Word: bulgaria
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Typical of the Balkan reversal was Marshal Tito's new role. Having fought for years to get the Germans out of Yugoslavia, he was now mobilizing all his forces to prevent the enemy from escaping. Coming to help him were the Russians, who had rolled past Sofia across Bulgaria to within 200 miles of the Adriatic. If an Allied landing now followed in the Balkans, the Germans left in Greece and the Aegean would be cut off, like the Germans in southwest France. Then Yugoslavia and the Hungarian plains would offer Allied armies an open invitation to Budapest...
...third day of the war the Red Army crossed the Danube and Bulgaria declared war on Germany. Then Moscow granted an armistice. For 28 hours of the 99 -hour war Bulgaria had found itself at war with both Germany and the Allies...
...advancing Russians with flowers. The three pro-German regents resigned. So did Premier Muraviev. The stranded Bulgar peace negotiators in Cairo said they were ready to listen again to Allied terms. The new premier, anti-German Kimon Georgiev, proclaimed his faith in a "free, independent, democratic and mighty Bulgaria...
Once more tough-minded Russian diplomacy had paid off. First Rumania, then Bulgaria had capitulated. Finland, whose peace delegates were in Moscow, was next in line...
...some of Tito's men battled to join Red armymen who had come from the Ukraine, through Bessarabia, through the Galati Gap, through the heart of Rumania at breakneck pace. To the east, General Feodor I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukraine Army was mopping up Nazi stragglers on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast. To the north, General Rodion Malinovsky was stabbing through the Transylvanian Alps to the great plain of Hungary...