19 Jul
2016
19 Jul
'16
6:52 a.m.
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 04:42:14PM -0300, juan wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 08:46:28 +0300 Georgi Guninski <guninski@guninski.com> wrote:
The fall of socialism in europe and russia happened in a strange way IMHO.
Strange, how? Care to elaborate?
I may be wrong on this, just a personal opinion about bulgaria. It came too fast, without any warnings signs. The system appeared to work -- there was lack of some goods and services, not of first need ones. Essentially there was no poverty. Nowadays, retired people are literally poor. They can hardly afford to pay the food, bills and medicines. Extreme conspiracy theories claimed Gorbachov was in bed with CIA. I doubt this could be possible without KGB's consent.