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Slavic Adoration
Author: Tamara Eidelman
Translator: Nora Favorov
Russian Life: May/June 2011
Department: Russian Calendar
Page: 22 ( 3) pages
Summary: There is a marvelous photograph taken by Yevgeny Khaldei in Bulgaria in 1944. Soviet troops, having just entered the capital of Sophia, are looking in amazement at a monument to Alexander II in the city’s main square. The base of the monument reads, “to the Tsar Liberator.” These young men, having received a Stalin-era Soviet education, undoubtedly found it strange to see a monument to any monarch, to say nothing of one of the Russian tsars, all of whom their official history had put down as exploiters and tyrants. The Bulgarians, it turned out, saw things differently.
This article appeared in the May/June 2011 issue of Russian Life. The text of this article is not available online.
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- Soviet Soldiers before Alexander II Monument ...in Sofia. As mentioned in this article.