#Bulgarian nationalist

[pricklypear1997]

This country (🇺🇸) is satanic and evil. I can’t wait to leave.

[sword--princess]

great vid about balkan nationalism lol

[stackslip]

Transgender people are now banned from legally changing their gender in Bulgaria, according to the country’s Supreme Court, which issued a ruling that is automatically binding on all other courts. “The current law does not provide for the possibility for the court to allow the change of the data regarding the gender, name and uniform civil number in the acts of civil status of an applicant who claims to be transgender,” the decision states. Until now, some Bulgarian judges assumed that the legislation in the country allows legal gender change, but only explicitly after a court decision. In the Supreme Court, however, other judges ruled in the opposite direction, and the country was condemned several times in cases before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg for the lack of a clear regulation. (...) The decision was dedicated to the sharp political and public debate on the ratification of the Istanbul Convention, which was finally repelled after a campaign filled with misinformation spread by nationalist parties on social networks.

this isn't just a uk or north-america problem. it's worldwide, and that's not a coincidence. right-wingers everywhere are coordinating in suppressing trans people, sometimes as part of an open effort to also suppress all queer people and gender non-conformity, as well as abortion and equal rights for women; sometimes it's more covert (like in the uk). but here it's overt. the same tactics and use of social media, the same arguments, the same end goals--it isn't simply a usamerican conservative or uk terf thing. it's everywhere and in some countries the situation is becoming that much more dire with little pushback or acknowledgement.

[mapsontheweb]

The Central Powers during World War I were composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria.

As the dominant power among the Central Powers, Germany had a highly industrialized economy and a strong military. It sought to expand its influence in Europe and globally. Germany had a homogeneous population, mainly Germans (92%), but also Poles and others minorities.

Austria-Hungary was a multi-ethnic empire, comprising numerous ethnic groups such as Austrians (23%), Hungarians (19.6%), Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Ukrainians, Croats, Italians and others. The empire faced internal tensions due to nationalist aspirations of different ethnic groups seeking greater autonomy or independence.

The Ottoman Empire was a vast, multi-ethnic state that encompassed diverse regions in the Balkans and Middle East. Its population included Turks, Arabs, Kurds, Greeks, Armenians, and others. The empire was experiencing internal decline and faced challenges from nationalist movements within its territories.

Bulgaria, though smaller in size compared to the other Central Powers, played a significant role in the Balkans. Its population was predominantly Bulgarian, but it also had sizable minorities such as Turks and Greeks.

Overall, the ethnographic situation within the Central Powers was complex, with various ethnic groups coexisting within their respective empires. Nationalist sentiments and aspirations for self-determination among different ethnicities contributed to internal tensions and challenges for these powers during World War I.

by danmaps_org

[thomasthetankieengine]

Engaging in ethnic cleansing, cultural genocide, and full-blown killing style genocide was the favorite hobby of practically all 19th and 20th century nationalists.

But since papa-smoke and tamamita lack any interest in a broad look at history or in the history of ideas, you're not going to hear from these two geniuses about what Macedonian, Bulgarian, Russian, Italian, Turkish, Chinese, Arab, Japanese, Croatian, Khmer, and Serbian nationalists of the same period were up to. Unless it's Zionists or American, German, or Ukrainian nationalists, they generally could not care less.

An honest analysis would conclude that it's less than any one type of nationalism is bad and more that nationalism is, at best, a double-edged sword and at worst, a plague on mankind.

But honest analysis is beyond these two campists, so in their world only are a few types of nationalism are inherently bad. Since they unconditionally loooooove Russian and Arab nationalism, you'll never hear about the Tsarist Russification policies, Circassian genocide, Simele massacre, population transfer in the Soviet Union, Jewish exodus from Muslim countries, Arab Belt program, or the Palestinian exodus from Kuwait from these two chucklefucks -- or from any of their buddies.

[militarymodeller]

Nr.318, The Sd.Kfz 222 Leichter Panzerspähwagen.

The Sd.Kfz 222 Leichter Panzerspähwagen (light armoured reconnaissance vehicle) was a four-wheeled drive armoured car built by Horch and armed with a 2cm light autocannon and co-axial MG34 machine gun.

