The Red Flat
Hands-on recreated nineteen-eighties family apartment showing everyday life under communism.
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This guide to the Red Flat in Sofia starts at a rotary telephone in a nineteen-eighties apartment and introduces the Petrovi, a family living through the last stage of communist Bulgaria. It moves room by room through a kitchen of Bulgarian appliances, rationing and winter preserves, and a living room where two very different radio voices compete. Best heard with your hand free to open drawers, switch dials and lift the receiver.
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