Georgi Sheitanov

From the literary circle "Luch" in Yambol (1912) to Geo Milev's "Plamak" (1924), Georgi Sheitanov traveled an interesting path of a revolutionary and poet, for whom struggle and poetry are inseparable, because in them lies true life - life even in death. Nurtured by revolutionary ideas in their most extreme manifestations, while still a high school student, Sheitanov set out on the thorny path of rebellion and struggle. A violent, irreconcilable young man, he could not tolerate either the feldwebel discipline in the school of that time, or the hollow authorities, or the injustices in life. The son of a farming family, raised in the poor neighborhood of Kargona, from childhood he saw the weight of the people. Books opened his eyes. From books he learned that misery and oppression would be eliminated when the slave rebelled. And so Sheitanov leaves high school and takes the path of struggle. His first "action" is to set fire to the district court in his hometown in order to destroy the cases of his fellow defendants. Later, he himself will call this and other similar actions of his "quixotic", from which the first period of his turbulent and short life, filled with many twists and turns, is woven. Because revolutionary experience will tell him that only mass action and struggle of the working people, armed uprising and revolution are the only ways to overthrow the predatory and oppressive capitalist system...