Bulgaria.....

[commieboy]

I've gotten Bulgaria as a country for the Model United nations....and my topic is "fair labor practices in the third world"

Okay, i read on the CIA factbook they are a Parliment Democracy...and were part of E. Block...What are they like today, i've got to be able to debate in a Bulgarian Mentality....Are they by anychance still a bit communist?!?!?!

Just any info would REALLY help.

[Man in the White Shirt]

Last I heard, they are pretty fucked up. Poor, polluted, diease and drug ridden. The democrary is a sham, and due to the lack of Soviet funds desperatly poor and generaly out of work. I don't think anyone really listen to Bulgaria at the UN.'

Historical, they were a part of the Ottoman Empire before being liberated by the Polish/Austrian forces after the victory at Vienna. Later, after an uneventful 300 years, fought with Germany in the First World War. Were conquered by the Soviets in the Second World War.

[commieboy]

so.....are they anti-commie?

After being Conquered by the USSR, i bet i'd be too. But do you think i could be "Bulgaria" with commie in me?

[redstar2000]

You really need to do some google-searching on modern Bulgaria if you want to "represent" them accurately.

But here's an odd bit of information I ran across. Which nation that was allied with the Third Reich during World War II did not allow the murder of a single one of its Jewish citizens?

Yeah, Bulgaria. (Finland, by the way, had the second best record; only 7 Finnish Jews died in the holocaust.)

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A site about communist ideas

[Chasovoy]

A bit of history:

Us southern slavs always had a dream that all of our nations would join and form a single state. And so we did - we formed Yugoslavia. Originally, the plan was that Bulgaria would join us too, but Stalin put pressure on them (the bulgarians secretly agreed with us, although they would not dare to oppose Stalin), so nothing happened.

[commieboy]

I've been doing some reading...sice Che-lives was down i had nothing better to do...and this is what i got, Bulgaria was on the losing side of both world wars...and then became communist under stalin....remained so until 1991 when the USSR collapsed....then became socialist until 1997......now it is begging for business to come into it.....

Is unfair labor practices a problem there?
(I bet it is)

[Cassius Clay]

If I were you I would add a little bit about Georgie Dmitroff in there aswell. The man fougth fascism right from the beggining and took part in a workers uprising in 1923. In 1933 he was arrested along with three comrades by the Nazis and charged with the Reichstag fire, in the court at Leipzeg he turned the trial on it's head and exposed the Nazis. Given that there grip on power was still not secure and international and mass workers pressure they realsesed him.

In 1935 at the 7th Congress of the Comintern he put forward the policy of a 'United Front' against Fascism, this meant exploiting the differences between the international bourgesie and allying with other leftist and progressive parties prepared to fight Fascism. During the war Dmitroff was in the USSR, from there he played a crucial role in aiding the Communists and there allies against the Japanese (making sure that the CCP never became under controll of KMT) and also in organising resistance movements across Europe against the Nazis.

When he returned to liberated Bulgaria after the war he and the Communists were elected to popular power. This didn't mean Bulgaria became Communist, or that it was imposed on by Stalin. Infact Dmitroff declared that this was the Democratic stage of revolution, it's my opinion that this was a part mistake, although that shouldn't take away the great acheivments he made. Both Bulgaria and Dmitroff were all ready to go forward to the construction of Socialism.

Unfournatly Dmitroff died in early 1949, that was not before however exposing Tito and among other things his 'Balkan Fderation' plan. Yes Stalin did oppose it to, but it wasn't just Stalin. Dmitroff in BUlgaria and also Hoxha in Albania were at the fore front of opposing it, probably because they were right next to Tito. This wasn't because a Balkan Fderation was a bad thing, on the contray it would of been a brilliant thing. But it would of had to of been based on genuine national soveriegnty (spell?) and the rights of minorites and cultures and respect for the various republics. Tito sadly wasn't interested in that, see Kosovar to 1955.

By the late 1950's Bulgaria became another nation under the hell of the Revisionist USSR, and led by a guy who admitted 40 years later that he had 'stopped believing in Communism since 1960'. That was until 1992 when a CIA backed and financed group of 'dissidentsand Democrats' cme to power.