|
|
 |
Extract from the Montana Travel Guides:
MONTANA
- largely rebuilt in concrete - is a drably modern town with a revolutionary tradition. Originally called Kutlovitsa, the town was known as Mihailovgrad for much of the postwar period in memory of local revolutionary Hristo Mihailov, a leader of the Communist uprising of
September 1923
. Socialist historians always overestimated the importance of the revolt - a short-lived farce that never enjoyed popular support - but the way in which the right-wing Tsankov regime put the uprising down, massacring 30,000 Bulgarians within a couple of weeks, ensured that it was remembered as one of the most bloodily heroic episodes i...
read the whole Montana Travel Guides...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|