Практика от миналото – урок за бъдещето (За българския опит в покровителството на лицата с националномалцинствен произход)
A Practice from the Past – Lesson to the Future (About the Bulgarian Experience in Protecting People from the Minorities)

Summary/Abstract: The study analyzes Bulgarian state‘s policy towards the population with an origin amongst the minorities in the period after 1944 till the mid 1980s. It conciders the international legal commitments of the country in this matter as well as the peculiarities of the geopolitical environment in which the processes happen. The autor‘s attention focuces on the government measures in the fields of education and culture; on preserving the minority language; on involving the minorities pepresentatives in the party, administrative and economic life of the country; on the rights of this population to have media and minority language, as well as on the activities in the field of the religion freedom. An impression predominates that there was a consecution of positive activities in the first decades after the year 1944, providing the right to use their own mother tongue, to have an equal participation in the public and the social life, as well as an impression that there was a subsicuent process of a gradual restriction and deprivation from these rights, which reached it‘s peak in the mid 1980s.

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