Bulgaria
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Former Eastern Bloc country. Soviet troops entered Bulgaria in 1944, and a communist government was established soon thereafter. Bulgaria's communist rulers followed the Soviet lead for almost fifty years, until the collapse of the Soviet Union. In January 1991, a multiparty government began to institute democratic and economic reforms.
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He said people in Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland now tend to support rather than oppose the idea of developing an alternative European nuclear deterrent.
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When Rossana Ivanova came to the U.S. from communist Bulgaria, she didn’t know what stocks and bonds were, or the difference between interest and capital gains.
Among the Christo works were "Wrapped Oil Barrels", created between 1958–61 shortly after the artist fled communist Bulgaria for Paris.
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Over the following decade, Stanley worked for the diplomatic service, with postings in the Turkish-based Ottoman Empire, as well as Greece and Bulgaria.
From BBC
"People are going to die from hunger, and Athens will be first," he said, arguing that local producers are struggling to compete against lower-priced products from Bulgaria and Ukraine.
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