communism

Author: Ivo Kolarov The shamelessness of the left-wing political spectrum by nature has no limits. 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 …

“Your capitalist attitude towards women is not there under communism.” These were the words of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to Vice President Richard Nixon at the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959. Nixon was there, representing not only the American government, but also General Mills, Whirlpool …

Author: Stefan Kichev For as long as there have been political debates, representatives of the left and the right have constantly claimed that they are the true advocates of freedom and justice, while at the same time fervently insisting that the other side preaches the opposite. This is, of course, possible, since we are talking about two different worldviews that lie …

Today we mark 26 years since the fall of the communist regime and the start of the so-called transition. What is happening on this day – in short, due to the crumbling socio-economic system in the USSR and the Eastern Bloc, the socialist economies can no longer live on artificial respiration and, driven by Gorbachev's perestroika, …

On this day 71 years ago, Bulgarian communists staged a coup d’état and seized power in Bulgaria. Today, their successors once again celebrate the “bright holiday,” trying to convince us of what an achievement communism was for Bulgaria. Let us recall this chapter in the country’s history. The red narrative of the events is that …

Even today, the thesis continues to exist that Bulgaria's economy flourished in the period 1945-1990. And even that Todor Zhivkov's rule was positive, as a recent study indicates. In this article, we will examine some statistical, historical and economic sources to see if this is so. The bankruptcy …

Today we honor the victims of totalitarianism, especially two of its most horrific manifestations – Nazism and Communism, which led to the deaths of millions and the destruction of human well-being for decades. On this occasion, we have published some statistics from “The Black Book of Communism”, a volume by Harvard University Press, in which …