Zveno
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Zveno
Звено |
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|---|---|
| Leaders |
Kimon Georgiev, Damyan Velchev |
| Founded | 1927 |
| Dissolved | 1949 |
| Headquarters | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Ideology |
Nationalism Corporativism Statism |
| Political position | Far-right |
Zveno (Bulgarian: Звено, "link") was a Bulgarian military and political organization, founded in 1927 by Bulgarian Army officers. It was associated with a newspaper of that name.
The Zveno members were not Fascists but still advocated a statist and corporative economy and were against political parties and the terror of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), the Macedonian liberation movement. Zveno was also closely linked to the so-called Military League, the organization behind a coup in 1923, responsible for killing Prime Minister Aleksandar Stamboliyski.
In 1934 pro-Zveno officers like Colonel Damyan Velchev and Colonel Kimon Georgiev seized power and established an authoritarian regime. Georgiev became Prime Minister. They dissolved all parties and trade unions and openly attacked the IMRO. Their government introduced a corporatist economy, similar to that of Benito Mussolini's Italy. King Boris III, an opponent of Zveno, orchestrated a coup through a monarchist Zveno member, General Pencho Zlatev, who became Prime Minister (January 1935). In April 1935, he was replaced by a civilian, Andrei Toshev, also a monarchist. After participating in the Bulgarian coup d'état of 1934, Zveno supporters declared their intention to immediately form an alliance with France and to seek the unification of Bulgaria into an Integral Yugoslavia. Zveno supported an Integral Yugoslavia that included Bulgaria as well as Albania within it.
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