Foreigner here. Why are there so many people waving Russian flags?

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  1. Its a major holiday. It celebrates the establishment of the third bulgarian kingdom after the Russo-Turkish war. Basically Russia won a war and as part of the resolution we were finally after almost 500 years afforded major independence from the Ottoman state. We were still a vassal though.

  2. Brainwashed by propaganda, there is a lot of it here as both languages are derived from the same Cyrillic alphabet, and for a long time in the past century, people studied Russian and not English. This only exposes you to Russian sources, and then you wear the flag around your waist no matter what.

  3. They are showing their loyalty towards the greatest nation on earth, redeemer of the facist, Nazi killing, LGBT hating, God fearing Mother Russia!!!!! If they do it as often as possible, they will be invited to live in the promised land for eternity.

  4. believe me, I hate ruzzian supporters with a passion but the historical fact is that Russia liberated Bulgaria from Ottoman subjugation. It is valid if people argue that Russia had less than noble motivations for doing so, meaning less so freeing their “bulgarian brothers” and more like weakening a rival empire and establishing a strategic puppet state on their border. But the fact is many Russian lives were lost in that conflict and our country wouldn’t be there without that sacrifice. So I’m a bit split on if it is fine to wave the Russian flag or not during this holiday. On one hand it’s about respecting the dead soldiers that helped liberate us, on the other Russia’s motivations were imperialistic and that same imperialism is still showing it’s face centuries later.

  5. People who do it will tell you, that it’s because they believe Russia to be a brotherly people, who helped us throughout history, and they respect them. In reality, it’s because most of them like simping for dictatorships and daddy Vlady, who they see as the holy saviors from the evil gay West.

  6. Because they are entitled to an opinion?
    Same way many Americans display their support for Trump.

    Personally, I don’t agree with either of those people, but at the same time I support their freedom of expression.

  7. Because people don’t study enough history and don’t realise russian empire and today russia are different subjects. Combine it with a lot of propaganda and bad education and you get your explanations.

  8. Celebrating the date of our independence from the Ottoman empire which was acheived with russian help over a century ago. It’s important to differentiate between history and the atrocities of the modern political landscape. Saying it’s “because they’re low IQ” is just ignorant.

  9. Ако някой малко прояви интерес ще види че не са го направили защото сме готини. А за пари за каруци със злато. Честит празник на всички

  10. Maybe he wants to say he is Russian and he is not ashamed of his origin, well, it works up to the moment when the Z symbol appears, but hopefully it does not come to that.

  11. Usually today is the Liberation Day in Bulgaria, but for some reason some people think it’s the winter pride parade. I guess nobody told them we don’t have a winter pride parade?

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