Thread:Vorknkx/@comment-3547390-20150204202730/@comment-1496755-20150302132336

It was more like a matter of convenience. When one is in good relations with the rulers, his business would also be fine. And they can get rich more easily.

Younger people who couldn't stand this life ran away and became emmigrants, usually in Romania. They formed small communities there, which often organised small resistance groups and sent them to fight the Ottomans in the mountains of Bulgaria (mountaisn, because they offer more hiding places). This struggle seemed pretty desperate and hopeless, yet it was considered a great honor by some people. Their slogan was "Freedom or death".

It was an amazing time indeed. Many of the veterans from these struggles would become highly venerated persons after the Liberation, and some of them would even have a political career.