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2000 - 2010
NGO < BULGARIAN NATIONAL UNION - EDELWEISS >

The idea to establish the Bulgarian National Union came to life in the late 1990s, when in Bulgaria there was practically not a single acting nationalistic organisation.

Its initiator was Boyan Rassate, who gathered a few people around him thus marking the Beginning.
Initially, the organisation was called Bulgarian National Resistance but even before it gained publicity it was renamed to Bulgarian National Union "Edelweiss". After a secret voting, Boyan Rassate was elected as the leader of the Union.

As a symbol of the Bulgarian National Union the sign of Doulo clan (the clan of Khan Asparuh – the founder of Bulgaria) – IYI was chosen, which was put onto the banners, the regional standards and all the advertisement materials and the motto ‘When the right turns into lawlessness, resistance is obligatory’ became the leading devise of the Union.
The leader of the Union of the Bulgarian National Legions, General Hristo Lukov, who was assassinated in 1943, was accepted as patron of the organisation.
Soon, at the organisation, a Humanitarian Corps was established, whose task was to organise and carry out beneficial activities. The better-known among these are:

WINTER AID for Bulgarian pensioners and poor Bulgarians, which we organise every year;
The children’s holiday ‘MY BEAUTIFUL BULGARIA’, in which in all those years thousands of children from all parts of Bulgaria took part;
Beneficial gathering of books for Bessarabian Bulgarians with 3,500 books bestowed on Grigoriy Tsamblak State University in Tarakliya, Moldova;
Aid for the Bulgarians in the Western Marginal Lands.

Since the very beginning, sport and tourism have become important constituents of the view of life of the Organisation. The tasks of developing these and educating the youth physically, as well as the guarding of the events the Organisation carried out, which were not few at all, have been assigned to the so-called Sports Organisation (SO). Consequently, the Sports Organisation became the fundament of the National GUARD, which we established and started developing in 2007.

The first public action of the Bulgarian National Union was the sabotage of the celebration of ‘9 September’ in Sofia, organised by the former communist party.
This resulted in a spoiled meeting, one diseased active fighter against fascism, and the first arrests of and charges against members of the BNU.
In the following years, the Union organised and participated in tens of processions, celebrations and protests. Activists of ours were the leading figures of almost all the civil protests in the period 2001-2011.

The event that becomes more and more important for the nationalists and supported nation-wide and internationally is LUKOV MARCH carried out in memory of General Hristo Lukov. Its creator and yearly organiser is the leader of the Bulgarian National Union, Boyan Rassate.
Not less important are also the commemoration of Colonel Dimitur Spisarevski in the village of Passarel, as well as the torch processions in protest against the Treaty of Neuilly in the city of Plovdiv.

The Bulgarian National Union was the organiser of the first protests carried-out in Zaharna Fabrika Residential District, in Sofia, after the murder of Prof. Kaloyanov, in 2005, against the crimes committed by Gypsies.
In that same year, in support for the residents of Souhodol Residential District, we blocked the road to the municipal-waste tip and came into collision with the outnumbering us gendarmerie.

In 2007, after the ethnic collisions in Krasna Polyana Residential District, we declared the establishment of a NATIONAL GUARD (other than NATIONAL MOVEMENT "GUARDIA") that was to defend the Bulgarian population against the Gypsies.
Unfortunately, our idea remained not understood so it did not receive the necessary support as from the State so from the other patriotic formations and for this reason it is not realised even today.

The official politicians and public figures, including the president, the prime minister, the chairman of the National Assembly and the minister of interior defined our initiative as ‘the greatest provocation against the State’ for the years of the transition and started the ordinal police investigation, and some of the other so-called nationalistic parties inexplicably joined their condemnation of the Bulgarian National Union.

In 2008, the gay organisation known as Gemini challenged the public by declaring that it would organise the first parade of homosexuals in Bulgaria. This made it necessary for us to demand prohibition of the parade and all gay organisations.
A number of democratic organisations, the Jewish Shalom inclusive, declared that they were against the ‘Week of Intolerance of the Homosexuality and Paedophilia in the Bulgarian Society’ organised by the Bulgarian National Union.

Because of the inner disunion of the national forces and unavailability of co-ordination among them, the result was the arrest of over 100 people, one of whom was Boyan Rassate – sentenced for the ordinal time.

The Union’s authority was growing and connections were established with a number of European nationalistic organisations. The Bulgarian National Union became one of the first members of the European National Front.

Thus gradually in the course of years and with the experience being gained, appeared the idea of our participation in the political processes in Bulgaria, and a decision was made to establish a political party of ours called National Movement "GUARDIA".

Of course, the State in the person of the Court of Law and the Prosecutor’s Office rejected our documents several times thus hampering the registration of the party.

Our attempts ended in 2009, when we changed our approach and established a contact with the leaders of New Democracy Bulgarian National Union led then by Bogdan Yotsov – a son of the ex-minister of people’s enlightenment Boris Yotsov executed by the communists in 1945. This party was established in 1990 by Ivan Lazarov – a nationalist and participant in the anti-communist Mountaineers’ Movement.

