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February 02, 2011

Monika Panayotova and Dobroslav Dimitrov honoured the victims of communism


01/02/2011

On February 1, 1945 first and second supreme composition of the People's Court pronounced the largest number of political death sentences in Bulgarian history. Sentenced to death were 67 members of the XXV National Assembly, 23 ministers from the three governments for the period January 1941 to September 3, 1944 led by Prime Minister Bogdan Filov, Dobri Bozhilov and Ivan Bagryanov. Also sentenced to death were the three regents of the minor Simeon II - Prince Cyril Preslavski, Bogdan Filov and gen. Nikola Mihov, nine secretaries to the palace, publishers of newspapers and publicists, 47 generals and colonels. The sentences were executed on the same day. The rest MPs and ministers were sentenced to various prison terms. According to a report by the State Security for a period of nine months there had been displaced 28,131 people and thousands were killed.

On 1 February 2011Bulgaria for first time honours the victims of the communist regime.The decision was taken by the Government on a proposal by the former Presidents Zhelyu Zhelev and Petar Stoyanov.

In memory of the thousands killed by the atrocities of the communist regime, on behalf of the parliamentary group of GERB, the chairpersons of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence - Dobroslav Dimitrov and the Committee on European Affairs and oversight of EU funds - Monika Panayotova brought a wreath in the garden of the National Palace of Culture at the monument of perished.

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