Chapter 541 Bulgarian Social Democratic Party

While Lolkov and others were cursing the Bulgarian government, there was also a group of people in Pleven who were cursing the government. However, unlike the peasant status of Lorkiv and others, they were members of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party.

"What the hell is the government doing now, allowing the economy to collapse. Andrei Lepchev still wants to remain prime minister, and he actually does nothing about it. ”

Talking was the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party's propaganda minister, Rilchev, who was so dissatisfied with the current Bulgarian government that he cursed the government at party meetings.

"Look away, Rilchev. On the other hand, you think, at least so that our party can play more of a role in the face of voters. In fact, not only our party, but other parties are dissatisfied with the ruling Democratic Alliance. ”

It was the party chairman Kersteff who spoke, and when he saw that Rilchev's scolding was a little too aggressive, he opened his mouth to dissuade him.

The members of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party are a new party, founded in 1922 and first active in the northeastern region of Bulgaria, and only recently have they promoted their ideas throughout the country. Their slogan is to make bread and milk available to every family (familiar with it, someone copied it).

This slogan has allowed the party to expand dramatically in the past two years, with the number of votes in parliamentary elections increasing from 150,000 (5.2%) two years ago to 600,000 (21%) today. The party's political proposition relies on the economic development of neighboring Romania to escort Bulgaria. Let post-reform the current chaotic economic situation in Bulgaria.

Moreover, the party is hostile to Greece, which currently has a conflict of interest with Bulgaria. Because the party's slogan was that Bulgaria could not bear the result of losing access to the Mediterranean, Bulgaria needed to restore its sovereignty over Thessaloniki.

To put it simply, the party's proposition is to take the refuge in Romania and revolt Greece. The fact that such a party, which looks a bit like a Romanian lackey, still attracts so many votes has a lot to do with the external environment in Bulgaria. Turning over the region, Bulgaria has four neighbors, but unfortunately all five of them have been at war with Bulgaria before. And since the change of color in Russia, Bulgaria has been short of foreign aid (or big brother).

And which of the four neighboring countries can be used as Bulgaria's foreign aid? First of all, Turkey needs to be excluded, mainly because of its historical and religious reasons, so that Bulgaria cannot cooperate with Turkey, even if the two countries have a common enemy, Greece.

Then Greece was ruled out as an enemy, because Greece took all of Bulgaria's Mediterranean coast after World War I, turning Bulgaria into a Black Sea state. In 1926, there was also a conflict with Bulgaria.

As funny as to the conflict, Greece claimed that one of their dogs had run into Bulgarian territory and asked soldiers to enter and search the territory. Faced with this unreasonable demand from Greece, Bulgaria, of course, refused. So Greece issued an ultimatum demanding that Bulgaria accede to its demands.

And then the Bulgarian government's actions were confusing, first rejecting the ultimatum. But I feel that fighting for a dog and then detonating the Balkan conflict is a bit worth the loss. So Prime Minister Alexander Zhankov ordered the Conservatives to put up only symbolic resistance, all waiting for the League of Nations to rule (also known as the War of a Dog).

This state of not fighting, talking but not talking, naturally attracted the attack of the Greek army. Greece marched until the outskirts of the border city of Petritsch before coming to a halt on the orders of the League of Nations. The end result was that Bulgaria paid $45,000 in compensation to the lost dog. It was not a lot of money, but the humiliation was unacceptable to the Bulgarians. So in 1927, Prime Minister Alexander Zhankov was ousted and replaced by Andrei Lepchev.

On the Yugoslav side, although they are all Slavs, Bulgaria's relations with it are not very harmonious, and the country is entirely focused on the French side, and does not have any friendly actions towards Bulgaria.

So at the moment the only one that Bulgaria can reach out to is Romania.

Moreover, the economic ties between Bulgaria and Romania are very close, and most of the food that needs to be imported comes from Romania. Moreover, it has become a trend for Bulgarians to work in Romania, and many people have the most intuitive feeling about the strength of Romania. Therefore, he was full of praise for the development of Romania after returning home, and the spontaneous propaganda of these people also made the local Bulgarians feel good about Romania. After all, the gap between the two is too big to compete.

The opinion of the people makes the middle and upper classes of Bulgaria not turn a blind eye to this. And the more knowledgeable they are, there is a sharp contrast to the development of the two countries before.

After all, at the end of the nineteenth century, the gap between the two countries was not yet obvious. By just before World War I, Romania's rapid development had left Bulgaria behind. The two Balkan wars have greatly damaged Bulgaria's vitality and completely widened the gap between the two countries. The Bulgarians who were on the wrong side in World War I could only watch their neighbors devour the envious spoils of war while they themselves cut their own flesh.

So at that time, many people were reflecting on the importance of a wise monarch to the country. They were also regretting that they had not been able to invite Carol I to be King of Bulgaria.

However, this emotion is slowly fading with the passage of time, after all, everyone has to look forward and regret that there is no medicine in the world. It's just that the outbreak of the economic crisis has made this voice come out again. However, this time it is not that he regrets not being able to invite Carol I, but why he can't choose another monarch.

The appearance of this voice represents the dissatisfaction of the people with the current Bulgarian royal family and government, and it is no wonder that this voice comes out of the comparison of everything, to see how wise the monarch of the neighboring country is, and then to see the performance of his own monarch.

Who made the current king of Bulgaria, Boris III, absent-minded about politics, but the greatest pleasure in life was to drive a train, followed by the study of the mechanical structure of clocks. So much so that the drivers of the "Orient Express" crossing the continent were warned by the railway company that the king would not be allowed to approach the wheelhouse while the train was traveling through Bulgarian territory.

This apolitical attitude has helped to get out of political strife, but it has disappointed many. is still the same sentence, everything is afraid of comparison.

The growth of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party is a reflection of this voice, and of course a small amount of funding can also help to grow and develop.