Liberators or Occupiers?

http://www.mycentury.tv/bulgaria/140-qliberators-twiceq-q-q.html

Bulgaria and Russia are marching in one column under the banner of labour..." goes this song. The march was a favourite of the Soviet Army Group in Bulgaria.

In September 1944 the Red Army crossed the Danube and entered Bulgaria.

It ignored the announcement of the Bulgarian government that it was withdrawing unilaterally from the Axis, pulling its troops out of Greece and Yugoslavia, and then declared war on Germany, hoping to avoid a Soviet occupation.

By the time the Red Army entered Sofia on 16th September 1944, the Bulgarian capital was already firmly in the hands of Communists militias. The army presence enabled the Bulgarian Communists to later seize power and establish a Communist state.

One of the first tasks for Soviet Power in Bulgaria was to establish continuity between the XIX Century Russian presence in Bulgaria and its new rulers. The myth of the "Dual Liberators" was born.

The new administration was equally harsh towards all within Bulgaria's borders. Thousands of "White Russians" lived in Bulgaria after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Legally, they were not Soviet citizens, some of them had Bulgarian passports, others the so called "Nansen Passports" (as stateless people in need of protection), issued by the League of Nations.

Similarly to the post-1945 practice across Eastern Europe, some of those Russians were taken to the Soviet Union, others to Bulgaria's Forced Labour Camps: first the Kutsiyan Mine near the town of Pernik, later to Bulgaria's largest "Gulag" on the Danubian island of Persin.

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JohnyJKLV

(4 weeks ago)

Soviets were invaders in Bulgaria as well as in Baltic States. What kind of liberator is that who takes over the independent country using brute force and does terrible atrocities against the population? If Russians call those kind of actions a liberation...

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nordpolarius

(1 month ago)

daaaa vot eto da.ti prov sevas.

well so we were occupators?well thx for ur good words.that should be a good lesson for us in the future

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trallalito

(2 months ago)

In 1977-78 the Russian army was a liberator. In 1944 Red Army occupies. The Soviet Union declared war on Bulgaria, occupied, overthrew a sovereign Bulgarian government and put at the head of the Bulgarian state of their agents. Simple historical truth. The rest is stinking propaganda.

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brankonastas

(3 months ago)

komunisti nesu rusi ja san iz zo slovakie a najviac zla nam spravili nasi vlastny komunisti ...a tak ako smo my trpeli pod komunistami tak rovnako rusi trpeli pod svojimi komustami ...aj rusi umierali v gulagoch ....ceskoslovensko neokupovali rusi ale komunisticke cervene svine ,,,,inak aj bulhari tu boli

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ElizaNik wrote:

Sevas ...Ruskie ne voevali v Bolgaria, ani okupirali nasha starana, a patom ubili nad 30 000 chelovek in komunisticheskie konclageri!!!! S ruskaya pomasht.Ponyal seichas ?? Tak kak ruskie ubivali na Vengriu 56, na Chehoslovakia 68 na Germania 53...

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andre3084471

не верь тем кто говорит, что русские для болгар оккупанты, в России тоже масса дерьмоедов, это же не значит, что русские думают так, как они в постах пишут

[pav400]

OCCUPIERS!

[BulgariaXXVek]

...Similarly to the post-1945 practice across Eastern Europe, some of those Russians were taken to the Soviet Union, others to Bulgaria's Forced Labour Camps: first the Kutsiyan Mine near the town of Pernik, later to Bulgaria's largest "Gulag" on the Danubian island of Persin.

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NB ... Thousands of "White Russians" lived in Bulgaria after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Legally, they were not Soviet citizens, some of them had Bulgarian passports, others the so called "Nansen Passports" (as stateless people in need of protection), issued by the League of Nations.

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BulgariaXXVek

(6 months ago)

Запутывание России с Советским Союзом, "классовый подход", к лучшему пониманию Восточной Европы не приведёт.