Word: dimitroff
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...Rumania in August 1944, Ana was among them, in a Red Army officer's uniform. She became boss of the Rumanian Communists, co-founder of the revived Comintern and one of Stalin's most trusted lieutenants in the Balkans, ranking with Tito and Bulgaria's Georgi Dimitroff...
There was a curiously ironic angle to Nikola Petkoff's legal murder. When Georgi Dimitroff awaited trial in a Nazi jail, Petkoff was one of a group of Bulgarian political leaders who arranged for Dimitroff's 72-year-old mother, Baba Parashkeva, to visit him. Gratefully she said then: "If my son lives through this, he will repay you a thousand times...
...hangman's noose was Georgi Dimitroff's fulfillment of his mother's 14-year-old promise...
...treason charges. Petkoff, leader of the democratic Agrarian Party, was a patriot. He fought the Nazis and spent part of the war behind German barbed wire. After the Russians put the small Bulgarian Communist Party in power, Petkoff opposed the Communists led by the old Comintern agent, Georgi Dimitroff, hero of the Reichstag-fire trial...
Said the U.S. Government in a stinging (but futile) note of protest: "The trial of Petkoff recalls to mind another trial which occurred in Leipzig 14 years ago. In that earlier trial, a Bulgarian defendant [Dimitroff] evoked worldwide admiration for his courageous defiance of the Nazi bully who participated in his prosecution. Today that defendant has assumed another role and it is now the courage of another Bulgarian [Petkoff] whose steadfast opposition to forces of oppression has evoked worldwide admiration...