On this day, I always think of my grandmother, Raina Petkova, and the thousands of people who have crossed her path but were not lucky enough to survive.
When they forced my grandmother to become a State Security collaborator to be an informant for her relatives connected to Nikola Petkov, she said: "I will not work for your service, not only yours, but for any other. I will show that I am a worthy Bulgarian with my honest work." They sent her to Belene, transporting them by barge on the Danube, as she told me, and then they moved her to the labor camp in the village of Nozharevo.
This was published on his Facebook page by the co-chairman of the PP Kiril Petkov on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Communist Regime. Here is what else Petkov said:
Years later, I read with excitement in her file the following report by the recruiting DS officer, when she refused to be an informant: "She came to the meeting and showed up with a blanket and other luggage - ready to be sent to prison." She survived the labor camp. She returned to work as an operating room nurse at ISUL and remained proud for the rest of her life that she had not been forced to be an informer against her own relatives, at the cost of all the risk in some of the darkest years.
The fates of many people ended in a much more terrible way. On this day 80 years ago, on February 1, 1945, the so-called "People's Court" pronounced its most massive death sentences. Members of Parliament, ministers, journalists and senior civil servants were sentenced. The sentences were carried out that very night in Sofia. Long live all those killed by the "People's Court"!
We must not forget this part of our history, so as not to allow similar events to repeat themselves in our homeland again!