of the few Yugoslavs living in the Soviet Union who survived the Great Purge. Of the approximately 900 Yugoslav communists living in the country in 1936–1937, at least 800 were arrested, and only forty of these survived the Gulag. World War II and death During the interwar period, Golubić's nephew Meho had been an active communist agitator within Yugoslavia. In 1940, the senior Golubić entered Yugoslavia illegally. He thus became one of the Soviets' principal agents in the country. Golubić subsequently made contact with Dragiša Vasić and Mladen Žujović, who along with Stevan Moljević, would go on to become the chief advisers of Draža Mihailović, the leader of the wartime Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland. Golubić's time in Yugoslavia was marked by frequent clashes with the KPJ. According to the senior Yugoslav communist Milovan Djilas, Golubić was hostile to the KPJ's Central Committee, claiming that it was "composed of Trotskyites". Djilas, together with Aleksandar Ranković, another senior KPJ member, suspected Golubić himself of being a Trotskyite and feared that he was spreading misinformation regarding the Central Committee's activities to Moscow. According to Djilas, he and Ranković were prepared to assassinate Golubić, but were told to desist by Josip Broz Tito, the General Secretary of the Central Committee, who identified Golubić as an agent on "special assignment" and ordered that he be left alone. On 5 June 1941, an explosion tore through a German ammunition dump in Smederevo, killing hundreds of residents and leaving much of the town in ruins. It has been speculated that the blast may have been triggered by communist saboteurs headed by Golubić. The following day, Golubić was arrested at the home of the lawyer Tihomir Višnjević in a joint action carried out by the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo). Golubić had been using the pseudonym Luka Samardžić. He was subsequently placed in the custody of the Gestapo, who tortured him. According to the war correspondent Sima Simić, who was detained alongside Golubić, the latter was so severely beaten that his face had turned blue and his urine was filled with blood. Golubić adamantly refused to disclose any information to the Gestapo. In July, after several weeks of torture, Golubić was taken to the Royal Garden in downtown Belgrade (modern-day Pioneers Park) and shot. He was survived by his mother, who died in 1953, aged 103. Legacy Following Golubić's death, the Yugoslav Partisans named a company