Krastyo Hadzhiivanov
Krastyo Hadzhiivanov (December 25, 1929 – June 27, 1952) was a Bulgarian poet and resistance fighter. Early life Hadzhiivanov was born in Kapatovo, in the Petrich district of Bulgaria. He began composing poetry when he was six years old. During World War II, aged 14, he joined the Bulgarian resistance movement during World War II, resistance against the Nazism, Nazis. Hadzhiivanov was involved in smuggling weapons to guerrillas who had been abandoned at the Metaxas Line in Greek Macedonia, a task which involved navigating a dangerous route through mine fields and around Nazi check points. Meanwhile, the young teenager recited poetry at meetings with villagers all over the Serres (regional unit), Serres region. After Bulgaria's successful coup on 9 September 1944, the new Fatherland Front (Bulgaria), communist government offered to send Hadzhiivanov to study literature in Moscow. He refused, with the words, "Moscow is too close to Siberia", referring to Joseph Stalin's Gulags ...
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