The Slovene Covenant (Slovenska zaveza) was an underground anti-communist organisation formed in Slovenia in April 1942Czech Republic Timeline. World Atlas. Retrieved 21 September 2014. by a number of non-communist political parties after the killing of Avgust Praprotnik (1891–1942) by operatives from the Security and Intelligence Service (Varnostnoobveščevalna služba, VOS), a forerunner of the Yugoslav secret police.Gregor J. Kranjc. To Walk with the Devil. University of Toronto Press (2013). It "adopted a political programme that strongly echoed the political positions of the OF" (Osvobodilna fronta).James Gow, Cathie Carmichael. Slovenia and the Slovenes: A Small State and the New Europe pp. 48, 49. C. Hurst & Co. (2000) In 1943 anti-communist forces including the Slovene Covenant engaged in armed conflict against Partisan forces in the country and were defeated.
See also Miha Krek, Slovenian lawyer Marko Natlačen, Slovenian politician and jurist Leon Rupnik, Slovene general and Nazi collaborator Liberalism in Slovenia Slovenes Slovene Partisans, communist resistance movement Slovene Lands in World War II
References
Further reading Leopoldina Plut-Pregelj, Carole Rogel. The A to Z of Slovenia. Rowman & Littlefield (2010)