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Pavle "Paja" Marganović (17 March 1904 – 30 July 1929) was shoemaker and one of the Seven secretaries of SKOJ.
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He was born in Deliblato in 1904. He went on his shoemaking artisanat in Vršac. He joined the workers' movement in 1918, and became the member of the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia in 1920. He lived in Zagreb since 1921, and attended Sverdlovsk University in Moscow from 1924 to 1928.
He was appointed for a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia at the Fourth Congress of CPY in Dresden and became the secretary of the Central committee of the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia in 1928. He returned to Yugoslavia at the end of 1928.
Marganović was arrested by Yugoslav police in April 1929, during the preparations for organizing the First of May demonstrations. He was brutally tortured, questioned and later murdered in Zagreb police station on 30 July 1929.
After World War II, he was buried in the Tomb of the People's Heroes in Zagreb.