Proponents of Yugoslav irredentism included both
monarchists and
republicans. Days prior to Yugoslavia's creation in 1918, Yugoslavist politician
Svetozar Pribićević declared that Yugoslavia's borders should extend "from the
Soča up to
Salonika". Proposals in the interwar period to include Bulgaria within Yugoslavia, included claims by republicans that a republic was necessary for an Integral Yugoslavia with Bulgaria, while others claimed that a republic would not because Bulgaria at that time was a tsardom, and instead claimed that a limited
constitutional monarchy would be an appropriate form of state that could include Bulgaria within it. The militant movement
Zveno in
Bulgaria supported an Integral Yugoslavia that included Bulgaria as well as Albania within it. The Zveno movement participated in the
Bulgarian coup d'état of 1934, the coup supporters declared their intention to immediately form an alliance with
France and to seek the unification of Bulgaria into an Integral Yugoslavia. Once
World War II began, in 1940 General
Milan Nedić proposed that Yugoslavia join the
Axis powers and attack Greece to seize Salonika. During World War II, the British government supported the creation of a Greater Yugoslavia after the war due to opposition to the Bulgarian government's accession to the Axis Powers, in May 1941 endorsing Dr. Malcom Burr's paper in favour of the incorporation of Bulgaria into Yugoslavia after the war. In June 1945,
Josip Broz Tito declared that Yugoslavia had the right to have
Trieste and all of
Carinthia, including Austrian Carinthia, saying "We have liberated Carinthia but international conditions were such that we had to leave it temporarily. Carinthia is ours and we shall fight for it". Neither the
Soviet Union nor the Western Allies supported Yugoslav claims against Austria and Italy. Yugoslavia abandoned such claims after the 1948
Tito–Stalin split. In 1947, Tito and
Georgi Dimitrov planned for the eventual annexation of Bulgaria into the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, in the
Bled agreement, however such arrangements never came to fruition after the Tito-Stalin split, due to Bulgaria siding with the Soviet Union. == See also ==