Balgarianovinite.com President Iliana Iotova described March 3 as a measure for belonging, memory, and identity at Bulgaria’s National Day ceremony in Sofia on Tuesday.
She accepted the honour guard of representative units of the Bulgarian Army at National Assembly Square.
The day marks Bulgaria’s freedom and has long been an enduring dream for generations of Bulgarians: a dream of liberty, independence, and a homeland of their own, Iotova said in her speech. She added that this dream was born out of the people’s suffering during five centuries of Ottoman rule and from the remembrance of Bulgaria’s centuries-old, glorious history.
Iotova recalled the role of the Russo-Turkish War in Bulgaria’s liberation and the significance of the Treaty of San Stefano in restoring Bulgaria’s name to world history. She added that it was a just cause that drew soldiers, officers, and volunteers from Russia and found resonance across Europe at the time.
She paid tribute to the Bulgarian volunteers, officers, cadets, intellectuals, and freedom fighters whose heroism contributed to the historic victory. “History does not remember their names, but it calls them martyrs, victors, heroes,” Iotova said.
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