The Bulgarian People's Army was the army of the People's Republic of Bulgaria. It comprised the Bulgarian Land Forces, the Air Force and Air Defence, the Navy and supporting arms, and it was reorganized on the Soviet model with Soviet officers, equipment and training. It received its official name in 1952 and Bulgaria joined the Warsaw Pact in 1955. Apart from taking part in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, when Bulgarian units under Soviet command entered the country, it saw no combat during its existence, though it advised North Korea and the Viet Cong and assisted several Soviet-aligned states. Its manpower reached about 120,000 men, mostly conscripts. It was dissolved along with the People's Republic of Bulgaria in 1990 and succeeded by the Bulgarian Armed Forces.
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was the army of the People's Republic of Bulgaria
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It comprised the Bulgarian Land Forces, Air Force and Air Defence, Navy and supporting arms.
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In 1952, it was officially named the Bulgarian People's Army.
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was the army of the People's Republic of Bulgaria
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1990
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