Despite decreeing their loyalty to the Monarchy and King Boris III of Bulgaria he officially dissolved the organisation in April 1939 . The ban however was not enforced and they remained in existence . It was soon after the ban that they carried out one of their more notorious acts , the so-called " Bulgarian Kristallnacht " when , on September 20 , 1939 , the Ratniks marched in Sofia throwing stones at the Jewish shops . Police did not intervene and some shop windows were smashed although ultimately it proved to have much less impact than the German version and was widely condemned by most politicians . Alexander Belev , a leading member of the group , later claimed that the attack had been his idea and that he had personally led the mob
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Ratniks