In 1941, after political changes in the Balkans, he founded a 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. After ten years of detention, he came back to SFR Yugoslavia in 1955, was prosecuted for fascist collaboration and sentenced to 8 years in prison for his political activities during the war. In 1959, he was already released on condition that he accepted the prohibition of publishing works under his name. In the 1960s he was a member of the Yugoslav Lexicographical Institute until he retired into private life. Savić Marković Štedimlija died in 1971 and was buried in Zagreb's Mirogoj Cemetery.