Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same sunny mood seemed to envelop the framers of Bulgaria's new Constitution, which abolished the death penalty. This was good news for Bulgaria, for Russia and for Nikola Petkoff, secretary of Bulgaria's Agrarian Party, whom the Bulgarian Government recently condemned to death for treason...
Petkoff's "treason" consisted of his outspoken stand against Bulgaria's Communist-dominated regime. When the U.S. protested against his sentence, both Bulgaria and Russia replied that it was "a pure Bulgarian home question." Nevertheless, Bulgaria, which had just concluded a peace treaty with the Allies, would like to be admitted to the U.N., and the Petkoff sentence stood in the way. If the National Assembly ratified the Constitution (as it was sure to), Bulgaria would no longer be obliged to execute Petkoff, and the U.S. would have no talking point. Best of all, since Petkoff...
Youth Railway. A proclamation explained that the marchers were members of the Greek labor brigade Yanis Zavgos, which "had come from Yugoslavia to help Bulgarian youth build a new Bulgaria into a bulwark against international imperialism." Ostensibly they were going to work on the new Youth Railway now under construction in the Struma Valley, which leads down to Salonika. But the Government reception for the brigadiers, which was attended by members of the Bulgarian Cabinet, was equivalent to unofficial recognition of the Markos regime...
Last Maneuver. If Bulgaria takes the lead in recognizing Markos, other Russian satellites will almost certainly follow. U.S. State and War Department observers in the Balkans were frankly worried over the prospect of the move. They believed that Markos' offer to down arms provided EAM ministers were taken into the Greek Government was probably the last political maneuver the Communists would make before stepping up guerrilla activities in Greece. Said one high-ranking U.S. Army officer: "Markos would probably be willing to settle for the Ministries of the Interior, Justice, War and Communications. But if we fall for that...
...convicted men were leaders of Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party. Wrote Warsaw's Communist paper, in a blood-chilling front-page editorial titled The Analogy: "In Bulgaria, the leader of reaction, Nikola Petkoff [see above] has been seated on the defendant's bench next to his subordinate, Ivanoff. In Cracow, Mierzwa [Mikolajczyk's subordinate in the Polish Peasant Party] is seated on the bench. Will the similarity of events end there...