Tag #125964 - Interview #78405 (Rafael Beraha)

It’s interesting to note that my mother was an active social democrat. She was present at the congresses organized by Emil Vanderveld [a famous Belgian social democrat who came to Bulgaria and organized a congress of social democrats here]. She knew personally the famous communist Dimitar Blagoev and the social democrats Konstantin Bozveliev, Yanko Sakazov, Krastyo Pastuhov and others. My mother was very active until 1922. In 1922 she took part in a manifestation organized by the workers in protest to I don’t know what exactly. And Krastyo Pastuhov, who was Minister of the Interior in the government of Alexander Stamboliiski [5], turned the manifestation into bloodshed. Then my mother left the Social Democratic Party. She always said to me, ‘Don’t believe social democrats…’ She was very angry that they allowed a Minister of the Interior to turn a workers’ manifestation into bloodshed.