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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.

The two-volume collection "Art, Science and Culture in the Service of the People" by Dr. Todor Zhivkov, published on the initiative of the Union of Bulgarian Writers, is in the hands of readers. They will read in both volumes excerpts from program reports, excerpts from speeches, individual articles, interviews, congratulations and numerous statements on the most mature and current issues of literature, theater, cinematography, science, technical progress, education and the cultural revolution in our country, on the unresolved and important problems of propaganda and agitation, ideological work, the press, communist education, etc. The materials were written at different times and cover the period from the end of 1942 to the beginning of 1965. The two-volume collection opens with the article "On the Fight", published in the first illegal issue of the newspaper "Fatherland Front". This article reveals the author's positions and the great, fateful tasks that faced the people and "our suffering fatherland" at that time. The call for struggle and nationwide resistance is imbued with the characteristic revolutionary enthusiasm of that unique time, which nurtured a galaxy of patriots and heroes who created the anti-fascist epic. This is a call for national victory, a call for revolution, "so that the sun of freedom and happiness may finally shine over our tormented fatherland."