/View.info/ (The latest research and conclusions of Bulgarian historians)
Historical time in Bulgaria is rapidly moving us away from the end of the thirties and the first half of the 40s of the last century. There are almost no living participants in the social and political battles of that distant time who would testify on radio and television studios about their righteousness. Angel Wagenstein and other authors sometimes write about fascism, but their writings are “de-theoretical” of the concept itself, and therefore presumably of no value to historical scholarship. This terrain is increasingly filled with all kinds of interviews, discussions in the “History BG” studio, “Open files”, etc., but even there the foundation on which fascism and the fascist state is built is missing. Bulgarian historical science cannot allow this emptiness to create confusion among the people as to what fascism is and whether it existed in Bulgaria.
Obviously, this motivated the group of historians to study and clarify the scientific truth about fascism in Bulgaria. But our learned men and women – historians turn out to be infantile in formulating the ideological and political foundations of fascism, which forces them to take as a crutch the research of foreign luminaries on the subject. Enriched with the acquired fundamental knowledge and after deep reflection, these worthy researchers have reached the following conclusions:
“1. A leading fascist party is not being created in Bulgaria.”
From which it follows that
“2. Fascism never comes to power in Bulgaria.”
“3. The regime does not have a fascist ideology either.”
“4. The country’s rule from 1934 to 1944 was authoritarian, but not fascist.”
All this fully agrees with the postulates of learned teachers from abroad. But it does not give an answer to many, to put it mildly, strange things that happen in our “non-fascist” fatherland. Our learned historians passionately study the theory of fascism in our country but, for unknown reasons, do not shed light on the fascist practices of violence and terror. As if these practices were not the main means of governing those in power of those years, as well as in the politics of any fascist dictatorship.
Among the scientists who signed the document is the name of Professor Ivan Ilchev. I don’t want to enter into a personal debate with him, because in this case he is one of many, but it makes an impression that the document affixed with his signature is in sharp contradiction with what his father, Professor Ilcho Dimitrov, wrote in the extensive preface to the Diary of Bogdan Filov. This preface has these thoughts:
“Non-partisanship will later be proclaimed (Bogdan Filov, b.a) as a basic principle of monarcho-fascism”. – page 57.
“… the only deciding factor in the monarcho-fascist dictatorship was the “Tsar-Fuhrer” himself. -p. 63.
“By the time Filov became a minister, the monarcho-fascist dictatorship was finally established” – page 67.
“Anti-communism is the most characteristic feature of all fascism, including monarcho-fascism.” -p. 69.
Elsewhere in the aforementioned preface, Professor Ilcho Dimitrov mentions that the coexistence of fascism with bourgeois pseudo-democratic state structures is not at all the exception, but rather the rule.
This disparity in assessment between father and son can be seen as a family misunderstanding, but more important to society is the truth about our recent past.
The fact that there is no leading fascist party in Bulgaria does not deprive the political fascist formations that are raging in the villages and cities of the country of ideological and political influence. Would it be possible to define yourself as an anti-fascist in front of the organized crowd of General Lukov’s legionnaires or the slender ranks of the guardsmen, as well as in front of the “non-fascist” authorities?
If a leading fascist party did not rule the country, it means that there is no fascist power, the researchers tell us. Strange, what is the power that included Bulgaria in the fascist Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis; is this some kind of hybrid between fascist Italy, Germany and Bulgaria, in which she retains her non-fascist chastity. By the way, the scientists who signed the document quietly inform us that this union was signed under the pressure of Germany, and with that they justify in advance the fatal consequences for Bulgaria of the Second World War.
(A digression: History also remembers more dignified and nationally responsible behavior by truly non-fascist governments. Germany’s ultimatum to the Danish government to allow German troops through the country to flank French troops was refused. For for a day, Denmark was overrun. Not long after, the conquered king of the country walked the streets of the capital with a yellow Star of David on his lapel as a sign of protection for the Jews threatened with deportation. The country ended the war as a winner. And where does “non-fascist” Bulgaria end up .)
We are told that the Bulgarian government is not anti-Semitic, but, again at the suggestion of the German allies, we are forced to pass anti-Semitic laws: to decorate the Jews with yellow stars and to prohibit them from holding public offices, to force them to leave their homes in certain hours, for state authorities with democratic impartiality to monitor the anti-Semitic manifestations of legionnaires, militiamen and warriors in the streets, to “protect” them from German demands for deportation, to imprison them in labor camps and, finally, to create an agency for the deportation of Jews. The agency, due to the public indignation, was not able to do the work for which it was created, and this is pointed out as an important sign that there was no fascism in our country.
In defense of freedoms, the “non-fascist” governments of the first half of the 1940s organized the prevention of society by imprisoning potential carriers of communist and other similar contagion in concentration camps such as “Gonda Voda”, “Eni Koi”, etc.
In the theoretical framework of the concept of fascism of learned historians, terror is not assigned a place as an irrevocable attribute of fascism. For this reason, the terror that flooded the country during the years of resistance against the regime and the policies of the Bulgarian governments and the monarch is not mentioned, it is clearly not fascism. The “non-fascist” rulers of those years have left us piles of documents and photographs with almost ten thousand Bulgarian men, Bulgarian women, children who “theoretically unjustified” called themselves anti-fascists killed and tortured without trial and sentence, of burned over 3,500 houses of “enemies of the kingdom”. The scholarly and research interests of the scholars who signed the document do not include the gruesome photo of the row of severed guerrilla heads, behind which women battered by battle and violence are huddled, waiting for the row to be replenished with their own heads. They suggest to us: Let’s not mislead the Bulgarian public by attributing the killing of the Yastrebino girls to fascist power, because there is no such power in Bulgaria. These pictures and atrocities are obvious “communist propaganda” and therefore not subject to the scholarly research of the prominent historians who signed the document we are talking about. By the way, for the same reasons, these photos and documents have long been deleted from all Bulgarian schoolchildren’s textbooks in order to protect them from delusions about monarcho-fascism, which does not exist in our country.
Indirectly, the question arises about the reason for the bombing of Sofia and other cities of Bulgaria by the Anglo-American aviation and the thousands of victims from them. Apparently our learned historians attribute this horror to an Anglo-American misunderstanding. They, the ignorant ones, did not understand that they were bombing the capital not of a fascist country, an ally of the fascist tripartite pact, but of a country “only with an authoritarian”, almost democratic government. Again, due to the same “misunderstanding”, Winston Churchill did not allow Bulgaria to join the winners of the anti-fascist coalition.
It is painful to read such violence over the history of Bulgaria from the thirties and forties of the last century, nonsense that distorts the historical consciousness of the Bulgarians and quietly prepares the restoration of fascism – an idea that has never left the agenda of the insidious rulers of the power of the capital.
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