Explore Communist History And Brutalist Soviet-Era Architecture In Bulgaria Beyond the Buzludzha Monument, Bulgaria's relationship with the Soviet Union left a stamp all over the country.

One of the leaders of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP), Georgi Dimitrov, who defended the line of neutrality in June 1923, defined fascism as “the open terrorist dictatorship of the most ...

Georgi Yordanov was a critical figure in Bulgaria in the 1980s, implementing the Communist Party's policies of control, censorship, and prohibition of any artistic creations that did not align ...

Amid talk in Bulgaria of reintroducing compulsory military service, a new photo exhibition exposes the "labor battalions" used by the communist authorities, in part, to control the country's ...

The Victims of Communism Museum (VOC) Tuesday unveiled a new pop-up exhibit entitled, “Belene–A Bulgarian Resistance Story.” This effort was spearheaded by the Sofia Platform Foundation with ...

In Bulgaria, some even talk about how “great” things were “back in Daddy Tosho’s day,” a reference to Todor Zhivkov, the longest-ruling leader of an Eastern-bloc communist nation.

However, Bulgaria’s half-century of communist rule, as a satellite state of the Soviet Union following WWII, soured most Bulgarians’ view of Russia.

In the 196os, he was recruited by a Bulgarian company called Technoimpex whose mission was to deploy highly qualified experts abroad (and extend the ideological reach of the Communist Party).

Bulgaria’s Parliament on Tuesday formally approved an interim government to run the EU member country until snap parliamentary and regular European Parliament elections on June 9.

After decades of silence about Bulgaria's communist past, some actors of civil society hope to raise awareness and commemorate the prisoners of a former labor camp in an idyllic nature reserve on ...

Grassroots exhibitions popping up in Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Poland provide a window into ordinary lives during the communist era ...

Bulgaria’s parliament has formally approved an interim government to run the EU member country until snap parliamentary and regular European Parliament elections on June 9.