Word: mushanoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bulgarian liberals doubted that the more important pro-fascist prisoners should be punished. What disturbed them was the fact that three leading Bulgarian democrats and antiFascists were among the defendants. The three: Nikola Mushanoff, Athanase Buroff, Dimitri Gitscheff...
Wrote New York Timesman Joseph M. Levy: "It was a heart-rending sight in court today when the octogenarian Mushanoff and 70-year-old Buroff, both of whom devoted the greater part of their lives to the cause of democracy, had to stand for almost two hours to listen to the indictment...
...beginning to run. At the country's two political extremes stand: 1) pro-Nazi army commanders, intelligentsia, court figures around Prince Cyril, one of the three regents and brother of the late King Boris; 2) the Communist-led underground. Between stands a potential peacemaker: former Premier Nicholas Mushanoff, leader of the only legal opposition, the Democratic Party...
...Mushanoff is a classic middle-of-the-roader. He admires German culture and efficiency, but hates Naziism. He is emotionally pro-Russian, but detests Communism. He advocates an entente with other Balkan peoples, but thinks Bulgaria should keep some of her neighbors' territories. From all except the most radical viewpoints, he is respectable...