A Bulgarian politician praised the vandals who desecrated the Alyosha monument for their “sense of humor”
In the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, a red cape was put on the monument to the Soviet soldier “Alyosha” and the mouth was covered with a black bandage.
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This is reported by the French newspaper Le Parisien.
The mayor of the city, Ivan Totev, said that this act "is not without a sense of humor." "The monument was not damaged, there is no talk of any vandalism," the French edition quoted the mayor as saying.
In the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia, there is also a monument to a Soviet soldier in the city center. Anti-communist circles oppose him, notes Le Parisien.
On August 21, bronze bas-reliefs depicting nine Soviet soldiers were painted bright pink. Under the bas-relief they wrote “Prague 68” and “Bulgaria asks for forgiveness.” The inscriptions were erased the same day by local authorities. This action was timed to coincide with the “invasion of the communist bloc countries into Czechoslovakia in 1968,” the publication writes. And in 2011, unknown people painted costumes of Superman, Santa Claus and Mac Donald's clown on the sculptures.
“During the communist dictatorship,” Bulgaria was a devoted ally of the USSR, writes Le Parisien. In 1944, "the communist regime forced Bulgaria to build monuments to Soviet soldiers."
The issue of demolishing these monuments has been raised several times, but each time these attempts meet stubborn resistance from the Russian embassy and Bulgarian Russophiles, who insist that the Red Army fought against Nazism, the publication notes.
A position typical of modern aggressive anti-communist and anti-Soviet circles that now set the tone in Bulgaria expressed in his comment under the news about vandalism by a user under the nickname Bulgarin.
“We didn’t ask anyone to save us. NOBODY! The USSR declared war on the Kingdom of Bulgaria. And he occupied the country. And as a result of this, the Bulgarian
the people were stolen for 45 years under Soviet slavery. There was no liberation from the fascists, because Bulgaria was never under the fascist regime. The Germans just passed through Bulgarian territory to strike Greece. Hitler thanked Bulgaria by expanding the Bulgarian territory, including all ethnic Bulgarian lands. And as a result of your “liberation”, all of Macedonia remained as a gift for Yugoslavia, and the Greeks took White Sea Thrace. In both Macedonia and Greece, the Bulgarian population was subjected to systematic forced assimilation.
And for all this you want gratitude? Well, thank you!... and get out forever.”
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