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The pogrom over the National Theater: if we bow down, it's going to be scary

The pogrom over the National Theater is an ominous omen of what could happen from now on. If we duck now, it could get scary.

Nov 8, 2024 19:01 25

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Evgeny Dainov's comment:

You went to the National Theater with a ticket in your pocket. You will be watching a production by a world-class director of a play by a world-class writer. In front of the theater you are met by a frenzied crowd that attacks, curses and douses you with various liquids. The cops tell you to leave so you don't provoke people. You don't get to the theater entrance.

The next day, the Minister of the Interior explains that the director of the theater who tried to talk to the crowd was responsible: "It was not appropriate for the director to go out to the protesters. I'm not saying he's guilty, but if his actions had been coordinated with the police, maybe it wouldn't have come to this tension.

Ominous Omen

The other day I warned that in Bulgaria the conditions are present for violence to become the main regulator of public relations. I didn't expect that this is exactly what we would be watching for hours. I also did not expect that violence would become a priority in the cultural arena.

The violence came. What happened - it will continue to happen - in front of the National Theater is eerily reminiscent of a reduced Bulgarian equivalent of Kristallnacht in Germany and the burning of books in that same Germany. This is fascism.

How did it get here? From the choir. The second I learned that in front of the National Theater a dance group regularly dances to the sounds of "White Rose", I understood what it was all about. This is not a dance "for". This is and always has been a dance "against".

You will ask - against what? The answer is easy. Go to the choir place. Opposite you is the entrance to the National Theater. Around you are the benches where chess has been played for decades. To the right is the City Picture Gallery, next to it - the site of the former City Library. At the other end of the square is the "Bulgarian Composer" bookstore.

This place is the heart of high culture in our country. The placement right here of "White Rose", that poisonous counterpart of folk music, is a guerilla war against high culture. For years, this chorus played on our heads and shaped us as enemies of the people.

People take Borisov's maxim "I'm simple and you are simple and that's why we get along" and develops it to a more complete form: "We are simple, you are not - and we cannot get along with you". The pogrom over the National Theater takes the message up another level. Today it sounds like this: "We are simple. You are cultured. We cannot get along with you and therefore we will destroy you. So that there will be only us, the simple ones.

I know what follows, as I am aware that Peevski's Police and Peevski's Prosecutor's Office will not protect culture and the cultural from the onslaught of the uncultured, nor democracy from the pogrom of the fascists. Actually, we all know. It has already happened: prosecution of teachers and moviegoers; forcible suspension of film screenings and the holding of conferences; we already have a pogrom over a theater. It is logical that this line will continue with pogroms on bookstores and art galleries (the City Gallery and the composers' bookstore are conveniently close to the National Theater). Then universities and libraries will probably be next. Actors, musicians, directors, spectators, teachers, university professors and people walking the streets with books in their hands may be routinely beaten.

It is time to resist

What starts in culture usually quickly reaches politics. This can happen in our country as early as Monday, when Delyan Peevski will lead a protest in front of the National Assembly. Probably that evening, under the influence of these events, the pogrom over the National Theater will be renewed with new force.

As I wrote the other day: it's time to resist. Peevski's police and Peevski's Prosecutor's Office will support such outbursts in every possible way, since Peevski is the one who is responsible for the country's descent into violence. Why? He realized that he could not seize all power through democratic procedures. Therefore, his goal seems to be to take her by force - and this goes through the immersion of society in fear.

Only the citizens of the Republic can save the Republic. Therefore - all citizens every evening in front of the National Theater, and on Monday - in front of the National Assembly. Because let's face it now, what if Peevski decides to activate lists for capital arrests, and mobs start beating in the streets anyone who seems to them to be able to read and write?

He came.