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Victims of Communism and Historical Amnesia in Eastern Europe

The celebration of WWII-era “victims of communism” reflects wider trends across Eastern Europe, where the politics of memory and commemoration is as much about today as it is about seventy years ago.

Sep 14, 2014
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Monument near the National Palace of Culture, Sofia. (Photo: BIRN)

by Kristen Ghodsee

On February 1, 2013, Bulgaria celebrated the official “Day of Homage and Gratitude to the Victims of the Communist Regime” for the third time since the government created the holiday in 2011.1 The date marks a decision by a Bulgarian communist “People’s Court” on February…

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