Word: bogdan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BOGDAN RADITSA...
...last week that all but the troops involved were left behind the rush of events. It was spring-the season of German invasions of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark and Norway. One day the only Nazis in Bulgaria were a few scattered thousands in mufti. Next day Bulgarian Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff had signed with the Axis in Vienna and Bulgarian roads were jammed with mechanized Nazi columns. Within 48 hours the grey-green uniformed vanguard had rumbled 175 miles to villages in the Struma Valley a few miles from the mountainous Greek frontier which is only 55 miles from Salonika...
...under their raincoats, suddenly turned up at Sofia's best hotel. Later they stood at the hotel windows and stared at a mob of student patriots who were shouting slogans against Nazi occupation. At Sofia's biggest theatre Nazi diplomats gave a party for Bulgarian Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff and his Cabinet. What the Nazis showed their guests were films of Hitler's conquest of France-the same kind of films the Nazis showed in Norway, The Netherlands and Belgium a few days before taking those countries over...
...peace-loving, pro-Russian farmers-scarcely knew what to think. They heard that schools were being shut down for fear of epidemics: but no one was sick. It frightened them to learn that Joseph Stalin had notified Bulgaria he would do nothing to resist German penetration. When Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff, on the first anniversary of forming his Cabinet, filled the only important Cabinet post to their way of thinking (the Ministry of Agriculture) with a notorious pro-German, Dmitri Kuscheff, it bewildered them: had not shrewd Ivan Bagrian-off been eased out of the same job for the very...
...Only for Bulgaria." At week's end, the worried conferences which Bogdan Filoff had had with his King and his Cabinet bore fruit. He went to Russe, on the Danube, just opposite the spot where the Germans were supposed to be most heavily concentrated. There he made a speech in which he voiced the sentiments of Boris...