Rabotnichesko Delo was a leftist Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

n newspaper that was the organ of the Bulgarian Communist Party

Bulgarian Communist Party

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's Central Committee and one of the People's Republic of Bulgaria's highest-circulation newspapers. The newspaper was established in 1927 and was issued from Sofia

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

. Rabotnichesko Delo was renamed to Duma in 1990. Duma, despite some financial troubles, is still issued today.

Rabotnichesko Delo was initially the weekly of the Bulgarian Workers' Party. Although it was banned following the Bulgarian coup d'état of 1934

Bulgarian coup d'état of 1934

The Bulgarian coup d'état of 1934, also known as the 19 May coup d'état , was a coup d'état in the Kingdom of Bulgaria carried out by the Zveno military organization and the Military Union with the aid of the Bulgarian Army...

, it was nevertheless published illegally until 1944. In 1938, it merged with Rabotnicheski Vestnik, the Bulgarian Communist Party's newspaper, founded in 1897. Rabotnichesko Delo criticized the bourgeois government, propagated the ideas of communism

Communism

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 and was against the country's participation in World War

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 as part of the Axis Powers

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The Axis powers , also known as the Axis alliance, Axis nations, Axis countries, or just the Axis, was an alignment of great powers during the mid-20th century that fought World War II against the Allies. It began in 1936 with treaties of friendship between Germany and Italy and between Germany and...

, advocating closer ties with the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 instead.

After the Bulgarian coup d'état of 1944

Bulgarian coup d'état of 1944

The Bulgarian coup d'état of 1944, also known as the 9 September coup d'état and called in pre-1989 Bulgaria the National Uprising of 9 September or the Socialist Revolution of 9 September was a change in the Kingdom of Bulgaria's administration and government carried out on the eve of 9 September...

, the newspaper was elevated to become the ruling party's main propaganda

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tool.