Remembrance March to Communist Prison in Bulgaria’s Lovech

Society | March 21, 2009, Saturday // 10:50|  views

The Union of Democratic Forces party in Bulgaria's Lovech organized Saturday a remembrance march to the prison outside the city where the communist regime kept political prisoners.

Over 1 500 political prisoners were forced to work at the stone pit in the prison near Lovech between 1959-1962. 147 of these died there under the harsh conditions.

According to the UDF, the Lovech prison was practically a small-scale replica of the concentration camps in the Soviet Union. The Lovech prison was closed down in 1962 after an inspection of high-ranking officials of the Bulgarian Communist Party.

The participants in Saturday's march had a remembrance service at the site of the former prison, and inaugurated a small chapel.

The UDF party was emblematic in Bulgaria's post-1989 transition in that it signified the rightist, Western-oriented segments of the Bulgarian society.

 

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