
The article discusses his political convictions, which initially sympathise with the Socialist Party (broad socialists), and towards the end of his career he was orientated towards pro- government and pro-German positions. Sotir Yanev was a deputy in two Bulgarian Parliaments. In addition, he was a public figure, an excellent speaker, a popular attorney. He is the author of many books and articles on public, political and philosophical topics.
He participated as a lawyer in the famous case against the leadership of the Bulgarian Communist Party in July 1942, during which the poet Nikola Vaptsarov was shot. In this case S. Yanev was a defender of another accused – Mladen Isaev – and managed to achieve an acquittal. In April 1943 the lawyer Sotir Yanev, who at that time was a member of Parliament, was assassinated by revolutionary groups from the military wing of the Communist Party.
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