Word: todorov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government huffily denounced all the rumors as "fantastic fabrications and malicious propaganda." To be sure, one government official had committed suicide: Ivan Todorov-Gorunya, 48, a wartime underground leader and a Central Committee member. "The truth is," insisted the report, "that on learning about his criminal activity being discovered, he fell into a deep depression and committed suicide." According to one source, the "deep depression" was the gulf between Todorov-Gorunya's Sofia apartment window and the street below...
...Bulgaria, it all stemmed from a plot aimed at removing tubby Premier Todor Zhivkov, long the staunchest friend of Moscow in all Eastern Europe. While General Anev's men occupied the capital's key bridges, communication centers and the airport, other plotters-supposedly to be led by Todorov-Gorunya-were to invade the Central Committee and arrest the eleven-man Politburo-including Zhivkov. But Soviet counterespionage agents got wind of the coup just in time...
...fled to sanctuary in Albania, Red China's nearby ally. But it was not that simple. Anev was actually captured in his native village near the Yugoslav border, in a region long noted for its opposition to foreign invaders-Russian or otherwise. There, 20 years ago, he and Todorov-Gorunya had led an anti-Nazi guerrilla group...