Word: bulgaria
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...Bulgaria, too, fought sabotage. Police and military forces had to "reestablish" order as a result of Greek uprising in Bulgarian-occupied Macedonia...
...Bulgaria no longer had freedom of choice as to when she would move. Nazi spokesmen, doing the talking for her, had a new term for her condition. They said Bulgaria had been "brought into a state of higher watchfulness...
Translated by the week's news, this meant that the Nazi squeeze to make Bulgaria help Germany against Russia had tightened. Berlin denied having four divisions (60,000 men) in Bulgaria. Bulgaria mobilized 400,000 troops. Bulgaria and Russia kept exchanging stiff notes, and Premier Bogdan Filoff announced that his country would strictly adhere to its policy of friendship and support for the Axis. These heavy troop concentrations were not merely for show...
...great obstacle to Adolf Hitler's objectives (Odessa, Sevastopol, the great Caucasian oilfields) is the mine-strewn Dardanelles, whose reduction by capture or persuasion would allow Axis warships to enter the Black Sea and attack the Russian Navy. Bulgaria's threat was as much against Turkey as it was against Russia directly...
...obstacle to Bulgaria's help against Russia was the pro-Russian sentiment of many Bulgarians. Already pro-Russian student riots, shootings, dynamitings were widely reported. But Adolf Hitler's purposes have never yet been thwarted by anything less than massed armies...