Summary
The Sixth January Dictatorship: Causes and Consequences
Prepared by: Slobodan Samardjić
"King Aleksandar Karađorđević defended Yugoslavia with a dictatorship. For him, if the Vidovdan project of the state failed, the state itself did not fail and it was worth defending. In his eyes, the introduced dictatorship was a functional dictatorship. Its task was to give the state a breather while the party's passions subsided. But, the party's passions were are in function of their state visions, essentially irreconcilable. Serbian parties viewed the Yugoslav issue as a Croatian state issue. For the king, the Yugoslav issue was a substantive state issue and therefore he claimed the right to defend the state with the means of an open dictatorship. After the king's murder, the last substance of Yugoslavia as a state was lost - the Serbian-Croatian issue This conflict maintained the condition of the dictatorship as the only framework in which the Croatian issue could be resolved. When the Croatian demands were finally accepted for this side, the functionality of the Serbian side was called into question. Slobodan Samardžić
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