Talk:History of Communist Bulgaria
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[edit] Revival and ethnic Turks
I do not agree with the wording on the Revival process. I believe to say that ethnic Turks were simply "ordered" to change their names is an understatement. Turks were not simply ordered to change their names, they were forced to do that through a campaign of intimidation and violance:
According to Pulton (1993) on December 24, 1984 thousands of Turkish people gathered in Benkovski (Kurdzhali district) and on December 27, 1984 outside the Momchilgrad Town Hall, to protest the changing of their names. The demonstrtations were met by army units and then by members of the elite special security force (i.e. the “red berets”). In late January-early February 1985 the town of Yablanovo in eastern Stara Planina was sieged by Bulgarian army forces for three days and according to some reports there were 34 were killed and 29 or 30 were taken to the Kotel hospital with gunshot wounds. There were also many Turkish activists who were arrested and detained in the prison camp in Belene. Although their exact numbers cannot be stated, estimates range from 450 to 1,000 ethnic Turk prisoners in connection with the Revivalist Process (Poulton, 1993:142; Amnesty International, 1986:14). The US has condemned the incidence:
On July 18, 1989 the Senate of the 101st Congress of the USA voted unanimously on the Byrd-DeConcini Amendment No.279. This amendment expressed “the sense of the Congress condemning Bulgaria’s brutal treatment of its Turkish minority” and it allocated about $10 million as assistance to the Republic of Turkey, in order for the latter to cope with the huge influx of refugees (Senate Record Vote, 1989).
For more info:
http://www.ingilish.com/turksofbulgaria.htm http://eth.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/4/4/561
Could you please make some changes that will take into consideration the gravity of the situation? --Hasanidin 01:17, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bulgaria was the most loyal Soviet satellite state during the Cold War.
Bulgaria was the most loyal Soviet satellite state during the Cold War. --ElevatedStork 20:03, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
- [citation needed] Todor→Bozhinov 21:56, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Let's get it straight once and for all- Bulgaria was a Moscow sattelite
people let's put this straight finally.
Bulgaria WAS a Soviet sattelitte. Im sorry, but thats a known fact, no citations or sources or anything is needed and no one can change that. PRB was an Eastern Bloc country, a member of the Warsaw pact, a member of the Comecon as were Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, East Germany and half of today's EU. Now those are the facts.
Speaking of whether Bulgaria was loyal to the USSR and to what extent, comparing to let's say Romania (that criticised the soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968 for example), Bulgaria seems that it was quite obedient. Never heard of any significant example of disobedience. Anyway, leave the shame aside and give people the facts: Bulgaria WAS a Soviet sattelitte.. Period.
What i see happening around in former Eastern bloc is that many even "change the geography" to get rid of any relation to eastern bloc and now suddenly every former eastern bloc country claims that they are "central europe" or "north europe" or whatever. Come on people, lets all face the truth.
Also, why did you change People's Republic of Bulgaria for "Communist Bulgaria"?? You know what Communism means, simply saying in few words: a sort of utopian class-less society of equal people, no state, no classes and so on and so on. Such thing never hapened in Bulgaria...as far as I know...
please stop confusing the readers who may surf on to learn something. Otherwise Wikipedia is really becoming an unreliable source of information.
Thank you.--Vbb-sk-mk 18:28, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
I changed the following line: Bulgaria was considered a Soviet satellite state during the Cold War.
It was not considered but IT WAS a soviet sattelite.--Vbb-sk-mk 18:40, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Communist uprising of 1923?
My source text mentions a Communist uprising in Bulgaria in late September 1923, though it appears neither on this page nor the Bulgaria page. Can any info be added regarding this event, if it did indeed occur? -- Thanks, Deborahjay 10:37, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, it did, it was the so-called September Uprising (bg:Септемврийско въстание). The article in Bulgarian is pretty good and has some sources. I was thinking of translating it some time ago, and perhaps I really should, together with the articles about other 20th-century uprisings and coups.
- In a nutshell, the September Uprising was organized by the Bulgarian Communist Party and was directed against the government of Aleksandar Tsankov. It was, naturally, unsuccessful. Todor→Bozhinov 18:02, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
