Pair of phrases: Senator Klimov vs Konstantin Leontyev

Disappointment in the Bulgarians

The statement of the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the dubious role of Russia in the liberation of Europe from Nazism is connected with the domestic political troubles in this country. This opinion was expressed on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station, deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Andrei Klimov ... “They have a difficult situation there ... Opposition ... is in internal political discourse. And in this discourse, they perceive a lot as part of their domestic political disputes, and not as part of something more, ”the senator believes ... On the eve of the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry made an official statement in connection with the exhibition in Sofia, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Eastern Europe from Nazism, which says that“ the shields of the Soviet Army brought the peoples of Central and Eastern Europe in the central and eastern Europe Repressions suffering from civil conscience, deformed economic development and isolation from the dynamics of the processes taking place in developed European states. ”By the point of view of A. Klimov, officials from the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry“ apparently, guided by the interests of the country's leadership, thus react to everything, including this exhibition ”, which the senator called“ correct and timely ”.

" Echo of Moscow "

Finally, people who dare to tell the truth about the Bulgarians and bring them out of the privileged and even of the harmful position in which our liberalism put them were also found in the insoluating homeland, which are always right in our own ... Only only the Bulgarians are always oppressed, always unhappy, always meek and milly, always victims and never oppressors ... what can give us ... Important, green. Serious legends, its very deeply revolutionary (i.e., liberal-eagalitarian) spirit not recognizing Bulgarian nationality? The Bulgarians have no holy places, there are no ancient church focus, there are no great motionless stars of Orthodoxy, spilling their light everywhere, even at our sad time of miserable progressive hopes and obsolete European dreams ... Do not reassure yourself that this bell in a lamb hat and brown thick trousers is primitive and simple: than coughing and just our time in our time. The people are easier to captivate him anywhere sly and unbelieving leaders ... How was it not to understand that some Bulgarian teacher, merchant, doctor, deputy and even minister of men or shopkeepers are unavailable and undesirable that was so clear and so desirable Kireevsky, Khomyakov and Aksakov? .. And how deep, how offending is our disappointment! .. How is it bitter! And how ashamed we are now! ..

Konstantin Leontyev. " Our Bulgabobes "