15 October 1997span> Marxism is mere nonsense,” says Todor Zhivkov, the former communist leader of Bulgaria. “And I’ll be the first one to say that it is completely wrong.” Once so enamored with communism and the USSR that he sought to have Bulgaria become a Soviet republic, the man who ruled the Balkan state from 1954 to 1989 has apparently […]
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