Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Protests also took place in at least eight East German cities yesterday and in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia. As in Prague, the demonstrators demanded democratic reforms but also punishment of recently ousted leaders--Todor Zhivkov in Bulgaria and Erich Honecker in East Germany...
...SOFIA, Bulgaria--The Bulgarian Parliament yesterday ousted former Communist leader Todor Zhivkov as head of state and approved a series of government changes that forced out several Zhivkov supporters and put reformers into positions of power...
About 10,000 people rallied outside parliament yesterday, demanding that Zhivkov be tried in court on allegations he amassed a fortune while Bulgaria's economy deteriorated...
Mladenov has said he will implement sweeping political and economic reforms but has not offered specifics. He said the "new socialist Bulgaria" will have more respect "for [human] rights and freedom for all Bulgarians...
LOOKING only to the events of this past year, numerous images claim indelible places in our memory and imagination. Millions marched in China's capital for political reform this spring before they gathered in East Germany. Leaders in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria have followed the Soviet Union's lead step-by-step in opening up totalitarian regimes...