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So he is still trying to kick. But there is no one to help him.
But not everything is calm. Some time ago, Valeri Petrov, Pro–
fessor Gocho Gochev, the script writer Christo Ganev (a ll of them
World War II radicals), and the young poet Blagoy Dimitrov were
dismissed from the Party for not signing a letter denouncing Solzhenit–
syn's writings-a letter imposed on the Writer 's Union by Djagarov,
who was then its president. And last year the whole staff of
September
magazine was sacked as a consequence of the publication of material
concerning the slave labor camps of the Stalin era into which Bulgar–
ian political emigres to the Soviet Union were thrown.
Things like that are happening all the time. But it seems to me
that what we are perceiving here are the moral spasms of a strangled
victim rather than the fighting back of a living political or social force.
