Who are the "Former People" of Concentration Camp Bulgaria" reveals Martin Ivanov's research

The systematic destruction of the Bulgarian elite by the Bulgarian Communist Party and the State Security after September 9, 1944 came to life with the votes of the survivors

On June 27, Thursday, at 6:00 p.m., in the "Georgi Baev" Hall of the Cultural Center "Sea Casino" - Burgas, will be presented the book "The Former People of Concentration Camp Bulgaria" by Assoc. Dr. Martin Ivanov. The event is organized by the Regional History Museum - Burgas and the Municipality of Burgas.
The book will be presented by Dr. Milen Nikolov, director of the Burgas Museum.
The fate of those nearly half a million women, men and children, branded, expelled and systematically declassified after September 9, 1944 by the communist authorities, is studied in detail in the contribution edition "The Former People of Concentration Camp Bulgaria" by Assoc. Dr. Martin Ivanov.
This scientific review, impressive in its detail and precision, tries to give the floor to testimonies from the surviving "ex-people", announcing as fully as possible their violent  voices that have been silenced so far. The publication reflects the period of half a century of persecution and discrimination, in which the social, economic and political status of generations of "unkilled bourgeois" is taken away by various methods. Half a century in which the state turned into a real prison for hundreds of thousands of our compatriots. With the help of three hundred and nine interviews and memoirs, sixty-two ex-post biographical reconstructions broadcast in the program "Jeans" on the Bulgarian National Television and working with the documents of the archives of the State Security, the researcher traces the chain of events of eradication in a social, and to a large extent in a purely physical sense of the pre-September 9 elites and their subsequent difficult adaptation within the People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB). "The Former People of Concentration Camp Bulgaria" by Assoc. Martin Ivanov is a merciless chronicle of times in which countless lives ended up in the iron and merciless fist of power, and examines in depth and analytically one of the most traumatic and long-silent Topics in Bulgarian History.
Ass. Martin Ivanov, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the Department of Sociology at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". Cl. Ohridski". He specialized in Cambridge, Edinburgh and at the National University of Ireland. He is the author of over two hundred scientific publications and ten monographic studies on the social and economic history of Bulgaria from the Renaissance to the present day. Minister of Culture from August 6 to November 7, 2014 Secretary to President Rosen Plevneliev for Culture, Education and National Identity. From 2016 to 2021 he was Ambassador of Bulgaria to Finland.

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