Word: sofia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earlier this weak African students demonstrated in the street of Sofia, Bulgaria, after being prevented from forming their own student organization. The importance of the incident could, and most likely has been overemphasized by the Western press, just as the so-called riots at the Helsinki Youth Festival were totally distorted by non-objective reporting...
However, talks with African students at the Helsinki Festival who had studied in Eastern Europe, the general reaction of "neutral" delegates to the Festival, and several incidents like the Sofia outbreak would indicate that the Soviet Union is running into a great deal of trouble in its attempt to win over the youth of the new nations of Africa and Asia...
...Communist Partygoers this has been a busy winter on the social circuit. Since November, the comrades have held party congresses in Sofia and Budapest, Prague and Rome. This week the current season winds up in East Berlin with the most crucial meeting of them all, to be attended by none other than Party Favorite Nikita Khrushchev...
...from Peking, who two weeks ago in Sofia had witnessed a purge of Red Chinese sympathizers and Stalinists in the Bulgarian Communist Party, would not be shouted down. The revisionists, he shot back, as usual using Tito as a synonym for Khrushchev, were "despicable traitors of the working class...
...delegate from Peking's Central Committee was in Sofia, and the purge of the Stalinists was more than he could bear. Heatedly he attacked Bulgarian obedience to Khrushchev's "revisionist" line, defiantly reported Peking's determination to support Fidel Castro in his hour of abandonment by Moscow. The Chinese delegate began his speech to warm applause; he finished to icy silence...