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In 1990, the Bulgarian Communist Party set up an inquiry commission into the camps. It found that between 1944 and 1962 there were approximately 100 forced labour camps in a country of 8 million inhabitants. Between 1944 and 1953, some 12,000 men and women passed through these camps, with an additional 5,000 between 1956 and 1962.
Women working in a milk production plant in Ukraine, 1976. Beyond income equality, the transition increased the gender discrimination in workplaces. [28] [29] Many women left professional and managerial positions that women had occupied previously due to the ongoing removal of state childcare services in central and eastern European countries.
The Belene labour camp, also referred to as Belene concentration camp, was part of the network of forced labour camps in Communist Bulgaria. It was located on the Belene Island, between two branches of the Danube river. At the height of Valko Chervenkov's repressions in 1952, the camp had 2,323 inmates - 2,248 men and 75 women.
The Committee of the Bulgarian Women's Movement (CBWM) (Bulgarian: Komitet na bâlgarskite zheni, sometimes Committee of Bulgarian Women) [1] (1968–1990) was a government-affiliated organization in Bulgaria that aimed to improve women's participation in the labor force, decrease the declining birth rate, and promote gender equality during the Bulgarian socialist era.
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 ...
The family moved to Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, after the marriage where she began working in her husband's law office from June 1937. Zlatareva was elected to the National Assembly as a member of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union after the Communist coup d'état in 1944. She died on 19 August 1977. [2]
Bulgarian women's sport by year (15 C) B. Bulgarian princesses (26 P) L. Lists of Bulgarian women (3 P) W. Women of medieval Bulgaria (6 C) Women's organizations ...
1961 USSR stamp marking the 15th anniversary of the People's Republic of Bulgaria. The People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB; Bulgarian: Народна република България (НРБ), pronounced [nɐˈrɔdnɐ rɛˈpublikɐ bɐɫˈɡarijɐ] Narodna republika Bŭlgariya, NRB) was the official name of Bulgaria when it was a socialist republic from 1946 to 1990, ruled by the Bulgarian ...