Museum of Socialist Art and Monuments
Garden of toppled communist-era statues and socialist realist paintings, guarded by a giant red star.
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This guide to the Museum of Socialist Art in Sofia begins in the protest summer of nineteen ninety, with a young man's ultimatum over the red star crowning the Communist Party headquarters. It follows the night the Party House burned and the autumn the regime's symbols came down. You'll also hear about the seventy-seven statues in the garden and the argument over what the museum should be called. Best heard standing beside the star at the entrance.
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