Day to honor the Bulgarian resistance against the Nazism

By Decision № 1091 of December 29, 2016 the Council of Ministers announces 21st February to be Day to honor the resistance against the Nazism in Bulgaria. On this date in 1941, in the home of Nikola Mushanov a meeting of the leaders of the resistant forces, who are against Bulgaria joining the Tripartite Pact, is being held. The members from the axis (Rome-Berlin-Tokyo) or the members of the Tripartite Pact is a military bloc between Germany, Italy, Japan and other countries, who participated in World War II, opponents of the Antifascist coalition. After a meeting the leaders of democrats radicaldemocrats, farmers and social democrats come out with a "Declaration of full neutrality of Bulgaria". Mushanov has a long conversation with the prime minister Bogdan Filov and afterwards hands the Declaration to tsar Boris III. Nikola Stoykov Mushanov is a Bulgarian politician, one of the leaders of the Democratic party in the first half of the 20 th century. He is a prime minister in three Governments in the period 1931-1934. (Photo:bg.wikipedia.org)