Long Reads: Kristen Ghodsee on the Lost World of Bulgarian Communism
Jacobin Radio
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The Trial of Gorgi Dimitrov
In the 30s, there was only one brave man in Germany, and he's Bulgarian. The fire which destroyed the Reichstag on February the 27th is providing the most sensational political trial since the Dreyfus case. Your communists are now on trial in danger for their lives in Leitzig. One of them is my brother Demetrov. The other is the father of this boy, Torgler. The other two are Popov and Tanneth. We have both come here in England to give evidence before an inquiry of famous lawyers. They have declared their belief that all four are innocent. My father, Nancy Sree, Boerganin, are innocent
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