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SPEECH OF COMRADE TODOR ZHIVKOV AT THE MEETING OF THE POLITBURO OF THE CENTRAL CENTRAL CENTRAL PARTY WITH WORKERS OF THE CULTURAL FRONT, DELIVERED ON APRIL 15, 1963 Dear comrades, At the beginning of April, as Comrade Mitko Grigorov announced in his opening remarks, a meeting lasting several days was held at the Central Committee of the Party with a wide range of representatives of the creative intelligentsia and other workers of the ideological front - the leaderships of the creative unions, the bureaus of the party organizations at the creative unions, the editors-in-chief of the central daily newspapers, the editors-in-chief of newspapers and magazines on issues of literature and art, the leaderships of the ideological institutes, of cinema, theater, radio and television, the secretaries for propaganda and agitation of the district committees of the Party, the members of the ideological commission of the Central Committee of the Party and the Council of Ministers. The meeting held a frank discussion on the urgent issues that concern our cultural community, and discussed in detail the work of the creative unions to implement the party decisions, and in particular the decisions of the Eighth Party Congress in the field of literature and art. The meeting of the Central Committee of the Party once again unequivocally confirmed that the vast majority of our creative intelligentsia correctly understands the role and tasks of the ideological front at the current stage in the development of our country and tirelessly and consistently implements the policy of our Party after the April Plenum of the Central Committee and the decisions of the Eighth Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party. What comments could arise in connection with this meeting of ours?

The time after the arrest of Nikola Vaptsarov until his execution poses with utmost clarity the questions about the meaning of human life and the irresistible need for self-sacrifice, about civic valor, about a dignified death, about the comradeship and moral purity of a person who enters forever into the memory of the people... His researchers will have to return to this last and tragic period of the poet's creative life. because this supreme stage further reveals the true feat of the communist artist in many ways and in a unique way. As is known, Vaptsarov was arrested on March 4, 1942, at three or four o'clock in the morning, together with his little brother Boris and their cousin Lyubcho Vezev. The previous evening they had a meeting at the poet's home (37 Angel Kanchev Street) with Tsvyatko Radoynov and stayed until 11 o'clock at night. Vaptsarov was often forced to sleep in other people's rooms so that the police would lose track of him. This absence from home began more often from the beginning of September 1941, when Vaptsarov took over the position of head of the special (mining) activity at the Central Committee of the Bulgarian People's Revolutionary Party (k). Since then, he became a professional revolutionary, carrying out the B B B decision of the party.