The National Social Movement was a minor Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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n political party

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 formed in 1932 by Aleksandar Tsankov

Aleksandar Tsankov

Aleksander Tsolov Tsankov was a leading Bulgarian right wing politician between the two World Wars.-Biography:...

.

Although a member of the governing People's Bloc of Nikola Mushanov

Nikola Mushanov

Nikola Stoykov Mushanov was a Bulgarian liberal politician who served as Prime Minister and leader of the Democratic Party....

, Tsankov had come to be a strong admirer of Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

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 and as a result he set up the NSM to offer a version of Nazism

Nazism

Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...

. The group avowedly preached its own idea of 'social nationalism' which for Tsankov involved support of a national workers' syndicate

Syndicate

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 against class struggle

Class struggle

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. The party itself failed to find much favour (despite gathering a reasonable following, particularly amongst the urban youth), although its formation helped to speed up the collapse of the coalition government. The group did gain some following in 1934 when a number of members left 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....

 to join other groups, including the NSM. However, under orders from Boris III

Boris III of Bulgaria

Boris III the Unifier, Tsar of Bulgaria , originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver , son of Ferdinand I, came to the throne in 1918 upon the abdication of his father, following the defeat of the Kingdom of Bulgaria during World War I...

, the government of Pencho Zlatev moved against the far right

Far right

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 groups and as a result the NSM was put down.

The group maintained links with Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany

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, as evidenced by the appointment of Tsankov to the leadership of a government in exile in 1944, although it did not gain power.