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The Communist Past Defines the Present and the Future of Bulgaria

Людмила Живкова - първара "червена принцеса"

Людмила Живкова - първата "червена принцеса" (Luydmila Zhivkova was the first "Red Princess") Source: Архив

Irina Bokova is known as one of the red princesses, as some children and grandchildren of former communist dignitaries are called


In Bulgaria more and more evidences are accumulating that 26 years after the collapse of Communism, the Bulgarian society cannot and does not want to part with the past.

Why and how the remnants of Communism determine the present and the future of Bulgaria?

Irina Bokova is the official Bulgarian candidate for the position of the UN Secretary General.

This is one of the many evidences that the remnants of communism continue to define the lives of all Bulgarians?

Political analysis by Plamen Asenov.


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