Does anyone have any information on Colonel Velchev, de facto dictator of Bulgaria in the 1930’s? The material I’ve found about him is small, and contradictory (showing him as both a righist and a Communist, for example).
I think he gets called a Communist because he recognized and opened diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and also because Zveno was a republican party. However, the government did crack down on the Communist Party (all parties were banned, but the Communists were actively repressed)
On the other hand, Georgiev was willing to form a popular front government with the Communists against the Germans in 44, so it’s just confusing.
It seems that you are well informed, Captain Amazing. Can you write the information you have down?
Actually, I’m remarkably ignorant of Bulgarian politics during the interwar period, and of the Georgiev government in particular, except that it was nationalist, dictatorial, and republican, and that King Boris was eventually able to overthrow it.
Have you tried a pre-war edition on Inside Europe by John Gunther?