Word: zhivkov
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DIED. TODOR ZHIVKOV, 86, Bulgarian communist leader whose 35 years in office, the longest of any East bloc ruler, resulted largely from his acquiescence to Moscow; in Sofia. Zhivkov was ousted in a bloodless 1989 coup condoned by Gorbachev, but left the nation with a $10 billion foreign debt...
...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...
Meanwhile Bulgarians were getting an earful from Todor Zhivkov, the former Communist who ruled Bulgaria for 35 years before he was ousted last year. In interviews with the the New York Times and the German news agency D.P.A., Zhivkov, who is facing corruption and embezzlement charges and lives near Sofia under house arrest, renounced his Communist past and denied any responsibility for crimes committed under his rule. "If I had to do it over again, I would not even be a Communist, and if Lenin were alive today, he would say the same thing," said Zhivkov, who suggested that Bulgaria...
...member parliament in June's elections, Bulgaria's former Communist leaders have been struggling to keep a grip on power and hold their newly renamed Bulgarian Socialist Party together. The internal crisis was triggered early last month when President Petar Mladenov, who deposed longtime Stalinist leader Todor Zhivkov in November 1989, stepped down under pressure. Mladenov had angered opposition groups and liberal members of his party by suggesting that tanks be used to break up a pro-democracy demonstration last December...
...fate of Dimitrov's corpse had been hotly debated since the downfall of communist dictator Todor Zhivkov last November. The cremation was carried out against the wishes of some party members and unbeknown to demonstrators camped outside the mausoleum to protest the homage paid to a leader some reviled as a Stalinist. Their posters depicted a sphinx above slogans reading, WE DON'T NEED ANY PHARAOHS and IT STINKS...