Day Of Remembrance And Respect To Victims Of The Communist Regime

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Day Of Remembrance And Respect To Victims Of The Communist Regime

Woman touches name of a relative at the memorial monument with the names of thousands of victims of the communist regime on 01 February, 2022 in Sofia, Bulgaria. On this day, in 1945, 3 regents, 67 MPs, cabinet ministers, generals, colonels and bankers were sentenced to death and were shot on the same day. The “people’s tribunals” issued more than 10,000 sentences in 131 trials. 2,600 people were sentenced to death, over 200 more were killed even before their formal trials. Thousands lie in unmarked graves, murdered without trial or sentence. (Photo by Georgi Paleykov/NurPhoto)


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