[WarInEur] Balkan Intrigues

[Buckley, John D (Dr)]

Dear All,

No-one has yet offered a view on Bulgaria surrendering following a Soviet occupation of Bucharest in say late 1939 or early 1940. Does this constitute a violation of Bulgaria by the Soviet player and thus add five politcal points to the total? Should Bulgaria surrender in these circumstances anyway?

Interestingly Soviet occupation of Bulgaria also closes the railway route from Turkey to Germany (I believe). Could the Soviet player legitimately turn off the resources from Turkey without it being a declaration of war? I imagine so, as this would not be bound by the terms of the German-Soviet Pact of August 1939.

For the record a current game has seen the German descent on Norway fail (the Allies now hold Narvik) and the Soviet player steam into Ploesti and cause the surrender of Romania and Bulgaria, thus cutting the link to Turkey. The German economy is thus struggling.

John

Dr John Buckley
Reader in Military History
University of Wolverhampton
Tel: 0044 (0)1902 323388


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