Novica Radović

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Novica Radović (Serbian: Новица Радовић; born in Martinići in 1890 - died in Cetinje in 1945) was a Montenegrin politician.

Radović took part in 1919's Christmas Uprising with the Zelenaši, an armed rebellion opposed to the loss of Montenegrin sovereignty in 1918. With the uprising's defeat he escaped to Albania and later to Italy where he joined the self-styled Montenegrin Army in exile, becoming its HQ's Intelligence supervisor.

He return to what was then the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1925, eventually moving to Belgrade. There he was charged with crimes against the state and sentenced to twenty years of imprisonment. After serving nine years of the sentence, he was released, acquitted in 1934 after the assassination of King Alexander in Marseilles which ended the dictatorship. Upon freedom he entered the kingdom's politics as a member of the Montenegrin Federalist Party, becoming its chief ideologue. His standard beliefs were that Montenegro was the true leader of Serbs, and not Serbia, criticizing the Belgrade regime and Yugoslavia, supporting restoration of Montenegrin sovereignty.

In 1941, Montenegro was reestablished. During this time Radović acted as political adviser to Krsto Zrnov Popović. In 1945, Radović was executed by the Yugoslav Partisans under charges of Axis collaboration.

“	..In its five hundred year struggle for faith, honor and freedom of the Serb tribe, on more than one occasion the Montenegrins themselves have brought the martyr cross to the Golgotha, but in the moment of crucifixion a guiding star flashed at their sky, the purest Slavic sky, which took them from defeat to victory, like their ancestors after the Kosovo defeat, that same star took them into the karst regions of the Lovćen, to there in the catuns preserve the continuity of the Serbian Empire, not in size of territory but in size of honor, freedom and determination to preserve the eternal mention of heroism, depicted in Obilić, followed by the sound of the Gusle...	”
—Novica Radović, Montenegro on the Allied Golgotha, 1938