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The People's Republic of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Народна република България, Narodna republika Balgariya) was the official name of the communist state that existed from 1946 to 1990. During this period, Bulgaria was ruled by a Communist regime under the administration of the Bulgarian Communist Party. The communist nation was an Eastern Bloc satellite state of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, thus joining the Warsaw Pact and the Comecon. Communist Bulgaria was led by Todor Zhivkov. Bulgaria was the closest aligned with the Soviet Union and received heavy aid from the Soviet Government.
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