| Major General Moša Pijade |
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| 4th President of the Federal Assembly of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
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| In office January 29, 1954 – March 15, 1957 |
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| Preceded by | Milovan Djilas |
| Succeeded by | Petar Stambolic |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 4, 1890 Beograd, Kingdom of Serbia |
| Died | 15 March 1957 (aged 67) Paris, French Fourth Republic |
| Nationality | Yugoslav |
| Political party | League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ) |
| Occupation | Painter, Art critic, Publicist, Revolutionary, Resistance commander, Statesman |
| Religion | None (Atheist) (Originally Judaism) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Service/branch | Yugoslav People's Army |
| Rank | Major General of Yugoslav People's Army |
| Commands | Yugoslav Partisans Yugoslav People's Army |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
| Awards | Order of the People's Hero Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour Order of the brotherhood and unity Order of the partisan star Order of the National liberation Order for courageousness |
Moša Pijade (Serbian Cyrillic: Мoшa Пиjaдe; born Belgrade, January 4, 1890, died Paris, March 15, 1957), nicknamed Čiča Janko (Чича Јанко) was a prominent Yugoslavian/Serbian Communist of Sephardic Jewish origin, a close collaborator of Josip Broz Tito, former President of Yugoslavia, and full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
In his youth, Pijade was a painter, art critic and publicist. He was also known for translating Das Kapital by Karl Marx into Serbo-Croatian. He is thought to have had a major influence on Marxist ideology as exposed during the old regime in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1925, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison because of his 'revolutionary activities' after the World War I. He was discharged after 14 years in 1939 and imprisoned again in 1941 in the camp Bileć.
He was known as the creator of so-called 'Foča regulations' (1942), which prescribed the foundation and activity of people's liberation committees in the liberated territories during the war against the Nazis. In November 1943, before the second AVNOJ meeting in Jajce, he initiated the foundation of Tanjug, which later became the state news agency of SFR Yugoslavia, nowadays of Serbia.
Pijade held high political posts during and after World War II and was a member of the Central Committee and the Politburo of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. He was one of the leaders of Tito's partisans and was subsequently proclaimed People's Hero of Yugoslavia. He was one of six Vice Presidents of the Presidium of the Yugoslavian Parliament (deputy head of state) 1945–1953.
After having led the law commission of the Parliament, he was Vice-President (1953–1954) and President of the Yugoslavian Parliament or Skupština (1954–1955). In 1957, he died in Paris during the return from a visit to London where he had talks as leader of a Yugoslav parliamentary delegation.
Streets in many cities of the former Yugoslav countries were once named after him.