STAR HOUR IN THE HISTORY OF BULGARIA

SEPTEMBER 9, 1944 - 75 YEARS FROM THE DAY OF SOCIALIST REVOLUTION

The fact of what we are witnessing in Ukraine today, the Bulgarian people survived, from 1923 to 1944, during the period of the monarchist fascist monarchy. The Bulgarian bourgeoisie, which gained power in the country as a result of the Liberation from Turkish rule, was actively striving to obtain huge profits and access to international spaces, to conquer new territories, the dominant place among the Balkan states. Participation in the Balkan wars, and then in the First World War on the side of Germany devastated the country, plunging the people into poverty and hunger.

The aggravation of contradictions in society and the strengthening of the position of big capital led to the fascist putsch on June 9, 1923. The answer to it was the world's first anti-fascist uprising, which broke out, first of all, among the peasantry, united in the Agricultural Union. The Communist Party belatedly joined in the preparation of the uprising, which swept the whole country, it was a real civil war. It was crushed with unprecedented cruelty. During the struggle without trial, more than 15,000 people were killed. Brutal terror reigned throughout the country. The country was littered with gallows, conflagrations, communist heads spread on sticks spread over the squares of cities and villages to scare the population ...

A series of articles by Georgy Dimitrov on the need for a united front of workers and peasants appeared in these days, in which he argued that "fascism is not only anti-communist, but also anti-people." Total searches and arrests took place, the party’s archives were seized and newspaper and magazine editorial offices were closed. The detainees were kept in terrible conditions, tortured and tortured so that the events in Bulgaria shocked the whole world. The USSR organized assistance to the rebels through the MOPR. In Paris, Berlin, Vienna and other cities of the world, Committees against the white terror in Bulgaria were organized. In defense of the Bulgarian people, Romen Rolland spoke. Henri Barbus wrote the book “The Executioners”, in which he described how in the Bulgarian parliament the Communist deputies showed the bloodied shirts of their comrades. Parisian lawyer Marcel Vipar and American correspondent Karl Mouse published books about the unheard-of atrocities of Bulgarian fascists. Under pressure from public opinion, not a single European government supported Bulgarian fascism.

These events explain why it was Georgy Dimitrov who became the person who most accurately determined the nature of fascism, saying that “Fascism is an open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic, most imperialistic elements of financial capital. Fascism is a superclass power, and not the power of the petty bourgeoisie and the lumpen proletariat over financial capital. Fascism is the power of financial capital itself, it is the organization of terrorist reprisals against the working class and the revolutionary part of the peasantry and intelligentsia. Fascism in foreign policy is chauvinism in its most rude form, cultivating zoological hatred of other nations. This is medieval barbarism and atrocity. This is unbridled aggression against other peoples and countries. ” He will say this in his speech “The offensive of fascism and the tasks of the Communist International in the struggle for the unity of the working class against fascism” at the VII Congress of the Comintern on August 2, 1935 after returning from Leipzig.

Dimitrov not only defended himself, but showed the whole anti-human, predatory and criminal essence of fascism as “the shock fist of the international counter-revolution, as the main arsonist of the imperialist war, as the instigator of the crusade against the Soviet Union, the great fatherland of the working people of the whole world.”

On March 1, 1941, Bulgaria signed the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo pact and openly joined the fascist bloc. From the very attack of the Nazi hordes on the USSR in Bulgaria, the first partisan detachments went into the mountains to prepared bases. They resolutely began an armed struggle against fascism. Fascist gangs again began to devastate villages and cities, looking for connected partisans. The time has come for constant surveillance, denunciations, arrests, tortures and killings. More than 100,000 victims are on the account of Bulgarian fascism, and its descendants today erect monuments to the "victims of communism" and claim that "there was no fascism in Bulgaria." Bulgaria became the naval base of Germany on the Black Sea, from where the landing parties went to the coastal cities of the Soviet Union. Treasury unions, youth organizations such as the Hitler Youth, nationalist organizations of legionnaires, warlords, warriors, cubists were created in the country ... Trade relations with the USSR were terminated, Bulgarian-Soviet societies were closed, and books and magazines from the USSR were banned. At the same time, the Germans shamelessly robbed the country that was their ally. Germany accounted for 72.5% of imports and 79.2% of the country's exports, a machine was delivered in Sofia that printed Bulgarian money distributed to German troops ...

