Bulgaria writes new chapter in long story of demographic decline

Re:Bulgaria writes new chapter in long story of demographic ... by pvg on Thursday July 09, 2020 @07:17PM (#23786391)

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.

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Re:Bulgaria writes new chapter in long story of demographic ... by vldx on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:42AM (#23788520)

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?

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Re:Bulgaria writes new chapter in long story of demographic ... by pvg on Friday July 10, 2020 @02:01AM (#23788606)

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.

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Re:Bulgaria writes new chapter in long story of demographic ... by JBiserkov on Thursday July 09, 2020 @07:34PM (#23786501)

Bulgaria is in top 10 EU countries by area. It contains the entire Balkan mountains after which the Balkan peninsula is named.

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Re:Bulgaria writes new chapter in long story of demographic ... by pvg on Thursday July 09, 2020 @08:01PM (#23786693)

Аз съм българче, oбичам наште планини зелени. It's still a small country.

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