Bulgaria at war with Britain, America and Yugoslavs. Sutjeska - Part 2

This is part 2 of the video and description.

Part 1 of the video and description is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R3qEEHtwAQ

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This video clip deals with two issues - Bulgaria's savage war with the Macedonian and Yugoslav resistance, and the Wests interpretation of those events.

Bulgaria joined the Nazi pact convinced that the Nazis would win the war. This unshakable belief in Nazi victory gave Bulgarians the green light to commit some of the most unspeakable crimes against humanity, including the Holocaust. With the victory of the Allies the Bulgarians ended up with much egg on their faces. Bulgarians now had to explain themselves and their actions during WWII before the rest of the civilised world.

Today Bulgarian historians argue that they were merely victims of treaties made over their heads and that Bulgaria was unwillingly sucked into the vortex of Nazism. Bulgarians even claim that they liberated certain lands and only babysitted them until the end of the war.

This Bulgarian attitude came about when Bulgarian communists buried those fragments of their WWII history that didn't fit their agenda. Those fragments had to be forgotten because they contradicted the idealism of their big historical picture - the international socialist revolution. Such wholesale erasure of Bulgarias Nazi past would require at least a degree of collusion from other communist regimes.

The outcome of this policy of burying the lessons of the past is the danger of repeating the same mistakes. Most Bulgarians are completely unaware of the full extent of the horrors committed by their predecessors in Macedonia, Greece and former Yugoslavia. Even the Bulgarian Wikipedia entry on WWII focuses primarily on events from 1944 onwards.

The notion of Bulgaria as a victim in WWII is not consistent with western historiography and the literature of the day. See my channel background for a newspaper article published in the Independent State of Croatia detailing Bulgaria's intense fighting with the Yugoslav Bolsheviks around Durmitor during WWII.

This video clip elaborates on other events at Durmitor at the time. Durmitor is where Sir William Deakin, an authoritative British historian and literary assistant to Winston Churchill, met with Tito and the Partisans as part of Operation Typical. Little did Sir Deakin realise that he leapt right into what would later be known as the Battle of Sutjeska, or the Fifth Offensive, or Operation Schwarz.

As a representative of the British GHQ Sir Deakin observed what you see in this video clip and reported his astonishment with the Yugoslav Partisan resistance back to Churchill. This advice was crucial in Churchill's decision to support Tito later in the war. Deakin would return to Montenegro in 1963 to conduct research for his memoir "The Embattled Mountain," the title referring to Mount Durmitor where Deakin and Tito's army had been pursued by German, Italian and Bulgarian forces.

In this video Tito makes reference to the large numbers of Italian and Bulgarian forces heading towards them, because of which Tito had to postpone the intended Partisan advancement into Serbia and Macedonia. The Germans in this video also point out the involvement of Bulgarian troops in the Sutjeska battle.

The Bulgarians had a huge interest in ensuring the defeat of the Yugoslav Partisans, at any and all costs. Prior to the arrival of Tito's emissary Tempo to Macedonia, the Macedonian resistance was severely compromised by Metodija Shatorlov - Sharlo who went AWOL after refusing to classify the Bulgarian Nazis as occupiers or invaders of Macedonia and Yugoslavia. Sharlo initially headed the Macedonian Communist Party but defected to the Bulgarian camp after the Bulgarian invasion. Sharlo's Bulgarian bias crippled the Macedonian resistance until Tempo arrived in Macedonia to sort things out. Tito's arrival in Macedonia would have significantly bolstered the Macedonian resistance. This is why Bulgarian Nazis hunted Yugoslav Partisans with a vengeance.

It was only a matter of time before the Macedonian resistance figured out that they could not rely on the Bulgarians for genuine support, and instead look to the Yugoslav Partisans. This likelihood of events petrified the Bulgarians. Bulgarian Nazis participated in Sutjeska to ensure that a connection could not be established between Tito and the Macedonian Partisans.

Bulgaria's dream to revive San Stefano Bulgaria involved making Macedonia "purely Bulgarian" by force, which included brutal reprisals against Macedonian civilians. Ultimately the pursuit of San Stefano Bulgaria caused the Bulgarians to confiscate the wealth of over 7000 Macedonian Jews in 1943 and to send them to the extermination camps.

Bulgaria has still not apologised to Macedonia for it's crimes against humanity, or to Israel for that matter. Many Bulgarians are still in denial about Bulgaria's role in WWII.

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[efir2]

Oh I see you have new things @BulgariaWWII. Refreshing! And you just keep proving my point - you are this time openly glorifying the Yugoslav communists in general and Tito in particular. I understand why you are doing this - he's THE MAKER, but what does this movie has to do with Bulgaria. The German officer in the beginning mentioned a single Bulgarian regiment (that's what -2-3 000 people) out of 120 000 troops. Were we really the focus of the clip?

[thracianglad]

That's wait you if you are against Bulgaria =)

[ExTReM3BG]

you should take extremly good drugs. Nothing from what you write is true

[juverado1]

@nanculito za koeto me e sram

[misswtfable]

Ше бъдем немски жандарми-защо не?Да си проливаме кръвта за шибаните гърци и югословени- не, благодаря!А за злострствата- сърби и гърци натвориха много повече злострства!

[TheJuvelir]

retarded serbs

[mars3005]

@Wiligot Тъпанарино, вие сте били и ще си останете българи но за жалост с промите мозъзци от сръбските тайни служби.Тито ви създаде такива, каквито сте днес, безродници.Вие нямате родина към днесшна дата, а сте принадлежали към Майка България.

[patzoSF]

koito ni mrazi pod nas da lazi !

[nanculito]

youtube.com/watch?v=ggEbwJw_C5­0

[bato223305]

смрт за татри фашисти

[nanculito]

@Wiligot прочети малко странична литература за да се пообразоваш и дано един ден от устите ви да се отрони едно благодаря

rdsc.md.government.bg/BG/About­/VoennaIstoria/3_08.php

[nanculito]

@Wiligot също не отчиташ и факта че български партизани са ви помагали и са ви снабдявали с оръжие, след като обявяваме война на Германия и се оттегляме от Македония и Гърция правителството официално поема тази задача, да сформира партизански отряди и да го обучава на наша територия. След което тези партизани и нашата армия ви освобождават от немците, но вие много услужливо за сърбите пропускате този факт, че освен ваши партизани са участвали у български войски в освобождаването ви!