Bulgarian People's Army

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armed forces military organization

The Bulgarian People's Army was the communist-era military force of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, which notably participated alongside other Warsaw Pact troops in the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia to suppress the Prague Spring.

Aliases (3)

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	armed forces → military organization →
allegiance	Bulgarian Communist Party →
alliance	Warsaw Pact →
commandLanguage	Bulgarian →
continentOfOperation	Europe →
controlledBy	Bulgarian Communist Party →
country	People's Republic of Bulgaria →
countryDuringExistence	People's Republic of Bulgaria →
doctrine	Soviet military doctrine →
equipmentSupplier	Soviet Union →
followedBy	Bulgarian Armed Forces →
garrison	Sofia →
headquartersLocation	Sofia →
historicalEra	socialist era in Bulgaria →
ideology	communism →
language	Bulgarian →
loyalty	Bulgarian Communist Party → People's Republic of Bulgaria →
militaryBranch	Border Troops of Bulgaria → Bulgarian People's Air Force → Bulgarian People's Ground Forces → Bulgarian People's Navy → Construction Troops of Bulgaria →
militaryTheater	Balkan region →
nativeName	Българска народна армия →
operatedBy	People's Republic of Bulgaria →
opposedBy	NATO →
participatedIn	1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia → Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia → suppression of the Prague Spring →
partOf	Warsaw Pact →
politicalControl	party-controlled armed forces →
precededBy	Royal Bulgarian Army →
primaryRole	national defense →
secondaryRole	support of Warsaw Pact operations →
serviceBranchType	air force → army → navy →
shortName	BNA →
status	defunct →
successor	post-1990 Bulgarian Armed Forces →
timePeriod	Cold War →
trainingDoctrine	modeled on Soviet Armed Forces →
type	conscript army →
usedEquipmentFrom	Czechoslovakia → Soviet Union → other Warsaw Pact states →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bulgarian Communist Party →	controlled
Prague Spring →	invadingForce
Treaty of Paris (1947) ("armed forces of Bulgaria") →	limited
Bulgarian People's Army ("Border Troops of Bulgaria") →	militaryBranch
Bulgarian People's Army ("Българска народна армия") →	nativeName