How does a nation die? Not with a bang, but with an invisible replacement of its national identity.
This book is a ruthless dissection of a people who have lost their Logos—their inner sense of existence. It is a haunting clarion call, forcing us to reflect on the kind of Bulgaria we wish to leave for the children yet to be born.
It is neither an indictment, nor an apology, nor nostalgia. It is a structural attempt to understand a complex and often unrecognizable transformation in which a nation gradually loses its core support systems: identity, memory, demographic structure, institutional autonomy, and future strategy.
National Suicide is not a pessimistic forecast but an attempt at intellectual mobilization. History does not forgive nations that have lost their will for meaning, but it leaves the door ajar for those ready to defend their right to exist. For those who will remain—not because they believe, but because they refuse to surrender. For those who will not abandon their country even in their thoughts. Those who will not replace their language with foreign syntax, their children with applications, or agree to have their army replaced by algorithms. Those who will not betray their past in exchange for a future programmed by someone else.
“National suicide is not a destiny, but a choice,” Tabakov concludes, leaving the reader with the heavy task of deciding whether they wish to stand up for their Bulgarian identity.
