Editing Christmas Uprising (section)

==Background==
{{See also|Podgorica Assembly}}
[[Image:Krsto Zrnov Popovic.jpg|thumb|right|175px|[[Krsto Popović]] was one of the leaders of the uprising.]]
Multiple historians acknowledge that a majority of Montenegrins supported the unification with other [[Southern Slavs]] on a federal basis after the [[World War I]].<ref name="RSE">{{cite news|url=https://www.slobodnaevropa.org/a/Crna_Gora_Bozicni_ustanak/1923426.html|author=Predrag Tomović|title=Radio Slobodna Evropa: ''Božićni ustanak izaziva kontroverze na 90. godišnjicu''|newspaper=Radio Slobodna Evropa |language=sr|date=January 7, 2010|access-date=May 15, 2018}}</ref><ref name="APA"/> However, support for unification did not involve the same degree of support for the Podgorica Assembly, since many of those who supported unification wanted Montenegro to join the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes as an autonomous entity, ultimately in a confederation rather than a centralized Serbian kingdom.<ref name="APA"/>

Historian [[Ivo Banac]] suggested that the Greens enjoyed support from a larger proportion of the population but were comparably poorly organised, indecisive, and politically divided.<ref>{{cite book|last = Banac|first = Ivo|author-link = Ivo Banac|title = The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics|publisher = [[Cornell University Press]]|location = Ithaca, New York|isbn = 0-8014-1675-2|year = 1984|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ggjhCQAAQBAJ|page=286}}</ref> While some fought for full independence and the return of Nikola to the country, others supported union with Serbia, objecting only to Montenegro's unequal status in such a union.{{sfn|Morrison|2009|p=45}}