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The question of how to enter the third millenium is not a routine question at the end of the elapsing century. It contains the threatening challenge of identification in the globally integrating world.
History, being a study of people and their drama, will never accept apeople, whichever it is, to be identified on the video display like afigure in an electronic game. That is why those crowding at the entrance of the reception-hall should always remember the parable that they would be let in only if they have self-respect. For a people to respect itselfmeans to be conscious of its worthiness in commensurability with the worthiness of other peoples.
Worthiness has nothing to do with technological standard or standard of living. It is embodied in culture, not in a distinctive culture closed within stone walls, but rather in an outgoing, interactive, and competitive culture, exemplified in creative social behavior.

A people and its culture survive and live in historical continuity. They can be severed neither by local nor by foreign forces for they are impregnated with the energy of their bearers no matter where they live- in the core of the ethnodemographic community or in its Diaspora. The whole is made up of its parts. Cleo, the muse of History has long discarded all geographical, political, cultural, and religious factors which, by definition, break up this Whole.
The energy of a people, which breathes life into its culture, can never be destroyed. It can only abate, temporarily downhearted. Getting rid of the ideological patterns of block thinking, evading the poisonous bite of political passions and of predestination suggested and desired by others under the notion of historical fate, achievements always acquire national importance. Such are the contents and goals of noble competition in the field of spirituality – the only battle in which all are winners.
History is not a finished up structure. It is an everlasting process of creation in which some are architects, others pile up a stone or two,but not a single name is obliterated.
History is a Reminder, Reminder is Knowledge, knowledge is Faith, and Faith is Being. It exists as an eternal flow of the historical time of self-realization, a historical time different from that of empires and imperial provinces. No one has the right to judge whether the time of a people is flowing fast or slow. Only the meeting points of the historical times of various peoples, even of extinct ones, structure the rhythm of History.
This rhythm does not breed animosity but quickens mutuality and interaction as the true factors for self-realization.
If someone impedes the self-realization and the achievements of others, he is acting in self-destruction.
History and the communities formed by its impulses are destined to create those factors disregarding the babbling of those trying to freshen up old ideas-images. Creating new ones cannot reject old myths.The pseudopatriotism of war drums cannot be erased by cynicism, and longforgotten events cannot but substituted by journalistic writings. Facts passed over in silence would not speak up through lobby talks.
History is a sublime tempest when it operates with its genuine categories:
The Beginning itself, and not its dating on a patch of land,
Statesmanship, and not a military and politic organization,
Power, and not the term of ruling,
Monotheism, and not the dance of the shamans,
Conversion, and not a play in outmaneuvering,
Learning, and not the alphabet,
The Other next to you, and not perfidious neighbors,
Struggle, and not yoke,
The Revival of spirit, and not the misery of outcasts,
Partners, and not reports of diplomats,
The prospects, and not bright future
And The World, and not the road to it.
Those categories are not figures of speech. They are embodied into the texture of Bulgarian History, waiting to be given new meaning and to create new problem circles.
To search for new historical sources and find them is of course important. But how often does a scholar have such opportunities? We mustn't disregard another option – to re-interpret the facts, which, by way of underestimation or partiality, have created a distorted picture of the existence of the Bulgarians.
A considerable part of the history of the Bulgarians up to the 7th c.is not present in historiography. There is no historic presentation of major parts of the Diaspora of the ancient Bulgarian community.Falsehood and distortion also characterize the image of culture and statesmanship of Bulgarians of that period. There is no appreciation of their role in world social, economic, political, and cultural processes of that tumultuous era.
Our historiography possesses many authentic facts about the period after the 7th c. and the foundation of Danube Bulgaria. But it does not recognize the extra national character, role and importance of Bulgarian history in the make-up of early Middle Age European culture and this is the key to Bulgaria’s integration into modern European culture.
Father Paisiy is said to be the founder of national romantic historiography of the Bulgarians. Each nation has its own father Paisiy and he holds his place not because he was dreaming but because he revived the problems of the past in full awareness of why one must be proud of one’s Bulgarian name.
We shall step into the third millenium with dignity and take pride in calling ourselves Bulgarians.