Saturday, August 30, 2014

Anti-Russian graffitti in Bulgaria

"On August 19 The Moscow Times reported about Russia's demand that Bulgaria try harder to prevent vandalism of Soviet-era monuments, after yet another monument to Soviet troops in Sofia was spray-painted.
The Russian Embassy in Bulgaria has issued a note demanding that its former Soviet-era ally clean up the monument in Sofia's Lozenets district, identify and punish those responsible, and take "exhaustive measures" to prevent similar attacks in the future... The vandalism was the latest in a series of similar recent incidents in Bulgaria - each drawing angry criticism from Moscow."--Source

"Figures of Soviet soldiers at the base of a Soviet Army monument in Sofia, Bulgaria, spray-painted into superheroes. The writing in Bulgarian, "в крак с времето," means "in keeping with the times."

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