хуманизъм

Bulgarian civic poetry has a relatively long and glorious tradition. It began at the beginning of our national revival and continues to this day. The brightest works of our poetry from Hristo Botev to the present day bear a clearly civic character. Of course, every era has its own peculiarities, its own problems. Some were the problems of the time of Botev and Vazov, others are the problems that excite our contemporaries. After the October Revolution, our civic poetry marked a rapid rise. In the work of such colossus of our poetry as Hristo Smirnenski, Geo Milev, the poets of the 1930s with the brightest representative - our national hero Nikola Vaptsarov, the great excitements, thoughts and dreams of our people find vivid expression. Our revolutionary poetry of the twenties and thirties with its best achievements was civic lyrics in the best, I would say, in the noblest sense of this concept. Socialist humanism was the soul of this poetry.

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.