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KeheSe For December 528. — page two e ; | cities in order to sell agricultural products to the urban popula» tione ‘The avowed reason for doing so was, that rural selling and trade cooperatives had utterly failed in fulfilling their duties. The fault - according to officiel statements - lies with the nenberat of these agricukivral cooperatives, who are "lacking social control and democratic spirit". This is another forceful. werning for rural populfations. In the mountain ereas along Bulgeria's Western and Sothern border, agents and groups of a special police brigade have been seen in action srk since the middle of the eurmer, They receive special instrvetion and training in a eehool set up by the Ministry of the Interior, They have cemps and centers of their own and operate under direct instruction of the Ministry. Their assignment seems to be the supervision of more isolated rur:1 areas and of the whole frontier regions8. Their presence ard increasing activity alone proves that there is unrest in the open land and that some kind of fovermmental counteraction is preparing. Under pretense of "reactionary spirit", certain leading members have recently been purged from the Agrarian Union. This once vowerful political party, had accented stelinism and had become a wekk | satellite of the Communist Party. It seems that at present its entire liquidation is preparing and with it, even the appearance of an | independent agrarian orgenizations | | Our informant feels that these, and many other similar incidents, point towards the fact that more and bloody repressions are preparing in Bulgerias now they hit the Catholic Church3; soon they might lead to a large-scale terrorization of the rural populations. According to the opinion of our informant, this conclusion might not be without conrection to rumors increasingly cireulating in Sofia, There seems to be strong indication that Bulgariats Premier Chervenkoff does not enjoy any more full Moscow confidence. He might try to regain Stelin's approval, by showing an overzealous defense of communism. In other terms, he might want to start another terror wave, in order to prow thet not he, but others have been faulty. Another indication of increasing absorption by Soviet Russia is the change that hes oecrvred in the vast year on Bulgaria's book market. Only books of Russian of communist authors are published or apnear in libraries: even if such publications are purely seientifie or technical, The number of books that are no more translated, but are edited directly in Russian language, has bet striking in the last few months, The reason given officially is tha‘ the majority of Bulgars has acquired enough knowledge of Russian, so that they can read, with profit, the work of Russian authors in their original text, Strateric preparations. The vital strategie importance of Bulgaria for the Suviet military planning, nas been pointed out in previous dispatches. It should not be overltoked indeed that Buigaria is the arm of the be