The Sd.Kfz 223 command variant removed the autocannon and added radio equipment with distinctive aerial frame.

Seeing action in all theatres of war in which German forces participated it was also fielded by Romanian, Bulgarian and Nationalist Chinese armies.

[iamthetruenhaz]

So Bulgaria's (russian) nationalist party again proposed a "foreign agents" law fashioned after the one russia has, designed to use any foreign funding legally received by a Bulgarian citizen to crack down on them for political reasons. Of course, russian "funding" is not received legally so it's not object of that law. That means that any academic, journalist, artist, blogger etc. who is, say, working on a project funded by a foreign entity (which is how anything gets done in this country) can and will be targeted. And guess what, those will be the pro-western, liberal, progressive people. Which has happened in Georgia (not the state, the country, Sakartvelo 🇬🇪) accepted such a law earlier this year. Not to mention the original law in russia itself.

This comes two days - TWO. After a law to ban "LGBTI propaganda" (read: any mention or discussion of LGBTI people and their rights) in schools proposed by the same party got accepted, in a country with classically Eastern European homophobia.

https://www.euronews.com/2024/08/09/protesters-rally-outside-bulgaria-parliament-to-denounce-ban-on-lgbtq-propaganda-in-school

And don't give me that "but we're in the EU, it's fine". Russian-funded national-populists have been at work for decades to turn us into a russian fifth column in the EU and/or bully us into dropping out of the EU and NATO. They openly tried in December 2021, just before Ukraine was invaded, to tell us to leave. But their more insidious propaganda machine is working to ensure that they don't have to.

[gracelyngrausamkeit]

Here is yet another piece I did for the Lost Tale several years ago. This design underwent some significant changes as I drew it before I finally settled on a Bulgarian revolutionary-inspired garb. If I am not mistaken, this one was supposed to be the "voyvoda" - a leader of a group of revolutionaries or outlaws (technically the word used to just mean a military leader but has had its meaning, at least in popular imagination, somewhat skewed by the nationalist propaganda of the 19-20 centuries). I really like the flower wreath-hat mix and I am probably going to reuse this design idea somewhere else.

[mariacallous]

Protesters took to the streets in Bulgaria after parliament passed a legal amendment banning “propaganda” for LGBTQ+ issues in schools, calling on the country's president to veto the law change.

After protesters took to the streets of Bulgarian cities over the past few days, a petition will be filed on Monday asking President Rumen Radev to veto a recent legislative amendment prohibiting “propaganda” for “non-traditional sexual orientations” and “gender ideology” in schools.

The petition has been signed by more than 6,000 thousand individuals and 73 organisations and is being filed by LGBTQ+ organisation Deystvie, the feminist Wake-Up Foundation and the Together Against Violence NGO. They see the legal amendment as a violation of Bulgaria's Anti-Discrimination Act and of the European Convention on Human Rights.

President Radev, who is known for his softer stances on the Kremlin and his use of nationalist rhetoric, has not yet commented on whether he will take the request into consideration.

[pesoglav]

How are you Slavic and a fascist?

The modern Slavic concept you understand was done by the Russian Empire to expand its sphere of influence and push a bullshit Pan-Slavic ideology. Slavs are 3 language(Cyrillic being the Bulgarian script first and foremost) groups and thats that, nothing more, genetically we have very key differences. Why am I fascist, easy I was raised as one, a family history of political repressions and such. The idea that Slavs should not be Fascist, National Socialists or even Nationalists was pushed by post WW2 authors that were Either Soviet/Soviet funded authors or opponents of Hitler and Mussolini that were "nationalists", i.e. Hitlers table talks are over 50% a work of fiction.

[evilelitest2]

What is Ukraine Anyways?

Ok so lets start, what is Ukraine?  Ukraine is a nation in Eastern Europe, just south of Belarus, just East of Poland, just north of Romania and Moldova, and just West of Russia.  I know what you're thinking “Belarus, what's that '' so ok, maybe US geography could use a bit of work.  Before the war Ukraine had a population of 44 million people, and was either the largest or second largest nation in Europe depending on how you count Russia.  And I think that is worth focusing on. Ukraine is massive, about the size of Texas, and yet it's forgotten because it's next to Russia, the largest nation in the world. 

