LES COMBATS MEMORIELS DU POSTCOMMUNISME BULGARE: LE COMMUNISME ET SES MONUMENTS
LES COMBATS MEMORIELS DU POSTCOMMUNISME BULGARE: LE COMMUNISME ET SES MONUMENTS

Summary/Abstract: “Crossroads images”, the monuments are sometimes at stake in theappropriation and/or disavowal processes of the past, while still being marks ofa personal identity of a city, society, and even of a nation. They are concreteimages of the rapport to the past of the society which builds, commemorates,and sometimes, destroys them. Moreover, they are under attack of vandalismwhen changes occur in the society, especially during revolutions, “Coupsd’État”, wars etc. The communist monuments, like any trace speaking about adarkened and controversial past, were victims of the regime collapse, but alsothe object of active politics of oblivion or/and re-appropriation. Landmarks ofregime legitimating policies, the Red Army monument and Dimitrov’ smausoleum in Sofia have been at the core of memorial battles pertaining to thememory of communism in post-socialist Bulgaria. Less visible in the battlefieldof memory struggles, the Memorial to the victims of communism witnesses itsappropriation by the public actors according to their political agenda

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