What Was Bulgaria Like 20 Years Ago?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ส.ค. 2024
- Rages to Riches? (1997): A look at Bulgaria's misfortunes, after the collapse of Communism and a decade before it entered the European Union.
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Synopsis: The fall of communism has brought serious hardship to Bulgaria. Pensioners, who worked their whole life for the communist regime, now have barely enough money to pay their bills, never mind buy food; engineers, who once had a comfortable lifestyle, now have to juggle two jobs just to cover their expenses; and hospitals are unable to afford much needed equipment. The agricultural sector has also suffered. Despite it being a formally booming industry, the collapse of the collective system and government neglect has forced an otherwise capable farming community to import foreign food. Like many countries in Eastern Europe, there are a group of rich business men who have profited from the chaos, buying up state property in mysterious circumstances. Yet hope may be on the horizon, with the Union of Democratic Forces poised to take power and implement lasting reform.
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Danmarks Radio - Ref. 0331
I am Brazilian and in 2017 I visited Bulgaria and my impression is that the infrastructure is bad, low wages, the buldings are in bad condition but some things improved because many Young people left to work abroad after they joined the EU. In general, bulgarians are nice, welcoming people who love to party, drink and eat pork and rakia!
Obrigado 😊
@@MrHriskoch de nada
the pension still is 200 levs for pensioners they can just eat bread and cuscumber eu lies
How would you describe the country's condition to that of Brazil?
@@suprensa4393 Brazil is an emerging and big economy, among the 10 biggest and dinamic economies in the world. It is the second main economy in America (the continent) after the USA. It has huge industries and manufactories, big prodution of foods and goods which are exported and self suficient to provide for it's own demand. As an developing country, obviously it also has problems on political and social scales, however, it has got everything to be a superpower in the future provided if politicians act on it's behave.
My parents left in 1987. I remember going to visit between 1994-1998, it was truly depressing. I feel so lucky that we didn't experience this first hand. Especially the elder relatives were living completely desperately, pensions didn't even cover food for a day. Imagine having old relatives be grateful to a small kid buying some milk, sausages and cheese with their pocket money...
I live in Bulgaria now and I can some things haven't changed ...
Unfortunetly they dont
Communism destroyed the country
@@jimbell122 You're delusional. Bulgaria was far better off under communism.
@@jimbell122 SDS in addition to the “fake communists” destroyed the country.
@@MrHriskoch petar stoyanov the hourse destroyed the bulgarian army by entering nato
It is basically the same even now...
But the difference is that many have left Bulgaria so they can live a normal life.
Sad to see many Westerners today celebrate the collapse of communism and say that those countries are better off now under capitalism, the same thing happened to Serbia after the fall of Yugoslavia, now Serbia is still suffering after the fall of communism, I feel bad for all the people who starved and died due to capitalism.
The situation in Romania was dire aswell during those years, but not as bad. The only reason for this were the economic reforms and privatization of enterprises that started earlier after the fall of Communism.
6 hour waiting for lentil soup!!! Bulgarians people are very vulnerable and patient even this days\! the retirement 3500lv was nothing at the time. the most worse times but get much worse from 1997 after inflation wave, wipe a lots lifes
1:09 I got confused at first because in modern day 3500 leva is around £1750 but then I realized due to the extremely high inflation in 1997 it makes sense that 3500 leva = 2 dollars back then. ( 1997, 7 years after the Communist party was in charge Bulgaria was left in an Economic Crisis )
back then 1000 leva the old currency was changed in 1999 to 1 leva that also gave me that impression for a brief moment. 3500 old levas a month is ridiculous. Like you could barely buy a piece of gum with 100
It doesn't matter how Bulgaria was twenty years ago, now is the poorest country in European Union.
Bulgaria has a higher median income than Romania.
😭😭 Beautiful country but dreadful government... From first look it's seems the things are better, but not a lot has changed since. Poverty, the corruption starts from the lowest level, pensioners are living on the edge of the survival. The politicians are betraying there one country in daily bases for few coins. Sad story, sad country, sad people.
I have learnt about bulgaria and moldova but not abut other east european countries
the situation of the pensioners is stil the same. should we blame capitalism now?
Not the capitalism is the problem but those that ceased private documents proving to whom money , apartments , land and pensions belong ( that was the mafia then but it’s now the parliament ...)
My parents visited Bulgaria in 1988 from Greece and second time in 2018 , life is way worsh. There are poor people living in the streets no Jobs without food and Garbage everywhere. They say that life was better for average Bulgarian. Now there are few reach People living in the backs of the People.
well out unemployment rate is 5% yours is like 30% so we are not that bad
In Greece it is not 30% check out the real numbers it is about 17% which is big anyway but there is a lot of black work as we say, and the salaries are 3-4 times up from Bulgaria. You don't see Greeks to come in Bulgaria to find jobs,you will see them to go in more rich countries like Germany,uk etc. You can find thousands of bulgarians in Greece working.
