Nicolla Spotinov
The protests at the dawn of democracy in 1997 and today
The big difference is that it was very cold at that time. Nevertheless, everything was very spontaneous then and many people were out in the street. Something happened every day again – there were barricades then and we were protesting night and day. It seems that things are going to "occupy" a longer part of the day. We began with afternoon protests, and now there is a morning coffee and lunch tea drinking outside the parliament. The aim is to make the deputies aware that there are people out there who will not give up.
In 1997, some communists had climbed to power who pretended to be socialists. They played the demagogue and acted foolishly again. And if the follies are moral and ethical at present, they were purely financial and economical then. They had caused terrible hyperinflation in the country, it actually went bankrupt and they plundered people's savings. Now, their plundering is more sophisticated but the people understand this and are out in the street to protest in the same spontaneous way.
Personally, I have always been involved in all protests. The reasons were different in 1989-1990. We were very enthusiastic that something was happening and that Bulgaria would finally follow the path of normal countries. So, this is a tradition for me.
The current protests involve the children of the people of my age. This time, things come down to their future and they will fight to take back their country from the serial, the same members of this red party that is doing the same when it climbs to power.
However, the current protests involve the children of the people of my age. This time, things come down to their future and they will fight to take back their country from the serial, the same members of this red party that is doing the same when it climbs to power: during the governing of Lukanov, the state went bankrupt and they had set up things so that bread was rationed in peacetime. During the governing of Videnov, there was hyperinflation and now it is the turn of this citizen of Ukraine, Sergey Stanishev, and his associates of the MRF and the Attack party.
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