[Dropped Eelco at the hotel]
It's getting more narrow here.
Yeah.
More and more snow, don't brake keep on going, wtf!
2 meters of snow.
Stop, here i have to go to.. what did that guy say? 
Left.
I had to go down, are you sure we have to go left...i think it's right?
[Car stuck in the snow]
Uhm, we're stuck man.
Try to remove some snow
Go in reverse
Somebody is coming to help us.
You are here for the same reason as us, Buzludzha?
Thank you!
Reverse.
Yes ! Nice!
Thank you, appreciated.
Bye car, now we have to go by foot for a few miles unfortunately.
The dude who helped us, doesn't want to come along, he says it's too cold, haha.
Man, the stars are awesome !
After 2 hours hiking through the snow, we almost arrived, damn.
You can already see the stairs, when we turn of the light we can see the silhouette of the monument.
What an effort....
The hotel owners still have to open the doors for us, they ain't gonna be happy about it.
This is the first part of the monument.
I hope we can get inside, otherwise i'll get mad.
What a gigantic building, it's huge!
Let's see if we can find an entrance. Ugly grafitty all over the place.
Eelco [sleeping] misses the adventure !
Camera 1, if this works i eat my own shoe.
Normally you should see some led's on the camera.
Potential entrance? 
No, there's just a small hole behind it.
Too bad. We will find a way!
Everything looks closed. Maybe we should check down here?
Aaah, nice ! Here's the entrance.
Just go inside man !
Epic, we needed this after that long hike, jezus.
So we got inside.
Now we have to find our way upstairs.
Well, i hope it's worth all the effort.
There aren't any footsteps in the snow right? Nice.
It's pitchblack man, i think i have to grab my other camera.
Well, here we are, standing here in the middle of the night.
The famous Soviet logo is gone, it's just green.
You just can see a little of the sickle.
A little yeah.
It's a bit of a antiqlimax man.
Huh, do you sink in a hole?
Yes, help me, it's cold. 
Sorry, wait !
Frederik almost sank through this hole.
My god 
$%@%$@ it's #$@$ slippery !
We are now in the outer circle, checking the mosaic.
It's all handmade, must have been a hell of a work !
Don't you have your ski pants on? 
No.
O boy! Freezing cold.
Keep on walking, it will dry. Get the snow off your pants
This is a new cable. 
Ah yes, look a sensor.
That one ain't gonna work now.
Yes ! First we thought the golden sickle was gone, but it just depends on the viewing angle.
Very cool!
It's so cold man. 
Yeah it's freezing cold.
According to the forecast it would be -15, -20 degrees this night. Guess it will be that cold now.
Nice, tomorrow we gonna have a closer look.
When we back home we are going to ly against the heater ! Yeah i do.
We make a few more pictures outside and than we come back tomorrow....
and show the viewers the rest of the monument.
So, we've slept for a few hours and now we're back at the mountain, this time with Eelco.
We are going to look if we can make some nice footage.
Well let me tell you my story; we checked in at the hotel yesterday evening at 10 PM, after a long ride.
Bob and Frederik told me they wanted to check if it was possible to get up the mountain, so i went to bed...
and thought they would return soon, but these #$%
came back at 4:30 AM.
They have been on that mountain for 6 hours, crazy.
And the craziest part is, the hotel owner has been waiting all night for them.
We had to call her, so i thought she would go to bed, but apparently not.
Frederik knocked on the door and she turned up immediately.
Plus, this morning at 8:00 AM she made a delicious breakfast for us, so respect for the Shipka hotel !
And now we race to the top in the snow !
Eelco is getting overconfident after driving 5 minutes in the snow.
Do you need a light? 
No.
Very important, the wodka.
So Eelco is inside first, he had to do the dirty work.
Highfive !
Highfive !
Well we are inside, we are going to climb, we will be on top in a moment.
A moment? How high is this tower?
107 meters. Well than we have a little while to go.
Frederik is our walking Wikipedia
We climbed a lot of stairs in a concrete pillar.
We are now almost on top? 
Yes we are now at the base of the Soviet star.
Here's Bob with all his gear, as last one.
Yeah, i already regret i started to make movies,.
I am not flexible anymore.
One movie and never again.
Cool !
Well that was the last floor, we are now going to the roof.
We are preparing the drone.
Let's hope it doesn't fly immediately against the wall.
There is a really strong wind here. real wind gusts.
DJI Osmo. 
A real dumb pilot.
A dumb Dutch guy.
Against all expectations we are going to fly, there are strong wind gusts en enough obstacles to crash into.
The wind was just gone ! 
Yeah, only for a moment.
wooohooo!
Buzludzha Monument is the largest ideological monument in Bulgaria.
The monument was built on the historical Buzludzha peak by the Bulgarian communist regime.
. In 1868 it was the place of the final battle between Bulgarian rebels and the Ottoman Empire.
Construction of the monument began on 23 January 1974 and was opened on August 23 1981.
The tower is 107 meter high. On top there is a 
red star-shaped window in honor of Soviet Russia.
It was build in brutalist style, a common style for communist buildings.
After the fall of communism in 1989 it became abandoned and left to decay.
hijaaa!
The other are already climbing down. They could not longer stand the cold. It's really cold here.
My fingers are almost frozen.
Let's go down.
We made quite some footprints last night.
It's a lot nicer at daytime. Last night we almost couldn't see the yellow sickle.
Damn, all the snow is gone from the walls.
There's the motion sensor
You would think it's powered by an accu...
but....
It's powered by a solar panel.
Here we are. We didn't expect that a week ago.
-50 degrees, tornado gustwinds.
Unbelievable, glad we are alive
I'm glad we made it inside and that we could fly with the drone
Now explore this hall, we have seen some motion sensors already. So let the security come!
seen and....heard !
The ceremonial hall has a diameter of 42 meters and a height of 14.5 meters.
It's decorated with mosaics with a total area of 550 m².
On the murals you can see people like Lenin and Karl Marx.
“Proletariats of Every Country Join Together.”
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