Films And Press In Bulgaria To Toe Marxist Line
LONDON, Dec. 20. The Bulgarian Communists plan to ban the “perverse and corrupt film products of the decaying Western art” says the Associated Press correspondent in Sofia.
They also aim at indoctrinating journalists by “Marxist-Leninist education of our journalist cadres” in order finally to transform the press “into a reliable daily source of general information and education in the spirit of the Communist party.” These proposals are contained in resolutions submitted to the Bulgarian Communist Party’s fifth congress now meeing in Sofia. Representatives from 18 foreign countries are attending the congress. The party announced that it intends to carry out a cultural and scientific purge on Russian lines. The Minister of Culture, M. Valko Chervenkov, told the party congress that the struggle against aestheticism, formalism and individualism and against decadent influences in poetry, painting, literature and films had not been carried out with the maximum energy. The Socialist concept must have complete domination of arts and sciences in Bulgaria.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22826, 22 December 1948, Page 5
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