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The government of the Kingdom of Bulgaria under Prime Minister Georgi Kyoseivanov declared a position of neutrality upon the outbreak of World War II. Bulgaria was determined to observe it until the end of the war; but it hoped for bloodless territorial gains in order to recover the territories lost in the Second Balkan War and World War I, as well as gain other lands with a significant ...
Bulgarian partisans enter Sofia on 9 September. Bulgaria was in a precarious situation, still in the sphere of Nazi Germany's influence (as a former member of the Axis powers, with German troops in the country despite the declared Bulgarian neutrality 15 days earlier), but under threat of war with the leading military power of that time, the Soviet Union (the USSR had declared war on the ...
During World War II, Zhivkov participated in Bulgaria's resistance movement in the People's Liberation Insurgent Army. In 1943, he was involved in organising the Chavdar partisan detachment in and around his place of birth, becoming deputy commander of the Sofia operations area in the summer of 1944.
The red and black flag used by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and more broadly by supporters of an autonomous or independent Macedonia. The Independent State of Macedonia [a] was a proposed puppet state of Nazi Germany during the Second World War in the territory of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia that had been occupied by the Tsardom of Bulgaria following the invasion of ...
This is a list of the heads of government of the modern Bulgarian state, from the establishment of the Principality of Bulgaria to the present day. List of officeholders [ edit ]
On 10 September 1944, the government of the Fatherland Front announced the disbandment of the police, gendarmerie, the dissolution of fascist organizations and the creation of a people's militia. Also, it was announced the creation of the Bulgarian People's Army , which included fighters of the NOVA partisan detachments and combat groups of the ...
Under these circumstances, the leader of the "Ratnik" (Warrior) group, Prof. Assen Kantardzhiev, tried to call to convince the commander of the Fifth Army, Gen. Kocho Stoyanov, to march on Sofia and establish military rule in the country, overthrowing the government and making Alexander Tsankov prime minister. [26]
The government of the Kingdom of Bulgaria under Prime Minister Bogdan Filov declared a position of neutrality upon the outbreak of World War II. Bulgaria was determined to observe it until the end of the war but it hoped for bloodless territorial gains, especially in the lands with a significant Bulgarian population occupied by neighbouring ...