@@2lazylizards961well maybe thats true but at least we did not lied to the EU so we can join the stupid EU zone ant set back the euro you know what we got a invite to join the EU zone legit so get lost the only thing you can do is lie
@@nikolaiqkov4936 come on man everybody lie in EU probably you don't know many things about. Greece didn't lie just borrow money and sell bonds for later probably you don't know thinks good. Ask about and with dept problem it was all over Europe Iceland went bankrupt, Ireland had serious problems ,same Spain, Portugal, Italy you don't have no idea what is all about right? You here a stupid think and without checking you buy it. EU didn't help Greece or any other country ,the central Bank lent money to Greece and other countries. Help is when you give something without taking back. Educate yourself and make research don't buy anything you hear. Ask about deuchebank scandal and the German cover up.
@@2lazylizards961 you literally faked your documents
I lived 7 years in Bulgaria now and run a business doing paperwork for UK firms and things changed alot. But it you go out your way to destroy business culture it takes a while to transition to doing things yourself. It similar to people on state benefits for a long time. I prefer to UK as least here they know the dangers of socialism & governments.
Reminds me of St Helens in the UK
i think this film is from early 90s when most of the ex communist countries were in same state.now Bulgaria is prosperous as people from villages can go to work or live in west.so now only those are relatively poor who can't go to work in western or northern europr
1997 when there was absolutely no food in stores...Actually there was nothing in the stores, that is why the Parlament was on siege in January 1997, can you imagine we were like Venezuela at the moment...
Bulgaria is not better today!! Believe me, it is just sad here
@@ralitsapavlova4861 not true
BTW 6:11 remind of Life of Boris and his budget cooking videos th-cam.com/video/CvKQNLdMr48/w-d-xo.html
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But the extreme edition
Obviously that was almost twenty years ago. In the meantime things have changed in Bulgaria.
Nothing has changed...
Yes, the things have changed from bad to worse...
@@pashata6186 yes from bad to worse
now these people get nothing. this is what has changed. they are propably dying alone some place with no heathcare and no food
bulgaria in 15 century for another 1000 years
wow i was born in 1997
i must admit Bulgaria has changed a lot
i don't remember this kind of currency tho
the communism is bad
@@tonygarea7925 You really don't know how capitalism works...
Nothing has changed.
Yes some people are no longer starving but why don't you look at the whole country instead of one city...
Life is still unfair and it's not only Bulgaria that is suffering... Every single country that went thru communism now in Eastern Europe is suffering and young people are running away to live and not serve like sheep to some false system that doesn't work.
Those who stay will suffer unless they have connections aka being corrupted...
@@tonygarea7925 You just repeated what I've said. XD
Capitalism doesn't make countries poor...
Communism makes them poor!
@@tonygarea7925 Capitalism sounds scary to the people who want free stuff but it's not.
It is funny how some janitor wants his children to go an expensive university but has a car and drinks alcohol all the time.
If you can afford the car and the alcohol then it's your fault that you can't afford the children that you made for fun.
Actually... It's all people's fault for the situation when they decided to be useless patriots and breed like rabbits in a nonfunctional country.
My advice is this: If you want to breed then go somewhere else so the children can thank you or give life to them in this hell and see their disappointment after that.
Capitalism can be tamed as long as you are ready to make sacrifices while communism will whip you your entire life until you kick the bucket...
Right now in Eastern Europe (that includes our stupid country) art is being treated like trash and people are keep making babies that will grow one day and leave as soon as possible so they can live as humans somewhere safe.
Look at Japan... Art and nature made them get waaaay more tourists every single year. Sadly the animators in Japan are being overworked and underpaid and that's unfair...
Eastern Europe could've worked on many great things but instead it just started selling cheap alcohol and drugs to tourists ... That means that our countries are trying to attract the low class people who would come to get drunk and make our reputation even worse.
Don't blame capitalism and blame communism instead that made us weak and let the wrong people to be in charge.
Blame your elders who never did anything to fight the living evil.
Blame your parents that decided that sex is waaaay more important than evacuating somewhere safe where their children can have a better education and life.
Speaking of educations and health services... Those two are basically a myth in Bulgaria! :D
being unemployed isn't fun but since I don't have connections I guess I will stay a freelancer and one day leave this stupid garbage that call itself "a country".
I have no desire to be treated like nobody while some janitor telling me that I should give up on my dreams and just become the next janitor instead... That is just cruel!
We all have human rights and if we are good at something it would be weird to let it go and pretend that "everything is okay" in a country where communists are still in charge.
The Prime Minister is basically a communist if you listen to what that bastard is saying.
@@MasterBlek As Tony states, look at the social indicators before, during and after socialism. For the working class majority, virtually all these indicators objectively demonstrate that living conditions and qaulity of life dramatically improved during socialism, and rapidly declined when it was overthrown. To blame the rise of alcoholism and social ills and individual, personal moral defecinices rather than the socio-economic context they occur in is really missing the big picture.