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The Crimes during the Communist Regime and the Attempts at Their Investigation after 10 November 1989
Hristo Hristov
Introduction
No detailed comprehensive investigation, systematisation and analysis of the communist regime have been conducted in Bulgaria to this day. Professional historians have not subjected that 45-year period in the country to an in-depth analysis. Unlike other former socialist countries, no institute or office was established in Bulgaria to investigate and document the crimes of communism. The acute political debate on the issue continues to this day, but they have not contributed in any way to the study of that past. The crimes committed during communist rule in Bulgaria are not extensively known not only to the Bulgarian public, but they remain unknown to the global community as well. This statement is supported by the fact that the Black Book of Communism, which investigates the crimes of world communism (published in 1997), devotes only 2-3 pages out of 700 to Bulgaria.
The revelations made after 10 November 1989 were the work of individual researchers and investigating journalists. The aim of the present study is to cover in most general terms the crimes of Bulgarian communism and to look at the lines of their investigation by the judic
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Chapter 8. Sounds and Noise in Socialist Bulgaria
“I would have died if, for a man concentrated on work, silence had indeed been so indispensable as it seems at first glance. I live quite near the baths and at this very moment I am surrounded by a multitude of sounds. Imagine, there are all types of sounds able to make anyone start hating the very organ of hearing. There is the noise of those who do physical exercises, and the noise of the swirling of the plumb-heavy ball, and the panting of those working, or better said pretending to work; I can hear how they breathe heavily, hold their breath, and then emit hoarse and rough exhalations. I can hear the slapping of a greasy hand on the shoulder of a body being massaged with oil; from the type of the sound I can even infer how the oil is being applied, with a stretched or with a curled palm … ‘Oh, you will exclaim, you are either made of iron or are deaf, if your mind is not affected by so diverse and inharmonious shouts, when the stoic Chrysippus was brought to death by some endless cheers alone.’ … I swear, this noise does not bother me more than the murmur of running water, although it is known that one people changed the site of their city just because they could not stand the noise produced by the river Nile … I forc
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Bulgarians - Pining for Socialism and Ivan Slavkov
- Associate Slavkov, ball you recollect the previous when phenomenon worked summary at say publicly Bulgarian Stable Television?
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