Oh and here I thought letting a foreign army on your territory was a POLITICAL decision, not something done by referendum, my mistake... spare me the slavic love line.
What are you actually trying to say? Where did anybody mention armies?
And I really don't know where this "Slavic love" business comes from, since I said that the Czech Republic, Poland, and Croatia, you know, don't like Russia very muc.
I'll have to call bullshit on this, this sounds more like your opinion on the matter than actual history.
That no Bulgarian division set foot in the USSR is historical fact, unless you want to unveil some hitherto-unsees source proving otherwise.
Yes, why would they change sides AS SOON AS the soviet army crossed the Danube, it is a mystery, while we're at this lets discuss why Romania changed sides as soon as the soviets crossed the Prut, was it because slavic love? Hmm... wait, romanians aren't slavs, oh I know, perhaps it had something to do with the fact that the SOVIET ARMY was in their country and they thought that at that moment the best thing for them would be to switch sides and hope for an easier peace.
And Hungary? The third's the spoiler. Romania had its own domestic reasons to switch sides.
The Romanian and Bulgarian situations aren't really comparable in any case. The Romanians fought almost from day one, and switched sides after several armies had been swallowed whole. The Bulgarians fought for exactly three days, start to finish.
I have no idea if this is true or not, do you have actual proof of this? Or are you just talking out of your ass?
In fairness to you, my source are several personal testimonies on the back of a well-reputed newspaper (the Economist) and not cited historical works.
But then, if you have any sources, I don't see them. All I see is abrasiveness, obscenity, and "calling bullshit" on matters of recorded fact.
Which part of what I said do you not agree with exactly because you're not making any sense. Evidence for what do you need, because I haven't made any claims which aren't historically based, even I Blame Communism admits that the Bulgarian political forces were regularly at odds with Russia, despite the fact that he's acting like an apologist about it and claims that that was just the governments and that the real bulgarian people love Russia.
What am I apologising for? If I thought all the Slavs loved Holy Russia, why would I be naming those Slavic countries that didn't? As for your claim, it was in fact that Bulgaria was one of the less pro-Russian Slavic countries. Even if Bulgarians were completely ambivalent about Russia, that would still put it well behind Poland, Croatia, or western Ukraine, so your claim is still kind of not true.
Eastern Europe pre WWII even before it fell to nazi influence was controlled by center right political forces which saw Russia as the greatest threat, Poland even as Germany was preparing to invade saw Russia as a greater threat than Germany for gods sake.
That says a lot about Poland and, ah, nothing of substance about Bulgaria. It says exactly as much about Bulgaria as the fact that Czechoslovakia had an alliance with the USSR, in fact, which calls in to question whether "eastern Europe" in fact means "the bits of eastern Europe" which serve to illustrate my barely-coherent argument that, because of Polish government policy, the Bulgarian people don't like Russia.
Were I being abrasive and rude, I might "call bullshit" on that assertion about Poland, but instead I'm going to ask for a source.
EDIT: Oh and by the way, I was debating replying to you and I decided to overlook your arrogance in thinking I care about what you think of me, you weren't even in the conversation. See... I can be generous too, don't act like in posting a reply you're doing me a favour.
Good heavens, this kind of thing is just ridiculous. Mate, it's a message board. Everybody is "in the conversation". Reported.
Thanks, Loughery, for being so very polite and level-headed.