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The Case of Nikola Petkov |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / COMMUNISM IN BULGARIA |
| Author: Charles A. Moser |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 2,573 Words, 16,115 Characters |
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Recently there appeared in this country a novel by Thomas McGonigle with a curious title: The Corpse Dream of N. Petkov. This work is based upon very real events: the trial and execution in September 1947 of Nikola Petkov, the man who at that time best represented the Bulgarian people's aspirations for democratic freedoms. Forty years have passed since those infamous events, and we do well to speak of them, even though few Americans know much of Bulgarian history and fewer still are acquainted with the Petkov case. But in reality, Petkov's death tells us a good deal about ourselves, since the United States was involved in the case.
Petkov was born in 1889 to a wealthy family whose members had been prominent in Bulgarian politics. They had also been the victims of political violence: ...
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...st tyranny based in Maputo.
If the United States is ever to pursue a successful foreign policy in a world overshadowed by the threat of communist totalitarianism, it must consciously reject the pattern exemplified by its reaction to the Petkov case. If a study of the Petkov case forty years later brings us to a greater recognition of our mistakes, his sacrifice will not have been in vain.
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