Rebel with a Just Cause: A Political Journey Against the Winds of the 20th Century : Volume II, Volume 2Pensoft Publishers, 2001 - 494 pages |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
BACK TO THE FUTURE | 9 |
Why Did You Escape from Bulgaria? | 11 |
Conspiracy Behind the Wagonette | 15 |
To Take Your Head in Your Hands | 18 |
Zdravko | 20 |
Another Story of Our Escape | 23 |
GROWING UP IN THE GOOD OLD TIMES 25 | 25 |
At Last off on Our Way | 385 |
Exasperation and Resignation | 386 |
Crossing the Iron Curtain This Day Created by God Let Us Rejoice | 388 |
The Final Days | 390 |
APPENDIXES | 395 |
A BULGARIA I LEFT BEHIND 1951 | 397 |
BULGARIAN CULTURE IN THE GRIPS OF BOLSHEVISM | 399 |
The State of Bulgarian Education | 401 |
From Babunovo to Zelenikovo At the Foot of Sakar Tepe | 27 |
Gyul Dere River of Roses | 29 |
Tenyov Gyol and Baidachka | 31 |
A Visit with the Old Oak Tree | 34 |
Roses and Thorns | 36 |
Happy Childhood | 38 |
When I Was a Little Shepherd and a Little Cowboy and a Little Farm Worker | 42 |
The Threshing Field The Kharman | 47 |
Zelenikovo in Bygone Times | 52 |
The Map of Zelenikovo | 54 |
A Rhapsody of Poverty I White Beautiful Little House | 65 |
A Rhapsody of Povetry II Our Luxurious DiningTable Delicacies | 73 |
Rhapsody of Poverty III Our Village Backyard | 78 |
My Parents the Martyrs | 80 |
My Brothers | 86 |
The Wunderkind | 91 |
My University Under the Village Overhangs | 96 |
Lazy Bum | 102 |
THE CHALLANGES OF THEOLOGY WAR AND POLITICS | 105 |
Reluctant Seminarian | 107 |
Illiterate Theologians | 112 |
The Salgunjiev Affair | 115 |
Behind the High Thick Walls | 118 |
SBNL Saiuz na Bulgarskite Natsionalni Legioni Union of the Bulgarian National Legions to be referred hereinafter as SBNL | 125 |
Who Saved the Bulgarian Jews? | 128 |
WAR UNDER THE BARREL OF THE SUBMACHINE GUN | 137 |
SEPTEMBER 9 1944 AT THE GATES OF HELL | 177 |
AN OASIS OF SAFETY IN A GAME OF HIDE AND SEEK | 211 |
STRANGER IN MY OWN LAND | 237 |
THE ULTIMATUM AND THE GREAT COMPROMISE | 267 |
State Security Durzhavna Sigurnost and the Church | 269 |
Yonko Panovs Report | 272 |
Anton Yugovs Report | 279 |
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church in the Conditions of the Red Terror | 282 |
Excerpts of the Bulgarian Church Press | 290 |
TRUDOVAK I BEZMER THE FORGOTTEN MANUSCRIPT | 295 |
A Message from Way Back The Forgotten Manuscript | 297 |
Facing the Draft Board | 298 |
Gathering of the Damned | 299 |
A Journey to Hell | 303 |
Arriving at the Hell Called Bezmer | 306 |
An Army of Ragamuffins | 309 |
The Starvation Diet | 310 |
Water in the Desert | 313 |
The Barracks | 315 |
RollCall Night Patrol and DayDuty Assignemnet | 318 |
Military Training with a Pick and a Shovel | 321 |
The Construction Project | 322 |
The DDog Day Service | 324 |
Sand Sand Sand | 326 |
The Cursed Cement | 338 |
TRUDOVAK II THE PECULIAR INSTITUTION BALCHIK | 341 |
My Report to the American and the Greek Authorities | 343 |
ESCAPE FROM HELL | 363 |
Excape from Hell BalchikVarnaPlovdiv | 365 |
The Thrill of Holding a Gun | 369 |
Haidut Dere All Hopes Come Down Crashing | 372 |
In Limbo | 376 |
Contemplations on the Rock | 378 |
Fears of Abandonement | 380 |
