Family Chronicles from Pazardzhik and the Pazardzhik Region, Part III

The three parts of "Pazardzhik Family Chronicles" are books for the dead and for the living. About the passing of life, and the memory of those who come after. "Time is not equally to everyone's liking," Shakespeare said. In almost every Bulgarian lineage one meets persons who are "good" and "bad," "positive" and "negative," of whom Professor Tzvetan Todorov writes: "There are no innocents, just as, in a certain sense, there are very few who are guilty. Most of the people who lived in these societies are at once executioners and victims." And since the point of view from which one judges is different at the turning points of history, it is time the descendants understood that their ancestral roots are one and the same. For the "good" and the "bad" are our fathers, our forefathers, and our kinsmen, who made history such as it is, and which we cannot change. And history, Konstantin Jireček said, is written not for Bulgaria, but for the Bulgarians!

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