Word: bulgarias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least-known and most loyal of Russia's Eastern European satellites is little Bulgaria (pop. 8.5 million). TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott recently visited some of the country's major urban, industrial and agricultural centers and sent this report...
...oddest monuments in the Communist world: a huge equestrian statue of Alexander II, Czar of All the Russias from 1855 to 1881. While Moscow abounds with likenesses of Lenin and Peking with those of Mao, Sofia has chosen to preserve an image of the Emperor who helped liberate Bulgaria from Turkish rule in 1878. The Bulgarians still feel that they owe a historic debt of gratitude to Russia's rulers...
...Soviet Union regarded the country as its own private vegetable patch, vineyard and Tobacco Road. Bulgarians have labored under an ultra-orthodox Communist regime to keep Russian consumers supplied with farm produce, cigarettes and heady red wine. Total economic dependency, combined with brutal political and intellectual repression, assured Bulgaria's status as the most benighted nation in the Soviet bloc...
...Eastern Europe, population experts estimate that 23 per cent of all pregnancies are aborted in Poland, 44 per cent are aborted in Bulgaria, and 60 per cent are aborted in Hungary and the Soviet Union. Latin America, China, and Japan rely very heavily on legal or illegal abortion to avert unwanted births. In all these countries, abortion is demographically significant...
...Though BULGARIA is already Eastern Europe's most rigidly orthodox Communist country, it has ordered yet another "firm, systematic, irreconcilable offensive" on dissidents. So has RUMANIA. In HUNGARY and POLAND, where fragile experiments in limited liberalization are under way, talk of crackdowns is mostly just talk?at least so far?aimed at keeping Moscow calm. Western plays and films are still as popular as ever in Warsaw (now playing: Love Story, The Odd Couple and Vanishing Point), even if they are faring less well with the critics...