Word: dimitrov
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...Dimitrov was acquitted (but still held by the Nazis); his half-witted fellow defendant, Marinus van der Lubbe, was beheaded. A year later, Dimitrov was finally released to Russia, in exchange for some German spies the Russians had caught...
Trojan Horse. Dimitrov was "born (1882) in the village of Radomir, Bulgaria; his parents were among Bulgaria's few Congregationalists. Georgi's first rebellion was refusal to go to Sunday school. At twelve he went to work in a print shop and at 15 became active in the printers' union. His mother remembered him as a good boy whom she rarely had to punish because "he never lied...
...after 22 years in exile, Georgi Dimitrov went back to Sofia where, in his own phrase, he started to sweep away all opposition with an iron broom. In 1947, Dimitrov's regime hanged Nikola Petkov, courageous democratic leader...
...while it looked as if Dimitrov would make himself head of a Red Balkan federation, but Moscow squelched the idea; lately, the Kremlin was rumored dissatisfied with Dimitrov's insufficiently vigorous opposition to Tito. The Politburo, it was said, sent a special four-man commission to keep an eye on Dimitrov...
...liquidation, but he seemed to be really ill. Last week, Moscow announced that he had died of diabetes in a sanitarium near the Russian capital. The body lay in state in Moscow; the Russian radio added that music played softly while "thousands & thousands of the working people" filed past Dimitrov's casket...