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Dragomir "Dragiša" Vasić is a lawyer, politician, writer, liberal revolutionary and currently the President of the Serbian Republic.
Biography[]
Born in Morava in 1885, he studied primary school and gymnasium before studying law Belgrade. Soon, he was drafted to fight the Balkan Wars during 1912-1913, It was there, during the Second Balkan War, that Vasić the revolutionary began to develop - and Vasić the writer. His first real attempt, a short story titled "Pačko", depicts a Serbian soldier in the Battle of Bregalnica. Pitying a felled Bulgarian officer, he tries to give him a proper burial in no man's land, only to be shot by the enemy while erecting a wooden cross. He continued his path in the army thanks to the dawn of the Great War. In 1917, as a soldier, Vasić became dissilusioned with the Karađorđević dynasty following the execution of his cousin by the regime.
After the end of the war Vasić was de-mobilized, he returned to practice law and However, it was soon shut down and his lawyer's license suspended by the Royal Dictatorship for defending communists. In reaction, he joined the Republican Party and became a member of its main board, a crucial member of the underground organization - not only thanks to his literary skill, but also his numerous contacts within the Serbian Army. In the crucial year of 1925, he joined the revolutionary movement and upon it's rise was elected to the Skupština, and accepted his role as the Ambassador to the Commune of France. While visiting Paris and seeing its achievements did not convert him to a Syndicalist, it nevertheless fascinated him.
The Konspiracija, suspicious of President Jaša Prodanović's anti-militarist stance, forced him out of power in 1931. Discreetly inviting Vasić to succeed him in the next election, they expected him to be easier to control thanks to his past in the Black Hand. Reluctantly, Vasić agreed, and stands today as a leader torn between his progressive outlook and his debt to the conspirators.