Word: bulgaria
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...Blocked by the Soviet Union: Austria, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Japan. Jordan. Nepal, Portugal, Korea. Opposed by the West: Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary. Mongolian People's Republic, Rumania. Up for consideration: Laos, Libya, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Viet Minh, North Korea. Not interested: Switzerland, which thinks the U.N. would "endanger our neutrality...
...cutting off Yugoslavia's trade with one satellite after another. In September 1949, it declared Yugoslavia "a foe and an enemy of the Soviet Union," and ended its mutual-defense agreement. Beginning with Rajk in Hungary, the Communists staged a series of satellite trials and purges-Kostov in Bulgaria, Slansky in Czechoslovakia, Gomulka in Poland-in which Communists accused of nationalistic ambitions were murdered for the crime of Titoism...
...counter this activity, the Soviet Union and the seven satellite Communist governments (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania and East Germany) joined in a defense pact, and agreed to a combined military command. The supreme commander: Russia's Marshal Konev, 57, Russia's No. 3 military leader, the man who presided over the trial that ordered Beria shot...
...against colonialism, but let us be equally unanimous and positive in declaring to the world that we are unanimous in our opposition to all forms of colonialism. Colonialism takes many forms. Think, for example, of those satellite states under Communist domination in Central and Eastern Europe-of Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland. Are these not colonies as much as any of the colonial territories in Africa? If we are united in our opposition to colonialism, should it not be our duty to declare our opposition to Soviet colonialism as much as to Western imperialism...
...speaker. "Well," said the listener, "I was around to all the markets today and goods were scarcer and prices higher than ever." "That is a serious error, Comrade," said the speaker. "You should try to go to the market less and read the newspaper more." ¶I In Bulgaria, they quip that the Communists have raised the standard of living so high the country can't reach...