Any debate about whether the monument should be left as it was or restored to its previous look stopped when activists from the Bulgaria-Russia Forum association brought machines and a workforce to clean off the paint.
Svaka rasprava o tome treba li spomenik ostaviti takav kakav je bio ili mu vratiti prijašnji izgled prestala je kada su aktivisti iz Bugarsko-ruskog foruma donijeli strojeve i ljude da očiste boju.