Almost Half of Bulgarians Want a Return to Socialist Political System

Source: iNews.bg

Bulgarians are divided on whether the years of the Liberation until 9 September 1944 were good or bad years for Bulgaria. The same is the percentage of people who want to live after 10 November 1989 and people preferring the years before 10 November 1989.

These are just some of the main findings of the first part of a nationally representative study of Trend Research Center, commissioned by Andrei Kovachev, MEP from the EPP Group. The survey was conducted between 18 and 26 October 2017 among 1005 adult Bulgarian citizens through the face-to-face method.

Positive and negative associations for the period from the Liberation to 9 September 1944 are relatively evenly divided. On the one hand, accumulations around the rise and development (15%), historical events such as Independence (5%), Liberation (4%), Unification (3%), but the memory of national catastrophes (8%), world wars (6%) are also part of our national memory of the period. It is noteworthy that 44% of all respondents can not make any association with this period. This is due to somewhat lesser knowledge of the respondents over the period, as well as its historical distance.

The public is split of the assessment for the period of post-liberation Bulgaria clearly revealed the question whether these were good or bad years for Bulgaria, with 31% believing that these were good years, while 30% are in the opposite opinion. Still, 41% believe that in the period from the Liberation until 1944 Bulgaria has gone in the right direction. However, there is high share of people who do not know or can not judge (43%).

Due to the historical closeness to the communist period, a higher percentage of respondents managed to associate the years from 1944 to 1989. Here the positive assessments mostly...

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