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...Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov may still toady to the Kremlin's foreign-policy wishes (see above), but when it comes to internal matters, he is as reform-minded as any other Eastern European...
...Bulgarian Party Congress last week, Zhivkov proudly detailed "an all-round upsurge" in the nation's economy - the product of a quiet three-year-old reform experiment that has placed 60% of Bulgaria's industry on a profit-incentive basis...
...inevitable," said a Bulgarian official last week over a Coke. "Our people, especially the young, are influenced by the increasing number of Western tourists who come here." Since Bulgaria opened its borders to currency-laden
Soon even Moscow - in the voice of Evsei Liberman - was talking of "in centives" and the "profit motive," a green light to the East bloc that soon set Hungary, Bulgaria and even the Stalinist states of East Germany and Czechoslovakia to thinking about reform. Out of earshot of the West, economists began discussing things that the West would understand: bonuses and reinvestment, free prices and the need for incentives, even the accumulation of wealth-once a heretical thought under "egalitarian" Communism. Quite independently of one another, the prophets of profit began coming to the same conclusion: rigid Stalinist-style central...
...Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Rumania, Russia, Outer Mongolia and Cuba...