Yugoslav Fascist Party: Zbor

Fascism and Nazism was not only prevelant in Italy and Germany in the run-up and during the Second World War. Zbor, officially known as the Yugoslav National Movement "Zbor," was a fascist political organization founded in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia during the interwar period. Established in 1935 by Dimitrije Ljotić, Zbor aimed to promote Serbian nationalism and fascism in opposition to the Yugoslav monarchy. Ljotić's party advocated for a centralized, authoritarian government, emphasizing the cultural and ethnic dominance of the Serbian people. Zbor's ideology was deeply rooted in the belief of a Greater Serbia, viewing the Yugoslav state as an obstacle to achieving this goal. The party was overtly anti-Semitic and anti-communist. After the Axis power had taken over Yugoslavia Zbor closely worked together with the Germans in the Serbian puppet government named Government of National Salvation. At war's end Ljotic died in a car accident. After WW2 the party was declared illegal by Tito's communist government.

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[guslar]

„Neither hitlerism, nor fascism. Only ZBOR!“
- Dimitrije Ljotić

[milanpavlovic]

A lot of it what was said is true. But it is a lie to say that Zbor was a Serb nationalist organization. It promoted an integral Yugoslav identity, and it can be said that it was a Yugoslav nationalist organisation. That was one of the reasons why Chetniks and Zbog were in conflict and didn't synthesize each other

[branimirkolarov]

1. Your pronunciation of zbor is pretty bad.

2. Zbor supported integral yugoslavism and was against any other "tribal" nationalism. Most of their supporters came from Dalmatia (not counting Germans and people in his home town of Smederevo, where he won votes not because of their policies but because of his surname (his father was famous radical leader and MP for smederevo electoral district during late 19th and early 20th century)). They change that during WW2.

3. Zbor was a monarchist organisation(they model themselves on franech action) but monarchy wasn't his biggest fan(When Ljotić proposed fascist style parlament to king Alexander he was immediately thrown out of the government). Just look at their wartime SDK badge (translation goes like this "with faith in God for King and Fatherland).

[pericles]

I have to correct you on few points my friend.
ZBOR and Ljotić weren't against the Yugoslav monarchy. Ljotić's family were close with the Karađorđević family, Ljotić knew king Alexander and was fiercly loyal to him.
They also werent fascists. They collaborated, for sure, and there were some among them who were close to fascist ideals or even believed in them. Ljotić however, wasnt a fascist.
He really had no idea of what fascism was, or if he did, he didnt want or didnt know how to implement it on Serbs. His ideology was Yugoslav integralism with strong Serbian orthodox cultural influence. (He talks about this in his book ''Laws of life''). His economic polices were agrarian and anti-capitalist, but also anti corporatist. He was also a strong Orthodox believer and his views on religion often mixed with his politics.

P.S He wasnt even a Serb.

[EkaBachtiarEffendiSitorus]

Im interesting about hungary 21 Century communist party because the logo was cool

[chrishanzek]

Videos of Austrian and Romanian fascism would be nice.

[ciba]

What about Yugoslav Radical Union Jugoslovenska radikalna zajednica led by milan stojadinovič and dragiša cvetkovič?

[HawkThunder]

I reject any extremism for my country. All I want is to preserve my country. I cant like these guys, even if they had good intentions for serbdom.

[gibraltersteamboatco]

👍Thanks BZ
Vi mrtvi niste: I believe at Tito's behest, that was corrected.

[milansimonovic]

Well Ljotić was ideologicly a Nazi, he beleved that the white race should rule them all, but he was politician, his paramilitaries were mostly formed to hunt down communists, and they were prety bad at it. So after the war they mostly fleed whit Mihajlovićes JVuO to England. And when they were found that they were Ljotićes man they were deported to Germani, where Titoa communists kill them all. But Tito spend a lot of money and resurses tracking down some bad soldiers while the Croats got a free pass, and most of them lived in luxurie in South America. Now there is something you should investigate. Why didn't Tito hunt down Croats but only Serbs? And Mihajlovićes men in Britania were off limits for Titos communists.