One of the last living partisans in Bulgaria died



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One of the last living partisans in Bulgaria, Krum Vassilev, died at the age of 95. The sad news was announced on Facebook by historian Prof. Iskra Baeva and journalist Velislava Dareva.

“Comrades! Beloved Bai Krum Vassilev has died, a partisan, a writer, a journalist. A brilliant man. True. A man of spirit and reason. He gave us all strength and courage. Dear Bai Krum … “Velislava Dareva wrote.

Sad: Krum Vassilev, a supporter of the Shumen-Preslav detachment, died. Here he is in front of the Brotherhood Mound on September 9 this …

Posted by Iskra Baeva on Sunday, Oct 11, 2020

At the 50th BSP Congress in late September, Vassilev greeted delegates with a special speech and on September 9 he participated in a memorial ceremony in front of the Fraternal Mound in Borisova Garden.

Krum Vassilev was born on April 14, 1925 in Shumen. He has been a member of the RMC since 1942 and the BCP since 1944. He participated in the Resistance Movement during World War II, initially as a member of a battle group. Partisan of the Shumen-Preslav detachment since the beginning of April 1944.

Secretary of the City and District Committee of the RMC in Shumen, organizer and first secretary of the Regional Committee of the RMC in Varna.

After September 9, 1944 he graduated in Philosophy at the University of Sofia and specialized in the Higher School of the Party.

Political partner of Valko Chervenkov from 1951 to 1959.

In the following years he successively held the position of deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper Narodna Kultura, general director of Bulgarian radio and television, head of the departments of art and culture and propaganda and agitation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Bulgaria, president of the Press Committee of the Council of Ministers.

He was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Bulgaria, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Bulgaria, Vice-President of the Union of Bulgarian Journalists, Member of the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth National Assemblies.

He is the author of the books “What We Saw in China” (1958), “NO to Untruths” (2010), “Impossible Conversations” (2015), “YES to the Truth” (2016), “Earth Stories” (2017) , “Hot on the heels of the truth” (2019).

In 2010 he won the Nikolay Haitov literary award, in 2016 the Georgi Kirkov the journalism master’s award, and in 2018 Dimitrovska was awarded for the books “YES to the Truth” and “Impossible Conversations”. reward.

This award is awarded by a special committee headed by Ángel Marín.

The service will be on Thursday at 12 noon in the Ritual Hall of the Central Cemetery of Sofia.



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