01 Jan 2007
From Normandy to the Rhine
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Liberty or Death
In а short but heroic campaign, Bulgarian poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev leads a band of rebels from the Danube to the Balkan Range.
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Milen Penev Hristo Botev
Коста Цонев 
Всеволод Сафонов 
Стефан Илиев 
Kiril Gospodinov 
Apostol Karamitev David Todorov
Васил Михайлов
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