* * * A year of ideological rigor and principledness

A year has passed since the first secretary of our party, comrade Todor Zhivkov, delivered his programmatic speech "Communist ideology - the guiding principle of our literature and art". The main pathos of the speech was directed against bourgeois ideology and the channels of its penetration in our country. Its main meaning was to unite the ideological cadres for a more successful offensive against foreign ideological influence, for decisively overcoming deviations from Marxist-Leninist views and socialist realism in the field of culture and art.