The Project of Bulgarian-Yugoslav Union after the Second World War: Contribution to Research

Abstract

The project of close cooperation between Bulgaria and Yugoslavia was already born during World War II. After this conflict, the relations between the governments of both countries became even closer. Although the formalization of the political and economic union seemed to be a matter of time, it turned out that each side had its own vision of this cooperation. In addition, the negotiations were controlled by Stalin, who saw a threat to the position of the Soviet Union in this kind of agreement. The article is a synthetic review of the most important stages of the Bulgarian-Yugoslav union concept and, ultimately, the collapse of this project.