SPLIT IN BULGARIAN COMMUNIST PARTY
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December 1, 1948
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COUNTRY Bulgaria DATEDISTR.
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I., A definite split has occurred between Prime Minister Georg3 Di.mitrov
,std Tocor Pavlov, head of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
2.a During the Fifth Bulgarian Coruaunist Party Congress it is alleged that
.vl.ov arose at a committee meeting and made a plea for a period of
peac .and constxi2ctionni'. Now that the Communist Party has come to com-
plete purer in Bu garia, Pavlov stated, it should give thb Workers, the
rc::sanc and the scientists a respite during ihich time the standard or
wing could be raised. Pavlov declared that there were no kulaks In
x .. a` :. -who "aeede.d. li cuidating", and that there was no further need to
wipe cuut" minority groups. Bulgaria, he said, consists largely of a
one-c_.a: s society, an:-'~. that there was no justification for "class warfare's
Dtw3 ov reportedly took "hysterical exception" to Pavlov's statemen
Ths Prime ?`mister in9istad that "ceaseless vigilance and class warfare"
s necq scar since the. "enemy" had merely gone underground. eace,
t ~: a t ?cA 4 claimed, rrouice disarm the Couwmunist Party, and lull it into a
feeling of false security which would eventually result in its overthrow.
Buigax ".an Foreign Minister Vasil Kolarov, 'President of the State P l.anntng
C~ srs: i ,z ~,on D,tiri Terpeshev and General Slavko Tr?unslci are said to be
-t ppc =.:ag Pavlov in this Party schism.
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