Buzludzha Monument, Bulgaria

Have you heard about the huge, abandoned Buzludzha Monument in Bulgaria?

Symbolic of the grandiose stupidity of Soviet Communism.

Check some of Timothy Allen’s photos.

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… In September 2011, the Bulgarian cabinet transferred ownership of the monument to the Bulgarian Socialist party.

Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borisov declared, “We shall let them take care of it because here it also holds true that a party which does not respect its past and its symbols has no future”.

They have still not come to an agreement about what to do with it.

To date, every year at the end of July, 30-40,000 Bulgarian Socialists still congregate at Buzludzha to mark the founding of the Bulgarian Social-Democratic Party.

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