Aleksandar Tsankov
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Aleksandar Tsankov Александър Цанков | |
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 Tsankov in 1944 | |
| 21st Prime Minister of Bulgaria | |
| In office 9 June 1923 – 4 January 1926 | |
| Monarch | Boris III |
| Preceded by | Aleksandar Stamboliyski |
| Succeeded by | Andrey Lyapchev |
| Prime Minister of the Bulgarian government-in-exile | |
| In office 16 September 1944 – 10 May 1945 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 29, 1879 National Social Movement (1932 afterwards) |
Aleksandar Tsolov Tsankov (
two world wars
.
Biography
A professor of political economy at
Comintern denouncing the government as a "victorious Bulgarian fascist clique", whilst he later turned his attentions on the Agrarian Peoples Union[clarification needed], who were also suppressed, albeit less ferociously[4]
A brief invasion by Greek troops followed, and although they did not stay long following condemnation by the League of Nations, the country was left crippled by debt. Tsankov was removed from office after failing to secure a loan for the country.[2] Any support for Tsankov had dwindled as the people tired of his reign of terror.[5]
After being removed from the political mainstream, Tsankov began to develop an admiration for
Nazi Party.[6] The movement proved relatively unimportant (although it did represent a further fragmentation of the governing coalition), lacking the support of Zveno and failing to secure Nazi approval, which was primarily reserved for the Union of Bulgarian National Legions.[2] Nonetheless, Tsankov was appointed by the Nazis in 1944 as prime minister of the Bulgarian government-in-exile set up in Germany in response to Kimon Georgiev's Fatherland Front government.[7] This was even though Tsankov had been a signatory, one of only two from the right-wing opposition, to Dimitar Peshev's letter calling for an end to the deportation of Jews.[8] After the Second World War Tsankov fled to Argentina and died in Belgrano, Buenos Aires in 1959.[2]
See also
- White Terror
- Red Terror
- The incident at Petrich
- European interwar dictatorships
References
- ^ "Political crises in the 1930s". Library of Congress. 1994. Archived from the original on 2013-02-25. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
- ^ a b c d e f g Philip Rees, Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890
- ^ S.G. Evans, A Short History of Bulgaria, London, Lawrence and Wishart, 1960, p. 161
- Three Faces of Fascism: Action Française, Italian fascism, National Socialism. New York: Mentor. p. 29.
- ^ Evans, op cit, p. 170
- ^ Roger Griffin, The Nature of Fascism, London: Routledge, 1993, p. 210
- ^ Stanley G. Payne, A History of Fascism 1914-1945, London, Routledge, 2001, p. 430
- ^ Michael Bar-Zohar, Beyond Hitler's Grasp: The Heroic Rescue of Bulgaria's Jews, Adams Media Corporation, 1998, p. 147