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Puniša Račić
Puniša Račić was a Montenegrin Serb politician of the People's Radical Party. On 20 June 1928 he opened fire in the Yugoslav parliament, killing two Croatian Peasant Party deputies and mortally wounding its leader Stjepan Radić. The crisis that followed led King Alexander to establish a royal dictatorship in January 1929. Račić was killed by the Partisans in 1944.
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