Word: dobruja
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...daytime, Marshal Rodion Mal-inovsky's men chased German remnants toward the Iron Gate, where the Danube cuts through the Transylvanian Alps. Other Malinovsky forces swarmed to the Danube and the Bulgarian border on a 65-mile front. General Feodor Tolbukhin's army group reached southern Dobruja below Constanta. This territory has been Rumania's (disregarding Hitler's 1940 rearrangements) since 1913; Russia began throwing its weight around in the Balkans by referring to it, in the Moscow communique, as Bulgarian...
...only four years since Hitler had ordered Rumania to disgorge her World War I gains-north Transylvania to the Magyars, south Dobruja to the Bulgars. Now in the Kremlin the Royalist-Communist delegates of young King Mihai studied armistice terms, begged humbly at the Russian table for territorial crumbs...
...Dobruja, lost province which changed hands again...
...equally clear that Russia did not dare fight Germany. It was reported: 1) that Adolf Hitler. had offered Joseph Stalin all of Finland and more of Rumania in exchange for a free hand against Greece and Turkey; 2) that he had offered Boris more of the Dobruja in return for permitting German troops the use of Bulgaria as a corridor to the eastern Mediterranean...
...Bulgaria there has always been real historic, linguistic and social sympathy for Russia, which not even the advent of Communism broke. Russia's entry into Poland was hailed as the beginning of Slavic self-determination. Bulgaria sent thanks to Moscow after she got Southern Dobruja from Rumania...