Annually on 2nd of June, Bulgarians observe two minutes of silence honoring the memory national hero Hristo Botev and the countless brave souls who sacrificed their lives for Bulgaria’s liberation from Ottoman rule



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10 comments

  1. We have a boulevard in Bucharest named after him, never knew the story till now.

  2. If I were there in the traffic, without context, I would be completely shitting my pants.

  4. Damn we also do this for Atatürk in Turkey this Hristo botev guy must be a very respected and loved person in Bulgaria

  5. We have similiar thing in Poland on every 1st August honoring heroes of Warsaw Uprising of 1944.

  6. While i have respect for this kind of actions (I especially like that people even stopped cars and stood to pay respects) I really hate that they are using emergency sirens for it.

    I am from Poland and it is used for plethora of memorial events (like Warsaw Uprising) and it drives me nuts. If I would be one that will attack Poland, I would just wait for another of those events and start airstrikes just then to use those sirens as element of surprise.

    Sorry, I had to vent.

  7. Amazing show of reverence from almost everyone.

    Bravo, Bulgaria!

  9. Conveniently skipping 100 years of history and hyperfocusing on this.

  10. theres even a town named after him, called Botevgrad. it was renamed after him in 1934.

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