sentences:  The last Ban of Zeta Banovina was Blažo Đukanović, a former brigadier general in the Royal Yugoslav Army.In May 1940, as a means of opposing the government, the Montenegrin branch of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (, KPJ) advocated that Royal Yugoslav Army reservists demobilise, refuse military discipline, and even desert.In October of that year, the KPJ national conference heavily criticised this action by the Montenegrin branch of the party, and re-oriented the KPJ toward defending the country against "imperialist attackers".