In other countries, it was felt that the kind of communism that was imposed upon them after 1945 was a form of Soviet imperialism - as it was in places like Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Bulgaria was a very close ally of the Soviet Union. There was a deep historical tie between the Bulgarians and the Russians that was maintained after the Bolshevik revolution in 1917. In 1878, during the Russian-Turkish War, the Russians were the ones who helped Bulgaria gain its independence. The Russians were allies of those movements, based on pan-Slavism and anti-Ottoman sentiment, as well as imperial Russian designs on the Balkans and the Black Sea. In the mid- to late nineteenth century, there were various national independence movements in Bulgaria. Bulgaria was under the imperial domination of the Ottoman Empire for the better part of five centuries.
You have to go back deep into history to understand the relationship between Bulgaria and Russia, even before the existence of the Soviet Union.
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