Vasil Levski Quotes
If I win - I win for all our people, if I lose - I lose only myself.
He was caught and executed by the Ottoman Turks. While he lost his life, his revolution finally succeeded.
Vasil Levski, 1837–1873, Bulgarian Revolutionary and National Hero, Letter to Panayot Hitov, 1868
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Vasil Levski (Bulgarian: Васил Левски, spelled in old Bulgarian orthography as Василъ Лѣвскій, pronounced [vɐˈsiɫ ˈlɛfski]), born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and is a national hero of Bulgaria today. Dubbed the Apostle of Freedom, Levski ideologised and strategised a revolutionary movement to liberate Bulgaria from Ottoman rule. Levski founded the Internal Revolutionary Organisation, and sought to foment a nationwide uprising through a network of secret regional committees.