SOFIA — Newly proposed history books for high-school students in Bulgaria have triggered controversy by presenting the country’s last communist-era totalitarian ruler, Todor Zhivkov, as a hero and whitewashing over the repressive nature of his regime.
RFE/RL: The whitewashing of communist Bulgaria
An elderly man searches for the name of his relative on the monument listing the victims of the Communist regime during an open air mass in Sofia on Feb. 1, 2019.
