Word: bulgaria
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...Sign peace treaties with the defeated enemies of World War II, thus give Germany, Japan and Austria a chance to set up free governments, "untouched by tyranny." "Nor can we accept a settlement which would make [them] satellites of the Soviet Union. The experience in Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria has been [a] . . . shocking betrayal of the solemn pledges by the wartime allies...
...Bulgaria were busily engaged in a favorite Communist pastime last week. They were renaming places & things after the Revolution's Red saints...
...satellites' shows were not so impressive. Poland featured a large train model, Hungary an immense graph which announced that Hungarian heavy industry had increased production by 138%. A sign over the entrance to Bulgaria's display room urged: "Visit the land of roses and wine, the land of peace and democracy...
...State Department last week published a remarkable document. It was one answer to a question which has interested the West since the famous Moscow purge trials of 1936-38, a question which has become increasingly urgent with such postwar trials as that of Hungary's Cardinal Mindszenty, Bulgaria's 15 Protestant leaders and the U.S.'s Robert Vogeler: How do Communist secret police extort "confessions...
...Communists' first victim to tell his first-hand story is Michael Shipkov, a Bulgarian. Shipkov was a translator for the U.S. Legation in Sofia, which moved out two weeks ago when the U.S. broke diplomatic relations with Bulgaria. He is now in the hands of the Bulgarian State Security Militia (secret police) for the second time. The first time, he was tortured into a false confession that he had been an espionage agent for the U.S. and Britain. Then the secret police sent him back to spy on the U.S. Legation for the militia. Instead, he wrote an account...