New Communism Museum Invites Visitors To 'Travel Back' To Cold-War Bulgaria

Faded Communist Party signs, chipped kitchenware, and political speeches on a dusty record player are on display at Evgeni Mladenov's newly opened communism museum in the Bulgarian mountain village of Banite. The time capsule brings visitors back to the 1980s and immerses them in the Cold War past.
Originally published at - www.rferl.org/a/bulgaria-muse...

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  • @DeCleyre161
    @DeCleyre1619 ай бұрын

    No more fascism, no more stalinism.

  • @christianv-h3278

    @christianv-h3278

    9 ай бұрын

    110%, fully agree with this

  • @Cactus_hug

    @Cactus_hug

    9 ай бұрын

    Well the so called “center” are the ones ruining the place in the US EU now.

  • @Daniel-yl8y

    @Daniel-yl8y

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@christianv-h3278Then why do you not agree 120% ?

  • @Musterprolet

    @Musterprolet

    9 ай бұрын

    Fascism and liberalism are looking more equal for me

  • @christianv-h3278

    @christianv-h3278

    9 ай бұрын

    @@Musterprolet ehh yikes my dude

  • @zlauriault
    @zlauriault9 ай бұрын

    Where NOT to go if you have any Communist-era PTSD (which includes a lot of people)...

  • @Musterprolet

    @Musterprolet

    9 ай бұрын

    I have for example: Free healthcare, education and housing - it was terrible!

  • @ZeroResurrected
    @ZeroResurrected9 ай бұрын

    Can’t wait for tankies to act like this means Bulgaria misses communism. I guess that means every country that has WWII museums misses the fascist regimes

  • @nichderjeniche

    @nichderjeniche

    9 ай бұрын

    Many east bloc states have this museums, it's nothing special. So only a idiot without a clue would comment on that, that somebody misses it. Greetings from a former east bloc state.

  • @valcaron

    @valcaron

    9 ай бұрын

    Tankies are in a perpetual state of what happens to the brain when huffing paint thinner.

  • @papiparsons9045

    @papiparsons9045

    9 ай бұрын

    Fascist democrats are turning the USA into a Marxist wasteland that makes every survivor of communism cry. The USA has an authoritarian government and a state controlled media that hides it from the public.

  • @fff5081

    @fff5081

    9 ай бұрын

    Not a great place to make that point since Bulgarians who lived through communism actually do overwhelmingly miss communism (like 80%). It's complicated. Younger people hate communism though because they can see the costs of it more clearly. This museum is just a museum like the guy said, not a shrine to or endorsement of communism.

  • @ZeroResurrected

    @ZeroResurrected

    9 ай бұрын

    @@fff5081 Where are you getting those idiotic numbers?

  • @Liza03V
    @Liza03V9 ай бұрын

    For those people missing the communism and USSR you should send them back to the great motherland. I wished i could learn more how was communism was in Bulgaria and in Hungary. I know a lot for the other countries who suffered under USSR boot but not a lot from Bulgarian aspect and of course Hungarian site. Anybody knows?

  • @Cactus_hug
    @Cactus_hug9 ай бұрын

    I traveled back in time to communism.. 2019 Ukraine. It Looked very Soviet to me still.

  • @zlauriault

    @zlauriault

    9 ай бұрын

    Go again. You may not have noticed, a lot changed in 5 years.

  • @Cactus_hug

    @Cactus_hug

    9 ай бұрын

    @@zlauriault duh. Thanks captain obvious.

  • @QuizmasterLaw
    @QuizmasterLaw9 ай бұрын

    Does it include a long line you must wait in for hours to get in only to discover there's nothing to buy? I don't think the Red Terror committed many massacres in Bulgaria, though it certainly did in Cambodia, Poland, Estonia, and Russia.

  • @nichderjeniche

    @nichderjeniche

    9 ай бұрын

    What about china?

  • @ivancho5854

    @ivancho5854

    9 ай бұрын

    People did disappear. 😢

  • @QuizmasterLaw

    @QuizmasterLaw

    9 ай бұрын

    @@ivancho5854 but only one or two at a time so hardly anyone noticed i guess it doesn't matter

  • @ivancho5854

    @ivancho5854

    9 ай бұрын

    @@QuizmasterLaw You guess it doesn't matter until it is you or yours.

  • @huskytail

    @huskytail

    9 ай бұрын

    You don't think the Red Terror commit a lot of crimes in Bulgaria? Minimum 60 concentration camp on a then 6mln population is not a lot with 220 000 people known to have passed through the concentration camps is not a lot? Though nobody knows how many more have passed through the camps then and after until 1989. The Nuremberg trials had a total of 22 defendants, 12 were convicted while the so called "People's court" in Bulgaria had 11,122 accused with 9,155 people sentenced- 2,730 to death and 1,305 to life. If that's not enough for you, dozens of thousands were executed without even that semblance of justice, of which 30 000 killed just in the 100days after the occupation - teachers, doctors, priests, and simple citizens. If that's not enough, the forced displacements are countless and the forced "macedonisation" of southwestern Bulgaria started with its own set of terror. We're not even talking about the terror the collectivisation brought, not even about the total theft of every production line the Soviets could strip, warehouses, ships, even simple door frames were stolen from Bulgaria heading to the Soviet Union. If we add all the killed, raped and abused elderly, women and children by the Red Army during the occupation, the numbers will swell even more. Bulgarians also had militarised resistance until 1958, which was physically destroyed at that point. And nowadays after all of that we here some randoms spitting on all of that being too lazy to open Google. Seriously 🤪

  • @Musterprolet
    @Musterprolet9 ай бұрын

    Socialism is based

  • @laurenceskinnerton73
    @laurenceskinnerton739 ай бұрын

    Interesting.

  • @zlauriault
    @zlauriault9 ай бұрын

    Where are the vomit bag dispensers?

  • @TheGreenReaper
    @TheGreenReaper9 ай бұрын

    Not exactly hard to be #1 of 1...

  • @JanoschNr1
    @JanoschNr19 ай бұрын

    Just visit ruzzia today, same thing ... DUH

  • @bikinglikebecker
    @bikinglikebecker9 ай бұрын

    Why do you call it "cold war".. don't you mean "Soviet"?? You know like the Soviet Union that came out of Ukraine about 100 years ago using the same rebellions as they are using today??

  • @1midnightfish

    @1midnightfish

    9 ай бұрын

    Just WHAT are you talking about... do you realise you're not making any sense??

  • @huskytail

    @huskytail

    9 ай бұрын

    @@1midnightfishI also tried to make sense of that word salad and I couldn't and I thought it's because English is my third language 😁. I see I'm not alone

  • @1midnightfish

    @1midnightfish

    9 ай бұрын

    @@huskytail 😂 Kudos to whoever invented the phrase "word salad", it is such a useful term!

  • @alinaanto
    @alinaanto9 ай бұрын

    If this “museum” doesn’t clearly convey at least a small sense of the depression and horror of the communist era, then it is a deplorable and despicable attempt to aggrandize and glorify the Soviet era. It’s not nostalgia, it’s propaganda.

  • @Ukie88

    @Ukie88

    9 ай бұрын

    Well put🇺🇦🇨🇦

  • @BingoPaletot

    @BingoPaletot

    9 ай бұрын

    It does look fairly depressing though, doesn't it? The initiator was fairly clear about his intentions too.