Сигурност или съветизация, локален конфликт или епизод от голямата война? (Съветско-финландската война 1939–1940 през погледа на двама български дипломати)
Security or Sovietization, Local Conflict or an Episode of the Great War? (Soviet-Finnish War 1939–1940 through the Eyes of Two Bulgarian Diplomats)

Summary/Abstract: A couple of reports of the Bulgarian plenipotentiaries in USSR Nikola Antonov and Todor Hristov about the Soviet-Finnish war are presented in the article. In them the perception of the two Bulgarian diplomats about this two-way war conflict in Northern Europe is described, as well as the information, which they are able to gather through the diplomatic channels, about the development of the conflict and about the mood of those governing in Moscow and in Stockholm during the intensive months of the war. Without presenting new, still unknown to the history facts, they manage, in a very interesting way and in detail, to convey the atmosphere of the crucial processes of that winter and they help the researcher get a very clear idea about what has happened, almost as if he was there in person. Even with the whole subjectivity of the claims and the points of view in the reports, as well the possible mistakes and omissions, they could help the future researchers to better understand and explore the position of the countries with conflicted interests on the northern flank of Europe during the already started World War II.

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