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...Great are your achievements, Comrade Kostov. Under your leadership and inspired by your heroic life, thousands of Communists were educated into unquestioned loyalty to the party...
...Kostov had been ousted from power last spring for being "anti-Soviet," which meant in plain Bulgarian that like Tito he opposed his country's economic exploitation by Moscow. "Kostovism," explained Bulgaria's new boss, Vulko Chervenkov, "is nothing but Titoism on Bulgarian soil." Through the summer and fall, Kostov and ten alleged accomplices were prepared for another big Communist show trial. It was reported that Kostov was flown to Moscow for "rehearsals." His jailers persuaded Kostov to write a 32,000 word "confession" of his anti-Russian activities, including the customary self-accusations that he had been...
...Sofia, another communist ex-hero was sliding down the slope. After bumping down in April from Vice Premier of Bulgaria to head of the National Library, Traicho Kostov has now been expelled from the party and from Parliament...
...liquidation of Rajk, Kostov, Xoxe and hundreds of smaller fry were signs of the times: Moscow's men were trying to close the ranks...
...Traicho Kostov, arrested last fortnight for "spying" and Titoist deviations (TIME, April 18). He had been subjected to a fate possibly worse than liquidation. Stripped of all his power, he was appointed director of Bulgaria's National Library...