The Imperial 3rd Bulgarian Army advanced side by side with the Red Army all the way to Berlin losing c25,000 KIA. As for when the Tsar's army was renamed the "Bulgarian People's Army" is not too clear but it could have been as early as 10th September 1944. The imperial insignia etc was only removed in September 1946 although it has now returned.
Bulgaria had a rather muddy transition from an Imperial Axis power to Imperial Soviet power to a People's Republic and integral member of the Warsaw Pact. With yet another muddy transition from Warsaw Pact People's Republic to NATO member in the European Union in more recent times. Next stop Eurozone.
There are Soviet award citations out there with the Imperial Bulgarian coat of arms stamped on them.
Bulgaria had a rather muddy transition from an Imperial Axis power to Imperial Soviet power to a People's Republic and integral member of the Warsaw Pact. With yet another muddy transition from Warsaw Pact People's Republic to NATO member in the European Union in more recent times. Next stop Eurozone.
There are Soviet award citations out there with the Imperial Bulgarian coat of arms stamped on them.
"Signed with his own rubber stamp"
