site.btaMECh Leader Says March 3 Symbolizes Ancestors' Bravery

March 3 is the date when we bow to the heroes who sacrificed their lives during the Russo-Turkish War of Liberation so that Bulgaria would exist, Morality, Unity, Honour (MECh) party leader Radostin Vasilev wrote on Facebook for Bulgaria's Liberation Day. "This is the date that bears the huge symbol of the valour and bravery of our ancestors, who had the courage to walk the long road to the most sacred value - freedom," the post reads. 

According to him, freedom was bred in the monk's cell of Paisius of Hilendar, passed through the gallows of revolutionary Vasil Levski and the bravery of  revolutionary Hristo Botev. "We will not stop going back to their greatness because whoever forgets his past is doomed to have no future," Vasilev wrote.

"But no nation can rely only on its dead heroes. It is up to us to be worthy successors. Our deeds will prove whether we can live in this Bulgaria for which they gave their lives on Mount Shipka and in the battles for the freedom of each of our towns. In these difficult times, one of our main tasks is to defend the national interest of Bulgaria and to preserve our national memory," the leader of MECh also wrote.