Word: bulgarians
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Along a dirt road through the bare Bulgarian hills, their columns wound for endless miles. The troops traveled in horse or ox-drawn carts or on foot, shuffling through the powder-fine white dust which rose in a cloud beneath the hot September sun and settled like snow when they had passed...
...Russia and the Satellites. "Armistice terms agreed upon with Finland and Rumania bear naturally the impress of Soviet will and here I must draw attention to the restraint which characterized the Soviet terms to these two countries. . . . Bulgarian armistice terms have not yet been signed. Soviet intervention in this theater was at once startling and effective. The sudden declaration of war by Russia was sufficient to induce Bulgaria to turn her caitiff arms against the German intruders...
Dribbles of truth in a gushing torrent of rumor gave a veiled outline of the Germans' departure from the Balkans. On a front which a month ago had been held by 100 divisions, the Nazis now had left 15 Hungarian and 35 German divisions, but 25 Rumanian, 25 Bulgarian had departed, some of them to fight on the other side. Now the Germans were desperately rushing new defenders, scraped up somehow, to hold at the Danube...
...charge went back to sleep. The Russian radio continued to urge Bulgarian peasants to "rise against the ruling clique." The Kremlin observed that Bulgaria would have to earn her way out of her fix. The price: war against Germany...
...German garrison troops still in Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece and the Aegean might never be able to escape. They had held their own with the aid of 15 Bulgarian divisions. The hapless Bulgar troops did not yet know whether they should still fight-and, if so, on which side. Serbian Chetniks were found to be still aiding the Germans...