{"id":2820,"date":"2016-05-09T20:39:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T20:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2016-05-09T20:39:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T20:39:43","slug":"victory-day-in-bulgaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/?p=2820","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Victory Day&#8221; in Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I was always wondering, why many Bulgarians celebrate Victory Day as if this victory was their own country&#8217;s achievement and usually without reflecting that Bulgaria was anything but a victor of WWII. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The country was a close ally of Nazi Germany for most of the war. The capital Sofia and many people in it became victims of the air raids by the Western allies. Then the country was invaded by the Soviets who established a Stalinist puppet regime that was for 45 years one of the worst and most suffocating in Eastern Europe. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Victory Day&#8221; &#8211; really&#8230;? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I think history is a bit more complicated and ambiguous than that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"a-modal-scroller a-declarative\" data-action=\"a-popover-floating-close\"><strong>\u00a9 Thomas H\u00fcbner\u00a0and mytwostotinki.com, 2014-6. Unauthorized use and\/or duplication of this material without expressed and written permission from this blog\u2019s author and\/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Thomas H\u00fcbner\u00a0and mytwostotinki.com with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.<\/strong><\/pre>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><div class=\"dmrights_badge\">\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\t\t\tcatalogCode = \"AAA-1100-01\"\t\t\r\n \t\t<\/script> \r\n\t\t<div id=\"DMR-seal\"><\/div>\r\n\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/ipregistry_wp.dmrights.com\/dmr.js\"><\/script>\r\n\t\t<\/div><br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was always wondering, why many Bulgarians celebrate Victory Day as if this victory was their own country&#8217;s achievement and usually without reflecting that Bulgaria was anything but a victor of WWII. The country was a close ally of Nazi Germany for most of the war. The capital Sofia and many people in it became [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[428],"tags":[62,888,429,776,1435,229],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yNbb-Ju","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mytwostotinki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}