Zveno 501707 225284445 2008-07-12T21:51:52Z Coyets 1644213 Category made more specific {{otheruses}} '''Zveno''' (''Link'') ({{lang-bg|Звено}}) was a [[Bulgaria]]n military and political organization, founded in [[1930]] by army officers. It was associated with a [[newspaper]] of that name. The ''Zveno'' members were not [[Fascism|Fascists]], but they advocated an [[Statism|etatist]] and [[Corporatism|corporative]] economy, and were against political parties and the terror of the [[IMRO]], the [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonian]] liberation movement. ''Zveno'' was also closely linked to the so-called ''Military League'', the organization behind a coup in [[1923]], responsible for killing [[List of Prime Ministers of Bulgaria|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 union]]s, and they openly attacked the IMRO. Their government introduced a corporatist economy, similar to that of in [[Benito Mussolini]]'s [[Italy]]. [[List of Bulgarian monarchs|King]] [[Boris III]], an opponent of ''Zveno'', orchestrated a coup through a monarchist ''Zveno'' member, General [[Petar Zlatev]], who became Prime Minister (January [[1935]]). In April 1935, he was replaced by a civilian, [[Andrei Toshev]], also a monarchist. In [[1943]] Zveno joined the Anti-[[Axis Powers|Axis]] resistance movement, the [[Fatherland Front (Bulgaria)|Fatherland Front]]. In September [[1944]] the Fatherland Front engineered a coup d'état, accompanied by an uprising, led by the [[Bulgarian Communist Party|Communists]]. Georgiev became Prime Minister and Vechev Minister of Defense, and they managed to sign a [[ceasefire]] agreement with the [[Soviet Union]]. In [[1946]], Velchev resigned in protest against the [[Bulgarian Communist Party]]'s actions, and Georgiev was succeeded by the communist leader [[Georgi Dimitrov]]. Zveno continued to resist within the Fatherland Front, but it was by then a puppet organization. It disappeared altogether in [[1949]]. [[Category:History of Bulgaria]] [[Category:Nationalist parties]] [[Category:Political parties in Bulgaria]] [[Category:Political parties established in 1930]] [[Category:Political parties disestablished in 1949]] [[bg:Звено]] [[es:Zveno]] [[fr:Zveno]] [[nl:Zveno]] [[pl:Zweno]]