On 4 December 1989, one month after the collapse of Todor Zhivkov’s regime in Bulgaria, Petko Simeonov, a political opponent of Communist totalitarianism and co-founder of the action group ‘Union of Democratic Forces’, grants an interview to the German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel in which he gives his views on the political and economic prospects of a Bulgaria now led by Petar Mladenov.