Pro-Russian parties block Bulgarian parliament over Soviet monument demolition (www.euractiv.com)

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The nearly 45-metre-high monument has dominated the Bulgarian capital’s landscape for the past 70 years. Still, the new pro-EU coalition government began the process of dismantling it after being motivated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

However, the leader of the far-right pro-Russian party Vazrazhdane, Kostadin Kostadinov, called on his colleagues to express their opposition to the monument’s demolition by blocking parliamentary work.

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[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 5 points 11 months ago

The monument is celebrating the liberation of Bulgaria from the Nazis by the Red Army. The slight problem being that Bulgaria was an Axis member, who in 1944 turned on the Axis and even declared war on Nazi Germany to be invaded by the Red Army a day after declaring war on the Nazis.

[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 2 points 11 months ago

Damn bad timing.

[-] Aqarius@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Talk about repenting on your death bed.

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