Savić Marković Štedimlija about the origins of Serbian communism and the Partisan movement

Savić Marković Štedimlija bio je crnogorski publicist, književnik i pisac. Sudjelovao je u hrvatskom javnom životu od tridesetih godina prošlog stoljeća do kraja rata. Dolazak u Zagreb, u kojem je tada bujao hrvatski nacionalni pokret protiv beogradske diktature, jugoslavenskog nacionalizma i komunističke propagande, presudno je utjecalo na smjer kasnijih Štedimlijinih pogleda. U Zagrebu je njegov crnogorski nacionalizam postao razrađeniji i izoštreniji, pišući ondje svoja najznamenitija djela o crnogorskim pitanjima. Istovremeno se odrekao komunističke ljevice. Branio je ratni pokušaj hrvatske i crnogorske samostalnosti i izjašnjavao se kao neprijatelj zajedničke jugoslavenske države. Ulagao je napore u objašnjenje pojave partizanskog i četničkog pokreta u Drugom svjetskom ratu. S obzirom na to da je partizanski pokret prema kraju rata pokazivao daleko veću opasnost za opstanak ratne hrvatske države, razmjerno tomu davao mu je u svojim spisima daleko veći prostor. Nastojao je stoga pojasniti zbog kojih se razloga tako munjevitom brzinom među srpskim narodom počeo širiti partizanski pokret pod odlučujućim vodstvom srpskih i jugoslavenskih komunista.Savić Marković Štedimlija was a Montenegrin writer and publicist. He participated in the Croatian public life from the thirties to the end of the Second World War. His arrival in Zagreb, which was then in a turmoil of the Croatian national movement against the Belgrade dictatorship, Yugoslav nationalism and communist propaganda greatly influenced his later views. In Zagreb, his Montenigran nationalism became more elaborated and articulated while writing his most renowned works on Montenigran issues. At the same time, he abandoned his left-wing orientation. He defended the war attempt of Montenegrin and Croatian independence and declared himself as an enemy of the common Yugoslav state. He also invested a lot of effort to explain the occurrence of the Partisian and Chetnik movement in the Second World War. Given that the Partisan movement posed much more severe danger to the existence of the Croatian wartime state, he consequently gave it more space in his writing. He, therefore, tried to to make it clear why the Partisan movement spread among the Serbian people so rapidly under the decisive leadership of Serbian and Yugoslav communists