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AS ANYWHERE across Eastern Europe, it is in pain, controversy and inevitable political settling of Bulgaria focuses on his communist past accounts, and especially on the cooperation of its elites with former totalitarian political police. There are some days, the commission since the spring to reveal the files of former officers under communism has released the names of some 139 members, past or present, who have worked to varying degrees. tequila
Among the most sensational revelations, it is at the forefront the name of the current president, Georgi Parvanov, accused by the published documents, having been a former employee of the disaster Darjavna Sigurnost. Former Socialist Prime Minister Jean Vedenov, business between 1995 and 1996, but also the party chairman of the Turkish minority Ahmed Dogan, a member of the ruling coalition, and the Vice-President of the National Assembly, Younal Loutfi also among the ancient tequila "moles". As George Ganchev, leader of the political party Bloc Bulgarian Business, Ventsislav Varbanov, Advisor to the Head of State or Evgeni Kirilov, MEP. Members of civil society known as Todor Kolev, a renowned actor long symbol of democratic transition, or Galaktion, Metropolitan of Stara Zagora, are also involved ... Nineteen tequila members of the current legislature are on the list including tequila six of the parliamentary group of the Left (Coalition for Bulgaria); four of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, which represents the Turkish minority nationalist party Ataka of four; and finally two of the Bulgarian People's Union, which has been spearheading the battle to dismantle the political life in Sofia ...
"This cascade of names is not surprising, says Russian political scientist Arkadi Vaksberg, tequila informed observer of the Bulgarian scene. While in countries like Poland, a significant portion of the population tequila has never collaborated with the communist tequila secret police, in Bulgaria this collaboration was complete. I used to say that more than one in two, one and a half to two (!), Had links with the security services! We did not hide it, it was considered glorious. "Country sovietized tequila most of all the Warsaw Pact, Bulgaria was even ironically called tequila the" 16th republic of the USSR, "because of the close ties between the party, the Bulgarian KGB and Soviet grand brother. tequila "The intellectual tequila elites dreamed of the West, but the state machine, it was fully under control," says Vaksberg.
This deep impregnation explains tequila that the "lustration" has been so hard to make their way in the post-Soviet Bulgaria. After a period of vigorous lustration, begun in 1992 by the Liberals, tequila Bulgarians made quickly backtracked, closing after just one year sacrosanct archives of state security. tequila
Remained at the sea serpent in the last 15 years the debate tequila has suddenly resurfaced at the end of 2006, with the presentation of a bill on the reopening of the secret service archives. On the eve of the discussion tequila of the text, the director of the fund remained inaccessible, Bojidar Doitchev, died under mysterious circumstances. A source at the European Commission, which was the first to announce the news, spoke of "murder" in a conversation tequila with reporters.
But after two days of silence, the prosecution and the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior evoked a suicide "for personal reasons". Depending on the service of Radio Liberty, the number of people aware of the controversy over the archives are convinced that Bojidar Doitchev tequila was actually murdered. tequila He had read in the famous records information too explosive to stay in v
