Word: bulgarians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they? Imre Pozsgay, the most popular politician in Hungary and the leader of the democratic New Socialist Party, is a democratic socialist. So is Jens Reich, founder of the East German opposition front New Forum. And so is Zhelyu Zehlev, leader of the Bulgarian opposition group Union of Democratic Forces. And Solidarity, you will recall, is a labor union, not the Polish Chamber of Commerce...
...Bulgarian turmoil is a classic of ethnic politics. Zhivkov tried to solve the minority problem by denying the Turks a separate existence and forcing them to assimilate or flee to Turkey. His successor, Petar Mladenov, reversed that policy. Prime Minister Georgi Atanasov told angry demonstrators, "If we Bulgarians want to be free, then all the people must be free." Last week the National Assembly approved measures that guarantee rights for the Turks, and set up a commission to review the issue...
...years, ethnic Turks were subjected to a harsh assimilation policy under which they were forced to adopt Bulgarian names and to speak Bulgarian...