Ukraine is sometimes called “The Ukraine '' but that's controversial for reasons we will talk about later. So there are three main things that you need to know about Ukrainian history

First, Ukraine is famous for its fertile soil, the “Black Earth”, and is one of the major agricultural powers in the world, certainly it is the supreme agricultural powerhouse of Eastern Europe.  This also makes it extremely valuable to other nations who might want to colonize it.

Second, Ukraine doesn’t have much in the way of Natural Borders.  A Natural Border is a landscape feature which provides a convenient barrier between nations. A mountain range, a river, an ocean, or a desert are all good natural borders because it means that anybody who wants to invade you needs to really commit.  While part of Ukraine is on the Black Sea and you have the Carpathian mountains in the west, the rest of it is…really not, it's mostly a mix of farmland and steppe. 

Thirdly, this combination of fertile land and lack of natural defenses means that Ukraine has a long history of being invaded from almost every side, and one of the tricky legacies of this is figuring out where Ukraine stops and another country begins because The Commonwealth, Prussia, the Golden Hoard, Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottomans, and most infamously Russia have all had their shot at seizing Ukrainian territory. This is made worse because Ukraine is sort of in the middle of a bunch of other states, it connects between a bunch of territory.  This is actually where the term “Ukraine” comes from, it means “borderland” 

 As a result of said fertility and constant invasion, Ukraine is an extremely ethnically diverse region, both in terms of Religion and Ethnicity.  You have Ukranians, Russians, Tatars, Bulgarians, Jews, Hungarians, Romani and Pols living within the borders, with a lot of mixing between these groups.  

So one final thing I want to talk about is Slavs, because I am going to be using that term a lot and it is good for non-Europeans to know what that means.  Slavs is an ethnic/linguistic group that combines a wide variety of different ethnic groups, mostly linked through linguistic origin.  A lot of ethno-nationalists will claim that there is some sort of magical bond all Slavs have towards each other by blood, but it’s mostly language connections, like how French and Italian are different languages but are clearly related.  Slavic people’s include Czechs, Slavokians, Pols, Belarusians, Bulgarians, “Yugoslavians' ' (I am not going to get into the ethnic politics of the Balkans here, dear god no), Ukranians and ethnic Russians.   Many slavic languages (but not all) use the Cyrillic script, which comes from the Byzantine Empire (We will come back to them later don’t worry), including both Ukrainian and Russian.  What matters for us is that the Ukrainian and Russian languages are very closely related and are somewhat understandable to each other, there is even a dialect, Surzhyk, which mixes the two even further.  A good comparison is like Spanish vs. Portuguese, different languages but very close.  Why this matters is that many Russian nationalists claim that Ukranian isn’t actually a language, it's just a dialect of Russian.  I’m not a linguist, but everything I’ve read indicates it is its own language, it has a few unique letters and UKraine has this weird case with words going on.  The biggest evidence towards me though are Rusisans friends of mine who have told me that when they visit Ukraine they often have a very hard time understanding what is going on.  Also worth noting, most Ukranians speak Russian, about a third of them speak Russian as their first language, mostly in the east.  We will get on that later

FInally, let's take a moment to talk about religion.  Most Russians and Ukrainian are Orthodox Christians, aka “The Christianity people in the West forgets exists”.   Short version is that before the Catholic Protestant Split in the 16th century, the previous sexy christian Split was in the 11th century between the Orthodox East and the Catholic West.  Unlike the Reformation, this was less a doctrinal dispute and more of an organizational one, the Orthodox reject the Pope’s authority for the Byzantine Emperor, Catholics use latin as the liturgical language while the Orthodox used Greek, the Orthodox is a far more decentralized faith, they each have opposite signs of the cross, little things ike that.  There have been…a lot of wars between these two groups and a lot of bad blood left over from said wars, such as the Fourth Crusade which sacked Constantinople or the Teutonic Knights (we will get to them more later. 

Important for future events is the fate of the Byzantine Empire.  Basically, when the Western Roman Empire Fell, the Eastern Empire continued on going until 1453, when it was finally destroyed by the Ottoman Empire.  The Emperor was the head of the Orthodox church, so when the Empire fell, so too did the unity of the Orthodox church.  Imagine if the Pope was killed, Rome was destroyed and no new pope was declared.  So there isn’t one Orthodox CHurch, its several different Orthodox churches for each region.  

