Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Fascism ya zama mai tasiri a Bulgaria a cikin shekarun 1930, lokacin da dimokiradiyya ta majalisar dokoki ta gaza. A watan Mayu
1934 Bulgarian juyin mulki ya aiwatar da kungiyar soja ta Zveno, tare da taimakon Sojojin Bulgaria, wanda ya soke jam'iyyun siyasa gaba daya. A sakamakon haka karamar Jam'iyyar Socialist Workers Party ta Bulgaria ta ɓace. Koyaya a watan Afrilu na 1935, an maye gurbin jami'an da Tsar Boris. Tun daga wannan lokacin, Tsar ya yanke shawarar karɓar iko a hannunsa, yayin da aka gudanar da zaɓe a cikin 1939 a kan tushen da ba na jam'iyya ba. Wannan wani irin "sarauta ce ta mulkin kama karya" kamar wadda Alexander I na Yugoslavia ya kafa tsakanin 1929 da 1931. A cikin 1940, lokacin da Bulgaria ta shiga cikin sabon yaƙin a gefen Axis, an kafa tsarin ta hanyar ƙirƙirar ƙungiyar matasa masu fasikanci da ake kira Brannik. Duk da cewa kungiyar ta zama babba a lambobi, Bulgaria ba ta haɓaka tsarin tattalin arziƙin kamfanoni da ke da mahimmanci ga fasikanci ba kuma ba a ƙirƙiri takwarorinsu na manya kamar ƙungiyoyin kwadago ko 'yan bindiga ba. Farfagandar anti-Yahudawa a hankali ta tsananta a Bulgaria wanda ya haifar da gabatar da dokar antisemitic. Boris III ya ji tsoron amfani da waɗannan ƙungiyoyi a matsayin hanyar matsa lamba daga Jamus kuma ya nemi iyakance hulɗarsu da jami'an Jamus. Boris ya mutu a shekarar 1943 kuma an maye gurbinsa da majalisar mai mulki, yayin da ita kanta aka hambarar da ita a shekara mai zuwa, wanda ya sa kasar ta kasance tare da Allies. A watan Satumbar 1944, Zveno da anti-Axis Fatherland Front sun tsara wani sabon juyin mulki. Don haka, fasikanci ya tabbatar da rashin nasara a Bulgaria fiye da WWII Romania, Hungary, Croatia ko Serbia.