Word: traicho
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vulko Chervenkov (born Volov-his party name means The Red Wolf), a Bulgarian-born, longtime NKVD tough who spent 1923-44 in Moscow, became the late Georgi Dimitrov's bodyguard and brother-in-law. After Dimitrov's death, Vulko succeeded in liquidating his rival, Traicho Rostov (TIME, Dec. 26), became undisputed boss of Bulgaria, recently swore "loyalty to the last breath" to Stalin...
...Traicho Rostov, onetime Secretary General of the Bulgarian Communist Party, was hanged last month...