site.btaApril Uprising Never Truly Ends, It Continues Symbolically, Says LIK Magazine Editor-In-Chief
The April Uprising is one of the few events that never truly ends, said Editor-in-Chief of LIK Magazine Georgi Lozanov at the presentation of the magazine's issue marking its 150th anniversary in Koprivshtitsa on Monday.
The issue is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the April Uprising in 1876 and was presented alongside a journal of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Lozanov said that while the uprising ended in physical terms, it endures symbolically, steadily acquiring new meaning through interpretation. Each generation brings its own reading, he said, underscoring the continued importance of such publications. He stressed that the uprising is a cornerstone of Bulgarian national identity, placing freedom at the pinnacle of its value system.
According to him, the revolutionaries viewed freedom above all as a moral and spiritual principle, one that required people to become more self-aware and assume responsibility for their own destiny rather than rely on others. True freedom, he added, requires constant vigilance and must be defended, even against those who once helped secure it.
Lozanov contrasted the historical understanding of freedom, won through sacrifice, with the modern notion of freedom as a guaranteed right in a democratic society. While paying tribute to those who died for it, he said freedom won through blood is "bitter" and voiced hope for a "sweet" freedom, one secured as a natural human right rather than through a struggle that claims lives.
/KT/
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