Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon last week 55-year-old Grotewohl was taken to the Soviet Military Hospital in Eastern Berlin's Ober-Schoneweide suburb. Six Soviet soldiers escorted him to the second floor suite usually reserved for Russian generals. The Communist Radio Berlin said Grotewohl had the grippe. Privately, top Communist leaders said he had a nervous breakdown. According to Berlin gossip, Grotewohl had long been afraid that the Russians were out to liquidate him as politically unreliable, for weeks had kept his lights burning all night in his Berlin residence. One morning he reportedly found Comrade Ulbricht riffling through his mail...
...many places the peasants clashed with police; there were hundreds of arrests and nearly a score dead. Communist agitators were among the land-grabbing peasants; but most were moved by a genuine, desperate need. Italy, though greatly recovered under Marshall Plan aid, was still far from raising enough food for her teeming, fast-breeding folk. Yet about 4,000,000 acres of land, held by a handful of wealthy owners, still lay idle or were worked by antiquated methods...
...court hastily adjourned for 20 minutes to give Kostov a chance to read his confession over. When the court reconvened, Traicho Rostov, a colorless little man who looked like a small-town schoolmaster, still firmly stood his ground. For the first time in the weird history of Communist show trials, a major defendant had stepped out of the part assigned him and had yelled defiance till the end at the hidden author of the script.*Defendant Kostov provided some biting lines of his own. Questioned about Tito's police chief, Alexander Rankovic, he said: "I went to a banquet...
...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...
...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 a paid U.S. agent and had plotted the overthrow of the Bulgarian...