Word: kostov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...responded by cutting off Yugoslavia's trade with one satellite after another. In September 1949, it declared Yugoslavia "a foe and an enemy of the Soviet Union," and ended its mutual-defense agreement. Beginning with Rajk in Hungary, the Communists staged a series of satellite trials and purges-Kostov in Bulgaria, Slansky in Czechoslovakia, Gomulka in Poland-in which Communists accused of nationalistic ambitions were murdered for the crime of Titoism...
...Laszlo Rajk. 5. Traicho Kostov. 37. Five old historic states became 14 new administrative districts as the Reds performed facial surgery, Communist style, in: 1. Czechoslovakia. 4. Bulgaria...
...boss of Bulgaria takes pains to swear his "loyalty to the last breath" to Stalin. Dimitrov, star of the Reichstag trial (1933), ex-Secretary General of the old Comintern, was the big man in Bulgaria's postwar days. Arriving from Moscow, he took over from homegrown Red Traicho Kostov, made Kostov his No. 2 man. Soon Kostov was accused of "anti-Sovietism," tried for treason. Persuaded to write a 32,000-word confession, at trial became the first major Communist defendant to repudiate a confession. Disposition: hanged. Dimitrov did not last either. Displeased with Dimitrov's own Titoist...