Bulgaria's crumbling Buzludzha Monument draws call for a rescue

By Angel Krasimirov SOFIA (Reuters) - A Brutalist concrete tribute to socialism, Bulgaria's UFO-like Buzludzha Monument has sat crumbling and abandoned atop a peak in the Stara Planina mountains since the collapse of communism in 1989. Now, three decades later, badly damaged by weather and vandalism, European cultural heritage organisation Europa Nostra is keen to have the round monument and its 70-metre-tall red star-topped tower renovated and opened to the public

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