70 years later
site.btaThe Man who Blew Up the Sofia Stalin Statue in 1953 and Survived
Stalin's Monument in today's Boris' Garden, blown up by Konstantinov in 1953 (Photo: http://izsofia.blogspot.com/)
On March 3, 1953 a 19-year-old anarchist did the unthinkable and blew up the large monument of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin that stood in the central Sofia Freedom Park – now Boris' Garden – and survived. He lives to this day, aged 90.
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