Later, due to the advanced age of the leaders and members of this party, it was entirely put under the leadership of Boyan Rassate.

FIRST RUNNING FOR ELECTION AND THE SUBSEQUENT DIUNIFICATION

After it failed to be registered, the Union, anyway, took part in the parliamentary elections in 2009 with ballot paper № 18 as Bulgarian National Union - ND.
Because of insufficient money, people and time for preparing the pre-electoral campaign, the party did not succeed in defending the votes given for it. Thus we came to the unreal 3,800 votes which the counting officials reported after the end of the voting day. In that same week, we called a press conference at which we presented proofs of falsifications of the electoral results, but these were not taken into consideration.

– THE TRAITORS –
Despite the electoral failure, the Organisation was already a threat to the status quo, which determined its fate. The Bulgarian National Union had to be weakened, and the first divisions of opinion occurred soon after the parliamentary elections. These divisions were caused by a small but motivated group that wanted at all costs to make the Bulgarian National Union NOT DEAL WITH POLITICS.
Consequently, it became clear that a few people of this group had been pressed into service by the secret service after they had been arrested for dealing with criminal activities. Pressed before the election into choosing whether to do the foul deed of breaking the Organisation or go to prison for many years, they chose the first one.
In the subsequent few months, the traitors poisoned the atmosphere in the Union, which made Boyan Rassate make a difficult decision in February 2010 and he left the youth organization NGO "BNU - Edelweiss".
Just a few weeks later, most of the members, polluted by intrigues and inner struggles, left the NGO and continued their membership in the party BULGARIAN NATIONAL UNION led by Boyan Rassate.

From 2010 to this day

THE PARTY < BULGARIAN NATIONAL UNION >
undoubtedly, the services stroke a heavy blow on the organisation. After the splitting-up in 2010, the motivation of many members was ruined, structures were disestablished and there was confusion among the members. The activity of BNU was practically ceased except for the carrying-out of Lukov March, which the traitors misappropriated not because of good intentions but to legitimate themselves in the nationalistic circles as the only continuers of the idea ‘Bulgarian National Union’ as without it they are NOTHING.
We must admit that they succeeded to a certain extent, though they actually almost did not…

With a reduced number of members, the party participated in the anti-governmental protests in 2013.

In that same year, our country was flooded by a wave of fugitives. The crimes committed in our capital city by immigrants from the Third World became an everyday practice.

In that situation, the Bulgarian National Union was again the only organisation to react adequately and it established the so-called CIVIL PATROLS.
But the State would start accusations and would hamper in every possible way the patrols’ activity.
The mass media started presenting the first fake pieces of information in which others ascribed to themselves the activity of our patrols...

One of the undoubtedly most emblematic and bold actions of the Bulgarian National Union was the occupation of the room of the Central Electoral Commission in 2014. Then, activists of the party invaded the house of the National Assembly, while being discontented with the dual standard applied by the Commission to our party by their decision to stop the broadcast of a pre-electoral clip of ours, while another one, with similar contents, submitted by the Turkish party Movement for Rights and Freedoms was not sanctioned at all. For 24 hours the Commission’s work was blocked with our demand for banning the broadcast of the MRF’s clip.
The occupation was ceased after our demand was granted.

In that same year, we carried out an unprecedented protest in front of the office of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee (BHC) with the demand for prohibiting this organisation. It was not prohibited, but the contract for using that office was ceased and the swine were forced to look for a new pigsty for themselves.

2020 did not begin well. In January, our associate of many years Emil Krumov was killed at interrogation by the State National Security Agency. Despite the mass-media interest and our repeated insisting on clarifying the circumstances that had led to Emil’s death, the details about what happened on that day remain concealed to this day. The official version of the police, which was accepted by the general public and the parasitic tiny group within the NGO, was ‘suicide’. Peace to his ashes! Someday, we will avenge him!

In the subsequent madness, called ‘COVID 19 world pandemic’, the party staunchly put up its face against the imposed restrictions and the criminal desire of the world’s elite to forcibly vaccinate the mankind. Our activists sabotaged in every possible way the epidemiological regulations, organised all the protests and participated in these. In those dangerous years, we proved that to us, as nationalists, freedom is a supreme value and we are ready to defend it against the liberal psychopaths who want to deprive us of it.

Nationalism struggles not only for freedom but also for peace and justice. This was why when Russia began waging its full-scale war against Ukraine we did not hesitate even for a jiff whose side to take. As soon as on the following day, the Bulgarian National Union came out with a declaration condemning Russia’s aggression and we started an active support for Ukraine and its defenders, many of whom share our ideas and are friends of ours.
A number of initiatives, protests, beneficial campaigns for raising funds, and other events followed, with which you can get acquainted in detail HERE.

During the political crisis of 2020-2024, the Bulgarian National Union participated in all the parliamentary elections and, for the first time, in presidential elections by presenting its candidate president Boyan Rassate and candidate vice president Elena Vatashka, as well as in the elections for European Parliament. The results of all the participations were extremely unsatisfactory, but in this political atmosphere controlled by Russophile communists, and liberals (actually former communists), they cannot be other!

The battle for Bulgaria goes on...