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<text id=90TT1969>
<title>
July 30, 1990: World Notes:Bulgaria
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
July 30, 1990 Mr. Germany
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 47
World Notes
BULGARIA
Up in Smoke
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<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>
</body>
</article>
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