FILE PHOTO OF THE FIRST ANTI-COMMUNST DEMONSTRATION IN SOFIA.
FILE PHOTO DECEMBER 1989 - Bulgarian militiamen cordon off the parliament building in Sofia in this December 1989 file photo as thousands of protesters rally to demand the ruling Bulgarian Communist Party gave up its constitutionally guaranteed monopoly on political power while head of the party and the state Petar Mladenov speaks inside the chamber. Mladenov, a reforming communist and Bulgaria's first post-totalitarian president, died in his home at the age of 63 late on May 31.
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