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    site.bta34 Years Ago on November 10 Bulgaria Embarked on Path to Democracy and Market Economy
                                            
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                November 10, 1989, marked the end of a 45-year-long period of totalitarian rule in Bulgaria and the beginning of a transition to democracy and a market economy.On that date, the upper crust of the Communist Party (BCP) ousted its secretary general and State Council chairman Todor Zhivkov.
                                    
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