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When, after the tragic September days of 1923, the voice of Geo Milev rose boldly and fearlessly, many were astonished by it. That irreconcilable opponent of realism and an exalted defender of the theory of "pure" art, who tirelessly propagated modernism in our country, spoke with unsuspected passion against fascism and reaction in public life, against formalism and lack of ideas in poetry. It was as if a miracle had happened, as if from the ashes of the people's struggle and suffering, like a mythical phoenix, a completely new artist had been born - a revolutionary, a democrat, a realist. In fact, no miracle had happened. Anyone who comprehensively and directly examines the poet's ideological and creative path and approaches it without prejudice will notice that there is much greater continuity between the different periods of his development than we have previously acknowledged. Geo's path begins with civic poetry, to end with it again, but already on a higher level, more generalized, directed towards a contemporary, definite social ideological direction. " These words of Georgi Bakalov contain a profound truth, much deeper than even their author himself included in them. Because G. Bakalov has in mind only a few early civic works (the poem "On a Solemn Day", the translations of revolutionary poetry published in the magazine "Borba"), and today we can support the same conclusion with many works that the poet created even during the period of his most extreme modernist C Enthusiasms.