Head of the Lozenets district Konstantin Pavlov in the Bulgarian capital addressed an official letter to the mayor of Sofia Yordanka Fandykova entitled “Demolition of the symbols of totalitarianism and Soviet occupation in the Lozenets region”.
In the preamble of the letter he writes:
«In connection with 9 May - Day of Europe — I suggest you implement a joint initiative, aimed at establishing democratic pro-European values and related symbols as an important part of our obligations to the citizens of the capital».
Specifying your initiative, Konstantin Pavlov reports, that he wants to create a park in his area, who will be named after the liberal journalist, US citizenship, Anna Politkovskaya. At the same time, he proposes "to affirm democratic pro-European values" out of place, and on the mass grave 171 fighter of the soviet army, dead from wounds in hospitals in Bulgaria. The head of the district expresses doubts, that their perishable remains there really lie, although the names are documented 165 of them. But agrees to their transfer to the cemetery, if they are found there. The name of the cemetery is not reported. White marble bas-reliefs and a bronze monument, depicting two Soviet fighters, suggests placing in the Museum of Socialist Art.
There, Konstantin Pavlov suggests transferring four paired sculptures from the Friendship Bridge, depicting Russians and Bulgarians in different periods of their common history. Since no totalitarianism, no Soviet occupation is visible here, then the head of the district does not indicate Russophobia as the reason for the demolition, and his argument, that in the sculptures “the Bulgarian participant is in a strongly subordinate position”. He proposes to rename the bridge after the demolition of the sculptures in Samokovsky. Friendship with Russian speakers of pro-European values is clearly not needed. He also offers Graf Street Nikolay Ignatiev, named after a Russian diplomat, achieved in 1878 the year of the signing of the extremely beneficial San Stefano Peace Treaty for Bulgaria, give the name Samokovskaya. Really, how much because of this diplomat did the current allies of the Bulgarians on NATO of Germany have had to work hard, France and Italy, to reduce the territory of Bulgaria by three times according to the results of the Berlin Congress 1879 of the year.
At the same time, on his official Facebook account, Konstantin Pavlov publishes a photo, on which he lays flowers at the memorial stone, dedicated to dad John Paul II, the NATO logo is depicted on it, and reports, that the square in the square will be reconstructed soon, bearing dad's name. Pavlov calls him one of the most outstanding personalities of the twentieth century, but for some reason does not report, what exactly did the head of Catholics do for Bulgaria.
Our reaction to the proposal to abuse the memory yet 171 Soviet soldier was traditional. The Russian Embassy in Bulgaria sent a letter to Konstantin Pavlov. There is an ambassador Anatoly Makarov He writes, that the ideas of the head of the district are “cruel mockery of the memory 27 million victims, given by the Soviet people to save Europe and the world from the brown plague. Proposal to dig a grave of people, who gave their lives for our free future, looks more than blasphemous ". Konstantin Pavlov sent the letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zakharieva, as reported on social networks.
The head of administration also recalled, that she signed a declaration on the eve of the 75th anniversary of the Victory over Nazism, which said:
«Although May 1945 years and brought an end to World War II, freedom did not come with him for all of Europe. The central and eastern parts of the continent remained under the control of communist regimes for almost 50 years. Baltic powers were illegally occupied and annexed, and the Soviet Union seized the rest of the peoples in an iron grip through unprecedented military force, repression and ideological control».
This declaration was signed by the foreign ministers of the United States and ten other countries., who are the president of Russia Vladimir Putin called grunting satellites. It became a kind of indulgence - an exculpatory document not only for Konstantin Pavlov, but also for many desecrators of graves and monuments of Soviet soldiers, executive positions in Eastern Europe. After all, if "the Soviet Union seized the rest of the peoples in an iron grip through unprecedented military force, repression and ideological control ", the, so, these are graves and monuments of non-liberators, and the occupiers. That's just the "invaders" their troops from all countries of Eastern Europe withdrew a quarter century ago, and the Americans are in Western Europe already 75 years, and now entered eastern Europe.
However, in Bulgaria, desecration of the monuments of our soldiers was enough even before the signing of the declaration, including the mass grave. Federal News Agency told its readers back in April 2018 years in the article “Monument to Soviet-Bulgarian friendship became an advertisement for LGBT, and the Soviet Army - Pussy Riot ".
Since then, absolutely nothing has changed.. After each desecration, an official protest of the Russian Embassy in Bulgaria follows, and sometimes the Russian Foreign Ministry. Bulgarian authorities apologize, promise to punish the guilty, but do not find them. And so on until next time. Last time (although it would be more correct to write "once again") mass grave in Lozenets region suffered in February of this year. Then a bronze monument was damaged and the faces of Soviet soldiers in a marble bas-relief were broken. Guilty, of course, were not found.
Konstantin Pavlov in his letter to the mayor of Sofia states, that digging up the graves of the fallen is an important part of his obligations to the inhabitants of the city. However, they themselves do not think so. This is also noted by the online edition of Korrespondent.net, reporting Bulgarian reactions on the Internet:
"AT most users disapproved of Pavlov’s initiative in the comments, advising him to do more important things to improve the entrusted area».
Author: Vladimir Tulin
