What a splendid hour I spent in this mainly open air museum reflecting on 45 years of Soviet rule in Bulgaria. It opened in 2011 amidst great controversy when it was to be called "The Museum of Totalitarian Art".
As always I took far too many snaps, here are my favourite ones, some I can identify some I can't. I was hoping for a guide book when I later popped into the gift shop, they didn't have one. Should have paid more attention to the brass plaques on the bases. Duh!
The Red Star That once stood atop the Communist Party Headquarters in the centre of Sofia, welcomes you at the gate
This guy popped up a few times in various guises and of various ages.
"Earth from the War" Mincho Minev (1945)
"Women from the Cooperative Farm". Iva Hadzhieva (1959)
"The worker" Boris Gondov 1964
Turning one's back on the Communist ideology