Word: bulgaria
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...floodlights in the Sofia courtroom came up full force, concentrating on the miserable defendant in the dock. The court asked Traicho Kostov, once Bulgaria's No. 2 Communist, if he wished to make a final statement. Earlier in the trial Kostov had refused to play his assigned role, had denied being guilty of espionage and treason against Bulgaria (TIME, Dec. 19). This was his last chance to redeem himself-and he rejected it. "I must say once again," he began, "that I was never a police agent, never an imperialist...
...these glowing terms, the Central Committee of Bulgaria's Communist Party saluted its leader on his soth birthday, two years ago. Last week Comrade Rostov, for a decade Bulgaria's No. 2 Communist, was on trial for his life...
Kostov had been ousted from power last spring for being "anti-Soviet," which meant in plain Bulgarian that like Tito he opposed his country's economic exploitation by Moscow. "Kostovism," explained Bulgaria's new boss, Vulko Chervenkov, "is nothing but Titoism on Bulgarian soil." Through the summer and fall, Kostov and ten alleged accomplices were prepared for another big Communist show trial. It was reported that Kostov was flown to Moscow for "rehearsals." His jailers persuaded Kostov to write a 32,000 word "confession" of his anti-Russian activities, including the customary self-accusations that he had been...
Only last September, Stalin's faithful satellite Hungarians had tried (and hanged) Interior Minister Laszlo Rajk on charges of conspiring with Tito to overthrow the Hungarian government and plotting war against Soviet Russia; Bulgaria last week was preparing to try former Deputy Premier Traicho Rostov on charges of conspiring with Tito to overthrow the Bulgarian government and sabotaging the interests of Soviet Russia...
...guerrillas had been defeated in Greece, but the West feared that new attacks might be launched from Albanian and Bulgarian soil. The U.S., Britain, China and Australia introduced a motion asking for an embargo on arms to Albania and Bulgaria, until they were certified by UNSCOB as having stopped all aid to Greek Communists. Last week the embargo motion was approved by the U.N. Assembly's Political Committee, with only the Communist bloc (including Yugoslavia) voting against...