DIMITROV WASTES NO BULLETS. The Inside Story of the Trial and Murder of Nikola Petkov (Leader of the Bulgarian Agrarian Party)
DIMITROV WASTES NO BULLETS. The Inside Story of the Trial and Murder of Nikola Petkov (Leader of the Bulgarian Agrarian Party)

Author(s): Mikhail Alexander Padev
Subject(s): WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of Communism
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Keywords: show trial;
Summary/Abstract: The trial and hanging by the Communists of Nikola Petkov, the leader of the Bulgarian opposition, in the autumn of 1947, sent a shock of horror through the civilized world and brought forth protests from Government spokesmen in practically every democratic capital. In Dimitrov Wastes No Bullets Mr. Michael Padev, who was one of Petkov’s closest friends, explains why what Mr. Bevin, speaking in the House of Commons, described as a “test case” marks a turning point in post-war European politics. “The Communists had liquidated other prominent democrats,” he writes, “in no other case, however, had the complete innocence of the victim been clearer.”

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