Word: communist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most loyal ally in Eastern Europe, stolid Bulgaria has always followed in Moscow's footsteps. The economic reform drive launched by Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev seemed no exception to that rule. In a startling turn away from its hard-line policies of the past, the regime headed by Communist Party Leader Todor Zhivkov, 76, swiftly followed Gorbachev's lead. From promised press freedoms to plans for a new commercial banking ! system, Zhivkov's program seemed intended, as a Western diplomat in Sofia put it, "to out-Gorbachev Gorbachev...
...Western analysts read the message as a rebuke to Zhivkov for a reform drive that was long on rhetoric and short on action, and concluded that Gorbachev was issuing a warning to the East bloc as a whole: Do not allow reform to affect the dominant role of the Communist Party...
...popular antiestablishment folk singer, and his wife Freya Klier, 37, a theater director, left the country rather than face charges of treasonable activities. The singer, once praised by the regime, had become an increasingly strident dissident. Krawczyk was arrested, along with about 120 others, following a Jan. 17 Communist Party rally in East Berlin during which protesters displayed banners calling for greater democracy. A poster quoted Rosa Luxemburg, a Communist heroine whose murder in 1919 was being commemorated that day: FREEDOM IS ALWAYS THE FREEDOM FOR OTHERS TO THINK DIFFERENTLY...
...plant manager, charging him with incompetence. What had gone wrong? For one thing, Bu misjudged a craze for Western-style suits and ties. He imported machinery that could produce 300,000 Western suits a year, but by the time he got it working, the market had shrunk. Moralized one Communist Party official: "Bu was overwhelmed by the honors given to him by the state and the people...
...aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the Kremlin insisted it would not back away from its ambitious plan to quintuple nuclear power output by the year 2000. But officials underestimated the fears created by the accident. Komsomolskaya Pravda, the Communist Party youth newspaper, disclosed last week that the government had made an unprecedented decision to scrap construction of an atomic power plant in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar (cost so far: $43 million) simply because residents were adamantly against it. Krasnodar is not alone. The article said residents of some two dozen localities are "fiercely" protesting atomic energy stations...