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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is a list of Bulgarian generals from the period of the Principality (1878–1908) and Kingdom (1908–1946). The year each became a general is given in parentheses. The year each became a general is given in parentheses.
(1887–1908) 8 Konstantin Stoilov 1853–1901 (Lived: 47 years) 10 July 1887 1 September 1887 53 days Conservative Party — Stoilov I 9 Stefan Stambolov
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.
That said, not all of Hollywood's vets served in World War II and Korea. Several, in fact, served in just the last few years, including 34-year-old Adam Driver ("Star Wars") and 48-year-old Rob ...
Todor Aleksandrov (1881–1924), revolutionary and leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, national hero of Bulgaria Vladimir Vazov (1868–1945), general and war hero Elin Pelin (1877–1949), considered as the best Bulgarian narrator