In February parliament agrees to dispatch a non-combat guard unit. The six were found guilty of deliberately infecting Libyan children with the HIV virus. They are repatriated to Bulgaria under a deal with the European Union.
Interior Minister Rumen Petkov resigns over police officers accused of passing state secrets to alleged crime bosses.
Government reshuffled in order to combat organised crime and wave of contract killings. Ambassador to Germany, Meglena Plugchieva, appointed deputy prime minister without portfolio to oversee use of EU funds. France and Germany block Bulgaria from joining the Schengen passport-free zone, saying it still needs to make "irreversible progress" in fight against corruption and organised crime. Hezbollah itself denies the allegation. Prime Minister Borisov resigns after 14 people are injured in clashes with police at anti-austerity protests.
He is tasked with organising fresh elections. The Socialists provide parliamentary support for a technocratic government headed by Plamen Oresharski. Parliament reverses the appointment but anti-government demonstrations continue. Rumours of liquidity shortfalls cause panic and runs on major banks. Image source, Getty Images. He even witnessed the early years of democracy. He had great hopes for Bulgaria's future.
He died in , at the age of almost I remember an old man who liked to sit in a chair facing the sea. He never talked to me about the war, only about how the Black Sea froze so thoroughly in the s that he could walk on the ice. Its orientation towards the West has not cooled its ties to Russia, neither emotionally nor economically.
After , the monopoly of power of the Bulgarian Communist Party was dissolved, but the power did not change hands from the elite. Bulgaria still has a long way to go in coming to terms with its own past. Fleeing through Bulgaria seemed like a possibility, so in , he dared the escape but was captured. Ruth Ur, the director of the German section of Yad Vashem, Israel's official Holocaust memorial, tells DW why a fresh perspective on remembrance work is more important than ever — even during the coronavirus crisis.
Several states in central and southeastern Europe are using the COVID crisis to undermine the principles and institutions upholding the rule of law. First among them is Hungary.
Visit the new DW website Take a look at the beta version of dw. Go to the new dw. More info OK. Wrong language? Change it here DW. COM has chosen English as your language setting. COM in 30 languages. Acceleration of domestic war protests by the BCP in led to an internal crackdown on dissident activities of both the right and left. In the next three years, thousands of Bulgarians went to concentration and labor camps. The German eastern front received virtually no aid from Bulgaria, a policy justified by the argument that Bulgarian troops had to remain at home to defend the Balkans against Turkish or Allied attack.
Hitler reluctantly accepted this logic. Boris's stubborn resistance to committing troops was very popular at home, where little war enthusiasm developed. Nazi pressure to enforce anti-Jewish policies also had little support in Bulgarian society. Early in the war, laws were passed for restriction and deportation of the 50, Bulgarian Jews, but enforcement was postponed using various rationales.
No program of mass deportation or extermination was conducted in Bulgaria. In the summer of , Boris died suddenly at age 49, leaving a three-man regency ruling for his six-year-old son, Simeon. Because two of the three regents were figureheads, Prime Minister Bogdan Filov, the third regent, became de facto head of state in this makeshift structure. The events of also reversed the military fortunes of the Axis, causing the Bulgarian government to reassess its international position.
Over the three months that followed thousands were killed — intellectuals, representatives of the administration and of the economic elite. According to unofficial data, 20, — 40, were killed without trial or sentence. Note that the atrocities and the killing only started after September 12, , i.
Because if someone had killed my brother, I would be the first to go out and seek him out. Pretence had to be made of some sort of gigantic act of heroism, of battles taking place so as to justify the massacre of thousands.
And the killing was not confined to people who had perpetrated real crimes; all potential opponents were killed — social democrats, agrarians and not just people with right-of-centre beliefs. Someone gave the order, I cannot say who. Petar Dertliev said in On October 28, an armistice was signed in Moscow, by force of which Bulgaria officially joined the Allies and was obligated to turn its troops over to Soviet command against Germany.
In point of fact, as of 9 September the Bulgarian soldiers had been fighting against the Germans. Bulgaria had to give over to the Soviet troops fuel, food and anything else they needed. In practical terms, the armistice lent legitimacy to the status quo — a country under Soviet Army occupation.
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