Tag: Bulgaria
Everyone is doing the #IceBucketChallenge, from Tom Cruise (who got 7.5 ice buckets poured on his head, like a Tom Cruise would) to Bulgarian politician and alleged wiretapper and embezzler Tsvetan Genchev Tsvetanov. Though the viral campaign was launched to promote awareness of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, it took some pretty creative tangents, specifically the #RubbleBucketChallenge from Gaza (because water is a little too precious to waste when you’re […]
The mountain-top Buzludzha Monument was created as a symbolic home for Bulgarian Socialists in the late 19th century. Throughout the 20th century, it served as a secret meeting place for Communists, its futuristic architecture reaching towards a bright future that never came. In 1981, the monument was finally opened to the public, a ruin of what it […]
The most hated statue in Sofia, Bulgaria has been painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, in solidarity with the revolution and the deadly protests in the former Soviet Republic. It is, essentially, a gigantic bronze relief to remind the Bulgarian people about an invading Soviet forces that crushed and “liberated” the country from its […]
Bulgarian capital Sofia hates their Soviet army monument. You would too if you had a gigantic bronze relief remind you about an invading country’s forces that crushed a reformist uprising 45 years ago. It’s been vandalized. It’s now all pretty in pink, tagged with the words “Prague ’68” and “Bulgaria apologizes” in Czech and Bulgarian, […]
