Selected Works

How difficult is it to sum up the whole living experience of Comrade Georgi Dimitrov! Pupil of the great Dimitar Blageov, the founder of the Bulgarian Communist Party, and fraternal comrade of the great Lenin and Stalin, he lived an utmost revolutionary life in service of the people, of the cause of the proletariat which he took up and solemnly defended, brought forward until final victory. He became world famous in the Reichstag fire trial, which Goering, Hitler and the other nazis perpetrated and blamed on the communists. There, Comrade Dimitrov gave a phenomenal defence with no counsel, not only defending himself but the whole cause of communism from slander, turning the trial into an accusation of the accusers. The nazis were so thoroughly exposed before the world that they had to release him to Moscow. There, he became General Secretary of the Comintern and presented before the world communist movement the new flexible tactics only a militant Bolshevik would be capable of -- rallying the entire working class under the banner of anti-fascism and freedom with the communist party in the lead, demonstrating that the communists are the most progressive people, are in the interests of the proletariat. Where the liberals are vacillant and conciliatory, the communists are unrelenting in the face of reaction, preparing the soil for a proletarian revolutionary upspring at all times to end this bloody system which daily engenders imperialism and fascism. During the entire Second World War, he paid the utmost attention to the struggle of his homeland at the head of the Bulgarian Communist Party. In this position, too, he devised the tactics for the Bulgarian communists, organizing themselves in partisan detachments and the Fatherland Front and, with the help of the heroic Red Army, liberating their country from monarcho-fascism. In building the new Bulgarian people's democracy, he led the way on the path toward socialist construction in the brilliant Stalin style, nationalizing all implements of production and collectivizing the farms. In his last days, he spent his energies working against the threat of U.S. imperialism, which had taken up the mantle of Hitler and Mussolini, already utilizing its puppet Tito to try to annex part, and at times all, of the Bulgarian nation. His indomitable spirit will live forever in the hearts and minds of the world proletariat!