Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opened, Khrushchev and his policies were in jeopardy. His denunciation of Stalin and his proclaimed "separate roads to socialism" had resulted in rebellion in Hungary, defiance in Poland and denunciation by the world. The restless spirit of dissent seethed in Rumania, in East Germany, even in docile Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. In France and Italy, in every Western country, the Communist parties were in turmoil; everywhere veteran comrades were resigning in outrage over his brutal suppression of the Hungarian revolt. At the December 1956 Plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee in Moscow, he was conspicuously not one of the speakers...
...celebration of the eighth anniversary of the Communist conquest of China. There were the well-drilled children of the Young Pioneers, paratroopers, government workers with flowers in hand. Overhead roared Soviet-made jet bombers and Chinese-made jet fighters. Also on hand were goodwill delegations from Burma and Cambodia, Bulgaria's Premier Anton Yugov, and Hungary's Premier Janos Kadar...
...mystery and history made intrigue the chief occupation of the southeast corner of Europe. Even Communism cannot break all,old habits; it merely regularizes the worst ones. Last week Rumanian Communist Premier Chivu Stoica, rising from deserved obscurity, set a bright little intrigue going. He invited five neighbors-Bulgaria, Albania, Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey-to a conference to form a Balkan nonaggression alliance. Obviously, Communist Premier Stoica is by definition incapable of independent thought. Then...
Soviet satellites Bulgaria and Albania immediately accepted the invitation. So far, predictable. Yugoslavia's Comrade Tito called the proposal "very useful," but did not immediately accept. He indicated that he wanted to consult with Greece and Turkey, his partners in the dormant anti-Kremlin Balkan pact of 1954. It now became obvious that the proposal came as no surprise to him, and must have grown out of Tito's meeting with Khrushchev in Rumania last month. But it was considerably less clear who fathered the scheme, and who stood to gain most by its acceptance or rejection...
...Czechoslovakia on Paraguayan passports, wealthy Alfred K. Stern, 59, and his wife Martha Dodd Stern, 48, let a Prague press conference know they were in no hurry to return to the U.S. and explain their activities as professional Communist spies, announced that they would soon visit East Germany, Bulgaria, Communist China. Safe (so far) behind the Iron Curtain, the daughter of onetime (1933-37) U.S. Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd, once famed for painting the town red at home and abroad, painted a picture of her own country with the same color, declared that "all progressive people...