On Thursday: They are deciding whether to set aside an area with totalitarian monuments in Piskovets Park PZdnes

All monuments from the time of socialism should be dismantled from their current locations and moved to a designated area of the Piskovets Park, this is the proposal of the councilor from “Novo vreme” Dimitar Petkov, which was submitted for consideration as the fourth item on the agenda at the upcoming April 25 session.

The motive for this proposal is the repeatedly raised question of removing the monument to Petar Abadjiev from the park space at the intersection opposite the old bus station. Back in 2016, Dimitar Petkov submitted a similar proposal to the municipal council, but it was not approved by his colleagues. The second attempt to enforce the decision was in 2020, but no action was taken. This is the third attempt to remove the monument, which, according to Petkov, was a co-author of one of the bloodiest attacks in Bulgarian history – in the Church of Saint Nedelya in Sofia in 1925.

Abadjiev’s monument was installed at the intersection of Georgi Benkovski Blvd. and Nikola Vaptsarov St. in 1974. In the project – the decision, Petkov points out that Petar Stratiev, written on the monument as Petar Abadjiev, was the secretary of the Central Committee of the BKP in 1936, he led the resistance movement and the military organization until 1944, when he was killed near Malko Belovo.

“For me, it is shameful and cynical to have such a monument in the center of our city. Bulgarian patriots do not serve foreign imperial ambitions and interests, but sacrifice themselves in the name of the freedom and independence of Bulgaria”. – writes Petkov.

In this regard, he proposes to create an area for outdoor monuments and to gather there other similar monuments erected in the period from 1944 to 1989. The funds for the creation of this space and the improvement of the area should be planned in the budget of the Municipality of Pazardzhik.