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Victims of the communist regime honoured on remembrance day

February 1 is Day of Remembrance and Respect to Victims of the Communist Regime in Bulgaria

Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev
Photo: Foreign Ministry press service

Cabinet members, public figures and members of the public honoured the memory of the innocent victims of the communist regime in the country following the communist coup in Bulgaria on 9 September, 1944.

The ceremony held in front of the commemorative wall with the names of the victims of the communist regime in Sofia was attended by Minister of Foreign Affairs Georg Georgiev, the Foreign Ministry has announced.

Addressing the participants in the ceremony, Minister Georgiev stated that this date is a reminder of the value of freedom and the right of each and every person to live without fear. “We have a duty to remember the victims of totalitarianism and to strive for a future built on human rights and on the values of democracy,” Georg Georgiev said. 



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