23 August is a day of commemoration of the victims of the crimes committed by the national socialist, communist and other totalitarian regimes. 

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Caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev who laid flowers at the Memorial to the Victims of Communism in the garden of the National Palace of Culture in Sofia said:

“The memory of the victims is not forgotten and never will be. Totalitarian regimes, whatever their ideology and their differences, had one thing in common – the craving to vanquish the human spirit, to trample freedom underfoot, to destroy all people who dared think differently. Today, when we honour the victims, we assume a responsibility to never allow these horrors to be repeated.”

The day has been marked since 2010 by a decision of the 41^st National Assembly from 19 November, 2009.