How many Times were Diplomatic Relations between Russia and Bulgaria Severed
If we look at history, there are not many cases in which relations between Bulgaria and Russia at the state level were as bad as they are at the moment.
A History Better Left in the Past
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Photo by Kameliya Atanasova (Sofia Photo Agency)
Those who have seen the church in Batak or even just read Vazov's poem Kocho find it hard to shake off the cold chill these images send to the spine. For piles and piles of cracked skulls speak of a horrendous slaughter that has forever stayed in the minds of Bulgarians. This is why I simply refuse to take the news of the German scientists denying it all lightly.
In the town of Byala Cherkva, where I used to spend my summers as a kid, everyone is still proud of the heroism of the locals who sent 111 men to the April Uprising. 111 men left from the 104 houses in the town, headed by Bacho Kiro, whose name has always been special to me. Not only because he was a brave, smart and good-hearted man, but also because he is a blood relative of mine. My grandmother has always told me stories of him with pride, just like many other Bulgarians have related the stories of their predecessors' sacrifices of those times. We have all grown up with those stories and while most of us have managed to overcome the negativity towards the Turks still living in the country, these heroic acts are still a spring of national pride and reverence.
Denying the Holocaust is a crime in Germany, and this may have been why Ulf Brunnbauer decided to toy with someone else's history. But this wound is still raw in the minds of Bulgarians and it is not his or anyone else's place to rewrite history as we know it. Bloody walls and cracked skulls still speak of those massacres. Shipka still stands tall and the memory of it wouldn't fade, the oak under which Hristo Botev stopped to take a break still stands in the yard of my high-school and there's no denying any of that. Poking this and looking for another angle now, when generations have grown up with the memory is careless at the least. For now Turks and Bulgarians live in peace in Batak. But should anyone start messing with history, things may change in a second. Just ask Ataka.
In the town of Byala Cherkva, where I used to spend my summers as a kid, everyone is still proud of the heroism of the locals who sent 111 men to the April Uprising. 111 men left from the 104 houses in the town, headed by Bacho Kiro, whose name has always been special to me. Not only because he was a brave, smart and good-hearted man, but also because he is a blood relative of mine. My grandmother has always told me stories of him with pride, just like many other Bulgarians have related the stories of their predecessors' sacrifices of those times. We have all grown up with those stories and while most of us have managed to overcome the negativity towards the Turks still living in the country, these heroic acts are still a spring of national pride and reverence.
Denying the Holocaust is a crime in Germany, and this may have been why Ulf Brunnbauer decided to toy with someone else's history. But this wound is still raw in the minds of Bulgarians and it is not his or anyone else's place to rewrite history as we know it. Bloody walls and cracked skulls still speak of those massacres. Shipka still stands tall and the memory of it wouldn't fade, the oak under which Hristo Botev stopped to take a break still stands in the yard of my high-school and there's no denying any of that. Poking this and looking for another angle now, when generations have grown up with the memory is careless at the least. For now Turks and Bulgarians live in peace in Batak. But should anyone start messing with history, things may change in a second. Just ask Ataka.
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