A minute of silence for the whole country

in #story5 years ago (edited)

Have you ever heard the alarm with your own ears on a street in peacetime? Personally, for the first time I fell into a stupor, which was actually required. A hot summer day, time for dinner, cars and people move in the center of Sofia, and suddenly the siren howled and everyone stopped. Everything: both people and cars. And one could say that there was silence, if not for the howling of the siren. For the uninitiated person, it all looks creepy.

Yesterday, June 2, was just such a day - the day of a minute of silence throughout the country, the day of the siren, the day of Hristo Botev.

Here on this one and a half minute video, everything is clearly visible

Hristo Botev

What does Hristo Botev have to do with it? Firstly, because he died that day (June 2, 1876), and secondly, because he is the most important Bulgarian national hero, revolutionary, poet and publicist.

"Hristo Botev", artist Georgi Vrabchev

The real name of Hristo Botev is Hristo Botyev Petkov, because his father's name was Botyo Petkov, and his mother was Ivanka Botev. Hristo was the first child of nine in the family of a school teacher, he was born on January 6, 1848 in Kalofer (Ottoman Empire).

The father of the future revolutionary, Botio Petkov, was not just a teacher, he was known as an educator, compiler and translator of textbooks, who was in Russia, knew Russian, and was acquainted with prominent writers and politicians of those times. That is why, when Hristo turned 15, his father sent him to study in Odessa, having obtained a scholarship from the Russian government for him. Christo studied at the gymnasium as a volunteer and lived there in a boarding school. True, not for long. A year later he left the boarding school, and a year later he left the gymnasium, and thus lost his scholarship. Hristo Botev's father was not rich and Hristo always needed money - he worked as a teacher and various literary activities.

He helped Viktor Grigorovich to translate Bulgarian folk songs. Hristo loved Russian literature, especially Chernyshevsky and Turgenev. At the same time, he himself wrote poetry, and later, journalism, which he himself published in his newspapers.

In Odessa, Botev was carried away by revolutionary ideas.

In 1972, Botev met Russian socialists Nikolai Meletin and Sonia Rubinstein.

He went to Bucharest and again engaged in publishing activities in the printmaker Lyuben Karavelov, and then teaching.

The revolutionary Botev detachment (the couple) arose as a result of the fact that the militia in the Vratsa district did not have anyone to lead and Hristo Botev proposed his candidacy.

Hristo Botev died at the age of 28 and became a symbol of the revolutionary struggle for the freedom of Bulgaria. Not so much in word as in deed, he wanted to get justice for his country. By his convictions, Hristo Botev was an internationalist, advocated for the Balkan federation and self-government, was a supporter of radical measures, read Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Mikhail Bakunin, supported the Paris Commune.

Hristo Botev left not a very great literary legacy, but enough so that descendants could get acquainted with his personality and beliefs. Hristo Botev is on the list of Bulgarian National Actors.

Hristo Botev Day

Officially, the Day of Hristo Botev has been celebrated since 1901, when the celebrations at the summit of Vol (Okolchitsa - Hristo Botev National Park) were attended by the then living Botev Chetniks (militia).

  • From 1953 to 1988, the holiday was celebrated as "Day of Botev and those killed in the struggle against Turkish slavery, capitalism and fascism, as well as in the Patriotic War";
  •      From 1988 to 1990 as the "Day of Botev and those who died for the national and social liberation of Bulgaria";
  •      From 1991 to 1993 as the "Day of Botev and those killed for the freedom of Bulgaria";
  •      Since 1993, it has been called "The Day of Botev and those killed for the freedom and independence of Bulgaria".

Every year this is becoming easier and not everyone performs the ritual of a minute of silence, and this time I saw how people continued to move past those who stopped to honor their memory.

It seems to me that this tradition is very patriotic in a good way, and should be maintained and respected.

Thank you for your time and attention.

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You have one small mistake with the dates. Its 1872 not 1972 :)

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