The Three Against the Suppression of the Czechoslovak Spring
Тримата срещу потъпкването на Чехословашката пролет
Language: Bulgarian

   By “the three,” the author mean the three students Eduard Genov (1946–2009), Alexander Dimitrov (1947), and Valentin Radev (1948–1995), who in 1968 dared to publicly protest against the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops and the suppression of attempts to build so-called “Socialism with a Human Face.” This protest, expressed through the distribution of leaflets condemning the People’s Republic of Bulgaria’s participation in this brutal invasion of a supposedly “brotherly country,” led to the conviction of the three men and their imprisonment. A solitary act of solidarity and resistance that forever marked their personal fates—for better or for worse.

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