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...Bridges. At least thirty other Bulgarians faced a different fate. The government communiqué admitted the "arrest of certain persons who have violated the laws of the country." Most prominent and potentially dangerous: General Tsvetko Anev, 53, commander of the Sofia army garrison...
According to gossipy Communist sources outside Bulgaria, it all stemmed from a plot aimed at removing tubby Premier Todor Zhivkov, long the staunchest friend of Moscow in all Eastern Europe. While General Anev's men occupied the capital's key bridges, communication centers and the airport, other plotters-supposedly to be led by Todorov-Gorunya-were to invade the Central Committee and arrest the eleven-man Politburo-including Zhivkov. But Soviet counterespionage agents got wind of the coup just in time...
Nascent Nationalism. At first, Sofia tried to make it appear that the plotters were members of a pro-Peking faction working against Bulgaria's Russian protectors. They even planted a story that General Anev had fled to sanctuary in Albania, Red China's nearby ally. But it was not that simple. Anev was actually captured in his native village near the Yugoslav border, in a region long noted for its opposition to foreign invaders-Russian or otherwise. There, 20 years ago, he and Todorov-Gorunya had led an anti-Nazi guerrilla group...
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