Did Stalin prevent the partitioning of Bulgaria by the western Allies after WW2?
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The Percentages Agreement reached between Britain and the USSR over influence in Europe encountered some difficulties over Bulgaria. A point that the great powers agreed over, however, was that Bulgaria should return the territory it had acquired from Greece and Yugoslavia, and this actually happened. If the current defenders of the USSR in Bulgaria were spinning the story hard, they might have tried to portray this as a partition of Bulgaria. However, the USSR did not prevent this "partition," but agreed to it.
Bulgaria did acquire Southern Dobruja from Romania. It had been part of Romania 1913-18 and 1919-1940, having previously been Bulgarian. In 1940, it had been ceded to Bulgaria under the Treaty of Craiova which was not reversed by the Allied Powers after WWII. I suspect there was no desire to reward Romania, which had been a far more active ally of Germany than Bulgaria, nor to untangle the population exchanges that had happened.
There's a relevant paper in Diplomatic History for spring 1983 about US-Bulgarian relations during WWII. It's available free on registration with JSTOR. I don't have the time available to go through it in detail, but it makes no obvious mention of a partition of Bulgaria.
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