Museum of Totalitarian Art

“Bulgaria’s Culture Minister, Vezhdi Rashidov, is planning on bringing back the atmosphere of the demolished Sofia mausoleum of Communist leader, Georgi Dimitrov. The future Museum of Totalitarian Art will be located the building of the Culture Ministry in the Sofia “Darvenitsa” district.”

Georgi Dimitrov, leader of the Bulgarian Communist Party, best known about the Leipzig Case, where he was tried for being part of an alleged plot to set the Reichstag on fire, died on July 2, 1949, in the Barvikha sanatorium near Moscow. The decision to embalm his body body and place it on display in the Sofia Georgi Dimitrov Mausoleum was made the next day. The deadline for the design was 24 hours, and architects Ovcharov and Ribarov, amazingly, were able to adhere to it, while the deadline for the construction was 138 hours. On July 10, Dimitrov’s body was placed in the mausoleum on “Knyaz Alexander I” square.

Source: Bulgarian Culture Minister Mulls Museum of Totalitarian Art

Hopefully we would see this museum and one on Communism very soon in Sofia 🙂 Both are long overdue!