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     The National Museum of History also presents the period from the liberation of Bulgaria ​​to1944, when the country fell under totalitarian control. A flag of this period and brief information on the communist authorities in a small glass showcase present the communist regime to 1989, failing to mention the history of 45 years of repressive communist rule, like the five centuries of Ottoman rule, and its effects on the Bulgarian nation are ignored. It is as if those fifty years have not happened and thousands of innocent people have not lost their lives because of the oppressive power of the Bulgarian Communist Party. No wonder that, nowadays, there are still Bulgarians who feel nostalgia towards the Communist Party and who are weary as regards socialist Bulgaria. If the National Museum of History cannot recall the dark side of the past of the Bulgarian people, then what is the point of reminding them of the beauty and brilliance of its history?! Ultimately, this misguided opinion remains only for the truest patriots and chauvinists in Bulgaria.
    When Paisius of Hilendar was writing "Slavonic-Bulgarian History" in XVIII, telling the story of the Bulgarian people, he sought to awake the national awareness of the Bulgarians and to make them believe that, in historical terms, they had sufficient grounds for high national consciousness and pride. Nowadays, when we are fighting the economic and political crisis in Bulgaria, the National Museum of History must play the role of the modern Paisius and remind us of both Bulgaria’s rise and fall in order to not lose our faith in the brighter future.