The Central Committee of the Bulgarian Workers' Party headed for the organization of the armed  liberation struggle. Most of the Communists and Komsomol members moved to an illegal position. Formed battle groups and detachments that went into the mountains. Explosions of warehouses, fuel tanks, fires began in all cities and villages ... Groups of political emigrants illegally returned and were involved in the struggle. Police and gendarmerie constantly raided, identifying the Communists and Komsomol members, their assistants. The greater the defeat of the Germans on the Soviet fronts, the more severely the fascist apparatus in Bulgaria acted. At the end of 1942, when the victories of the Red Army broke the myth of the invincibility of the Nazis, the party began to create a single anti-fascist union - the DOMESTIC FRONT. PF committees were created throughout the country, and the PF newspaper was illegally published. More and more partisan units were created throughout the country. Bulgaria was divided into 12 operational zones with a single command. In September 1944, the command of the People’s Liberation Army sent an appeal to the Soviet soldiers: “We were waiting for you, brothers of the Red Army, every salute was given in our hearts in honor of your victories ... welcome to our borders! Your closeness and our will to fight the oppressors of the people is a guarantee that BULGARIA WILL BE FREE, INDEPENDENT AND DEMOCRATIC! ”

On September 9, 1944, a socialist revolution took place in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian army turned weapons against the Nazis. The government of the United Kingdom declared war on Germany, the Patriotic War of the Bulgarian people began.

75 years have passed. Bulgaria managed to build a socialist society with a developed industry and powerful agriculture. This small country produced 100,000-ton tankers, ranked first in Europe and second in the world in the production of electric and motocars, produced space equipment, computers (40% of computers in the CMEA countries were from Bulgaria), and digitally controlled metal cutting machines, it decisively went into the future, full of hopes and prospects, being on the list of 30 countries of the world exporting machinery and equipment ... By GDP, Bulgaria ranked 25th in the world.

Now - 78th place, with the highest poverty quota in the EU - 21.8%, the production of metal, ships, televisions, refrigerators, computers is at zero, the production of motorcycles and electric cars is almost stopped. Destroyed production in the industrial sector by 91% and in the agricultural sector by 95%.

So on the land of Bulgaria fell the atomic bomb of perestroika. The counter-revolution literally killed Bulgaria. A failure a hundred years ago, the complete destruction of all production, the brutal robbery of everything produced by socialism, the impoverishment - material and spiritual - that is what the counter-revolution brought to this beautiful country and its hardworking people. Half of the population fled in search of food, others eke out a miserable existence. And a gang of robbers gets the remaining crumbs, giving up the territory of the country to external invaders - NATO and the United States.

What the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and other EU countries did not agree to, oddly and outrageously it looks, was accepted by Bulgaria, a country that owes its very existence to Russia. The country, liberated from five centuries of slavery, subjected to massacre by the Ottoman Empire, received, thanks to Russia, the possibility of free development, for the third time finds itself in the camp of its enemies and the most active performer of the role of a mercenary.

On September 4-5, 2014, the Minister of Defense, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the President of Bulgaria signed the VISIA 20-20 Program with the United States and swore allegiance to the United States and NATO, without asking the opinion of the people. In the same way as before, without holding a referendum, they signed the country's accession to the EU and NATO, declared Russia their official adversary. The media are full of hysterical attacks on Russia, there is a subscription on the demolition of the Soviet Army Monument in Sofia, Goebbels propaganda is working at full capacity. And there are people who believe this, who were inspired by fascist nonsense, mutilate the monuments of the Soviet Army, communists, partisans ...

   On the territory of Bulgaria, NATO ground exercises are taking place with the participation of Bulgarian, American and other NATO forces and military equipment - tanks, helicopters, etc. Four NATO headquarters are located here, military equipment, weapons, ammunition are constantly being delivered. Bulgaria accepts for training, exercises and tactical training of NATO allies, accepts Ukrainian fascist warriors for treatment and reconstruction, according to the NATO program, supplies them with weapons and ammunition. NATO and the United States use the country's territory for free as a springboard for preparing an attack on Russia, not hiding it at all.

Literally these days, the issue of the purchase by Bulgaria of eight American F-16 fighter aircraft specifically designed to drop freely falling (nuclear) bombs is being decided. The terms of the transaction are predatory. Bulgaria pays the full amount of the cost in advance for airplanes, which are only in the draft so far and which it will receive by 2023-2024. Bulgarian President Rumen Radev tried to veto the decision on this deal, but parlament Bulgaria rejected it ...






On Saturday, August 10, a sea landing was unloaded on the beaches of Varna, imitating the capture of "terrorists", helicopters roared low in the sky with a roar, in view of the coast, boats were launched, frightening adults and children, including many tourists from different countries.

And on August 8, several public organizations came out to protest for declaring Bulgaria a nuclear-free zone, against Bulgaria’s participation in the aggressions of NATO and the USA, against military bases and nuclear weapons depots that the US was planning to build. The generation that was born on the eve or with the beginning of capitalism is growing up, it is it that starts to resist, realizing that without it it will have no future.

Only 45 years of socialism in the whole history of Bulgaria were its star moment ...

       Ph.D. Alla Gigova, Chairperson of the Bulgarian Slavic Movement, Chairperson of the OPLOT BULGARIA organization, Chairperson of the EMAAF Executive Committee.