Политическият процес срещу журналиста Цвети Иванов през 1946 г.
The Political Trial of the Journalist Tsveti Ivanov in 1946

Summary/Abstract: In the article the authoress points out that after September 9, 1944 the ruling forces oriented themselves to the consolidation of power by repressive legislation and political pressure on the public expression of stands different from the official viewpoint. The resistance by the printed word against the imposed anti-parliamentary and antidemocratic model of government was drastically crushed by a series of political trails and controlled retribution in court against prominent figures of the opposition, leaders and journalists, the first of which was against the social-democrat Krustyo Pastouhov. The strong repercussion in society against the anti-constitutional sentence provided an occasion for the judicial power to instigate the second trial. It was against journalist Tsveti Ivanov, editor-in-chief of the “Svoboden Narod” newspaper. The trail proved the bias of the prosecutor, the distortion of the facts and the evidence. A crime was sought between the lines of the publications, in separate words owing to the impossibility to discover it in the lines themselves and in the contents as a whole. The circumstances that emerged in the course of the inquest defeated the presumption of culpability as groundless. The refusal of the prosecutor to take into consideration the statements of the witnesses and the arguments of the defence confirmed the political motivation of the charge and the tendency to abolish the legitimate activity of the opposition through the court. The arbitrariness of the court against Tsveti Ivanov did not end with his conviction to 10 months of imprisonment. The persecutions against the journalist continued and in 1948 he was sent to the concentration camps Bogdanov Dol and Belene. The voice of Tsveti Ivanov had to stop and his pen dry for ever so that the authorities may rest undisturbed. His death on July 23, 1950 marked the end of a human tragedy which should not be forgotten so that the cruelty of political revenge might never be repeated in Bulgarian society.

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