Editing Franjo Tuđman (section)

==Military career==
Franjo Tuđman and [[Ankica Tuđman|Ankica Žumbar]] were married on 25 May 1945 at the [[Belgrade]] City Council.{{sfn|Sadkovich|2010|p=58}} In this way, they wanted to confirm their faith in the [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia|Communist movement]] and the importance of civil rituals over religious ones.{{sfn|Sadkovich|2010|p=58}} (In May 1945, the government created the law which allowed civil weddings, taking weddings, among other things, out of [[Catholic Church|Church]] jurisdiction.) They returned to work that same day.{{sfn|Sadkovich|2010|p=58}}

On 26 April 1946, his father Stjepan and stepmother were found dead.{{sfn|Sadkovich|2010|p=58}} Tuđman never clarified the circumstances of their death. According to [[Militia (Yugoslavia)|the police]], his father Stjepan killed his wife and then himself. Other theories accuse Ustasha [[guerrillas]] ([[Crusaders (guerrilla)|Crusaders]]) and members of the Yugoslav secret police ([[OZNA]]).{{sfn|Sadkovich|2010|p=58}}

Franjo and Ankica did not qualify as [[secondary school]] graduates until after the war, in Belgrade.{{sfn|Sadkovich|2010|p=61}} He graduated from the Partisan High School in 1945 and she finished five semesters of [[English language]] in the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Yugoslavia)|Yugoslav Foreign Ministry]].{{sfn|Sadkovich|2010|p=61}}

[[File:Franjo Tudjman.jpg|thumb|right|Tuđman as [[major general]] in the [[Yugoslav People's Army]] (1960)]]
In 1953, Tuđman was promoted to the position of [[colonel]] and moved to position head of office of the [[Chief of staff]] of the [[Ministry of Defence (Yugoslavia)|Federal Secretary of People's Defence]]. On that position in 1959, he became a [[major general]].{{sfn|Sadkovich|2010|p=61}} At the age of 38, he had become the youngest general in the [[Yugoslav People's Army|Yugoslav Army]]. His promotion was not extreme, but it was atypical for a [[Croats|Croat]] because senior officers were increasingly likely to be [[Serbs]] and [[Montenegrins]].{{sfn|Sadkovich|2010|p=61}} In 1962, Serbs and Montenegrins composed 70% of army generals.{{sfn|Radelić|2006|p=397}}

On 23 May 1954, he became secretary of [[JSD Partizan|JSD Partizan Belgrade]]{{sfn|Hudelist|2004|p=211}} and, in May 1958, its president,{{sfn|Hudelist|2004|p=211}} becoming the first colonel to occupy that position (all previous holders were generals).{{sfn|Hudelist|2004|p=211}} He was placed in that position in order to solve administration problems inside of the club, especially the [[FK Partizan|football section]]. When he arrived, JSD Partizan Belgrade was a kind of intelligence battlefield where leaders of [[State Security Administration (Yugoslavia)|UDBA]] and [[KOS (Yugoslavia)|KOS]] struggled for influence.{{sfn|Hudelist|2004|p=212}} That caused clubs (despite having notable and good players) to have bad results, especially its football section.{{sfn|Hudelist|2004|p=213}} During his club presidency, the club adopted the black-white striped kit which is used to this day. According to Tuđman, he wanted to create a club that would have a [[Yugoslavism|pan-Yugoslav]] image and oppose [[SD Crvena Zvezda]] that had an exclusive [[Socialist Republic of Serbia|Serbian]] image.{{sfn|Hudelist|2004|p=215}} Tuđman was inspired by [[Juventus FC]] uniforms. However, [[Stjepan Bobek]] (former player of FK Partizan) claimed that uniform colors idea was, in fact, his, which he passed on to Tuđman.{{sfn|Hudelist|2004|p=217}}

Tuđman attended the [[Military Academy (Serbia)|military academy]] in Belgrade, like many officers who did not have formal military education. He graduated from the tactical school on 18 July 1957 as an excellent student.{{sfn|Hudelist|2004|p=207}} One of his teachers was [[Dušan Bilandžić]], who would be a future advisor.{{sfn|Sadkovich|2010|p=82}} Before he turned 40 years old, he had risen to become the youngest general in the Yugoslav Army. He was prominent in attending to communist indoctrination while based in Belgrade, where his three children were born.<ref name="guardian">[https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/dec/13/guardianobituaries.iantraynor Obituary], theguardian.com; accessed 19 July 2015.</ref>