site.btaGERB Leader Pays Tribute to National Hero Hristo Botev, Freedom Fighters

In a Facebook post on Monday, GERB leader Boyko Borissov paid tribute to national hero Hristo Botev and those who died for the national liberation of Bulgaria. “We bow our heads in tribute to Hristo Botev and those who died for the national liberation of Bulgaria,” Borissov wrote on the occasion of June 2. 

The post was accompanied by a portrait of the revolutionary poet and a quote from Botev's iconic ballad Hadzhi Dimitar: "He, who falls in fight for freedom, lives forevermore." 

June 2 is traditionally marked in Bulgaria as the Day of Hristo Botev and Those Fallen for the Freedom and the Independence of Bulgaria.