Word: georgy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks of his life, the burly Bulgarian commanded the free world's admiration. In 1933, two tyrannies faced each other in a Berlin courtroom - Naziism represented by a fat bully, Hermann Göring, Communism by an obscure, curly-maned agitator named Georgi Dimitrov. In this instance, the Communist was the hero, accused of complicity in the setting of the Reichstag fire which, by then, everyone suspected Hermann Göring had set himself. Dimitrov, acting as his own attorney, alone in a hostile courtroom and a hostile country, fought Göring with courage. "I am not here...
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...
Last week, both the West's chancelleries and Eastern Europe's cafes were once more abuzz with such speculation. The Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party had announced that Premier Georgi Dimitrov, 66, was "on leave," receiving medical treatment in the U.S.S.R. In his absence, hippo-jawed Foreign Minister and Deputy Premier Vassil Kolarov would look after the business of running Bulgaria...
...other hand, Georgi Dimitrov might really be ill. He has had heart trouble and skin ailments for years. And he went on leave just as the "season" opened in the Communist elite health resorts along Russia's Black Sea coast...