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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...
...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...
Noisy Interruption. There were even more serious turbulences in Bulgaria. The country's Red boss Todor Zhivkov was back from his trip to Moscow scarcely 24 hours when he told the opening session of a party congress in Sofia that Premier Anton Yugov, ex-Dictator Vulko Chervenkov, and six other bigwigs were being fired as Stalinists. Yugov was slapped under house arrest, accused of ordering the executions of "numerous honest and innocent comrades." Only three years ago, the Bulgarian regime had tried to emulate the Chinese "great leap forward" and also had fallen flat on its face...
...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...