dust. They should have restored it and turned it into a cultural or historical center...Every piece of mosaics there is cultural phenomenon, apart from its ideological meaning, it is an example of an exceptional mastery. [...] It is a crime by the communist party that after it (almost on its own) changed the regime of the country, changed its function to another the - pro-capitalist, allowed this site to be destroyed. To destroy it is equal to us destroying e.g. the Rila monastery. Because, in the frame of the Christian art of our country, and the socialist art, of our same country, even for a shorter period of time; to me personally, Buzludzha is an analogue to the Rila monastery. Because it is a great cultural achievement
regardless of the ideology which it stemmed from. Maybe today we want to decontruct the monument of the Soviet army in Sofia because e.g. we think it is an aggressor. I don’t agree that that monument should be also demolished - because a new social system should not come and destroy the heritage of another social system. In this case we should then also destroy all the churches, because the Church’s structure is not existing anymore in the way it used to; and also all the mosques, because Islam is not an official Bulgarian religion. So why are we then destroying the cultural phenomenon of our last regime which has such a big cultural value?’
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