Word: bulgarias
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...late. Khrushchev's method of meeting demands for "democratization" in lesser satellites has been to urge them to clear their programs with the cautious Tito. Delegations from the Communist Parties of Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary have checked in at Belgrade during the last two weeks. A delegation from East Germany is expected. But in Czechoslovakia, sensitive neighbor to Poland, Khrushchev decided on direct intervention. To head off a Polish-type independence move there, a 13-man Soviet delegation, led by one of Comrade Khrushchev's top aides, arrived in Prague last week to "study the life and work...
...sell that liberalized policy to his Kremlin colleagues. It was given out that, although relations are improving (e.g., ousted Hungarian Premier Imre Nagy, who has Tito's backing, was reinstated to Communist Party membership last week), there were still many outstanding "ideological differences" between satellites Hungary. Rumania, Bulgaria and independent Yugoslavia...
Self-approving behavior comes naturally to 37-year-old Basso Christoff. The King of Bulgaria heard him sing 14 years ago and told him that it would redound to the glory of Bulgaria if he were to become famous as a singer throughout the world. To see that he did, the King gave the young man a royal scholarship, sent him to Italy for study and experience. Christoff fled to Salzburg when the Germans occupied Italy ("not wanting to get in any kind of a war"), later returned and applied for Italian citizenship and married an Italian girl...
...wrong about you. We came down here and apologized. We got others to apologize and resume good relations. We had your old enemy Rakosi kicked out of the Hungarian Party and Chervenkov out of the Bulgarian. Your pal Gomulka was rehabilitated in Poland, Rajk in Hungary and Kostov in Bulgaria. We dissolved the Cominform. We had the parts of the Slansky trial that reflected on you struck from the record. We paid off for the trade damage the Cominform blockade did to you and got the satellites to do the same. We don't feel obliged to do anything...
...wages just to feed himself, his wife and two children. ECE calculated that a monthly breadbasket, including just 4 Ibs. of meat. 3.3 Ibs. of butter and lard and 9 eggs per person, would cost 110% of the average worker's income in Rumania, 105% in Bulgaria, 95% in Poland, 93% in Hungary, 88% in the U.S.S.R., 77% in Czechoslovakia, 72% in East Germany. Concluded ECE: "The rate of increase [in personal consumption] has lagged behind popular expectations in some countries, notably East Germany, Hungary and Poland...