Word: krai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scarcely speak German. Two of the Bulgarian defend ants could speak none at all. But fiery George Dimitroff, for 23 years leader of the Bulgarian Communist Party, was articulate. Trials, even death sentences, are no novelty for him. In 1924, after the horrible bombing of Sofia's Sveti Krai Cathedral in which more than 200 people were killed, he was accused of high treason, condemned to death in absentia. Knowing there was little hope from this Nazi court, Communist Dimitroff blustered and roared his way through the trial while timorous, law-abiding Germans hung open-mouthed on his words...