"Stjepan Radić (11 June 1871 – 8 August 1928) was a Croatian politician and founder of the Croatian People´s Peasant Party (HPSS).
He is credited with galvanizing Croatian peasantry into a viable political force. Throughout his entire career, Radić 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 radical politician Puniša Račić. Radić 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 1931." - (en.wikipedia.org 31.01.2020)