The Enemy on Our Tracks | 381 |
In the Jaws of the Shark | 383 |
Purge of the University of Reactionary Students and Professors | 403 |
Dialectical Materialism The Procrustean Bed of University Studies | 404 |
Attack on the Bulgarian Alphabeth | 406 |
Law Philosophy and Pedagogy | 407 |
Arts Music Graphic Arts Performing Arts | 409 |
Sports | 413 |
Literature | 414 |
Humanitarian Movements | 416 |
B BULGARIA I SAW AGAIN | 421 |
To Return to Your Home Land and to Find it Devastated | 424 |
The New Accent of the Spoken Bulgarian Language | 425 |
The New Bulgarian Village | 426 |
A Nation Without Smiling Faces | 427 |
Bulgarian Peasant Women or the Women in Black | 428 |
a Country Without Children | 429 |
The Best Memories from Bulgaria | 430 |
ECONOMICS | 431 |
Production of Goods The Achilles Heel of Socialist Economics | 432 |
The Lines in Bulgaria | 433 |
A Promenade in TKZS Bulgarian Kolkhos Trudovo Kooperativno Zemedelsko Stopanstvo Agrarian Cooperative Labor Farm | 434 |
Animal Husbandry in Bulgaria The Lost Paradise | 435 |
Bulgaria a Wild Field of Weeds | 436 |
Ideological Foundations of the Economic Catastrophe of Bulgaria | 437 |
The Old Small Village Farm has no Future in Bulgaria | 438 |
POLITICS | 440 |
Le plus ça change le plus ça le même chose | 441 |
The Bulgarian Model | 442 |
The Political Power of BSP Continues Intact | 443 |
Bulgaria and the Story of the Sinking Titanic | 444 |
Monarchists vs Republicans | 445 |
Wings Winglets and Feathers in BANU | 447 |
Gichevism | 448 |
For a United BANU | 450 |
BANU and the New Social and Economic Profile of the Bulgarian Village | 451 |
The Present Bulgarian Political Leaders Run Away from the Judgment of History | 452 |
The Monarchy and its Sins before the Bulgarian People | 454 |
The Symbol who Hid Under the Crown During the Days of Slavery | 455 |
THE BULGARIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH | 457 |
Bulgarian Church Art an Unsurpassed National Treasure | 458 |
Along the Dark Alleys of the Compromise | 459 |
Behind the Wall of Silence After November 10 1989 | 460 |
Patriarch Maxim The Liturgy Which he Never Celebrated | 461 |
About the Servants of Communism Under Bishops Crown | 462 |
The Fear of Protestant Propaganda in Bulgaria | 463 |
The Old Holy Men are Dragging the Church to the Grave | 464 |
Bishop Kiril Was with Us Against the Communists The Synod still Holds for the Anathema Dictated to Them by State Security | 466 |
Elegant Smiles and Intellectual Vacuum | 467 |
The Plovdiv Theological Seminary | 468 |
The Sofia Theological Seminary | 469 |
In the Theological Academy | 470 |
A TOURIST NOTEBOOK | 471 |
Electricity Elevators and Candles Bulgarian Job | 472 |
Of the Telephones of Courtesy Rudeness and the Golden Heart of the Ordinary Bulgarian | 473 |
The Delicacies of the Bulgarian Breakfast | 474 |
Bulgaria at the Head of the Black List of the World Tourist Agencies | 475 |
The Dark Halls of the Bulgarian National Museum of History | 476 |
Classic Antiquity on the Back of Nebet Tepe | 478 |
The Most Luxurious K in Europe | 479 |
Brother Bulgarians Bulgaria is Dying | 480 |
PHOTOS | 481 |
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