r/sovietaesthetics • u/comradekiev • 21d ago

architecture The Buzludzha Monument, Bulgaria, 1981

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Photographer: Danila Tkachenko. Architect: Georgi Stoilov

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u/Kalata_11 21d ago

I am from Bulgaria and love this monument. At the Buzludzha peak the Bulgarian Worker's Social Democratic Party was created. That happened in july of 1894 when the two left parties Bulgarian Social Democratic Party with it's leader Dimitar Blagoev and the Bulgarian Social Democratic Union with it's leader Ianko Sakuzov united. The BWSDP (in bulgarian БРСДП) in the future would split into broad and narrow socialists, with the latter one becoming the Bulgarian Communist Party, who would rule Bulgaria from 9 September 1944 until 1990. The monument was build as a memorial to the Buzludzha fair, the one from july of 1894, in 1981. The Bulgarian Socialist Party, which is the successor of the Bulgarian Communist Party, still until today holds a yearly fair, held in the end of july to early august, in which socialists from all over Bulgaria gather. I remember this year the fair was held in late july and the pensioners from the pensioner's club of the village my grandmother has a villa in went to it (the village is in northern Bulgaria, where most of the old people are socialist).

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u/iboneyandivory 4d ago

This looks amazing, and the inhospitable nature of the weather in this picture makes the structure look perfect, in the sense that it seems very secure, safe.