Bulgarian Trabant Owners Commemorate Communist-Era Industry

Society | November 7, 2010, Sunday // 19:33|  views

Well preserved Trabants painted as racecars on display as part of a Trabbi parade in Sofia Sunday. Photo by Dnevnik.bg

Bulgarian Trabant and Wartburg owners paraded their cars through capital Sofia in what has become a yearly event to endearlingly commemorate the quaint and outdated vehicles.

The parade also commemorated the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and brought back to mind what life was under the so-called communist regime in Eastern Europe.

German ambassador to Sofia Martin H?pfner with his wife Christina joined the event riding a blue Trabbi, as Trabants are affectionately known in East Germany.

The German Embassy also held open doors to commemorate the fall of communism and the thousands of Central European refugees who flocked to the German mission in Prague in the late nineties.

The Sunday Sofia car rally included dozens of Trabants, kept in impeccable conditions by their owners, and also a few Wartburgs, another brand of East German car that has kept a somewhat lower profile in communist- and post-communist-era folklore.

The rally started at the Berlin Wall memorial near NDK in downtown Sofia and finished at the German Embassy near Students' Town in the south-east section of the city.

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