2024-02-20 06:23:15
“There is a need to correct the date on which we pay tribute to Vasil Levski. It is more correct that it is February 18. The documents recorded his hanging on February 6. The inaccuracy comes from the change of calendar – the transition from the old to the new style. The Gregorian calendar was adopted in Bulgaria in 1916. For recalculation, 12 days are added to the dates from the 19th century, and 13 days to the dates from the 20th century”. on NOVA”.
According to him, every generation can take an example from Levski. He, as a young revolutionary, sees that a new path is needed. “Bulgaria should belong to the free and democratic world. This is the strong national ideal that Levski leaves to the next generations,” said Zlatarski.
We can take his serious political reading, emphasizes the historian. “He has left us his political program – extremely visionary and forward-looking. This notorious Emancipation Ordinance of 1871 was for a democratic state, liberty and equality before the law. He is an extremely insightful person,” added Zlatarski.