For the ordinary Bulgarian the Cold War soon turned into a Cold Peace.
The poor and the middle class have no real political representation. A cartel elite is changing in power like a volleyball team rotating for the first ball on the pitch.
Living standards have fallen for the majority of families- heating, electricity, fuel, food, homes have hardly avoidable prices. People are treated like oriental women in a market harem of a few monopolies where the government is the eunuch.
Birth rate has fallen, pension age has increased, good health care is only for the rich.
Education standards have deteriorated- intelligent Bulgarian youth is flocking into western universities with one way tickets.
We have a 30 000 army and a 100 000 police force.
Freedom of speech is owned by a handful of groups possessing the whole media market.
The man on the street does not believe in law enforcement.
Banks are more important than human beings.
Religion is more a ceremony than a faith.
The critical point of the above will be reached when communism turns from a memory of the old into a dream of the young for more equality and social justice. Not much time is left.
Bulgaria is not the only country in this position.
The West may have won the Cold War but is it losing the Cold Peace?
The Cold Peace can be won only by making it a WARM Peace.
01.09.2012 Valentin Braykov