I beg to differ about the architecture. Have you ever been to Dimitrovgrad? This city was built with a quality not typical of communism. I'm not talking about the ugly block of flats or other multi-family buildings typical of communism. But people are... yes, peculiar. And if they didn't kill themselves because they couldn't stand the 'welfare' under communism, they apparently really lived in prosperity. Therefore they have no reason to deny it, nor to hate it.
(Sorry for the English, but this is my Bulgarian-free place where I share the problems I face in Bulgaria and I feel unnatural writing in Bulgarian.)