Следвоенните режими в България и Румъния

поглед отвъд Атлантика в докладите на Марк Етридж

Abstract

The path of the post-war settlement with the former Nazi satellites from Eastern Europe is marked by the requirements of the Yalta Declaration for a Liberated Europe for the establishment of representative governments comprised of all democratic elements in these countries. In this respect, the coalition governments of Bulgaria and Romania, established at the end of the summer of 1944, faced the gravest problems in terms of their recognition by the western powers which naturally impeded the conclusion of their peace treaties. The authorities in the USA and Great Britain, two of the main allies in the anti-Nazi coalition, viewed Bulgaria and Romania as mere Soviet tools and did not recognize the democratic character and the representativeness of their governments, a fact which delayed their international recognition and the threatened the delay of the conclusion of peace treaties with them. In the course of the negotiations on the procedure for the elaboration of peace treaties with the former satellites of Nazi Germany, the American government dispatched the journalist Mark Ethridge as an independent observer to Bulgaria and Romania with the task to present a report in which to assess whether the governments in Sofia and Bucharest are sufficiently representative. Along with a brief biographical account of the American journalist, this article will present Ethridge's main findings and the political ramifications of its report. The morphing of his fact-
finding mission into a fully-fledged diplomatic effort and an attempt to influence the internal political scene of the two countries against the background of Soviet political dominance in them is also analyzed. Further, the paper will give an account of the analysis provided by Ethridge with regards to the similarities and differences between the regimes in Bulgaria and Romania.

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