in fact the other way around, he was anti-communist in a way and the communists strategically abandoned him and let our nationalists eat him alive. this was done to him because he was the french and british candidate who was supposed to be installed in the post-ww1 world, who would govern and deradicalize bulgaria so that the humiliating capitulation is sold to the masses and bulgarians are taught to accept their place as a capitulated weimarian colony. he was the guy who was supposed to find an ideology, any ideology whatsoever, that is neither revanchistic nor communistic but at the same time cordial to the west and not to germany, and so was agrarianism born - an ideology that achieves nothing but to act as a barricade against the radical alternatives, like social democracy but for peasants. here are the details   andar_stamboliyski#coup_and_assassi nation
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