Soviet Propaganda, 1950


In 1989 the Communist regime forced more than 300.000 of Bulgaria's ethnic Turks to leave the country within weeks, causing Europe's largest single exodus after the end of WWII. Dr. Georgi Simidchiev was a young scientist in the capital Sofia and was caught up in bigger events, away from his desk.

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This early Communist newsreel reports that in central Sofia a main hub for spreading of propaganda has opened its doors. "The hub will follow closely the Soviet example". We see an instructor, looking at charts, "studying the situation of the working class in the capitalist countries".

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