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On the threshold of the new millennium our Fatherland has sunk deep into ruin. The country's economy has terminated it's existence. Concepts such as morality, duty, honour and patriotism have long lost their meaning. This pseudo-democracy has brought about corruption and wild beasts are roaming the streets. You are all to blame for this! Your servility and timidity have brought on this catastrophe. How long will this go on? We demand that an end be put to this! We are an organization of nationally aware Bulgarians. Our goal is to achieve the cherished ideals of our forebears through the protection of the national unity of Bulgarians and the resurrection of the Bulgarian nation. We Bulgarian nationalists will always defend the interests of Bulgarian citizens. We love our People and we are proud of our ancient history and culture. We support civic peace, but we will not let anyone parasitize on us. We are fighting for social justice for all, all those who build our material and intellectual culture! In "democratic" Bulgaria, today, there are people that are hungry and deprived, people that toil from sunrise to late at night or wander jobless, while traitors and villains stuff themselves at the government table and undisturbedly are undermining the foundations of our Fatherland. We believe in the sacred struggle to which we have been summoned by the heroic deeds of those Bulgarians throughout the past centuries, that broke the chains of slavery, tore down empires, built a mighty state and brought about the nation's upsurge. WE DO NOT ASK FOR EQUALITY, WE ARE FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE! In order to achieve our aim we will concentrate most fanatically and determinedly on that aim and we denounce any half-measures. Against poison one needs an antidote and we are that antidote! All those who enrich themselves at the expense of the Bulgarian worker and rob our children of their future are our enemies. The principal potential of our movement are namely the working people, crushed under the weight of taxes and anxieties. We want to bring together under our banners not people that are satiated and content, but people that are humiliated and dissatisfied, suffering and restless. We do not choose our supporters by their religious affiliation, material status or social standing. We consider most important their self-determination as Bulgarians and patriots. Our faith has sprung from our blood unity and is not subject to political or religious prejudices! We consider the parliament as personification of corruption and collective irresponsibility. We denounce this system, which a person of authority and talent is merely an executor of the will and opinion of the incompetent majority. We place stress on quality instead of quantity! This is the reason why we raise such a program, a program that in the greatness of its goal repulses all indecisive democrats and politicizing worms. In some peoples eyes the greatness of the goals that we place before us may only make our struggle harder, but in actual fact this is exactly where victory lies hidden. The difficulty of the path we have chosen ensures that only the best political soldiers will find a place in our ranks. In this natural selection is the guarantee of our success. We consider as basic and most important task of the state to be the safeguarding of that civic nucleus, that is unique in its ability to create culture and to bestow upon mankind beauty, integrity and all that is noble. If the state does not find the strength to cope with this task, it has lost the right to existence. I. e. a model state is only the one that, through its existence will in reality provide the further development and salvation of the Bulgarian nation. Unfortunately , this is not something to be said about present democratic Bulgaria. On the contrary, with every passing moment our Fatherland is further being assimilated into multiculturalism. AN END MUST BE PUT TO THIS! The steadfastness of the system is a result of the overall trust in the righteousness and honesty of those that are summoned to protect the interests of the people. It is evident to everyone that today such a trust is non-existent. Present are only corruption, perversion and a brazen pillage of the people. We are convinced that all this will be put to an end sooner or later, because a government system cannot survive for long only through naked violence. The only question is, will our children live to see it? Our life is here and now, that is why we refuse to accept any more promises of a "bright future", it is of little consequence whether it is Communist or democratic! We demand such legislation and government that respond to the people's innate feeling of justice! We demand a legislation that will preserve Bulgarians and our lands! Bulgarians, if our forefathers had proceeded from the assumptions of parliamentary and democratic bullshit, which we are constantly being indoctrinated with, our nation would have ceased to exist a long time ago! It is high time to realize, that even if you seem to live in apparent prosperity at the moment, without Bulgaria there is no future for you! Let us join forces so we can overcome the tragedy that has befallen our Fatherland. If there is someone that has still not understood, let us clarify one point. We are not some political circle. To us, the change of one government with another, is nothing more than well thought out game, in which there is only one loser and that is our whole nation, and that nation is a collection of each and everyone of us. We are not looking for the change of one villain with another! We demand a People's government! We demand a Bulgarian government. We are fully aware, that by defending our views, we will be stigmatized at any possible moment and we consider this as living proof of the righteousness of our ideas. We have only one obligation, an obligation set to us by the truth. This is the reason we shall fulfill our duty towards the nation and our Fatherland with the solemn conviction in the rightness of our deeds. "PROCLAMATION" Hey, enslaved nation, Why are you still sleeping? Is a life of freedom dear to you no more? Now's the time, it's the eleventh hour, Time to break the chains! Come on! Come on! Let's go! This is the time to fight, Accept defeat no more. ...Enslaved nation, Raise your head! To achieve your freedom, To destroy the foe! Stefan Stambolov, Tarnovo, June 1873 p.4) We ask that this land, that is inhabited by Bulgarians, be governed by Bulgarians, i.e. according to the nature, traditions and character of the Bulgarian people... p.5) We have no wish for what is not ours, but we will not give up what is rightfully ours. p.7) ...We have no wish to rule over anyone and so we will not let others rule over us. p.8) We consider as our enemies and opponents even those Bulgarian monsters and exploiters that hinder our national purpose and we will pursue them at all times and places. Extracts from the program of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee (BRCC) Compiled by Vassil Levski 1872
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