Culture and history

"Countdown to the house with the murals of Ivan Milev", "Petition to save the house with the murals of Ivan Milev", etc. If you have not been interested in the topic of this building - a cultural asset, probably reading these headlines from the last few days you will be left with the impression that the cultural monument is in bad shape ...

Author: Georgi Georgiev The topic of the forcible seizure of property in the form of various taxes and levies is key to libertarianism (“taxes are theft”). If we take into account the skeptical attitude towards the way tax revenues are spent by most modern Bulgarians and the actions aimed at avoiding taxation, then the majority …

Author: Hristiyan Atanasov Money has always attracted attention. Everyone wants to own it, control it, and especially have the right to produce it. Having arisen spontaneously to facilitate market exchange, it quickly becomes the darling of the political authorities, which try to monopolize it. The reason is more than clear…

On January 21, 1924, Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin), the ideological inspirer of the October Revolution of 1917 and the first leader of the Soviet Union, died. In the years after his death, a real cult of his personality was created. His body lies in the center of Moscow to this day as a symbol of an entire era. Here …

Mass industrialization under central planning In his memoirs published after the fall of the Bulgarian Communist Party regime, Todor Zhivkov wrote that his government returned the gold reserve back to Bulgaria. This is perhaps one of the most notorious lies of the communist dictator. Contrary to Zhivkov's claims, in the 1960s …

Author: Hristiyan Atanasov About a month ago, The Wall Street Journal published an article explaining the intentions of the Eurosceptic parts of the Italian political sector to issue mini-bonds (mini-BOT from Buoni Ordinari del Tesoro – i.e. lit. “small ordinary treasury bonds”) with a face value of €50[1], according to other sources €100. The idea of …

| Full text of the topic | There is an understanding that all historical knowledge is relative, dependent on the point of view and destined to change over time. One of the main reasons for thinking about history in this way is the fact that it allows the names we use for different periods and complexes of …

From a historical and political point of view, there is no way to dispute the Liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire after the Russo-Turkish War in 1877-78. This was the beginning of the new Bulgarian state with a relatively independent policy in all spheres of life, which gave many freedoms to Bulgarian citizens – or at least those who were lucky enough to have them …

Author: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hristiyan Atanasov Elementary economic logic suggests that a lower tax rate is an opportunity for the accumulation of greater wealth by the individuals of society. It is clear that an enterprising person has the opportunity to earn more and, accordingly, the smaller part of what he earns he transfers for the “common good” (for example, to the state, …

“Pushing ideology into every second scene doesn’t help a single film” – the quote is from Stoyan Panchev’s article about the film “The Queen of Scots”. A film full of politically correct positive discrimination roles – anachronistic for the period characters of all races needed to be represented, according to the standards of this year. Agreeing …