Anyone who's interested might enjoy this link to a BBC documentary entitled "The Crimes of The Comrades", "The Comrades" being the Communists responsible for making this one of the most oppressed and repressive countries in the Soviet bloc - I hope that the link below will be accepted by the system.
Those of you living in villages might care to reflect that some of those nice old folks who give you a friendly smile and offer you produce from their gardens were undoubtedly among those who served in low- and middle-level positions in Bulgaria's very own Gulags, mistreating, torturing - and killing - their fellow-countrymen, often simply because they enjoyed the power over others, and shooting those brave enough to attempt to escape across the borders into Greece or Turkey (or even less repressive Yugoslavia under Tito).
The "good news" is that they're very unlikely to be among the higher echelons, responsible for the really serious wholesale atrocities, because most of those became seriously rich "democrats" and "businessmen" by stealing the assets of the country and leaving it as poor as it is; they're the ones (along with their children) still busily involved with killing business rivals or people who write newspaper articles about them. If you were wondering, many sportsmen - mainly boxers, wrestlers, weight-lifters etc became "no-necks", initially acting as bodyguards for the new businessmen and then often branching out into home security (yeah, if you have a COT company looking after your home that's them... 
). Who says that Mafiosi all speak Italian and like to be called "Don Vito"?
