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Coup d'état of May 1934Chapters 15 16

• By Malea Martin

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• Zveno, which opposed liberal democratic
  government and classical liberalism.
• The Zveno members were not Fascists, but they
  advocated a corporative economy and were against
  political parties and the terror of the Internal
  Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), the
  Macedonian liberation movement.
• The Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union (BANU)

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• May 19th, 1934 the military league made the
  expected coup and established control over the
  country with relative ease.
• Kimon Gheorghiev who was a member of Zveno became
  Prime Minister.

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• It was not just a change of cabinets, it was a
  change of regime.
• Decrees were put in place to ban political
  parties.
• Censorship of the press.
• Friendly relations with Yugoslavia were
  strengthened.
• The most courageous measure was banning the IMRO.

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• In September 1934 the King Queen of Yugoslavia
  went on a official state visit to Bulgaria.
  Tensions were high and King Boris took many
  measures to ensure the safety of the King
  Queen. He even went as far as to send several
  hundred Macedonians and extreme Bulgarian
  nationalist out of Sofia.
• Hardly one month after the Visit to Bulgaria,
  King Alexander was assassinated in France. If
  this had happened in Bulgaria, and not France
  another Balkan war may not have been avoided.

King Alexander
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