Word: bagrianoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Premiers: stodgy, Naziphile Dobri Boshiloff; vacillating Ivan Bagrianoff, who took Bulgaria out of the war last August, sent armistice delegates to Egypt only to have Russia declare war on his country before peace could be made with Britain...
...court, which sat in the big hall of the University of Sofia, former deputies were indicted for supporting pro-fascist governments. At the other, which sat in the big courtroom of the Palace of Justice, regents, royal councilors and ministers, among them ex-Premiers Bogdan Filoff, Ivan Bagrianoff and Konstantin Muravieff, were charged with "crimes against the Bulgarian people." Among the crimes: signing the Three-Power [Axis] Pact, sending Bulgarian armies against Yugoslavia and Greece, declaring war against the U.S. and Britain, abolishing the people's rights and passing anti-Semitic laws. Among the accusers: the ghosts of hundreds...
...terms-terms that would let them remain neutral, keep their German-given gains in Greece and Yugoslavia, protect German soldiers and weapons still in Bulgaria. But Moscow growled: "Bulgarian ruse . . . false maneuvers . . . subterfuge and secret connivance with the Germans! . . ." Down crashed the government of artful Prime Minister Ivan Bagrianoff. To the helm in Sofia went a Russophile cabinet headed by a leftist Peasant leader, Constantine Muraviev...
...Said Bagrianoff: "The majority of the Bulgarian people never wanted to interfere in a large-scale conflict between great powers. The Government declares it fully recognizes this. It is determined to remove all obstacles that stand in the way of the Bulgarian people's love for peace...
Clearly Premier Bagrianoff was running, not walking, toward the nearest exit-Russia...