[lactodebillus-bulgaricus]

I kinda wanna create some comic with aph bulgaria where he has yogurt powers, it will be like a shonen action/adventure manga and he will fight other hetalia characters with different types of powers, sorta like jojo or kill la kill, it won't be set in the hetalia canon universe, rather, it will be something like an au where humans from different countries and ethnicities are given superpowers (lol iirc the original idea for hetalia was superheroes from different countries) that have something to do with their culture

greece, serbia and turkey will initially be his rivals but they will become his friends later

romania is his bff, maybe they will become something more in the ending (the au won't be focused on shipping)

the big bad will be an OC who's bulgarian and also a nationalist and wants to hurt bul and take his powers and become a dictator and wage wars with the powers they stole, they will use magic and powers from external sources such as spells, artifacts, potions or sueprnatural beings rather than powers that come from the inside

bul's powers were never simply about yogurt; they were lifeforce manipulation but he only figures that out in the final battle; he controls yogurt because there's a lot of lifeforce in yogurt bc there are a ton of bacteria there

likewise, others' powers will appear simple but will actually be something bigger and on par with lifeforce manipulation

at the end of the au, every hetalia character becomes something like a protector superhero of their country and they fight crime

[gemsofgreece]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/world/europe/north-macedonia-history-statues.html

What's your opinion about this NY times article about Skopje?

Honestly, not much. Foreign journals have published such articles before, both when they were transforming Skopje and filling it with 8239538471 Greek and Bulgarian statues and when the Prespa agreement was co-signed.

The article ultimately states nothing new. When I read it, I got the feeling the journalist subtly takes the side of Greece and Bulgaria but it is subtle. This annoys me, I don't think historical revisionism and irredentism are the type of stuff in which you can apply your diplomacy and subtleness. If someone fabricates an identity based on historical lies on a freaking national / statutory level, shouldn't this be called out? I just don't understand. This is not just some weird marginalized brainwashed ultra-nationalists. Their very president of state and PM are like that.

What's interesting is that the article provides various different perspectives from people of the country. I think it really helps make a point that the chief archaeologist / historian says "I don't care about Alexander, there are others we should talk about". A major historian of a country that has built its entire existence around this historical figure saying meaningfully that "she isn't that interested" is basically a diplomatic, cautious way of rejecting the controversial historical claims her country makes. But she can't say it openly because perhaps that would get her in trouble or she would receive hate. Then the Times add more perspectives - only one being full brainwashed - but choose to end this on another person saying they feel no connection to such historical figures in any way, neither historically nor culturally nor lingually. I think ending the article with this was a choice.

So, yes, the article is okay, maybe it's me being Greek that makes me feel subjectively that it was too subtle? Reconsidering it, I don't know, it was still too subtle because there 's a huge lack of empathy for the victims of this historical appropriation. The Times repeat that Greece and Bulgaria keep protesting about all this and then a lot of the civilians interviewed in Skopje semi-confess their lack of connection to the historical heritage the country is appropriating, yet nobody sounds like there should be some change, some action taken to correct this controversial situation. Basically the vibes are; yes it's one fat lie, yes the other countries are freaking out but who cares, we ain't changing shit. And the Times are like "yes very sad, anyway". I guess this is what annoyed me. But of course it's still a better article for our arguments than it is for theirs, so there's that.

[mooncds12]

My Bulgarsona, haven't found a name yet. He is a Bulgarian Nationalist transhumanist cyborg. Tragically losing his Bulgarian blood and flesh for body enhancements is his dilemma. He has a terrible background, which led to him wanting to enhance his body in order to be respected. It backfired, and his family and friends became distant. Found new friends in sewers. Mutated creatures and fellow cyborgs didn't judge him. He currently feels lost and undecisive, trying to find his way. I originally wrote him as a stand-alone chracter, but I might add him to my main universe.

Btw I'm partially Bulgarian. I've never been there, tho. Can't speak the language either.

