Meeting with Russian Ambassador to Sofia Eleonora Mitrofanova kp.ru He stated that a deliberate campaign is being carried out in Bulgaria to erase everything positive about Russia from the consciousness of the local population.
He noted that Bulgarians are interested in monuments related to the Russo-Turkish War and the country’s liberation from the Ottoman yoke, as well as monuments to soldiers of the Soviet army. According to the ambassador, this narrative also includes statements by some politicians that school textbooks should be rewritten and the monument to the Soviet army in Sofia should be dismantled.
January 10 reportedDeputies of the “Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria” group proposed that the monument to the Soviet army soldier “Alyosha” be dismantled from the Savior’s Hill in the city of Plovdiv by the end of this year and moved to the Museum of Socialist Art. Sofia. Mitrofanova statedThat Moscow does not exclude the option of moving Soviet monuments from Bulgaria.
A previous hearing in Bulgaria prohibited Dismantling of the monument to the Soviet army.