Štedimlija was born in Stijena Piperska, a small village of the Piperi Highland near Podgorica in the Principality of Montenegro.

There he worked as a journalist and writer who published numerous articles and reviews on literature, politics and history in newspapers and periodicals.

In 1941, after political changes in the Balkans, he founded the Montenegrin National Committee of the Independent State of Croatia and a year later, he became editor-in-chief of publications promoting the Croatian Orthodox Church of Ustaše regime.

At the end of 1944 he escaped to the Ostmark of Nazi Germany, in 1945 he was arrested in the Soviet zone of Austria and deported to a Gulag in the USSR.

This theory was not Štedimlija's original idea, but its ideological roots go back to the late 19th century in the intellectual history of Croatian irredentism.