Again you ignore it but it's still there, I'm just pointing out a simple fact, your life could have been completely different, why can't you even think about that?
There were plenty of things wrong about my country growing up, if I can see them then why can't you see the things wrong with yours?
The engineers worked in countries that were approved of by the government, they couldn't just go where they wanted. You had freedom of travel but only on your side of the Iron Curtain.
You were a young adult when communism fell, suddenly you had freedom. I've made this point before but you continue to ignore it. If communism hadn't fallen you might not have had the chances you had in life, the right to travel. You got lucky, it might not have worked out like that. You are looking at the past through rose tinted glasses. More exposure to the west would perhaps have made you more open minded and enabled you to judge your own country a bit differently. Most people don't want to live on benefits here, that's a myth. Most people, including immigrants want to work and improve their lives.
And yet tens of thousands of people risk their lives every year trying to reach the West.
Was everyone allowed to travel wherever they wanted? Or did you need permission?
Why don't you answer my questions as I try to answer yours? With you it's 'attack..attack...attack' at all times. Again I have to point out that your opportunities in life might have been limited if change hadn't come.
Wow! I'm not trying to attack you, I'm asking genuinely because I want to know. In what ways was it better and in what was it worst. I know communism had many achievements but I think you're looking at it through rose tinted glasses. You did not have travel freedom and that was not because of policies in the west, it was Eastern bloc's decision to keep it that way because they knew they'd lose their brightest and best if they let them leave.
If a country has to shoot people to stop them from leaving then something is clearly wrong. Do you really not see that your life could have been very different if you hadn't been allowed to travel?
No doubt. However there will also be the mainly young, urban and educated class who will want something better, if they aren't allowed get it then they'll leave en masse, a brain drain will occur. If you want to stop that from happening you have to shoot them, as in pre 1989.
If you go back for enough the whole world started from one tribe somewhere in Africa so I don't see how this is relevant. Nobody (that I can see anyway) hates Eastern Europeans. I'm glad the Iron Curtain fell and they could come here and enrich our culture. You are old enough to remember communism and what Bulgaria was like before it fell. If it hadn't fallen then you mightn't have had the life you've had with all the travel and stuff. You might not have been allowed to do that. Do you ever think of that?
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Living in the west of Ireland would not suit you then.
RE: Kultur-multur
More famous than War and Peace?