Goce Delchev

Text of a letter of Delcev to Nikola Maleshevski

"Sofia, 01.05.1899,

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Kolyo (Nikola),

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I have received all letters which were sent by or through you. May the dissents and cleavages not frighten you. It is really a pity, but what can we possibly do when we ourselves are Bulgarians and all suffer from the same disease! If this disease had not existed in our forefathers who passed it on to us, we wouldn't have fallen under the ugly sceptre of the Turkish sultans...

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