/ world today news/ March 3 passed, Sashko Yordanov spoke idiotically again, but we are already used to him.
Since the holiday is already over, you can’t blame me for spoiling it for you. Ha! 🙂 But, anyway. Let’s get to the point.
Did you watch “The Slavi Show” yesterday? No? You didn’t miss much. Most of it was modern takes on revival songs, which I don’t mind. Something else struck me.
The presenter (with initials ST) said at the beginning of the show: “We decided to put the lyrics of the songs as they were created at the very beginning. In their entirety, at their full length, including those verses that have been banned, silenced, and rejected over time for various reasons!” Sounds pretty emphatic, doesn’t it? I got curious and decided to fast forward a bit to hear “Where are you, true love of the people”. After all, what’s March 3rd without this song? I listened and listened and at least once I heard that instead of “against the Turks we stand against” the vocals sing “against fate we stand against”. Now, I’m not a historian, I’m not an archaeologist either, but I don’t think that Dobri Chintulov wrote “fate”.
I have heard something else. During the reign of Zhan Videnov Ku-Ku Band and S.T. they sing this song with this exact arrangement… Maybe it’s a coincidence, maybe they just didn’t feel like it or didn’t want to offend the Turks in the country. Ok, I said to myself, “let’s move on.”
I went back and started the song “Idem, idem sgan prokleta”, but before that, Marian Bachev explained that this song was written by Kiril Hristov and subsequently it was changed to “Partizan za boi se striga” after September 9th to is not chauvinistic. I thought to myself, “well, it’s March 3rd, maybe then they’ll forget the anti-snoring for today at least.” The song started with a typical rocker guitar jam. I admit, I liked that. It kind of reminds me of a really modern version of the classic song (not “Let’s go, let’s go damn it”, but “Guerrilla for a fight is getting tight”), the whole time they were singing the original lyrics, I was humming the social version. It smacked right on the Russian covers of old songs by the band “Lyube”, which is always a plus.
With the September 9th anniversary coming up, the BSP can reissue the classic partisan songs on a new disc, just like the Ku-Ku Band did for March 3rd. I would buy such a disc. 🙂
At one point, Ivan Kulekov showed up to explain that the communists for some reason put the coat of arms on the flag and called the then coat of arms of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria “a tombstone with two numbers: 681–1944, the years in which, according to the communists, Bulgaria gives birth and dies.” Aaah, I don’t know how to describe this… Play the recording, watch this moment and try to explain it to yourself, because I couldn’t. Then I started to get a little annoyed, but I still decided to pull myself together: “It’s a holiday, let’s move on.”
A kind woman then explained the following: the first flag of the Stara Zagorje insurgents was sent for restoration in Sofia with the description “white, green, red”, but it was returned with the description “light blue, green, red”. She “suspects that MAYBE under the influence of a desire to please the Soviet Union, the top band of white turns blue.”
This is where I was like “Stop it, what is this?! The flag was so controlled by the communists that it only turns blue at the thought that the USSR is nearby?! Well…” then I poured myself some natural juice and calmed down a bit, cursing, quietly saying to myself: “And this time we didn’t get away from the anti-social rhetoric. But what did I expect from ST?’
Okay, I’m going to ask you this right now: Do you remember any of these songs being banned back then? This whole story reminds me of Radan Kanev’s story, where when he was a child, his mother and father would go out on the terrace to listen to Mnogaya leta from the neighbors, because that too was forbidden. I’m not going to tell you how many holes there are in this story (such as: when it was banned, why it was heard from the neighbors, why it was heard from the neighbors and the police didn’t stop them).
And I won’t even mention the modern pop versions of “Wind howls, Balkan moans” and “Shumi Maritsa”, the latter of which was “an anthem of the Bulgarian spirit”. I shouldn’t remind you about the barges and the “bloody Maritsa” after June 9…
Unfortunately, the patriotic broadcast turned out to be another dose of “sweet patriotism”, full of general talk against bad socialism. What’s the point of talking about soca on March 3rd? Maybe the royal army that was helping the militia were communists…
From all the work I came to the following conclusion:
Sweet patriotism is like religion – you listen and believe without thinking too much about it.
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