Novica Radović (

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: Новица Радовић; born in Martinići in 1890 – died in Cetinje in 1945) was a Montenegrin politician. Radović took part in 1919's Christmas Uprising on the side of the Greens, in an armed rebellion opposed to Montenegro's unconditional unification with Serbia in 1918 following the controversial

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. Following the defeat of the Greens, he escaped to

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and later to

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, where he joined the Montenegrin Army in exile, becoming its Headquarters Intelligence supervisor. He returned to what was then the

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in 1925. There he was charged with crimes against the state and sentenced to twenty years of imprisonment. After serving nine years of the sentence in

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prison, he was released, acquitted in 1934 after the assassination of King Alexander in

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which ended the dictatorship. After his release from prison, Radović moved to Podgorica, where he taught private classes and wrote political columns for the ''Zeta'' journal, and became a prominent member of the

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. In 1941, Montenegro was reestablished as the Fascist

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. Despite the cooperative attitude of the Montenegrin Federalist Party towards Italy, Radović and his fraction remained ambivalent and made attempts to create some resistance to the occupying forces on certain issues. During this time Radović also acted as political adviser to Krsto Zrnov Popović. In 1945, Radović was executed by the

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under charges of Axis collaboration.

Works

*''Montenegro on the Allied Golgotha'', 1938,

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, Dukagjin Press

References

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