Word: sofias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sanatorium last July, to Vasil Kolarov, who succeeded Dimitrov as Bulgarian Premier only to die six months later, and, inevitably, to the living god Joseph Stalin. Some samples: Kostenec summer resort, the Kapinka village dam, Small Mus-Allah mountain peak, Longos State Farm, the Vurbitsa State Forest Station, and Sofia's Physical Culture High School were renamed for Dimitrov...
...British National Union of Students, an organization similar to the NSA, suspended its membership until the Second World Student Congress meets next August to protest the arrest of the Yugoslavian delegation to an IUS meeting in Sofia and the expulsion of Yugoslavia from the IUS in February because that country is "Fascist...
...Communists' first victim to tell his first-hand story is Michael Shipkov, a Bulgarian. Shipkov was a translator for the U.S. Legation in Sofia, which moved out two weeks ago when the U.S. broke diplomatic relations with Bulgaria. He is now in the hands of the Bulgarian State Security Militia (secret police) for the second time. The first time, he was tortured into a false confession that he had been an espionage agent for the U.S. and Britain. Then the secret police sent him back to spy on the U.S. Legation for the militia. Instead, he wrote an account...
Before he left Sofia, Heath tried hard to get the Bulgarian government's permission for Shipkov to leave with him. He failed. Last week's indictment of Shipkov not only demanded his trial but also frankly insisted that he was "to be found guilty and punished...
Moscow, at least, would probably welcome the break-and quite possibly had forced it. The ministry in Sofia had been a better-than-nothing listening post for the U.S. behind the Iron Curtain; more important, it had been a physical reminder to Bulgarian citizens-many of them restive under the Reds-that the U.S. was still in the world...