Political Leaders and "Iron Cages"

... Communist Party of Bulgaria. He was explaining to me that the Communist power system in Bulgaria was so flawed that there was no alternative but to smash it. He knew I was recording the conversation. I pointed to the portrait of Communist Party leader, Todor Zhivkov on the wall, and asked what he thought about these views. Panov said Zhivkov fully agreed with him. I asked if he talked this way to the Party's Politburo. He said that, although he used different words, his message was the same....