Word: nikola
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...same sunny mood seemed to envelop the framers of Bulgaria's new Constitution, which abolished the death penalty. This was good news for Bulgaria, for Russia and for Nikola Petkoff, secretary of Bulgaria's Agrarian Party, whom the Bulgarian Government recently condemned to death for treason...
...convicted men were leaders of Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Polish Peasant Party. Wrote Warsaw's Communist paper, in a blood-chilling front-page editorial titled The Analogy: "In Bulgaria, the leader of reaction, Nikola Petkoff [see above] has been seated on the defendant's bench next to his subordinate, Ivanoff. In Cracow, Mierzwa [Mikolajczyk's subordinate in the Polish Peasant Party] is seated on the bench. Will the similarity of events end there...
...Bulgaria, Communist Boss Georgi Dimitrov suddenly discovered a "plot" involving stubborn Nikola Petkov, leader of the opposition Agrarian Party, which holds about a quarter of the seats in the National Assembly. As he was led away by the police, Petkov shouted: "This is nothing but a prolongation of what has already happened in Hungary...
...election was held anyway. From the sidelines Opposition Leader General Nikola Petkoff urged all good Bulgars to stay away from the polls. The balloting was brisk. The Soviet Tass news agency reported that the vote in one Sofia district had run as high as 99%, the election as a whole had been held "quietly and in an organized manner...
...Three former Regents: Prince Cyril, brother of the late Tsar Boris III and uncle of the boy King Simeon II; ex-Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff, Bulgarian expansionist, who preferred making history to teaching it; Lieut. General Nikola Mikhoff, who had held the mistaken belief that the German Army was invincible...