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The name of the Zelenasi (lit., "Greens"), derives from the green voting cards that
were used by the supporters of the Kingdom of Montenegro at the
Podgorica Assembly in 1918.
The Zelenasi were a group of Montenegrin rebels that existed from
1918 to 1945 in Montenegro, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia; they
supported the House of Petrović-Njegoš (Montenegro) againt the House
of Karađorđević (Serbia), and were opposed to the Serbian
unification made with the disappearance of Montenegro as a
political entity. They tended to emphasize the key role of Montenegro
in "Serbdom" and many of them favoured a federal Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes.
With the support of Italy the Greens organized the Christmas Uprising in
1919 with the aim to bring the Petrović-Njegoš dynasty again on the
Montenegrin throne. The rebellion failed, the rebels fled to Italy,
later returned and in June started an unsuccessful guerilla war. In
traces the Greens resisted until 1926; after that their struggle
was represented by the political program of the Montenegrin Federalist Party:
Montenegro, Serbia and other Yugoslavs in a federal state.
During the Second World War, the Greens were organized again under Italian
occupation command and started the war against the Communists. Soon disorganized, they split between the Communists and the Serbian monarchists (Četniks). After the communist victory in 1945 many leaders of the Greens were killed as
collaborationists of Italy.
Milan Jovanović, 6 September 2007
The flag of Zelenasi is green with the movement's emblem in the middle.
Milan Jovanović, 6 September 2007
