 At the inauguration , which was held in the presence of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov , Mayor of Sofia Yordanka Fandakova , and many ministers , the Finance Minister Simeon Djankov stated : " We are closing one page of the Bulgarian history and communism is going where it belongs – in the museum ... Bulgaria has already shaken it off and is moving forward " . The date of the inauguration also marked the formal occupation of Bulgaria by communists in 1944 . As journalist Georgi Lozanov noted : " Bulgaria must have a museum of communism that will tell new generations the story of a period that should never again become reality " . 
