Deputy Minister Georgiev bows his head in respect for the memory of the victims of Communism
01 February 2019 News
On the occasion of the National Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Communism, Deputy Minister Georgiev took part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Victims of Communism Memorial in the capital city.
Georgiev noted that today we are duty bound to identify, persecute and rid ourselves of all vestiges and symbols of totalitarianism. ‘The Communist regime is not in any way less repulsive than National Socialism or Fascism - on the contrary. It belongs to the same family of totalitarian and extreme dictatorships. Dictatorships that do not value human life, and for which human dignity, the human individual mean nothing whatsoever,’ he added.
George Georgiev expressed his view that days like this one should become ever more popular, and that more and more people should know their own history. Only then would it be possible to have due and proper intolerance for such atrocities. ‘For 45 years terror was direct and immediate, at the cost of thousands of human lives, with hundreds of thousand directly affected by what was going on. For 30 years now, we have been paying for Communism’s sins politically, economically, socially, in a civil and public sense. The very fact that there are still people who lay flowers and honor a macabre date like September 9, 1944, shows that the lessons have not been learned and the errors have not been exonerated. The period before 1989 is a shameful blotch on our history, which, at a time when certain currently active politicians, heirs to the Bulgarian Communist Party, seek to vindicate it, makes it incumbent upon us to develop and instinct of resistance.’
The Deputy Minister stated in no uncertain terms that the Bulgarian people should know and remember the history of those regimes. ‘Bulgarian education should emphasize the need for totalitarian regimes to have a place in the school curricula. This is necessary in order to create a clear idea and promote a proper awareness, based on historical facts, through which the young people would know that what had happened once should never be allowed to happen again. We are the guarantors for the democratic future of Bulgaria. This is not a cliché, it is a set of provable facts that we must reckon with,’ Georgiev underscored.
More photos
