The Fatherland Front was originally a Bulgaria

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n political resistance movement

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 during World War II

World War II

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. The Zveno

Zveno

Zveno was a Bulgarian military and political organization, founded in 1927 by army officers. It was associated with a newspaper of that name....

 movement, the communist Bulgarian Workers Party, a wing of the Agrarian Union and the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party, were all 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. However, the Bulgarian Communist Party

Bulgarian Communist Party

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 began to dominate soon. In 1944, after the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 had declared war on Bulgaria, the FF committed a coup d'état

Bulgarian coup d'état of 1944

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 and they declared war on Germany, Italy and the other Axis

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 nations. The FF government, headed by Kimon Georgiev

Kimon Georgiev

Colonel General Kimon Georgiev Stoyanov was a Bulgarian general and prime minister.Born at Pazardzhik, Kimon Georgiev graduated from the Sofia military academy in 1902. He participated in the Balkan Wars as a company commander and in the First World War as a commander of a battalion. In 1916 he...

 (Zveno), immediately signed a ceasefire

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 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

Georgi Dimitrov

Georgi Dimitrov Mikhaylov , also known as Georgi Mikhaylovich Dimitrov , was a Bulgarian Communist politician...

, a communist, and Bulgaria became a People's Republic

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. Most of the parties within the Front ceased to exist, but it became a mass organisation (popular front

Popular front

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) for the communists, with the Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union

Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union

Bulgarian Agrarian National Union also tiranslated to English as Bulgarian Agrarian People's Union is a political party devoted to representing the causes of the Bulgarian peasantry. It was most powerful between 1900 and 1923. In practice, it was an agrarian movement...

 as a remaining member of the Front. With the end of Communism in 1989 it was dissolved. One of the former Chairmen of the National Council was Encho Staikov. Pencho Kubadinski was Chairman of the National Council 1974-1989.