Zveno

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Zveno (Bulgarian: Звено, lit. 'link'), Politicheski krag "Zveno", officially Political Circle "Zveno" was a Bulgarian political organization that was founded in 1930 by Bulgarian politicians, intellectuals and Bulgarian Army officers and was associated with a newspaper with the same name. As a palingenetic nationalist movement, Zveno advocated for the rationalization of Bulgaria's economic and political institutions under a dictatorship that would be independent of both the Soviet Union and the Axis powers. It strongly opposed the Bulgarian party system, which it saw as dysfunctional, and the terror of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), the liberation movement of the Bulgarian Macedonians. Zveno was also closely linked to the so-called Military League, the organisation behind a coup in 1923 that was responsible for killing Prime Minister Aleksandar Stamboliyski. In 1934, officers supporting Zveno like Colonel Damyan Velchev and Colonel Kimon Georgiev seized power...

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