Българското стопанство между Германия и Съветския съюз. Ликвидирането на германското технологично влияние в България
The Bulgarian Economy between Germany and the Soviet Union. Liquidation of the German Technological Influence in Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: The influence exercised by Germany and the Soviet Union on the technological development of the Bulgarian economy during the years of two decisive and denying each other epoch, the divide of which was the Second World War, has so far not been the subject of special research. This theme has numerous aspects. The present study aims at revealing the role of the external factor in determining the basic tendencies in the technological development of Bulgaria before and after the war. It puts the accent on some problems still inadequately studied in our historiography: 1) The ideas and activities of the Central European Economic Council (Mitteleuropaischer Wirtsshaftstag – MWT), which in the period between the wars promoted the German technological expansion in Southeast Europe: 2) The peculiarities of the Bulgarian-German economic, respectively technological, integration proceeding during the same period; 3) The expropriation after the Second World War of the German material and intellectual property by the Soviet Union whereby the German technological influence in this country was most radically eliminated; 4) The fate of the so-called “German creature” and the building up of a Soviet advisory apparatus in Bulgaria. In the examination of the last circle of the problems space is devoted also to the last wave of purges, carried out through the so-called “Traicho Kostov trails” in the late 40s and early 50s, which in our view characterized most frankly the nature and objectives of the technological coup that was carried out. Briefly are surveyed the negative consequences of Bulgaria’s technological binding to the Soviet Union which emerged already in the 50s.

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