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In the times of totalitarian rule in the Bulgarian society, the term religion was excluded from the communist vocabulary. At the same time the religious metamorphosis of communism transformed it into a closed code of meanings, whose interpretation is solely in the hands of a clerical group, that imposed its' power. In relation with religion, double standards were established: the communist constitution proclaims freedom of creeds, but at the same time aggressive atheism is practically uncontrolled and is systematically encouraged in the name of the new, socialistic conscience.

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