Liberation from Turkish slavery was a “PR project of Russia in Bulgaria” –

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“Poll for people with a sense of humor. What is the most successful PR project of Russia in Bulgaria?” – this is the title of Deutsche Welle’s February 24 Facebook post. And here are the answers:

1. Putin’s Eurasian Union.
2. Alla Pugacheva.
3. “South Stream”.
4. Volen Siderov.
5. Liberation from the fascist yoke.
6. Liberation from Turkish slavery.
7. Other.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t find it funny at all. Maybe because I don’t have the sense of humor of the journalists from the Bulgarian editorial office of Deutsche Welle, and most likely simply because such publications are inappropriate and harm the national dignity of more than 7 million people.

The first three, even four points are not for comment, and I think that Mr. Siderov will probably leave the fourth point without comment. Option number five is offensive to most thinking people, but I leave it to them to comment on personally. What is really worrying in this case is the sixth option, according to which our liberation from Turkish slavery is presented as a PR project of Russia in Bulgaria. What idiocy? Did the Bulgarian man or woman who published such nonsense forget that thousands of Russian soldiers gave their lives so that Bulgarians could understand what freedom and independence are after 500 of the darkest and hardest years in Bulgarian history? I am not talking about the plans that the Russian rulers of the time had, but about the ordinary soldier who was told that he had to leave his sick mother, his dying father and his pregnant wife in order to save the “brotherly people”.
Our liberation from the Turkish yoke is not some kind of PR project, but a heroic act of the Bulgarian people, carried out with the help of Russia at a time when nobody else, to put it bluntly, cared about us and our fate. Frankly, I don’t care if Russia invested in a PR campaign to have our liberation portrayed one way or another in the years after March 3, 1878, because a fact is a fact – regardless of whether some media circles in Bonn like it likes

To vulgarly equate one of the most significant historical facts in our history with a PR project is not only inappropriate, it is insulting. Such writings may appear on a personal blog or page, but not as a post on an official channel of a self-respecting media.

And speaking of standards, it seems to me that the Bulgarian edition of Deutsche Welle seems to deviate too much from the established mission and vision of the media. According to Deutsche Welle’s mission, the media “reports on events in Germany and the world according to the rules of independent journalism.” So, has anyone been able to find any independent information on this survey? I recognize one and only one point of view, with an attempt to present it in an allegedly original way, the result of the latter being debatable.
It is clear to all of us what has been happening in the last few years and about all possible attempts to present Russia as the biggest enemy of peace and understanding in the world, and above all as a powerful media-propaganda machine. Even if Russia is like that – what is Germany like then, and in particular Deutsche Welle, which is financed with the money of German taxpayers? Are they something different, something better? This poll on Deutsche Welle’s Facebook page is as much propaganda as anything coming out of the mouths of American and European politicians in recent times, and especially on the pages and airwaves of most media in Europe. All this blathering, denigrating one side or the other, only leads to the return with a bang of a bipolar world of decades ago, and certainly does not contribute to truly independent journalism. Therefore, perhaps it would be better for the Bulgarian team of Deutsche Welle to focus mostly on the realization of its vision and mission, and stop interpreting Bulgarian history using German humor for flavor.

The many negative reactions to this Facebook post should have told Deutsche Welle journalists that propagandists are all around us and they are no exception.