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| Sotiris Blatsis | profile | all galleries >> The Travel Photography - here, there and everywhere >> It's a small World >> Bulgaria: the remains of an era >> Sofia: a capital in transition | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 Where Lenin's statue once stood |
 For what once was forbidden |
 Old Party House |
 Gigantism |
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 The times they are a-changing, unfortunately... |
 Council of Ministers |
 Synchronised marching |
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 Time for a change |
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 Formerly for apparatchicks, now for the newly-rich |
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 Old Royal Palace |
 Carelessness replaced the Mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov... |
 Ivan Vazov Popular Theatre |
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 Russian style domes... |
 ...and golden details... |
 ...in St. Paul's Russian church |
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 Lionhearts |
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 Alexander Nevsky's Cathedral |
 The Osvoboditel (Liberator) Tsar |
 Parliament |
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 Sofia University |
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 Monument to the Soviet Army |
 "With gratitude to liberators" |
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 No name for this statue - was its hero a communist? |
 Preparations for the winter |
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 Borisova Gradina |
 Communist Monument |
 "Arise, you prisoners of starvation! Arise, you wretched of the earth!" |
 "The Internationale unites the human race" |
 1300 years of existence. 17 years of disintegration |
 Cultural Palace |
 Telephony Palace |
 Blvd. Vitosha, the 22nd most expensive shopping street in the world |
 GlobUlised poverty |
 Of men and mice |
 Les Miserables |
 Contrast: Gum, Western style consumerism in the former state department store |
 Greek financial invasion |
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 That was then... |
 ...this is now! |
 Tsar Kaloyan remained intact... |
 ...while Hristo Belchev overwrote Gavril Genov |
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 Balkan style drapers |
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 Bow to buy |
 Prioritisation... |
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 Sveta Nedelya |
 Old mosque |
 Public baths |
 The Simeonovo Gondola... |
 ...straight into the heart of Mt. Vitosha. |
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