I'm from Bulgaria. AMA. Welcome to Bulgaria, the world’s fastest shrinking nation.

I've been in Bulgaria and even had bulgarian gf. I must say I never seen capital city in such condition as Sofia ... My experience with bulgrarian people are that they are very simply not very good at hand work jobs,Sofia is in fact a prove of that. I don't know man but artist will not build your cities and economy.

also Sofia is most polluted capital in Europe

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but to be fair there are other cities and towns that are better, old capital Veliko Tarnovo is nice.

Is it worse than SF?

Okay Bulgaria, WTF is this shit?!?!
Ghey Maga!

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I worked in Yambol for a bit for US army. Great people and great country. Loved that they served drinks at offercers mess at lunch. Lol

looks like a gypsy to me.

I want my 2 mins 11 secs back, please.

Whats for dinner tonight boiled root vegetable , curd and dripping

yes he is gypsy, but it is irrelevant because many gypsies here are Evangelicals, born again christians, etc and Bulgaria as a whole is conservative nation, with traditional family values in majority of population

and it is funny that this poster is from Netherlands, the center of liberalism, transgender and homosexual rights in Europe.

It's probably a goat-fucker, anyway.

should have asked first before opening it bro

and pls stop quoting this video. thanks

Hey, I am from Yambol myself

Where were you stationed, Novo Selo ?

Yes from my country you could expect everything. Butt i didn't expect it from your country.LoL

I m not familiar with the economics of Bulgaria but i know about their immigration problem as we have a lot of Bulgarians living and working here. Most of them send money and products back to their families in Bulgaria.
I've also heard that their spa and ski resorts are popular with the Greeks of norther Greece, who visit there often.
With our financial crisis many businesses relocated in Bulgaria, mostly to avoid the huge taxes here.
So, i guess, Bulgaria just needs one good politician in charge to find ways to improve the country's income (cheap and not so cheap tourism could be a good source) and fight the corruption.

I went to Bulgaria once. Trekked and spent a night on the Pirin mountains where we met the god Perun himself that night (huge fucking hailstorm with lightning all around us)


I liked it, people were nice and welcoming, food was good.

yep, one of my grandmothers worked in Greece in the 90s taking care of old Greek people, one of the old men she took care of was telling her you bulgarians are a barbarian tribe

In 2001 King Simeon came back to Bulgaria and won elections and became Prime Minister. He was last ruler of Kingdom of Bulgaria until 1945, but he was only a child back then, his father died 1943 so he took the throne at young age. Then Communist party took power and he was exiled. After 1989 when Soviet Union was dissolved and all Eastern European regimes fell he came back after exile for first time and there were thousands of people on the streets welcoming him. They thought he was good politican that will improve country income. So in 2001 finally he made political party and won the eletcions. He had ministers who worked in West, who were experts and supposed to change the standart of living.

In 2001 his party won 1,952,513 votes, 42% and first political power. In 2009 his party won 127,470 votes and 3% and that was his end. Now nobody wants to hear about him. He didn't touch the oligarchs.

There needs to be a massive revolution, an army coup or something like that. All oligarchs rounded up and put in prison and Bulgaria to ally with Russia. We saw Russia was broke in 90's but after Putin took power it all changed. Maybe Russia can help Bulgaria.

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The only Bulgarian I know is a blonde knockout

My question for you; are many Bulgarian women super hot?

yes bro, but to be honest there are hot women in all nations

Yes there are, but not many rival this one girl I know from Bulgaria

I personally like dark hair/dark eyes type girls like Southern Italian and Greek girls, there are such Bulgarian girls as we are close genetically to other South-Eastern European nations, there are also blondes but they are not like Scandinavian blondes

I hate to say it to you but you know they have oligarchs in Russia too, right?

If Russia is so much better why is all opposition silenced and why did Putin made a very unpopular pension reform?

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Yes of course, but it is quite different.

Now the EU gives subsidies to Bulgarian government and they use this money to build new highways. I read an article recently when Simeon became PM in 2001 he had a plan that these subsidies from EU to be used for lesser roads and highways to be built with money from other investors, it was something along these lines. But then these people came to him and told him your majesty you know that the matter with road building is in the hands of such and such people and not yours and to forget his plan.

Now tell me is it possible a russian oligarch to go to Putin and tell him, Dear Vladimir this sector is ours, we deal with it not you.

We all know this famous Putin video and the factory oligarchs



The time in 90's when Russia was in horrendous economic situation like Bulgaria is today, when oligarchs were running the country and doing what they want are over.

Just a comparison of Russia under Yeltsin called "The father of oligarchy" and Putin :

Under Yeltsin : GDP 195 bn USD
GDP per person 1320 USD
Inflation 36.5%
Gold & FX reserves 12.6 bn USD
National debt 78% GDP
Pension 499 rubles
Salary 1522 rubles

Under Putin: GDP 2111 bn USD
GDP per person 148000 bn USD
Inflation 6.5%
Gold & FX reserves 511 bn USD
National debt 8% GDP
Pension 10000 rubles
Salary 29940 rubles

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That article is mostly BS.

It's based on claims from the Naumann Foundation and Transparency International (both German NGOs), the European Parliament and the EU.

They use these tactics to keep Bulgaria and Romania as second-class EU members and continuously interfere in their internal politics.

Did you shrink ?

first of all, he's Serbian mother fuckers. I know they all look the same.


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About your second question, all opposition is not sileneced. The Russian Communist Party is the biggest opposition and has always been in second place in elections since year 2000 . Before Putin came to power in 1999 even they won the elections for State Duma. Their worst result is 3rd place in 1993. RCP openly critisizes Putin government on different issues. Zyuganov leader of the party is a harsh critic of President Vladimir Putin.

Also see this video conversation between Putin and a journalist who has a radio program in Russia where he is freely defending NATO policies and what Putin told him about it.

No it is not. It is factual and accurate article.

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Oh boy...

Here's an example, it "factually" states:

Bulgaria leads the EU when it comes to one unpalatable indicator – the prevalence of corruption

Really? Ever wonder how did they establish that?

Transparency International said so, that's how. Bwahahahaha.
TI's Corruption Index is the biggest BS there is. The idea that they can accurately quantify and rank countries by corruption based on "opinion surveys" is hilarious.

You should also check who funds Transparency International.

"A study published in 2002 found a "very strong significant correlation" between the Corruption Perceptions Index and two other proxies for corruption: black market activity and overabundance of regulation.

All three metrics also had a highly significant correlation with real gross domestic product per capita (RGDP/Cap); the Corruption Perceptions Index correlation with RGDP/Cap was the strongest, explaining over three fourths of the variance." - "International Validation of the Corruption Perceptions Index: Implications for Business Ethics and Entrepreneurship Education". Journal of Business Ethics. Springer Netherlands. 35 (3): 177–189.

One important thing - The CPI measures perception of corruption due to the difficulty of measuring absolute levels of corruption.

Anyway you don't even need TI's Corruption Perception Index to tell you that Bulgaria is most corrupt country in EU. It is actually self-evident.