlin under Stalin without a pass. He will perform several spectacular deeds, and the biggest of them is certainly the murder of Leo Trotsky.

Trotsky was the second man of the October Revolution, and after the conflict with Stalin, he fought in Europe until he hid in Mexico in 1937. It is known that Golubić discovered his shelter, and then it was easy - another Russian agent killed Trotsky with blows to the head with a pickaxe. At the beginning of the Second World War, Golubić came to Belgrade. With Mato Vidaković, a saboteur educated in Moscow, he blew up the fortress in Smederevo on June 5. A terrible explosion, which almost destroyed the city, killed 2,500 people.

It seems that Tito, fearing his connections with Stalin, betrayed him to the Germans. They arrested him and, after torturing him, broke him, took him to the park in front of today's Presidency in a tent wing and shot him. It was June 26, 1941. When the Russians and partisans liberated Belgrade in 1944, intelligence officers of the Third Ukrainian Front found and transferred the remains of Mustafa Golubić to Moscow. He was buried there with all military honors as a lieutenant general of the Russian NKVD intelligence service. In the first half of the twentieth century, there was no important historical event in the Balkans in which Mustafa Golubić did not participate.