Предсмъртните писма на Никола Петков до Георги Димитров и Васил Коларов (19 август – 22 септември 1947 г.) (Втора част)
The Death Letters of Nikola Petkov (19 August – 22 September 1947) (Part Two)

Summary/Abstract: The last five letters of Nikola D. Petkov contain rich information about the organization and political development of the Bulgarian Agrarian Union and the counteraction of the opposition against the more growing role of the BWP (c) in the state authority and in the political life. Especially valuable is the information about eminent political leaders from this period and their role in the political events. On the basis of some newly found documents a conclusion is made that death letters of N. Petkov are required by the Political Bureau of the PWP (c) as an evidence for the full self-denouncement and confession of the guilt of the anti-peoples subversive activity for overthrowing of the rule of the Fatherland Front. N. Petkov is told that his sentence will be called off only if he gives full confessions. In reality, the PB wanted the expected confessions to be used not only for the full discredit of N. Petkov as a leader of the BAU-N. Petkov but also to discredit the united opposition and to defeat it and to discredit it in front of the democratic society abroad. The most important leaders of BWP(c) remain unsatisfied from the letters of N. Petkov. This is not the main reason for the death sentence, which is a result of the growing contradiction between the USSR and the other Great powers. From the other side, in the political struggle for power in Bulgaria the liquidation of N. Petkov puts the beginning of the defeat of the democratic opposition.

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