Radovan Karadzic vs Stepan Shaumyan

Karadžić co-founded the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1990. The party advocated for the unification of Bosnian Serb territories with Serbia and played a key role in the Bosnian War, promoting ethnic separation and conflict.

As leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Karad

Karadžić was found responsible for the Srebrenica genocide in July 1995, where Bosnian Serb forces killed over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys. The massacre was the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II and led to his indictment for genocide.

Karadžić was arrested in Belgrade on July 21, 2008, after 13 years as a fugitive. He had been living under the alias Dragan Dabić, working as a New Age healer. He was extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to face trial for war crimes.

Radovan Karad

Shaumyan was appointed by Lenin as the Extraordinary Commissar for the Caucasus in December 1917, tasked with spreading Bolshevik influence and organizing Soviet power in the region.

Shaumyan led the defense of Baku against the advancing Ottoman Army and Azerbaijani forces from June to September 1918. The city fell on September 15, leading to the collapse of the Baku Commune.

Shaumyan became the chairman of the Baku Council of People's Commissars (the Baku Commune) in April 1918, leading the Bolshevik government in the city. He implemented Soviet policies and organized defense against Ottoman forces.

Shaumyan was captured by anti-Bolshevik forces after the fall of the Baku Commune in September 1918. He was executed by a firing squad near Krasnovodsk along with 25 other commissars, becoming a martyr for the Bolshevik cause.