Kaiserreich Documentary: Bulgaria
Phillip Buss for The Last Democrat in Sofia
To contrast with the bellicose opening of this documentary, we end on a sad note - twenty years later, Bulgaria has become a bloated shadow of her former glory. Radicals have seized the capitol, and we hear this final address of 'the last democrat in Sofia',an old man sadly reflecting on the demise of the country.
Quavering, tired, but confident in his message - the last address of a proud man looking death in the eye...
- male senior
- all slavic accents
To the Reichstag, the parliament of the German Empire, and to all those who hold the flame of liberty dear, I dictate this message. I address you, even as radicals break down the doors of our Bulgarian parliament. I am under no illusion that they will not find me hiding down here, and that my punishment for this insolence will be the noose. Let this be my last warning then – a message from the last democrat in Sofia.
A final warning, then, to my colleagues in Berlin. Because, like Bulgaria today, you too will all reap the seeds of what we have sown in 1914. We have smashed the imperial world order, but supplanted it with our own. Ours is not a more just world than the one the perfidious French, Russian and British created. Ours is a world glued from shards, held together only by violence and corruption. It could not last in Bulgaria. I fear it can not last in Europe as well. Beware these final words, parliamentarians of Germany, because you may still steer this ship. In Bulgaria, our time to act has passed. Heed my words. They come for me today. Tomorrow, they come For the THE KAISERREICH
