The UNWE Museum Was Officially Opened

The official ritual of sanctification

We are witnesses of an exclusive event, pointed out the Rector of the university Prof. D.Sc. (Econ.) Statty Stattev. He outlined that the creation of the Museum had been a longstanding act which had begun over the past two mandates of Prof. Dr. Borislav Borisov as Rector of UNWE. The restoration of our university history is important and necessary because there is no future without the past, reminded Prof. Stattev.

Attendees at the official event

The Honorary Rector gave examples of “loss” and “manipulation” of history. The Golden Book of UNWE signed on the first pages from King Boris III and his sister Evdokia had disappeared when the university was renamed as Karl Marx. For the next 40 years it had been replaced by a newly opened Golden Book which also had disappeared during the changes and then the old Golden Book had to be bought off from an unknown person for 2 000 BGN. “A new government comes with a new ideology, the old book closes and a new one opens. But we are a university not a political office and we should respect our academic history, academic values, traditions and spirit. We should have academic culture of memory and it should not depend on the political conjuncture”, explicitly declared Prof. Borisov. “In 1989 after a strong political pressure to our Academic Managing Body the monument of Karl Marx - our patron for decades was demolished. What does this event show about the historical culture of memory of the government. The fundamental theory of Marx had really become a base for originating an ideology which had transformed the world through a new political system but Karl Marx is most of all a great philosopher and economist whom The Times newspaper announced for the thinker of the millennium and thus gave us an example for political objectiveness of assessment and culture of memory”, pointed out Prof. Borisov and expressed his confidence that the new Museum is a worthy act for preserving the history of UNWE.

In one of the Museum halls

The attendees followed His Right Reverend Tiveriopol Bishop Tikhon who implemented the sanctification of the Museum halls.