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Dozens queue up to pay respects at monument to Vassil Levski

President Rumen Radev and Vice President Iliana Iotova also paid their respects
Photo: BGNES

Dozens of people gathered in front of the monument to Vassil Levski in Sofia to lay flowers and pay tribute to the national hero, known as the Apostle of Freedom. President Rumen Radev and Vice President Iliana Iotova also paid their respects at the monument to the revolutionary.

“Levski remains our moral judge, an eternal symbol of our faith in our own strength, of Bulgaria’s dignity and independence,” the President said. Children from schools in Sofia recited poems and sang songs about Levski to the people who had gathered in front of the monument.

Throughout the country people are marking 149 years since the death of the Apostle of Freedom, Vassil Levski.



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