Buzludzha is the biggest communist-era monument in the Balkans. Built on a mountaintop in Bulgaria in 1981, it's since fallen into ruin and its very future is at risk. Bulgarian and international ...

BUZLUDZHA PEAK, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Perched atop a mountain peak in central Bulgaria, a giant UFO-like concrete monument, built to glorify the Balkan country's communist rule, has been left to ...

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 ...

Bulgaria, a country in Eastern Europe, was under socialist rule until the revolution of 1989. While the country is now a democracy, a survey shows that about a third of the population would choose to ...

It’s actually the Buzludzha Monument, an iconic symbol of the communist world that has sadly been forgotten about and left to crumble. Located approximately 200 kilometres from the capital city of ...