site.btaBTA Director General: April Uprising Is Lesson in Patience, Moderation, Memory
The April Uprising is a lesson in patience, moderation and memory, said BTA Director General Kiril Valchev during a conference dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the 1876 April Uprising at the BTA National Press Club in Sliven (Southeastern Bulgaria) on Thursday.
He emphasized that from the events surrounding the April Uprising in Sliven, Bulgarians can learn at least three important lessons, useful for their present. "The first lesson is that every event is the result of a long accumulation with perseverance and patience," he noted, adding that the April Uprising is the result of Vasil Levski's tireless work to build an internal revolutionary organization. He recalled that Sliven is based on the traditions of banditry and is called the Town of a Hundred Voivodes, among whom Panayot Hitov and Hadzhi Dimitar stand out.
"The second lesson is that we must find the right moment for each deed, neither to delay nor to rush," Valchev stated. He recalled the episode in which Petar Topalov convinced the Sliven activists to wait for Tanyo Stoyanov’s detachment. “In order to avoid the failure of the deed, the apostles Ilarion Dragostinov and Georgi Obretenov decided to raise the rebellion immediately," Valchev pointed out.
The third lesson, according to Valchev, is that the memory of the event is no less important than the deed itself. He noted that Zahari Stoyanov in his Notes on the Bulgarian Uprisings describes the uprising's failure as a valuable guide for achieving further successes.
Valchev also emphasized the lesson today's media can learn from the April Uprising, noting the journalists need to be among the people, just as the activists of the uprising were trying to build a network on which to rely. "Without regional journalism, news from Sofia seems disconnected from real life," he stressed.
BTA's series of conferences are part of a joint initiative with Bulgarian National Television (BNT) and Bulgarian National Radio (BNR), called “14 Centuries of Bulgaria in Europe”, aiming to commemorate anniversaries in Bulgarian history that are significant for European history through to 2032, when 1,400 years will be marked since the establishment of the first Bulgarian state in Europe - Old Great Bulgaria. The most interesting moments from the conversations will be included in the April issue of LIK magazine, which BTA will dedicate to the 150th anniversary of the uprising.
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