[mamaangiwine]

hi! i noticed in your pinned post that you said you try to include your hungarian heritage when it comes to your craft. may i ask for some recommendations regaring this? i'm hungarian myself but everything is about catholicism these days and i couldn't really find good books about the old ways.

thank you in advance, hope you have a wonderful day!

Oof. Idk if I can really provide recommendations tbh- at least not comfortably.

This is a tricky question as I am someone who supplements much of her craft with academic literature and research. Things like anthropological studies, folkloric studies, historical papers, etc.

However, there has in fact been an ongoing reframing of history in main-stream Hungary since the 1970s, influenced by nationalist rhetoric and spurred by a romanticized view of that history started by academics as early as the late 1800s .

These academics, inspired by the current European Romantic ideology of the time, sought to uncover the "true" history of Hungary that would illuminate the pre-conquest ethnic and cultural practices of ancient Hungarians. Though there are many notable academics we can trace back to the foundation of this reframing, one of the most well known is Vilmos Diószegi.

Diószegi worked incredibly hard to prove that Hungary's spiritual history was tied to a mysterious historical figure called a 'Taltos'. It was Diószegi's belief that the 'Taltos' was a Finno-Urgic-based, Turkic style 'shaman' who assisted in priestly duties in their respective communities and used a drum to enter an ecsatcy induced trance. Diószegi would even go on to theorize what the Taltos 'shamanistic world view' would have entailed. However, many scholars, including Éva Pócs, doubt these theories and have pointed to inconsistencies in Diószegi's research and reconstruction. Though there was undoubtedly Turkic influence, these scholars suggest that the Taltos has more in common with pre-christian Balkan, Bulgarian and Southern Slavic traditions.

Now, overall there wouldn't usually be a problem with that. Disagreements happen in academia all the time. The issue is that Diószegi's work is treated as absolute, and is the basis for most modern Hungarian paganism and reconstruction due to the unique ethnic and cultural identity it can provide. A cultural identity Hungarian Nationalists love to hold up on a pedestal and point to as evidence of a glorious and mystical past that existed before Christianity and, of course, Jewish People.

Therefore, when studying Hungarian paganism and folk practices one has to be discerning. Despite Diószegi's influence on Hungarian Academia as a whole, it doesn't mean it's all without merit (it doesn't necessarily mean all of Diószegi's work is completely without merit either, just that it shouldn't be treated as gospel especially with the inconsistencies surrounding it and the romantic european foundation it was already working from). For instance Mihály Hoppál's work has been known to research not only "modern" (60's and 70's) Hungarian folk practices, but source them by region. I've learned much from his detailing of Hungarian folk practices- I just don't take everything he has to say as fact. I question it and compare it with other research- rigorously.

As for the Catholic element of Hungarian practices, my personal take is this: Embrace it. That isn't to say that you should become a Christian or even agree with Christianity. Despite the fact that I, myself, am not Christian, I personally just find it unrealistic to separate the two. Christianity has been established in Hungary since the year 1000. Over that time the 'old ways' and Christian practices have undoubtedly been syncretized past the point of being able to concretely tell them apart. This is the fundamental problem I have with reconstruction as a whole, because much of it tries to simply omit Christain concepts from folk traditions without, ironically, realizing that in doing so we may be equally erasing pre-christain approaches and philosophies. They're just too entwined. My closest ancestors were catholic as opposed to pagan. Granted, weird catholics who saw things and knew things, but catholics none the less. Their history and traditions are just as valid, and are also just as important as the pre-christian beliefs that undoubtedly found themselves braided into that same history and those same traditions.

I'm sorry if this doesn't really answer your question, but regardless I hope you found it helpful.

[magnoliamyrrh]

dear romanians and bulgarians, we need to decolonize our lands of ourselves, balkan nationalists are right, were a bunch of turks or persians or mongol invaders or whatever, we all need to hold hands and go back to central asia or the stepee or wherever we came from. and personally apologize for stealing this land from (??). and all slavs should personally apologize for the slavic invasions too btw and uhhh. give this land back to (??) and leave. actually guess we should give this land to the roma who have totally been here much longer than us and were the indigenous original people, i guess. very helpful. remember if you ever wanted to make a little cottege on the land your mixed af ancestors lived on for thousands upon thousands of years, youre a fucking colonizer