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Lovech, a city in north-central Bulgaria, lies at the edge of the Balkan Mountains. The last and harshest of the major Communist labour camps was set up near an abandoned rock quarry outside the city. Until 1959, the camps had been spread across Bulgaria, but most were closed following Chervenkov's fall and the inmates transferred to Lovech ...
As a consequence of World War II, the Soviet Union invaded Bulgaria and a Communist regime was installed in 1946 with Georgi Dimitrov at the helm. The monarchy was abolished in 1946 and the tsar sent into exile. The People's Republic of Bulgaria was established, lasting until 1990. The Red Army remained in occupation of Bulgaria until 1947.
While the accession of Dobrudja was made by an international treaty that entered into force, the territorial changes in 1941 were left for a final decision after the war. In total, the territory of Bulgaria increased by 39,756 km2, and the population by 1,875,904 people, with Macedonia accounting for 23,807 km2 and 1,061,338 people. [8]
Massacres committed by Bulgaria (5 P) T. The Holocaust in Bulgaria (2 C, 12 P) W. World War I crimes by the Kingdom of Bulgaria (6 P) Pages in category "Bulgarian war ...
The treaties also obliged the various states to hand over accused war criminals to the Allied powers for war crimes trials. [ 2 ] The Paris Peace Treaties avoided taking into consideration the consequences of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact , whose secret clauses included the annexation of parts of Finland and Romania by the Soviet Union.
During World War II, the Allies committed legally proven war crimes and violations of the laws of war against either civilians or military personnel of the Axis powers.At the end of World War II, many trials of Axis war criminals took place, most famously the Nuremberg trials and Tokyo Trials.
This section includes war crimes which were committed from 7 December 1941 when the United States was attacked by Imperial Japan and entered World War II. For war crimes which were committed before this date, specifically for war crimes which were committed during the Second Sino-Japanese War, please see the section above which is titled 1937 ...
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 ...