Why doesn’t Bulgaria have star rangers?
The whole world is looking to Space, and Bulgaria wants to be stuck in the monastery cellars. To shackle its children in chains, to make them obedient and slaves of dogma, without the right to an inventive spirit and the impulse of imagination.
It is true that space novels are usually a mess of fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery, but the Bulgarian state (I refrain from writing the word in quotation marks anymore) has become an unrivalled mess of stupidity.
The important thing is that today we celebrate a holiday from whose meaning we are moving further and further away – the holiday of the proud flight of the human spirit beyond nationalities, wars, conflicts and the shallowness of politicians.
On April 12, 1961, a man crossed the boundary between Earth and space. That man, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, was a military pilot of humble origins who was given the incredible chance to go down in history as the first cosmonaut.
