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Todor Zhivkov: Statesman and Builder of New Bulgaria, 1982. One year after this admiring biography was published, Zhivkov, now under house arrest for corruption and stealing state funds, awarded Maxwell the Order of Stara Planina for "the strengthening of peace between peoples...
...Near Stara Pazova I came upon an old peasant leaning over a fence and talking to a hog. Through my interpreter, I asked him why he hadn't joined the local zadruga (cooperative). He stared at me for a long time. Then he reached down with a long-fingered hand and picked up a piece of his soil, black...
Communists and Agrarians, by separate revolt, tried to overthrow the Government. The Army defeated Communist insurrections at Stara Zagora and Nova Zagora; but the Communists called a strike and engaged in wholesale sabotage of communications. Some 100,000 Agrarians were reported marching on Sofia, capital of Bulgaria. Troops halted them with rifle fire...
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