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- <text id=90TT1969>
- <title>
- July 30, 1990: World Notes:Bulgaria
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 30, 1990 Mr. Germany
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 47
- World Notes
- BULGARIA
- Up in Smoke
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> He was once revered as a staunch fighter of fascism and the
- founder of communist Bulgaria, but past glories could not save
- Georgi Dimitrov from the ash heap of history. Last week
- Dimitrov's embalmed body was quietly removed from the mausoleum
- in Sofia's main square, where it had been on public display
- since his death in 1949, and cremated in a ceremony attended
- only by a few relatives.
- </p>
- <p> The 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!
- </p>
- <p> Dimitrov was part of a shrinking club of embalmed communist
- leaders. If the trend toward democracy continues, will Lenin,
- Mao Zedong and Ho Chi Minh also go up in smoke?
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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