From 1942 to 1946, she studied at the Pernik Girls' High School and after graduation she applied for a degree in Agronomy at Sofia University, but she was denied permission to enroll by the Fatherland Front.

After she was refused enrolment at Sofia University, she organised a meeting of young anarchists from Southwestern Bulgaria in Kitka, near the Gigin Monastery [bg].

Young people from the villages of Leskovets and Kosacha gathered for the meeting; but the groups from Pernik, Radomir, and Sofia were stopped by policemen at Batanovtsi, and those from Begunovtsi by Breznik police.

From 1975 to 1976, her husband was exiled to the village of Okorsh [bg] and then forced to work in the Krastets coal mine near Gabrovo, due to his continued anarchist activism.

[1][5] To documentarian Katerina Vassileva, the documentary series was an important historical document, as "through Tsvetana's ... personal story, it seems to me that we can understand more about socialism, for example, than from a textbook.