St Nedelya Church Massacre: Bulgaria's Communist Strife Turns Violent
A suitcase of dynamite sat under a church pew, waiting for the king to walk in. It exploded anyway. 150 souls vanished in seconds, mostly women and children who just wanted prayers. The city wept, but Tsar Boris III used the blood to crush his enemies completely. Now, you can still feel the weight of that day in Sofia's quiet streets. We remember the dead not for politics, but because a bomb killed a family on a Sunday morning.
April 16, 1925
101 years ago
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