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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 ...
Bulgaria was allied with the Nazis during World War II. [6] In 1941 Bulgaria passed the “ Law for the Protection of the Nation ,” which eliminated the civil rights of Bulgarian Jews. [ 1 ] In 1941, Bulgaria also supported the Germans in the invasion of the Balkans, occupied most of Eastern Yugoslavia, and deported up to 20,000 Jews from ...
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.
(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
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 ...
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 ...
Bulgaria, recuperating from the Balkan Wars, sat out the first year of World War I, but when Germany promised to restore the boundaries of the Treaty of San Stefano, Bulgaria, which had the largest army in the Balkans, declared war on Serbia in October 1915. Britain, France and Italy then declared war on Bulgaria.