site.btaBuilding a Mausoleum and Destroying It
A parade of workers on September 9, 1952 is opened in front of the mausoleum by communist officials (BTA Archive Photo)
On August 27, 1999, the tomb of Communist leader Georgi Dimitrov in Sofia was demolished. That was ten years after the demise of totalitarianism in Bulgaria.
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The Mausoleum was built in 1949 to house the embalmed body of Georgi Dimitrov
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