/ world today news/ With respect and pleasure, I congratulate today’s bright holiday to all modern Bulgarian awakeners – teachers, writers, professors at universities, journalists, scientists, all people of spirit!
It is known that at the end of 1922 Stoyan Omarcevski, Minister of Public Education in the government of Alexander Stamboliyski, made a proposal to introduce a new holiday in the Bulgarian school calendar – that of the alarm clocks. The years are hard. Bulgaria was severely punished after the First World War because of the adventures of Ferdinand and his obedient governments with the confiscation of Bulgarian territories and the imposition of cruel contributions.
And even more frighteningly, the Bulgarian people forgive themselves with their renaissance goal of uniting the Bulgarian territories and making the nation united. The recklessness of the rulers, their failure to conform to public sentiments and hopes, as our Bulgarian experience during the First World War shows, gives rise to confusion and disunity.
The spreading poverty, but also distrust, diminishing humanity and understanding in those post-war years, point out a number of authors in connection with the idea of the holiday of the wakers, is the reason to search for the true spiritual foundations of the nation, to revive those primordial Bulgarian values that make up the legacy of the great revivalists… And so, following the example of the early years of the 19th century, in the Bulgarian school after the First World War, the images of the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius, of Paisius Hilendarski, Sophronius Vrachanski, Petar Beron, Vasil Aprilov, Neofit Rilski, entered brothers Miladinov, Dori Chintulov, Georgi Rakovski, Petko Slaveikov, Dobri Voinikov, Vasil Aprilov, Vasil Levski, Lyuben Karavelov, Hristo Botev, Marin Drinov, Ivan Vazov. The uniqueness of their work is revealed, and their literary and public activity is studied as an example of national memory and dignity, as a basis for national pride and education in patriotism.
The wake-up call is established in the national culture as a figure of the active person – teacher, writer, journalist – who does not put up with slavery, with slave habits, with foreign pilgrimage, with conformism, with the trampling of national and social honor, with the neglect and abuse of the Bulgarian language and Bulgarian culture, with the deliberate distortion and rewriting of history. The awakener considers it his duty to point out the faults, to prepare the people for creativity and upliftment…
Omarcevski and the government choose November 1 as the Day of the Alarm Clock – the day of the Bulgarian saint Ivan Rilski. With the hope that the descendants will preserve the tablets of Bulgaria, despite the historical difficulties and challenges.
And today… Today, the knowledge of the national culture is dropped from the literature and history programs. Today, well-paid “preachers” from foreign funds conquer the media and social networks in order to revive the Bulgarian students, but also to dig a gap between them and the Bulgarian revivalists.
Bulgarian students will complete the individual stages of their education without having stable and truthful knowledge both about the founding of Bulgaria, and about the adoption of Orthodoxy by Prince Boris I, about the creation of the alphabet by the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius, about the deeds of the Bulgarian rulers khan Asparukh, khan Krum, king Simeon, as well as kings Asen and Peter, Kaloyan, Ivan Asen II, Ivan Alexander or Ivan Shishman, etc. They will learn nothing or almost nothing about Paisiy Hilendarski, Sofroniy Vrachanski, Vasil Aprilov, Georgi Rakovski, Petko R. Slaveikov, Dobri Voinikov, Vasil Drumev, Lyuben Karavelov.
I recently came across data from a survey by the World Economic Forum. According to them, Bulgaria occupies 12th place in terms of education of its elderly population (over 60 years of age) and 81st place – in terms of education of its young generation (from 18 to 21 years of age). To these statistics I will add the well-known fact that within ten years the Bulgarian ethnic group will lose its leading role in national life. That is, within a few decades the existence of Bulgaria will already be in question. And against the background of these objective facts, processes of national nihilism and de-Bulgarization are taking place, generously financed from outside…
Last night, groups of young people, accompanied by children, dressed as witches, vampires, skeletons and scary monsters could be seen on the streets of Sofia. They carried pumpkins and joked loudly. The Halloween celebrations were beginning.
And otherwise. Today is the Day of the Bulgarian Awakeners…
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