On October 29, 1940, from the rostrum of the XXV Ordinary National Assembly, the deputy from the government majority, Gavril Lenkov, declared: "if it is necessary to enrage the speculators in Bulgaria, we are ready to legalize this sanction." The context of his threat is important. After the start of World War II in September 1939 ...
More »Other victims and victims of World War II
The number of Bulgarian victims and victims of World War II (1939-1945) was relatively small. After its beginning, the authorities sincerely tried to maintain neutrality, but on March 1, 1941, they joined as allies of Hitler's Germany, and at the end of the same year they declared a "symbolic war" on the USA and ...
More »The First Bulgarian Five-Year Plan
Five-year plan is the abbreviated name of the five-year plans, through which economic development is centrally controlled and planned under socialist conditions. That is why the socialist countries of Eastern Europe are often called countries with central planning, although five-year plans also exist outside the Eastern Bloc. The implementation of the economic goals set by the political leadership …
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