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Vanche Mihailov.
And this is inevitable when it comes to Bulgaria.
I worked with him for almost a whole week when I interviewed him in May 1990.
As I have said other times – History seems to flatter you in such cases, the feeling is indescribable.
The communists screamed at me and didn’t stop screaming for a long time. General Radonov wanted to shake me.
He was a dissident at the time of Zhivkov, and I thought that he didn’t give a damn about bloody communism.
But it turned out that communism is shit, but it’s their job, only the communists – and the rest of us have no right to stick our noses in there, in the secret teaching, which nobody knows until now, what it really is.
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At the time, Mikhail Sholokhov, who had already become a Nobel laureate, was asked what socialist realism was.
Sholokhov was silent for a long time and finally said: “Only Alexander Fadeev
/the author of “Young Guard”/ knew the secret of social realism. But he took her to his grave…”
It’s the same with communism.
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However, they still wanted one of my cameramen in Bansko – with a pickaxe at that – all because of the interview with Vanche.
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I have asked myself another time: how will you do politics with Macedonia if you are not aware of its saints or iconic figures?
One of them – Vanche – admitted me to her, and I still can’t shake off his magnetic influence, which struck you immediately. His words still echo in my ears.
But there is a similar influence in quite a few Bulgarian literary texts.
However, they are now of no importance to the crackers – today’s politicians/diplomats.
They are not at all interested in such things, internationalism is everything to them.
In this “new” policy, there is no place not only for exaltations, but also for the expression of the most ordinary human feelings.
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And, in fact, what do most “new” politicians know – apart from the big fat textbook on obedience?
And why are we angry at the chalga – look at how literate some leading politicians and diplomats are.
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If Vanche Mihailov hears from the other world how our uneducated politicians behave, who are not “false nationalists”, but whose hearts seem to be made of clay, he will surely shed tears for his beloved Bulgaria.
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Until now, the Macedonian authorities did not allow us to offer flowers in front of the monument of Gotse or Todor Alexandrov – will this ban be lifted in the future?
Will Zaev be the guarantor for this?
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My interview with Vanche has long lived on the Web.
It was most solemnly presented there by VMRO.
There is no word, who is its author.
One might think that this is Krasimir Karakachanov.
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I was so impressed by Vanche that I started imagining things.
I also shared them with Zhelyu Zhelev – he had already become president.
For example: to invite during the celebrations in Rozhen Vanche.
Those from Ilinden had turned the crest and could get a solid kick.
I imagined it like this: out of a tent Vanche suddenly appeared in front of the crowd!
And he doesn’t even look!
That would be equivalent to a billion words.
Ilinden would fall apart in a minute.
Zhelev decided that I was delusional – and just laughed.
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At that time, I often went to “Red Flag” on “Vitosha” Blvd. – it had already become an Italian restaurant.
Once I found its owner, Terziev, whispering something to some unknown man.
The stranger turned out to be a native, an emigrant for many years in Belgium – and, as I learned later, fairly well-known in Macedonian circles.
Without wasting time, he conveyed to me Vanche’s invitation to visit him in Rome.
That’s how it all started.
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Two days after the broadcast of the interview, Vida, who took care of Radko/Vanche, called and put me in touch with him.
At least a dozen of his people recorded the interview and reported back to him.
Vanche was pleased – everything was conveyed to the viewers accurately.
The interview caused a real shock here.
Not to mention Macedonia.
/Did Zaev watch it then?/
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One part of the interview remained unaired – for technical reasons.
In fact, the whole thing has problems with the sound.
Now I’m going to work on it some more – I guess it will be interesting for the audience.
The curious thing is that my second television interview with Simeon /November 1990, over 20 hours/ has the same problems.
However, I had duplicated it with a separate audio recording – and based on it I made my book “Conversations with Simeon the Second”.
These misunderstandings are hardly a coincidence.
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During his press conference in Sofia, Zaev said that politicians should stop talking about the past.
This is utter nonsense – from now on they can make a monument to him in Skopje – next to that of “their” king Samuel.
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Bulgaria is a special country.
If one listens to Zaharieva, it will turn out that anyone can become a foreign minister.
We have already recognized the Macedonian language because we have recognized Macedonia – this is her discovery.
Such dandelions have been all our foreign ministers lately.
But nobody deals with the aliens in question anymore, we got used to them
The great, centuries-old debate about the “Macedonian language” has been liquidated with one illiterate sentence.
These people are no longer afraid to show their ignorance.
And the media is silent – out of fear or coercion
Or they decided not to waste their time with such things anymore.
Such people as Zaharieva recognized the orders of the Comintern at the time.
It is clear that we have to grab Macedonia and drag it somewhere.
However, the ease with which Zaharieva discusses fateful matters is unbearable.
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And since we are a special country, we must be aware that in the end the “arbitration” with Macedonia will be done by the Greeks.
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It’s time to hear Vanche Mihailov…
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/In this text for used short fragments from my note “Shaking the head”, June 2012./
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