ZBOR

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Jugoslovenski narodni pokret "Zbor" (Yugoslav National Movement "Zbor", commonly known as ZBOR) was the name of the fascist movement, formed in 1935 by Dimitrije Ljotić through the merger of a number of right-wing nationalist parties.

ZBOR copied the more successful movements in Italy and Germany at that time, and it was created as a reaction to the Great Depression which had greatly affected the Yugoslavia. The party was not successful at the ballot box. As their counterparts in the West, ZBOR organised their own paramilitary wing, known under the name Ljotićevci. The main targets of the ZBOR were communists (the Communist Party of Yugoslavia).

ZBOR party tried to create an alliance with the Nazy Germany before the start of World War II. After the defeat of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1941, it party placed itself in complete service to the German occupation forces, and soon creates its own military arm Serbian Volunteer Corps (Srpski dobrovoljački korpus), which was the kernel of the Serbian military force in Nedić's Serbia.