Balgarianovinite.com August 23 has been observed as the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism in the EU since 2009. The day was proclaimed by a resolution of the European Parliament on April 2, 2009, based on a declaration adopted by the European Parliament in Brussels on September 23, 2008, a check by BTA’s Reference Department shows.
In Bulgaria it has been observed since 2010. At the initiative of MP Lachezar Toshev of the Blue Coalition and pursuant to a decision of the 41st National Assembly of November 19, 2009, Parliament endorsed Resolution 1481 of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe of January 25, 2006, on the need for international condemnation of the crimes of totalitarian communist regimes; the European Parliament resolution on European conscience and totalitarianism of April 2, 2009; and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s reunification of a divided Europe resolution of July 3, 2009.
The day was established by a European Parliament resolution of April 2, 2009, based on a declaration adopted by the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, on September 23, 2008, during a parliamentary session held from September 22 to 25.
The purpose of establishing the day was “to preserve the memory of the victims of mass deportations and exterminations, while promoting democracy more vigorously and safeguarding peace and stability in Europe.”
The date coincides with the anniversary of the signing in Moscow, USSR, in 1939 of the Non-Aggression Treaty between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
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