2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the so-called The "September Uprising" broke out in the second half of September 1923. It is defined as an "uprising" by Bulgarian historiography during the communist period of the XNUMXth century, but rather it is a question of rebellions of a small part of the Bulgarian population in limited areas of the Kingdom of Bulgaria.
100 years since the so-called "September Uprising" - 1923
2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the so-called The "September Uprising" broke out in the second half of September 1923. It is defined as an "uprising" by Bulgarian historiography during the communist period of the XNUMXth century, but rather it is a question of rebellions of a small part of the Bulgarian population in limited areas of the Kingdom of Bulgaria.
The events of September 1923 were entirely inspired by external forces. The Communist International, which was founded in Moscow in 1919 and has as its main goal the victory of communist revolutions all over the world, is trying, through the Bulgarian Communist Party (close socialists) - a member of the organization, to overthrow the ruling government of the Democratic Alliance in Bulgaria . The Comintern condemns the neutrality announced by the BKP (so-called) during the nine-war coup in Bulgaria and imposes its view of an immediate armed uprising. Although they are aware of the weak readiness of the party for such an action, two of the leaders - Georgi Dimitrov and Vasil Kolarov - are forced to agree to its implementation.
In August 1923, preparations for its implementation began. These actions did not remain hidden from the authorities and, in order to counteract the coup d'état, the government of Alexander Tsankov began on September 12 to arrest communist activists. The organizers of the riot cannot delay its beginning any longer and schedule its outbreak for September 22-23. Because of the government's reaction, there were clashes on September 13 and 14 in separate villages in central Bulgaria. Disturbances followed in the regions of Stara and Nova Zagora, in villages around Samokov, Ihtiman, Razlog, Pazardzhik, Chirpan, Varna, but they were quickly quelled. The riots gained the greatest mass in northwestern Bulgaria - the town of Ferdinand (now Montana), Berkovitsa, Lom, Oryahovo and individual villages in the nearby suburbs. Georgi Dimitrov and Vasil Kolarov are heading towards Ferdinand. After only two days in the city, they assess the real situation and the lack of any chance of success of the rebellion, and flee across the border into Yugoslavia. Between September 27 and 29, the government and the military units sent by it suppressed all manifestations of armed resistance, thus ending the riots.
About 1923 people died in the events of September 1000 in Bulgaria. The prominent Bulgarian politician and Prime Minister of the country in the period 1931-1934, Nikola Mushanov, will say the following in January 1924: "I don't know... why September 22 is called a revolution in our country. I find it very black the crime that Mr. Kolarov and Mr. Dimitrov ... committed in the country and especially with the entrapment of hundreds of people who suffered because of them." The BKP (so-called) lost a large part of its voters and supporters and became a small radicalized organization, which in 2 years will carry out the biggest terrorist attack in Europe - the blowing up of the Church of Saint Nedelya.
In the funds of the NIM there are several stamps of communist party organizations /from the villages of Lakatnik, Lesidren and Gorna Bela Rechka/ used in the period 1921-1923.
