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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 ...
Boris III (Bulgarian: Борѝс III ; Boris Treti; 30 January [O.S. 18 January] 1894 – 28 August 1943), originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver (Boris Clement Robert Mary Pius Louis Stanislaus Xavier), [a] was the Tsar of the Kingdom of Bulgaria from 1918 until his death in 1943.
Aligned with Nazi Germany during World War II (1939–1945), [76] [79] mainly out of a desire to increase Bulgarian territory. [79] Bulgaria participated in the invasions of Yugoslavia and Greece, [78] though Boris refused to send Bulgarian soldiers to aid the German invasion of Russia. [76] His government oversaw the Holocaust in Bulgaria.
Under his father, Bulgaria joined the Axis powers in World War II but managed to preserve diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Still, on 5 September 1944 Stalin declared war on Bulgaria and three days later, the Red Army entered the country without encountering resistance.
This is a list of the heads of the modern Bulgarian state, from the establishment of the Principality of Bulgaria to the present day. It also lists the general secretaries of the Bulgarian Communist Party in 1948–1990. From 1948 onwards, the general secretary was the country's de facto chief executive.
Bulgarian Communist Party: Kolarov I–II BKP–BZNS: 1949: 34 Valko Chervenkov (1900–1980) 23 January 1950 Acting until 3 February 1950: 17 April 1956 6 years, 85 days Bulgarian Communist Party: Chervenkov BKP–BZNS: 1953: Georgi Damyanov
He was the second longest-serving leader in the Eastern Bloc, the longest-serving leader within the Warsaw Pact and the longest-serving non-royal ruler in Bulgarian history. [1] 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 ...
The Holocaust in Bulgaria was the persecution of Jews between 1941 and 1944 in the Kingdom of Bulgaria and their deportation and annihilation in the Bulgarian-occupied regions of Yugoslavia and Greece during World War II, arranged by the Nazi Germany-allied government of Tsar Boris III and prime minister Bogdan Filov. [41]