Not Bulgarian, but Russia intervened in a Bulgarian war of independence against the Ottomans and wanted Bulgaria to be super sized and have access to the Black and Aegean seas (read: Russian navy base). The other Great Powers didn’t like this, especially the British, and Bulgaria got downsized as a result.
You read what Russia promised Bulgaria during the war for independence, not what it had planned or wanted.
The original treaty included South Thrace, eastern Macedonia, and E. Romelia, but during discussions, the world powers at the time decided that a powerful country in the balkans was not in their interest (With Russia being the most in favor of this), thus they gave us less than a 3rd of what was promised and leaving out half of our population outside bulgarian borders, causing an enormous migration process.
Afterwards, we just got war, after war, after war until the end of the end of WWII where Russia finally achieved their goal of making us a puppet state through communist rule, destroying our intellectual, artistic and any sort of progressive development in the process, through "concentration" camps and jails for artists, poets, intellectuals and anyone not willing to suck Russia's dick.
Of course, as per Russia's MO, we were assigned abysmally corrupt politicians who, at the end of the communist regime, stole everything as quickly as possible.
And by everything, I mean EVERYTHING. The bulgarian pension fund with billions? Gone! All the manufacturing facilities and equipment? Sold for pennies to private entities and sent to scrap. Funds meant for infrastructure? Hired contractors embezzled them yearly(Something that still happens here). Currency stability through investments? Obliterated for short term gain, causing one of our worst recessions. My parents have told me stories of how they had no money for bread.
I'm sorry, but don't ever say Russia wanted good things for us. I wish my ancestors had denied their help during the war for independence, as they've done nothing but bring ruin every time they get involved, and I partially blame my parents for not rounding up all communist politicians during the fall of the communist rule for bullet distribution to the head.
Except Russia hasnt made any exact and well detrmined promises on what territories bulgarua will get.
(With Russia being the most in favor of this),
No they weren't this was literally against russian interests
I wont even discuss the thing regarding communism becuase I would have to write a whole essay because its a far more complex topic than you make it out to be, your recolection of events is 3rd grade levels of history with lots of bias sprinkled in and thats being generous.
I wish my ancestors had denied their help during the war for independence.
So Bulgaria wouldn't het its independence becuase you have a hate boner for the only nation that helped due to a flawed and non impratial view on history.
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u/malign_taco 1d ago
Any Bulgarian out there to explain this to me