Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only last September, Stalin's faithful satellite Hungarians had tried (and hanged) Interior Minister Laszlo Rajk on charges of conspiring with Tito to overthrow the Hungarian government and plotting war against Soviet Russia; Bulgaria last week was preparing to try former Deputy Premier Traicho Rostov on charges of conspiring with Tito to overthrow the Bulgarian government and sabotaging the interests of Soviet Russia...
Spokesmen for Albania and Bulgaria had been invited to answer amply documented charges made by UNSCOB (U.N.'s Special Committee on the Balkans). Instead of answering, the Albanian representative attacked the Greek government, saying that it cherished "mad" territorial designs on his country and that it had committed no less than 1,565 "armed provocations." Some of them, he added solemnly, were led by U.S. General James Van Fleet. Furthermore, said the Bulgarian spokesman, UNSCOB was a hand-picked group coached by the Greek "monarcho-fascists...
...guerrillas had been defeated in Greece, but the West feared that new attacks might be launched from Albanian and Bulgarian soil. The U.S., Britain, China and Australia introduced a motion asking for an embargo on arms to Albania and Bulgaria, until they were certified by UNSCOB as having stopped all aid to Greek Communists. Last week the embargo motion was approved by the U.N. Assembly's Political Committee, with only the Communist bloc (including Yugoslavia) voting against...
...When are you Americans going to stop the Russians?" No country in the West so deeply hates and fears the Russians. Turkey lives in a state of siege. Russian propagandists have been claiming Turkey's eastern provinces for the Soviet motherland. Radio Sofia purrs the happy lot of Bulgaria's Turkish minority; Radio Azerbaijan calls on all Kurds, including Turkey's, to revolt...
Cement pillboxes dot the rolling plains of Thrace; piles of stone lie by the roadsides for emergency roadblocks. From the border of Bulgaria in the west to Ararat in the east, Turkish riflemen stand guard. Almost half a million men are in the armed forces-a staggering burden for a poor country of 19 million people. Defense takes 40% of Turkey's budget...