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unusual facts about Bulgarian Communist Party


The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner

In a small Bulgarian provincial town during the 1980s, factory worker Vasil 'Vasko' Georgiev (Hristo Mutafchiev) has problems with the local Communist Party agent (Nikolai Urumov) who wants Vasko to monitor and report on the activities of his father-in-law, Bai Dan (Miki Manojlović).


Bulgarian Socialist Party

The Bulgarian Socialist Party is recognised as the successor of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party created on 2 August 1891 on Buzludzha peak by Dimitar Blagoev, designated in 1903 as the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists) and later as the Bulgarian Communist Party.

Vela Peeva

Vela Peeva (born on March 16, 1922 in Kamenitsa, part of present day Velingrad) was a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party and a Bulgarian national heroine, who laid down her life when fighting for her country during World War II.


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Buzludzha

The Buzludzha Monument on the peak was built by the Bulgarian communist regime to commemorate the events in 1891 when the socialists led by Dimitar Blagoev assembled secretly in the area to form an organised socialist movement with the founding of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party, a fore-runner of the Bulgarian Communist Party.