Re:Bulgaria writes new chapter in long story of demographic ...
by toomuchtodo on Thursday July 09, 2020 @07:14PM
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How does this compare to the fall of the USSR, and the rise of oligarchs in post-communist Russia? Very similar?
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Re:Bulgaria writes new chapter in long story of demographic ...
by pvg on Thursday July 09, 2020 @07:17PM
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Superficially similar but one of these was the disintegration of a nuclear superpower and multi-national empire. Bulgaria is a small country in the Balkans. Its population is smaller than that of NYC.
Re:Bulgaria writes new chapter in long story of demographic ...
by vldx on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:42AM
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Territorially, Bulgaria is close to Greece and larger than Austria, Portugal, Ireland and Czechia. It holds 16th position among 51 countries in Europe. High-income countries such as Denmark, Ireland and Switzerland also have lower population than NYC.
What is your point?
Re:Bulgaria writes new chapter in long story of demographic ...
by pvg on Friday July 10, 2020 @02:01AM
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What is your point?
I thought I made it clearly but I'm happy to repeat. The post-Soviet-collapse socio-political developments in Bulgaria are (for a lot of obvious reasons) almost, but not quite, entirely unlike those of the actual Soviet collapse.
One of these obvious reasons is that Bulgaria is a small country. Especially compared to the Soviet Union. Which was a big country. In fact, the biggest one.