Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being squeezed dry by the Soviet Union, and that they face a possible deterioration--and soon--as the direct result of being yanked out of their normal and necessary trade relations with the West. And Professor Elliott said he was happy that the Communists were running things in Bulgaria, Romania, etc.... because they'd be blamed for it, and rightly...
...Moscow's wary, cautious eye, Bulgaria's ambitious Premier and ex-Comintern Boss Georgi Dimitrov and Yugoslavia's restless, bellicose Marshal Tito were pedaling too far and too fast...
Both, with the silent assent of Rumania's hard-driving Communist Matriarch Ana Pauker, had been talking up a federation composed of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Poland (TIME, Jan. 26). Quilted into a single state, it would comprise 447,000 square miles with 81 million people. It had growing armies, resources of coal, oil, and some highly developed industry. In the absence of a strong Germany, it would be Europe's most formidable power outside Russia. And it was perched on Russia's doorstep...
...after that-"when the time is ripe our peoples will decide whether it shall be a federation or a confederation of states, and they also shall decide the moment when it will take the shape of a state." Candidates for inclusion in the new state, as listed by Dimitrov: Bulgaria, Albania, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia "and even Greece...
...Stalin!" France's Maurice Thorez led the rhetorical rowdedow. Cried he: "The imperialist reactionary forces of America . . . have instituted gangster methods of tear gas as the first step to war. . . ." (So eloquent was Thorez that even listeners who did not understand French had tears in their eyes.) Cried Bulgaria's Wladimir Popomatov: "No iron curtain shall ever rise between us-none shall raise Chinese walls between progressive eastern and western workers. . . . Forward together, fighters for peace...