Attack on the leader of "Velichie" - Nikolay Markov, came from the Macedonian lands, reported novini.bg.
The reason for this was the past statements of the former lieutenant colonel of the NSO regarding Vasil Levski. Lyupcho Kurtelov, public figure and chairman of the association “Horizonti” in the city of Ohrid sent a letter to the media.
"Every nation has its idols or idols. Songs are sung about them, legends are told, and in more recent times, films are made. For the English, it is Robin Hood, the French have their Joan of Arc, the Swiss the great Wilhelm Tell, the Croatians - Ban Jelacic, the Albanians - Skenderbeg.
The memory of these national heroes who fought for freedom and social justice unites the nation and hopes for great deeds. And so it should be.
And the Bulgarian people in its history has given birth to heroes of whom we can and should be proud. Levski, Botev, the alarmists...
I believe that the minimization of Levski's role and the insults to the Bulgarian revivalists by one of the leaders of “Greatness” Lt. Col. Nikolay Markov is NOT a blunder or a coincidence. With this statement of his, he says that the struggle of the Bulgarians for National Liberation was worthless and that the Bulgarians were not a nation-building people.
According to him, our freedom was given to us in a casserole by the Russian army.
An inaccurate and dangerous thesis!".