Posted on 07/21/2012 3:33:47 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
That's some deft wordsmithing there, Grimmy!
Should read:
Bulgarian patriots express outrage at wifebeating whiteslaving
Moonworshipping pedophilic savages.
Should read:
Bulgarian patriots express outrage at wifebeating whiteslaving
Moonworshipping pedophilic savages.
Should read:
Bulgarian patriots express outrage at wifebeating whiteslaving
Moonworshipping pedophilic savages.
Nothing wrong with Islam that a few million stakes couldn’t cure. Get the point?
Nothing wrong with Islam that a few million stakes couldn’t cure. Get the point?
Why is it anyone who merely heckles muzzies is an extremist, but when muzzies murder innocents, they’re “freedom fighters”?
Ethnic groups: Bulgarian 76.9%, Turk 8%, Roma 4.4%, other 0.7% (including Macedonian, Armenian, Tatar, Circassian), other (unknown) 10% (2011 census)
Religions: Eastern Orthodox 59.4%, Muslim (Sunni) 7.4%, Muslim (Shia) 0.4%, other (including Catholic, Protestant, Armenian Apostolic Orthodox, and Judaism) 1.7%, other (unknown) 27.4%, none 3.7% (2011 census).
By the late 14th century the Ottoman Turks had started their conquest of Bulgaria and had taken most towns and fortresses south of the Balkan mountains.
After the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396 and the fall of the Vidin Tsardom three years later, the Ottomans conquered all Bulgarian lands south of the Danube. Under the Ottoman system, Bulgarians were considered an inferior class of people and were subjected to heavy taxes; Bulgarian culture was suppressed and the educated clergy fled to other countries. The nobility was eliminated, the peasantry was enserfed to Ottoman masters, and the population lost its national consciousness.
Throughout the nearly five centuries of Ottoman rule, the Bulgarian people attempted to re-establish their state by organising several revolts. In the 18th century, the Enlightenment in Western Europe provided influence for the initiation of a movement known as the National awakening of Bulgaria. It restored national consciousness and became a key factor in the liberation struggle, resulting in the 1876 April Uprising.
Up to 30,000 Bulgarians were killed as Ottoman authorities put down the rebellion. The massacres prompted the Great Powers to take action. They convened the Constantinople Conference in 1876, but their decisions were rejected by the Ottomans.
This allowed the Russian Empire to seek a solution by force without risking military confrontation with other Great Powers, as had happened in the Crimean War. In 1877 Russia declared war on the Ottoman empire and defeated its forces with the help of Bulgarian volunteers.
In the years following independence in 1908, Bulgaria increasingly militarised and was often referred to as “the Balkan Prussia”.
Bulgaria entered World War II in 1941 as a member of the Axis but declined to participate in Operation Barbarossa and saved its Jewish population from deportation to concentration camps.
The left-wing uprising of 1944 led to the abolition of monarchic rule, but it was not until 1946 when a single-party people’s republic was established.
In an attempt to erase the identity of the ethnic Turk minority, an assimilation campaign was launched in 1984. This resulted in the emigration of some 300,000 of them to Turkey.
The first free elections in June 1990 were won by the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP, the freshly-renamed Communist Party). It became a member of NATO in 2004 and of the European Union in 2007, and is currently ruled by the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party, which is center-right.
Our Great Grandfather was a Missionary to Bulgaria from 1864 to his death in 1916. He is buried in Sofia.
Grandfather James established the College of America which I understand is still there, and set up the first printing press in Sofia to publish Bible tracts.
He used to hang on to his horse’s tail to pull him up the mountainsides while keeping one pounce ahead of the wolves, who were known to relish Bulgarians and probably wouldn’t have turned down a Yankee Preacher had he become available.
We still have some interesting stuff he sent back With my Paternal Grandfather, along with copies of some of his reports back to the Congregational Church in Mass. giving graphic details of the Turkish massacres and how they tortured the Bulgarian People whom they didn’t murder outright.
He was there in the 1870s when the Turks were kicking the Russian’s butts all over Bulgaria, despite the Russians outnumbering the Turks. The Turks bought up a bunch of Winchester repeating rifles while the Ruskies were still using muzzle loaders for their Infantry.
The Turkish Cavalry routinely cut the Russians to pieces, and brave Bulgarian peasants who tried to mount resistance in defense of their villages and families were no match for them whatsoever.
GGF and his family adopted a couple of Bulgarian orphans and the last I knew we still had some relatives over there.
I don’t know much about Bulgaria but news about it always gets my attention - and I’m proud of ‘em for standing up to Islamofascism!
No, it should read, “Bulgarians defend Bulgaria”. Too bad we aren’t willing to defend our nations from the muslim 5th column.
No, it should read, “Bulgarians defend Bulgaria”. Too bad we aren’t willing to defend our nations from the muslim 5th column.
Let's take terrorism TO THE MUSLIMS.
About damned time if you ask me.
“That’s some deft wordsmithing there, Grimmy!”
You’re not, by chance, making proper and appropriate fun of my complete and total inability to do that grammar thing, are you?
:)
Not in the least. I got a real kick out of your original post:
Bulgarians, after having been duped by the commiescum, refuse to get played by the jihadiscum."
I had to look up the proper name of the highlighted tense you correctly used: past progressive gerund in the passive voice.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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“past progressive gerund in the passive voice.”
What the hell is that? I swear I didn’t do it on purpose.
LOL!!
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