The Death of Bulgarian Communism; or, How Racist Policy is Being Implemented

The article is a critical sociological diagnosis of the racist policy exercised by the communist regime against the Bulgarian Turks in the 1980s of XX century in Bulgaria. It focuses on the totalitarian attempt to create an ethnically monolithic Bulgarian nation through the forced renaming of the entire Turkish population of 836,000 during the „Revival process“ in 1984–1985, the brutal obliteration of its cultural, ethnic and religious identity in 1985–1989, and the forced displacement of 330,000 people during the „Great excursion“ in 1989. In the exercise of this all-encompassing terror, there is an abrupt shift in power repression: from an „either-or“, or a politics of inclusion, or a politics of displacement, to a „both-and“, both a politics of assimilation, and a politics of deportation. Bulgarian communism was dying as biological racism; the genocide of the totalitarian regime against the Bulgarian Turks ended with the implementation of a racist policy that was supposed to liquidate the mortal danger that threatened the ethnic monolithicity of the Bulgarian socialist nation.