Editorial photo #1882306 Human Interest

Elderly man 105 years celebrations

elderly man is celebrating his 105 birthday in the Bulgarian border town of Svilengrad, some 260 km east from the capital of Sofia. The 105 years, Nedelcho was born in the beginning of 20 century and he is one of the oldest people around the country. He had been on the frontline, during the Second World War, at the Hungarian border. The old man shared with us, that he had been lived during three regimes, King regime, communism and democracy nowadays. Nedelcho want to live and share that secret of the long live is hidden in the walking. He drink some red wine from time to time, but the last box of cigarettes he smoked on the frontline. The old man told, that no one from the Bulgarian government or the local institutions don't give him financial help or even congratulations Svilengrad, Bulgaria on April 05, 2017 (Photo by Hristo Rusev/NurPhoto)