The September uprising of the working masses in Bulgaria was crushed by fire and sword and drenched in blood. The people, who had risen up against the usurping and intrusive bourgeois-fascist power and for a workers' and peasants' government, were temporarily crushed, mainly because they could not quickly concentrate their forces and were forced to carry out their armed struggle almost with their bare hands until the tsarist government. The tsarist government, which had united around itself all the internal and external dark anti-people elements, from the bankers and speculators to the counterrevolutionary generals and professors, from the vanguardists and venal Macedonians (IMRO) to the vile broad socialist careerists, had all the country's weapons at its disposal. Five thousand Communists, peasants and brave sons of the people - brutally massacred; fifteen thousand workers, peasants, tea...

In the beginning of January 1945 a special meeting between the Politburo of BCP and the Politburo of CPSU took place. We then heard a special exposé for the first time (G. Malenkov) of Stalin's cult of personality and and its harmful effects. And we were warned to learn a lesson for ourselves from their, the CPSU's, experience. The meeting took place by the Soviet comrades' suggestion. On the Soviet side the meeting attended Malenkov, Khrushchev, Molotov, Bulganin. On our side - Rayko Damyanov, Georgi Chankov, and I. We did not know in advance what we were invited to a meeting in Moscow for. G. Malenkov was then prime minister and simultaneously led the work of the Politburo. He gave the word to Khrushchev - then first secretary of the Central Committee. Khrushchev, holding in his hand a voluminous scroll of typewritten text and looking at it from time to time, spoke about some negative p...