Note: Every mention of the Slavic culture,people or nations will exclude Russia.
The popularity of the Slavic nations(like Poland and Ukraine) is thanks to the recant tragedies, not because they are great powers or have some major cultural influence.
Bulgaria was a mass phenomenon after the April Uprising in which over 15,000 were slaughter, the tragedy become quite famous in Europe. After the country has freed itself it shifted the powers in Europe(The Ottomans were no longer a superpower) and was favored by the world press. However later on the country lost its popularity due to the most incompetent policy the world has ever seen.
So do I. It will be interesting to see Poland(I have some dear friends from there) and Ukraine( my best buddy is from that part of the world).
Let's just hope they don't decide to make up for the lack of Slavic nations with the USSR.
Bad move, really bad move.There is a reason why I didn't use "cultural occupation" and instead called it "Enslavement".
During the 500 years in which the Ottomans were on Bulgarian land there were an uncountable number of villages burned to the ground. Bulgarians were given the choice to betray they're religion and/or language or face death(no one know how many people were killed in that half millenia). Ottoman soldiers raped and pillaged when they wanted to and there was nothing to stop them. The Bulgarians were forced to pay a blood tax giving they're children to the enslavers and feeding the Janissary army. There were cases in which the children killed they're own parents not knowing that the people they are slaying are those who gave them birth. 10% of everything the people owned was given to the Sultan - crops,cattle and items - yearly.
For 400 years the only thing that separated the Bulgarians from the Ottomans was the Greek Orthodox Church. It was not until 1762 when the monk Paisii Hilendarski wrote the first book about Bulgarian history and then the people start to seek freedom from the oppression. It took 400 years for the first ray of light to show up.
The Ottomans finally allowed the building of Bulgarian schools and churches on one condition - the building must not be higher then a man on a horse. That rule force the building to be mostly underground driving the people away from the surface if they sought enlightenment like some sort of animals.
In the end so many people have died that Russia was forced to engage in a war against the Empire and free the country. The most important battle was the Battle at Shipka in which the Bulgarian resistance and part of the Russian 3rd(or 2nd) army took part. For three day the Resistance hold the mountain top. In the end there was no ammunitions for the guns, every tree and rock was a weapon and the Resistance continue to fight until there was nothing on the ground left. In a last despaired act the Bulgarians took the dead bodies and start throwing corpses over the Ottomans until finally reinforcements arrived.
I want to make a note that I'm a globalist and personally don't like the nationalism, however even I myself am a little touch on this subject.
Calling that period a "cultural oppression" is like saying the Hitler just visited Poland for a while and that The Soviet Union did some bad thing to Ukraine, but nothing serious.
I would also like to point that I hold no grudge against Turkey, the Turkish population and respect they're country,culture and history.
And if possible I would like to see them both, it would be awesome.
The popularity of the Slavic nations(like Poland and Ukraine) is thanks to the recant tragedies, not because they are great powers or have some major cultural influence.
Bulgaria was a mass phenomenon after the April Uprising in which over 15,000 were slaughter, the tragedy become quite famous in Europe. After the country has freed itself it shifted the powers in Europe(The Ottomans were no longer a superpower) and was favored by the world press. However later on the country lost its popularity due to the most incompetent policy the world has ever seen.
So do I. It will be interesting to see Poland(I have some dear friends from there) and Ukraine( my best buddy is from that part of the world).
Let's just hope they don't decide to make up for the lack of Slavic nations with the USSR.
Bad move, really bad move.There is a reason why I didn't use "cultural occupation" and instead called it "Enslavement".
During the 500 years in which the Ottomans were on Bulgarian land there were an uncountable number of villages burned to the ground. Bulgarians were given the choice to betray they're religion and/or language or face death(no one know how many people were killed in that half millenia). Ottoman soldiers raped and pillaged when they wanted to and there was nothing to stop them. The Bulgarians were forced to pay a blood tax giving they're children to the enslavers and feeding the Janissary army. There were cases in which the children killed they're own parents not knowing that the people they are slaying are those who gave them birth. 10% of everything the people owned was given to the Sultan - crops,cattle and items - yearly.
For 400 years the only thing that separated the Bulgarians from the Ottomans was the Greek Orthodox Church. It was not until 1762 when the monk Paisii Hilendarski wrote the first book about Bulgarian history and then the people start to seek freedom from the oppression. It took 400 years for the first ray of light to show up.
The Ottomans finally allowed the building of Bulgarian schools and churches on one condition - the building must not be higher then a man on a horse. That rule force the building to be mostly underground driving the people away from the surface if they sought enlightenment like some sort of animals.
In the end so many people have died that Russia was forced to engage in a war against the Empire and free the country. The most important battle was the Battle at Shipka in which the Bulgarian resistance and part of the Russian 3rd(or 2nd) army took part. For three day the Resistance hold the mountain top. In the end there was no ammunitions for the guns, every tree and rock was a weapon and the Resistance continue to fight until there was nothing on the ground left. In a last despaired act the Bulgarians took the dead bodies and start throwing corpses over the Ottomans until finally reinforcements arrived.
I want to make a note that I'm a globalist and personally don't like the nationalism, however even I myself am a little touch on this subject.
Calling that period a "cultural oppression" is like saying the Hitler just visited Poland for a while and that The Soviet Union did some bad thing to Ukraine, but nothing serious.
I would also like to point that I hold no grudge against Turkey, the Turkish population and respect they're country,culture and history.
And if possible I would like to see them both, it would be awesome.
), then eventually they will do that to "try to make everyone happy".
), and then there will be fun in here(considering how much fuss there is about Stalin).
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