“The role of Russia in the War of Liberation was recorded not only on paper. They are talking about her the names of Bulgarian villages and streets, bronze monuments and even the foundations of the state system.” Memory (for Russia, note ed.) is “stitched into the genetic code of Bulgariansand it cannot be rewritten in any other way than by the destruction of the people themselves”.
With this finding the Russian ambassador to our country, Eleonora Mitrofanova with a video message on the Facebook page of the embassy congratulates the National Day of our country, March 3. Traditionally, the appearances of both the embassy and the official power in the Kremlin are watched with particular attention, since it is a tradition in these messages to have a dose of provocation, including the current political situation. On the occasion of 145 years since the Liberation of Bulgaria Russian Ambassador Eleonora Mitrofanova climbed Mount Shipka yesterdaya day earlier than the holiday itself.
Eleonora Mitrofonova begins this year with the statement that there are no good wars, but there are just wars, and as an example of such she points to the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878, which determined the nature of Russian-Bulgarian relations. The ambassador reminds of the Treaty of San Stefano, after which Bulgaria reappeared on the political map of the world, a consequence of the long-standing dream of independence, for which hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers and Bulgarian militiamen paid with their blood.
Bulgaria’s freedom is “so necessary even today” – states Eleonora Mitrofanova, however, and continues with the statement that the two countries, Russia and Bulgaria, are going through “far from the best phase of relations” and “in a certain sense, we are on different sides of the barricades.”
Last year, the message of Eleonora Mitrofanova on the occasion of March 3 was under the sign of the war which Russia started in Ukraine just two weeks earlier, on February 24, 2022. Then the Russian ambassador directly made an analogy between the Russo-Turkish war of the late 19th century and the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine in the 21st century. and called on the Bulgarians to think about this situation like the war of 144 years ago and see with a view unclouded by anti-Russian propaganda”.
“I wish that historical justice and wisdom will always prevail over short-term political interests. Heroes should not be forgotten,” the Russian ambassador says today, March 3, 2023, and moves on to the current topic of monumentsclearly in the context of successive and recent requests for the removal/relocation of the Monument to the Soviet Army in Sofia, known among Sofians as MOCHA.
She wishes in Russian-Bulgarian relations “the war against monuments should have no place“, because “she lacks meaning, nobility, and valor.”
As last year, the Russian ambassador will not be present at Shipka Peak for the solemn commemoration. She climbed Shipka yesterday. On the Facebook page of the embassy today, in addition to the video, photos of the laying of flowers by the ambassador and embassy employees at the monument to Tsar Osvoboditel were distributed.
Eleonora Mitrofanova climbed Shipka today
He honored the fighting brotherhood between the Russian soldiers and the Bulgarian militiamen
