The Yugoslav Radical Union was a political party founded by Yugoslav Prime Minister Milan Stojadinović in 1935 as the ruling party of Yugoslavia that sponsored authoritarian mass mobilization and its agenda was based upon fascism, it was the dominant political movement in the country until 1939, when Stojadinović was removed as Prime Minister. Party members wore green shirt uniforms and addressed Stojadinović as Vodja ("Leader"). Stojadinović told Italian foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano that although the party was initially a moderate authoritarian movement, that he intended to develop the party to developed based on the model of Italian Fascism.
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