{"id":1127,"date":"2010-01-01T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T08:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bronicable.com\/en\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2026-07-24T09:40:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:40:56","slug":"on-this-day-in-bulgaria-october-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bronicable.com\/en\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria-october-26\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in Bulgaria: October 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>October 26, 1890 &#8212; Bulgaria&#8217;s First Village Cooperative Is Founded in Mirkovo<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The first Bulgarian village cooperative was founded in Mirkovo, near Sofia, opening an important chapter in the country&#8217;s economic and social history. Cooperatives offered small farmers a way to pool resources, share risk, access credit, buy supplies, and sell produce more effectively. In a society where most people still lived from agriculture, this mattered deeply. The Mirkovo cooperative became a model for later rural organizations that tried to protect peasants from debt, middlemen, and unstable markets. It also reflected a broader European trend in which cooperative ideas spread as a practical answer to poverty and economic dependence. In Bulgaria, the movement later became tied to agrarian politics, local self-help, and the modernization of village life.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>October 26, 1989 &#8212; EcoGlasnost Activists Are Dispersed in Sofia<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>A rally of EcoGlasnost activists in downtown Sofia was dispersed by the militia while participants were collecting signatures against major hydro-power projects. The event came just weeks before the fall of Todor Zhivkov on November 10, 1989, and became one of the visible signs that public fear was beginning to crack. Environmental causes had created one of the few spaces where citizens could challenge the socialist state without using explicitly party-political language. The authorities&#8217; reaction showed that even ecological protest was treated as a threat when it became public and organized. The dispersal helped turn EcoGlasnost into a symbol of civil awakening, connecting environmental activism with the wider democratic changes that soon transformed Bulgaria&#8217;s political life.<\/p>\n<p>Continue with <a href=\"https:\/\/bronicable.com\/en\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria-october-25\/\">October 25<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bronicable.com\/en\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria-october-27\/\">October 27<\/a>. For more stories and places, explore <a href=\"https:\/\/bronicable.com\/en\/category\/from-above\/\">Bulgaria From Above<\/a> and the guides in our <a href=\"https:\/\/bronicable.com\/en\/category\/bulgaria\/\">Bulgaria<\/a> category on <a href=\"https:\/\/bronicable.com\/en\/\">Bronicable<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in Bulgarian history: Bulgaria&#8217;s first village cooperative was founded in Mirkovo in 1890, and EcoGlasnost activists were dispersed in Sofia in 1989.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-this-day-in-bulgaria","latest_post"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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