Monuments game

Author: Ivo Kolarov

The shamelessness of the left-wing political spectrum by nature knows no bounds. Its main apologists at home and abroad are able to deny and justify all the crimes of the followers of their political ideology from the Holodomor in Ukraine to the current situation in Venezuela. In order to take the position of “fighters for justice” (although encouraging violence between different sections of society is immoral) they have developed “selective permeability” at the supracellular level.

All monuments are equal, but some monuments are more equal than others

The most recent example of this ability of socialists and communists was vividly presented by Petar Volgin, a journalist appointed by the state-run Bulgarian National Radio. The host justified the setting on fire of the crane used to dismantle the “1300 Years of Bulgaria” monument in Sofia – a topic that expectedly attracted considerable public attention. According to him, this is “legitimate resistance against the capitalist system”, although the monument, built by the communist regime in Bulgaria, is being dismantled by the state and de facto has nothing to do with the meaning behind the term.

In a television appearance, Volgin further developed his thesis, adding that the dismantling of the monument, defeated by time, can be compared to the actions of ISIS terrorists in the territories they occupied. Leaving the latter aside, it is logical to assume that he should condemn any action that removes or damages someone's monument in this way.

Fortunately for those looking for consistency and logic in Volgin's actions, there are many such cases. At the beginning of May, a monument to victims of the communist regime in Burgas woke up spray-painted. A security camera filmed three people, two of whom painted on the monument the face of none other than Georgi Dimitrov, the initiator of the People's Court, which sentenced nearly 3,000 people to death. After checking the Bulgarian National Radio website for topics on "12+3", the show in which Volgin is the host, the results do not show that the latter has commented on the topic. There are also no comments on his Facebook page, where his indignation about "1300 years of Bulgaria" is located.

In the ecstasy surrounding Labor Day, it is not ruled out that the news passed Volgin by. The material for comparison is not limited to the case in Burgas. In early May, a monument to the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, was unveiled in Sofia. His foreign policy is considered the catalyst for the final collapse of the USSR and, accordingly, the regimes in its satellites, including Bulgaria. The bust was attacked twice - once before and once after its official unveiling. However, the self-proclaimed defender of all monuments, Peter Volgin, remains silent again in the channels discussed above. Moreover, there is no information that he participated in the cleaning of the monument, which was initiated by citizens.

Why do we have to play with monuments?

The electoral permeability mentioned above is not used solely to allow people with left-wing beliefs to rationalize the world around them. In his television appearance , Volgin clearly demonstrated that cases such as the one with the monument “1300 years of Bulgaria” can be used to reiterate points of support. According to him, the setting fire to the crane is connected to the protests by left-wing anarchists in Hamburg during the G-20 meeting in July. During the demonstrations, in classic left-wing fashion, shop windows were broken and cars were set on fire.

Volgin believes that society should be happy that the crane fell victim in our country, and not other people's properties, which in his opinion deserve to be set on fire. Here he gets entangled in his own reasoning, since his initial thesis is that the facility was set on fire to stop the dismantling of the monument, and later he describes it as a protest against "capitalism". In any case, however, the host is of the opinion that encroachment on someone's property is justified, as long as there are enough dissatisfied people who are ready to set fire.

Political propaganda is one of the reasons why the monument game is on the agenda. In this case, "1300 Years of Bulgaria" is used to push neo-Marxism through advertising for movements like Antifa.

In previous years, the Monument to the Occupying Red Army played a key role in leftist propaganda. According to a dozen red ideologists, it is a symbol of the gratitude of Bulgarians to the USSR for occupying the country at the end of World War II. However, the monument was built by the dictatorship of the Bulgarian Communist Party, without consulting the public. The goal these days is to use the monument to change history and impose some kind of obligation on the current heirs of the collapsed communist state.

What society needs to know is that the construction of monuments by the state is primarily a political act. Ultimately, every power wants to position itself in the minds of individuals in a certain way. This is especially evident in the polarization of society when a monument is built or dismantled (or otherwise changed). This is precisely why we should let people build monuments to those they want to remember, not to those the state wants to instill in them that they are important.

Image source: Novini.bg

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