Хроника на един анахронизъм – изучаването на комунистическото минало в България
A Chronicle of One Anachronism – The Struggle for Adequate Education about the Communist Past in Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: Bulgaria is the only country in the former Eastern bloc where there is no official policy of remembrance and commemoration of Communist regime and its victims, neither any museum was created, and history textbooks are still not changed radically. The country is ranked number one in the European Union regarding the level of "socialist nostalgia". Last, but not least, there was no transitional justice in Bulgaria as a whole ( for example no one of the communist leaders responsible for mass executions and the organization of the concentration camps were ever sentenced in Bulgaria).Almost total lack of knowledge about the Communist regime is revealed by several sociological pools among young people age 18-30. One survey shows that in general 44% of the interviewees approve of Communist regime in Bulgaria, and only 14 % have a negative view on the period. My paper presents the chronology – between the years 2000 and 2019 – of the European and Bulgarian attempts to create an adequate platform of knowledge, which would have helped the implementation of the Prague Declaration for European Consciousness and Communism from 2008 not only about moral condemnation of all Totalitarian regimes of the XXth century, but also about a proper education and the dissemination of adequate comprehension about all of them.The institutional as well as the intellectual struggle for the adequate public knowledge about Communist ideology and the Communist regime in Bulgaria is still going on...

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