What To Do With Communist Decay
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on June 15, 2023
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Ashira Morris is a freelance writer based in Sofia, Bulgaria and Tallahassee, Florida.
BUZLUDZHA PEAK, Bulgaria — The double doors to Buzludzha are secured with a large metal lock across white metal grating. The lock is relatively new, as is the “ENTRY PROHIBITED” sign in Bulgarian and English over the door and the guard posted on site.
Buzludzha, officially called the Memorial House of the Bulgarian Communist Party, is a striking Brutalist concrete saucer perched on top of a mountain in Bulgaria’s Stara Planina (Old Mountain), the local name for the Balkan . . .
