page_title: Ivo Lola Ribar
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Ivo Lola Ribar / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Српски / srpski: Bista Ive Lole Ribara na Kalemegdanu.
context_page_description: Ivan Ribar, known as Ivo Lola or Ivo Lolo, was a Yugoslav communist politician and military leader of Croatian descent. In the 1930s, he became one of the closest associates of Josip Broz Tito, leader of the Yugoslav Communist Party. In 1936, Ribar became secretary of the Central Committee of SKOJ. During World War II in Yugoslavia, Ribar was among the main leaders of the Yugoslav Partisans and was a member of the Partisan Supreme Headquarters. During the war, he founded and ran several leftist youth magazines. In 1942, Ribar was among the founders of the Unified League of Anti-Fascist Youth of Yugoslavia. He was killed by a German bomb in 1943 near Glamoč while boarding an airplane for Cairo, where he was to become the first representative of Communist Yugoslavia to the Middle East Command.
  In 1944, Ribar was awarded the title of People's Hero of Yugoslavia. Lola was the older of two sons by Ivan Ribar, the first President of Yugoslavia. His brother was another People's Hero, Jurica Ribar.
context_section_description: After the death, Ribar was at first secretly buried in the village of Gornji Ribnik near Ključ on 30 November 1943. His body was exhumed in 1948 and reburied at the Tomb of People's Heroes at the Belgrade Fortress. He was posthumously proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia on 18 November 1944.
  Ivo Lola Ribar became an iconic figure in post-World War II Communist Yugoslavia. Many streets, schools and factories were named after him. Croatian producer of medical supplies and sanitary products from Karlovac is named after him. A brand of scooters was named after him. The Ivo Lola Ribar Institute in Belgrade is named after him. The Filipović Drive in Zagreb used to be named after him until 1991. Several streets in Croatian cities such as Rijeka, Valpovo, Novi Banovci and since 2009 Zagreb are named after him.
  Rock band Korni Grupa released a single "Ivo Lola" in 1973 which tells a story about the last letter of Lola Ribar sent to his fiancé Sloboda Trajković.
caption: Bust of Ribar at his grave-site, Tomb of People's Heroes, Belgrade
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