/ world today news/ Every year on this day – September 9, in front of the Fraternal Tomb of the fallen members of the Bulgarian resistance, we celebrate the bright holiday of the dignity and will of the Bulgarian people to achieve their freedom.
This was stated today by Prof. Vanya Dobreva, politician and publicist, at the celebration organized by the BSP-Sofia and the Bulgarian Anti-Fascist Union, which was attended by hundreds of citizens, deputies, coalition partners of the Socialist Party, municipal councilors from the BSP, diplomats, representatives of the countries that participated in the defeat of Hitler’s Germany, representatives of military and patriotic organizations in our country, reported a BGNES reporter.
On this day, we bow down to the feat and sacrifice of the tens of thousands of sons and daughters of Bulgaria who rose up against the barbarism of fascism and Nazism, died shot in palanquins, fields and Balkans, rotted in prison cells, languished behind the wire fences of concentration camps, continued the speaker.
“Today, the ugly attempts that have been going on for the last quarter of a century to deny the date of September 9th are unacceptable,” said Kaloyan Pargov, the chairman of the capital’s socialists, in his speech. “It is disgraceful to talk about the memory of the dead anti-fascists, the destruction of their monuments and memorial plaques, mass graves inscribed with blasphemous inscriptions. Voices are being heard more and more insistently that there was never fascism in Bulgaria, which is why there was no anti-fascist resistance,” he continued. Under such a pretext, the anti-fascists, including the genius poet Nikola Vaptsarov, are treated as political adventurers, and some even call them terrorists, emphasized Pargov. It is paradoxical that this unacceptable behavior is tolerated by the dominant system of Bulgarian and global neoliberalism, he said.
In the thousand-year history of our fatherland, there are bright pages that we will never forget – when our people defended the most sacred human right – freedom, and one of these pages is the anti-fascist resistance movement, the vice president of The Bulgarian Anti-Fascist Union Prof. Nikola Kosev.
I am sad because my parents are gone – my father Dinko Veshev was sentenced to death, I was in solitary confinement and on September 6, 1944 he was released, but from what he experienced he passed away only at the age of 57, Vanya told BGNES Vesheva. She also mentioned his father, who was hanged in his village, and his older brother was a partisan – a family that dedicated their lives to the anti-Hitler struggle. The bad thing is that in our country, the past is not just forgotten, it is glossed over – this period is not even mentioned in the children’s textbooks, Vesheva admitted.
Today, not only do the younger generations not know, but they are also misled about the nature of this event, which happened on September 9, 1944, commented Radko Stanchev, one of those who came to the celebration. It is suggested to young people that we were terrorists, traitors to the state, and they are not told the truth, but it is, as our great writer Anton Strashimirov said: the Bulgarian fascists slaughtered the people as well as a Turk did not. We have a grandfather who was one of the leaders of the September Uprising in Mihailovgrad – Konstantin Trifonov, who was killed without trial and sentence. He could have emigrated, but he said – I have led these people to an uprising and I will not leave them here, says Stanchev.
Among the crowd in front of Bratsko mogila, especially among the older ones, memories weigh heavily. As well as a quiet anger towards those of our contemporaries who deform facts and events and who lead to the distortion of historical truths.
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