the BBC World Service. His chief in BBC remembers that Markov was always afraid of being attacked. What the Party did to those people was putting them in constant fear of being murdered or imprisoned. Between 1975 and 1978, Markov worked on his In Absentia Reports analysis of life in Communist Bulgaria (Who killed Georgi Markov). They were broadcast weekly on Radio Free Europe. Their criticism of the Communist government and personally of the Party leader Todor Zhivkov made Markov even more an enemy of the regime. In 1978, Bulgaria attracted widespread international attention when the exiled dissident writer Georgi Markov was accosted on a London street by a stranger who rammed his leg with the tip of an umbrella. Markov died shortly afterwards of ricin poisoning and it was believed that he had been the victim of the Bulgarian…show more content… It was a part of Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP). The leading party used it to conduct their propaganda. If in the newspaper there was a critical article about someone or something, this meant that a sentence was about to be passed. At the time of the Communism people could not just get a citizenship whenever they wanted. This citizenship was needed so that you can work at the city, and without it one could not work in this city. Only members of the party could get one. The common people had to marry someone from the city in order to get citizenship, or they were granted one if they were some kind of rare specialists. When he heard about the fall of Communism in Bulgaria, he could not start celebrating because no one was sure if this was the truth and if Communist could not find a way to take the control again. So, no one was celebrating, the people were scared of how they will be punished if some Communist sees them. People were restricted in every single sense and freedom of speech or any other kind was something they have never
