1944 Bulgarian coup d'état
| 1944 Bulgarian coup d'état Деветосептемврийски преврат | |||||||
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| Part of World War II and Bulgarian resistance | |||||||
NOVA partisans entering Plovdiv, 9 September 1944 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Supported by: Germany |
Supported by: Soviet Union | ||||||
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Prince Kiril Bogdan Filov Nikola Mihov Konstantin Muraviev | Georgi Dimitrov Vasil Kolarov Kimon Georgiev Ivan Marinov Damyan Velchev | ||||||
The 1944 Bulgarian coup d'état, also known as the 9 September coup d'état (Bulgarian: Деветосептемврийски преврат, romanized: Devetoseptemvriyski prevrat), was a coup that overthrew the government of Kingdom of Bulgaria on the eve of 9 September 1944. During the Communist era, official propaganda called the coup the People's Uprising of 9 September on the grounds of the broad unrest and the Socialist Revolution as it was a turning point politically and the beginning of radical reforms towards Soviet-style socialism.