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Vladko Maček would take over the role played by Stjepan Radić within the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS), after Stjepan Radić would be assasinated during the 1928 National Assembly assassination on the 20th of June 1928 by the Serbian Chetnik Puniša Račić who played a big role in Pašić's Radical Party.
After the 1928 assassination King Alexander I of Yugoslavia would introduce a dictatorship, of which Maček hoped would lead to a solution for the calls for federalism and the autonomy of the Croats within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
stating "I am completely confident in the unity and maturity, and therefore the strength, of the Croatian people and given the great wisdom of His Majesty the King, that we will succeed in realizing the ideal of the Croatian people: that a Croat be the master of his own home, in his own free Croatia."
This however would not be the case and Maček and other members would be arrested multiple times for conspiring and carrying out anti-regime actions (including plans for assasinations).
This would eventually lead to a release from prison in 1934 right at the start of elections in which Maček would be the leader of the United opposition against the Pro-Centralization Yugoslav National Party.
Maček would enter negotiations with Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Dragiša Cvetković, this would lead to the Cvetković-Maček Agreement in 1939 thus creating the Banovina of Croatia which would give Croats more autonomy within their lands.
This however would not satisfy the extreme parties within Yugoslavia and would see growth of activities commited by the Pro-Serbian Chetniks, the Ultranationalist Croatian Ustasha,
The communists were not satisfied either as authorities would continue to persecute them.
The Banovina of Croatia would come to an end with the German Invasion of Yugoslavia in April of 1941 and Vladko Maček would be imprisoned by the Ustasha first in Jasenovac concentration camp and later in his appartment.
Maček would move to the USA in 1947 where he would die in 1964
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