Victory brought forty years of communist dictatorship followed by unbridled capitalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But these people were not merely anti-fascist they were pro-communist, idealists moved by their socialist principles to fight and sometimes die for a cause they believed to be right.
Thompson, and fourteen-year-old Elena Lagadinova, the youngest female member of the armed anti-fascist resistance. In The Left Side of History Kristen Ghodsee tells the stories of partisans fighting behind the lines in Nazi-allied Bulgaria during World War II: British officer Frank Thompson, brother of the great historian E.P. Please note: The official book launch event will take place at FRIAS on Wednesday July 15th (time will be announced later). New: Kristen Ghodsee's book 'The Left Side of History - World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe' published on February 17th
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