February 1, 2023 marks the 78th anniversary of the darkest date in modern Bulgarian history – the mass killing of the Bulgarian elite by the communists.
On February 1, 1945, the “legal body” of the Red Terror - the so-called People's Court - pronounced the most death sentences in the history of Bulgaria.
Among the victims are the brother of Tsar Boris III - Prince Kiril Preslavski, together with the other two regents of the minor Tsar Simeon - the world-famous scientist Prof. Bogdan Filov, and Gen. Nikola Mihov. Together with them, the ministers in the two cabinets of Bogdan Filov, as well as the ministers in the governments of Dobri Bozhilov, Ivan Bagryanov and Konstantin Muraviev, MPs, soldiers, etc., were executed.
In total, over 2,730 people were executed by the People's Court in Bulgaria.
The victims of the new communist government, led by the leader Georgi Dimitrov, were not limited to those massacred on February 1, 1945. The massacre of the Bulgarian elite began as soon as they took power on September 9, 1944. In the first days after the coup, according to various estimates, several thousand people were killed without trial and sentence.
It is not only politicians and soldiers who fell victim to the new people's power. It was also merciless towards the country's intellectual elite.
Among the physical perpetrators of the murders are the names of the future dictator Todor Zhivkov, the sadists Mircho Spasov (whom, as they say, even Zhivkov feared) and Lev Glavinchev. The latter is the biggest mass murderer in Bulgarian history.
At the funeral of the sadist Glavinchev, his brother "bragged" that the latter "killed 226 Macedonian fascists"...
We will not forget, we will not forgive.