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As Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski maintains, the ultimate cause for the supremacy of Stalinist totalitarianism was the complete lack of respect for the rule of law.1 This brief look at the situation in Bulgaria — a former Communist state — gives us a case in point of the continuing residue from that history.
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Kolakowski, Leszek, “Politics and the Devil”, Politics and the Devil and Other Essays, Sofia, Bulgaria: Panorama, 1994.
Williams, Kiernan and Dennis Deletant, Security Intelligence Services in New Democracies: The Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), p. 20.
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Center for the Study of Democracy, Bulgaria. Partners in organized crime. Trends Organ Crim 10, 58–60 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-006-1029-0
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