Todor Zhivkov Quotes

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Competition principle does not mean a competitive edge, comrades.

Todor Zhivkov
Now every day, every hour, everywhere there is material for meeting demonstrations!

Todor Zhivkov
In my memoirs I am smashing the whole of Marxist theory. Marxism is mere nonsense and I am the first one to say that it is completely wrong.

Todor Zhivkov
Absolutely all charges pressed during the investigation - that I have taken billions of dollars out of the country and into Western banks – all this has been dropped.
He said this just before the first trial against him

Todor Zhivkov
We have a hundred reasons for wanting peace in the world and have not a single reason for wanting international tension, mistrust, hostility, "hot" or "cold" wars among peoples.

Todor Zhivkov
We lost the competition to Capitalism.
After having gradually replaced the socialism model with market economy

Todor Zhivkov
The capitalists should not be allowed to benefit from détente.
Détente is the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries

Todor Zhivkov
We have given the Bulgarian-Hungarian commission until the end of this year to work out the economic prerequisites and statutes for these enterprises so that they can start functioning.

Todor Zhivkov
To make the self—managing enterprises "real producers of goods" there have to be economic competition in the domestic market as in the international market.

Todor Zhivkov
As we have said many times, we stand for peaceful coexistence and competition between the socialist and capitalist countries. At the same time, however, we are convinced of the superiority of the socialist economy over the capitalist one, of the victory of the socialist order in this competition.

Todor Zhivkov
It should not be forgotten either that our country must also make its concrete contribution towards the victory of socialism in the competition with the capitalist system which is now going on on a world-wide scale.

Todor Zhivkov
A powerful motive force in our social development, which inspires the Bulgarian people, is the life-giving Bulgaro-Soviet friendship. It and our people's love for their country are the two sides of the same medal.

Todor Zhivkov
I will only point out that a commodity has two aspects: consumer value and cost. These are but the two sides of a coin. The purchaser is interested in its consumer value, the seller - in its cost. There is no disproportion here: it is not possible that in the exchange of commodities one party should gain and the other should not.

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The 30 years of Bulgarian Socialism is proof that there need not be any contradiction between building Socialism in one's own country while fulfilling the needs of the world revolutionary movement.

Todor Zhivkov
Socialism is the high-powered booster rocket of social progress.

Todor Zhivkov
The first phase of the communist social formation, socialism, is not an embodiment of lifeless historical canons, nor is it a realm of absolute harmony. Socialism is a dynamic and progressively developing social organism.

Todor Zhivkov