Fatherland Front (Bulgaria)
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Fatherland Front (FF) was originally a Bulgarian political resistance movement during World War II. The Zveno movement, the communist Bulgarian Workers Party, a wing of the Agrarian Union and the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party, where part of the FF. The constituent groups of the FF had widely contrasting ideologies and had only united in face of the pro-German, militarist dictatorship in Bulgaria. Still, initially the members of the FF worked together, without a single dominating group. was soon dominated by the Bulgarian Communist Party. In 1944 the FF committed a coup d 'etat and they declared war on Germany, Italy and the other Axis nations. The FF government, headed by Kimon Georgiev (Zveno) immediately signed a ceasefire treaty with the Soviet Union. Soon the Bulgarian Communist Party became dominant in the organization. In 1946 Georgiev resigned and his successor was Georgi Dimitrov, a communist, and Bulgaria became a People's Republic. The parties within the Front ceased to exist, but it became a mass organisation for the communists (see: communism). In 1989 it was dissolved.bg:Отечествен фронт nl:Vaderlands Front (Bulgarije)