Stjepan Radić
Croatian politician
Died when: 57 years 58 days (685 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Stjepan Radic (11 June 1871 – 8 August 1928) was a Croat politician and founder of the Croatian People's Peasant Party (HPSS), active in Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
He is credited with galvanizing Croatian peasantry into a viable political force.Throughout his entire career, Radic was opposed to the union and later Serb hegemony in Yugoslavia and became an important political figure in that country.
He was shot in parliament by the Serbian People's Radical Party politician Puniša Racic.Radic died several weeks later from a serious stomach wound at the age of 57.
This assassination further alienated the Croats and the Serbs and initiated the breakdown of the parliamentary system, culminating in the 6 January Dictatorship of 1929.
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