Bulgaria’s President Georgi Purvanov and another 130 politicians are included in a report, containing the names of collaborators of the communist-era secret services.
As elsewhere in Eastern Europe, the communist past of the country is painful in Bulgaria, French newspaper Le Figaro said.
Especially painful is the role of the current political elite as collaborator of the former secret services.
Recently, a committee assigned with declassification of the dossiers of all secret service collaborators under the former communist regime, announced 139 names of members of the current and former parliaments, who worked for the services, Le Figaro said.
Notable are the names of a big part of current political elite of the country, such as President Georgi Purvanov, former PM Zhan Videnov, Movement for Rights and Freedoms leader Ahmed Dogan and members of the ruling parties.
Public figures featuring in the list of former secret services collaborators include actor Todor Kolev, who was considered a symbol of democratic transition of the country, Le Figaro said.
BULGARIANS SHOCKED BY THEIR COMMUNIST PAST- LE FIGARO
09:03 Wed 19 Sep 2007
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Comments by Dianne Hatton - 08:52 20 Sep 2007 | ||
 | Maybe the French media are shocked, but this I doubt. Bulgarians certainly aren't. Historically, any ex communist country is run thereafter politically and in the corporate world by the ex communist gangsters who remain. The rot doesn't just stop there, look at local municipalities, land owners etc etc. Communism may have finished in Bulgaria but there will always be the legacy of power over the people. Then again, to be honest, if this was not the case then the country would be in a much worse state than it is now, at least these people have the leadership skills to get the country in a fairly stable situation. |  |
