Bulgarian communists (their Workers' Party renamed to Communist Party) consolidated their leading role in the Fatherland Front coalition, reduced its members from 5 to 2 political parties (together with the Agrarian Union) and led the country consecutively and gradually on the pathway to socialism (after the Soviet model), enforced through totalitarianism. The former opposition parties were made illegal and personal and political enemies of the communists were either killed or put in labour camps.