This propaganda Newsreel presents the collectivisation of the Bulgarian countryside almost as a joyful process. In reality it was brutal and methodically planned.
Once the Agrarian leader Nikola Petkov was removed from political life and executed, in 1947 the Communist regime moved swiftly to the countryside. Agriculture was collectivised and peasant rebellions crushed. The Collective farms were created, the TKZS (ТКЗС).
Episode from Atanas Kiryakov's "The Camps", 1990
1000000 kilograma!!!
thegreenbagwriter 2 years ago
In the Rhodope mountains every family was forced to give half of its animals to the state. My grandfather had two cows, and he had to give one to the TKZS.
bgturk 2 years ago
1 000 000 ( тона жито): 1500(коли) = 666,666667 (тона в кола)...... - 15-тата секунда!
radoslavsotirov 2 years ago