The Bulgarian History Podcast · Eric Halsey

242 Zveno's Strike

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Boris tells the plotters he knew about the coup and says, “let's find a formula which would respect the constitution.”
Episode 242 starts with housekeeping, then heads back into Bulgaria's early-1930s crisis.

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A coup story where stalled promotions, regional pressure, and political impatience all snap together.

Bulgarian politics in the early 1930s narrows to a blunt question: when civilian government stalls, who decides the army should step in? The episode threads Yugoslav centralization, the Balkan Pact, Vamoro violence, and Bulgaria's own military bottlenecks into a case for how…

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You want the pressure cooker behind Zveno's strike in Bulgaria, not just the coup headline.

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