Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rocked Curtain. The rock 'n' roll beat has proved to be more than the Iron Curtain can resist. All over Bulgaria, Beatle-like mushroom haircuts are sprouting faster than the crops?so much so that the government has plastered the countryside with posters ridiculing the hairy youth for their capitalistic degeneracy. They know better in Poland. When a correspondent for the daily Zycie Warszawy wrote contemptuously of Beatlemania two years ago, so many indignant letters poured in that the paper finally had to publicly disassociate itself from the reporter's views. Now Poland is overrun with rock 'n' roll bands...
...included such topnotch theologians as Jesuit Karl Rahner and Herbert Vorgrimler of Freiburg as well as three observers from a new Vatican secretariat for nonbelievers, which is headed by Franziskus Cardinal Konig of Vienna. The major Communist speakers were French Party Theoretician Roger Garaudy and one of Bulgaria's ranking ideologues, Asari Polikarov...
...BULGARIA. Telling political jokes is punishable by up to five years' imprisonment. Last year an American was expelled merely for discussing the average U.S. wage...
...victims by granting them licenses to sell state-made tobacco products. Communist governments value their tobacco trusts as both a prime source of income and a useful sponge to soak up cash that the restless people cannot otherwise spend because of the shortages of consumer goods. Red Bulgaria counts upon its golden leaf for 10% of its export income...
...seemed to jibe with the recent appearance of anti-Russian slogans on the walls of Sofia, particularly an inscription reading "Za Levski"-a reference to Nationalist Leader Vasil Levski, hanged by Bulgaria's Turkish overlords in 1873. It would seem that Bulgaria, like the rest of Eastern Europe, has been infected with nascent nationalism. As one official tut-tutted last week in explanation of the upheaval: "There are black sheep in every flock...