Word: bulgaria
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...necessary, the Big Three powers reserve the right to intervene in the affairs of liberated countries (as Britain did in Greece) until the people of those countries can "create the democratic institutions of their own choice." The Big Three's words presumably applied to Russia's sphere (Bulgaria, Rumania, etc.): "They jointly declare their mutual agreement to concert, during the temporary period of instability in liberated Europe, the policies of their three Governments in assisting the peoples liberated from the domination of Nazi Germany, and the peoples of the former Axis satellite states of Europe, to solve...
Under the guns of the Red Army, Bulgarian justice moved swiftly. In Sofia the trials of the war criminals ended with a bang-of rifles. Hardly had the "People's Courts" pronounced sentence on the "enemies of the people" for "dragging" Bulgaria into war than the firing squads lined up. In the jampacked square before Sofia's Palace of Justice a crowd of 150,000 wildly cheered the news that the 100 death sentences were "without appeal," would be carried out "immediately." The condemned had just time to make brief preparation for eternity before they were sent there...
...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...
...jail for life, with confiscation of property and a fine of 3,000,000 leva ($36,000 at prewar rates), went Bulgaria's last war Premier, Konstantin Muravieff, Agrarian and liberal, who landed Bulgaria in a three-day war with Russia while trying to remain neutral. Forty-nine Deputies received jail terms...
...reports were true, when a small British liberating force landed in Dalmatia last November, Marshal Tito disarmed them and threatened them with internment. Then London ordered them to withdraw. Now people close to Tito were talking about a Yugoslav Federation which would include Albania, parts of Greece and Bulgaria...