Zveno
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Zveno (Link) was a Bulgarian military and political organisation, founded in 1930 by army officers. It was associated with a newspaper of that name. They were no fascists, but they advocated a etatist and corporative economy and were against political parties and the terror of the IMRO, the Macedonian liberation movement. Zveno was also close linked to the socalled Milltary League, a organisation that committed a coup in 1923, when they also killed prime minister Aleksandur 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 partiies and Trade Unions and they attacked the IMRO. The Zveno government introduced a corporatist economy, similar to that of Italy. King Boris III, an opponent of the Zveno, orchestrated a coup by a more monarchist Zveno member, General Pencho Zlatev, who became prime minister (January 1935). In April 1935 he was replaced by a civilian, Andrei Toshev, a monarchist.
In 1943 Zveno joined the Ant-Axis resistance movement, the Fatherland Front. In September 1944 the Fatherland Front committed a coup d'etat and Georgiev became prime minister and Vechev became minister of Defence. They signed a seize fire treaty with the Soviet Union. In 1946 Velchev resigned as a protest against the communists, and Georgiev was succeeded by the communist leader Georgi Dimitrov. Zveno continued to resist within the Fatherland Front, but it was now a puppet organisation. Later it disappeared.