„IZMEĐU KRALJA I NARODA NEMA POSREDNIKA“. POPULARNOST KRALJA ALEKSANDRA I DINASTIJE KARAĐORĐEVIĆ U DOBA ŠESTO JANUARSKOG REŽIMA
„No Intermediaries Between the King and the People”. Dynastic Propaganda in the Time of the January sixth regime

Summary/Abstract: Although the regime of January the 6th for many, mainly economical reasons, wasn’t the most popular one, the king, monarchy and dynasty were quite estimated. British diplomatic reports from Belgrade show that the king and queen were predominantly popular in almost all parts of Yugoslavia. However, local authorities kept under constant surveillance lot of „suspicious characters” in order to prevent and stop any kind of action or notion that could be regarded as hostile towards the royal family. Although the grieve and mourning after the tragic death of king Alexandar was the sincere one, local bureaucrats wrote long reports stating that some inhabitants were singing or smiling in the first days after the assassination. It turned out that the king’s popularity was not enough. The climate of constant surveillance, lack of political freedom, imposition of Yugoslav ideology together with economical difficulties provoked even deeper political and national crisis. As a result, king’s utopian project of state salvation failed completely.

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