 Within the museum hall there are sculptures of communist leaders Todor Zhivkov , Vladimir Lenin , and Joseph Stalin . Some of the exhibits with artistic expression are attributed to many well @-@ known sculptors of the communist regime . Paintings made by artists during the communist regime are also on display , including depictions of the entry of the Soviet Army in 1944 , the creation of communist party branches , portraits , and landscapes . Most of the exhibits on display are of " trials of the partisan and resistance movement during World War II " , the creation of the socialistic pattern of society , and people 's contented life . Some of the paintings depict " Herculean @-@ sized laborers " . Many oil paintings extol the presumed theme of " eternal friendship " between Bulgaria and the Soviet Union . In the museum 's restaurant also there are portraits of Karl Marx , Lenin , Engles and Stalin which are evocative of incongruity . 
