Date: 2017
Type: Article
Bulgaria's post-1989 demostalgia
Eurozine, 2017, OnlineOnly
STANOEVA, Elitza, Bulgaria's post-1989 demostalgia, Eurozine, 2017, OnlineOnly
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/50985
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
My personal memory of 10 November 1989 is one of confusion and embarrassment. Ten years of age at the time, I came home from school and found my parents laughing and jumping around the kitchen like madmen. Through uncontrolled laughter, they finally answered my questions about what was going on with the brief statement: ‘Todor Zhivkov has fallen.’ Having recently joined the ranks of the pioneers, a membership extended to all third-graders, I was sufficiently indoctrinated to object through tears ‘But he is such a good man’, which only added to their exultation.
Additional information:
Published online: 31 August 2017
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/50985
External link: http://www.eurozine.com/bulgarias-post-1989-demostalgie/
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/50884
Version: English version of German original published in Transit : Europäische Revue, 2017, No. 50
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