=========================== The Committee for National Solidarity Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU Author: Ivan Angelov, born 1943; International Relations Graduate (1969); Ph.D. (1975); Associate Professor (1988) AUSCHWITZ NEAR SOFIA... That is the title of an article in the “ART” supplement of the “TRUD” daily (August 19, p. 15). It informs about the works on a Hollywood movie (“The Greay Zone”, producer Tim Nelson, starring Mira Sorvino, Harvey Keitel, Steve Bushemi - not sure in the spelling, this is how the names look like in Bulgarian) that are going on these days some 20 klm from Sofia near the village of Zhiten. A very true copy of Auschwitz is being built there with cremation houses, and things like that spread over a territory of 20000 sq. m. It is difficult to say if the people who participate in the works know that Bulgaria has been among the very few, if not the only country in Europe, that has managed somehow to save its Jews during the WWII. No wonder if they do not have much idea about it. In the same way, both local and foreign politicians and opinion makers seem not to notice how A u s c h w I t z is being reproduced here these days when the life of millions of that country population has been turned into a humiliating everyday fight for bare survival as a result of the introduction of a series of inadequate economic measures and policies. The idea of adjusting the country’s economy to the requirements of the “free” market mechanisms is being realised in such a way that at least a good half of the 7 million Bulgarians practically are without elementary means for a civilised existence. As a result of such strategies, that have been and are constantly praised and supported by the IMF, World Bank and the other structures abroad, the last decade standard of living in Bulgaria has decreased several times and the mortality rate is constantly increasing. Political parties in power and Governments have been changing but no substantial change has ever occurred in this kind of policies. On the contrary, the last go on in such a way so as to stiffen even harder the grip around the throat of the remaining part of the population and to make their survival chances less and less. It seems that the winter 2000/2001 will be an extremely decisive and critical period in that respect. During the last decade the Bulgarians have surprisingly survived somehow with drastically shrunken agriculture and industry. Obviously now they have to show if they would be able to do it without doctors, dentists and medicine. Since July 1 the vast majority of the population has been left practically without functioning health system. The policlinics, developed by several generations of practitioners in the course of the last century, have been closed down with the only exception of those working for the high level governmental persons, Army and police officials - of course! The doctors have been forced to register as AUTONOMOUS juridical persons, c a p a b l e of procuring for themselves consulting rooms, medical apparatus, laboratory equipment, etc. From time to time some of the media announces that up-and-doing y o u n g men (not necessarily with medical education) have managed to b u y this or that polyclinics’ building. Nothing is heard though where the policlinics’ well-equipped laboratories and other medical equipment have gone to. They have just disappeared... At the same time media inform quite seriously how much it will be saved when the time between periodical life-saving haemodialysis for the kidney patients will be elongated with 6 (six) months! We are told HOW MUCH BETTER things will be afterwards - perhaps, presumably, when most of the patients will GO WITH THE WIND... Patients with serious nervous diseases, Parkinson’s and the likes (most of which are in the lowest strata of the population) now have to make their own choice whether to give practically all they have for costly imported life-saving drugs or to go on without them... It is widely known that in Auschwitz the Nazi used to take the golden tooth crowns and everything else of value out of the people before the final solution takes place. In this sense, if things here differ, that difference is only a matter of scale and technology. Both doctors and potential patients in Bulgaria these days are trapped by a system under which the first have to introduce unbearably high prices in order to.. survive, and the others - to give up voluntarily any medical treatment.. for the very same purposes! Such a satanic merry-go-round obviously cannot last long and it is sure to give the clearly sought of results during the coming winter when the deadly combination of central heating and food prices will present another choice of the same kind for the majority of the Bulgarians. A month ago politicians and opinion makers both in Bulgaria and abroad have been involved in a discussion if Bulgarians could also have saved more than 11000 Jews from Greece and Macedonia in addition to the 57000 Jews from Bulgaria they have managed to save somehow in WWII. Neither of them though - either in Bulgaria or abroad! - have taken even the slightest pains to see how much similarity there is in reality between the Auschwitz practices and the results of the economic strategies to which the people of Bulgaria is subjected in the eve of the New Millenium... Maybe this is so because of the ONE and ONLY very important difference between AUSCHWITZ ECONOMIC MODEL and the MACROECONOMIC FRAMEWORK forced on Bulgaria of nowadays, namely, the cremation and funeral services. In AUSCHWITZ they were free of charge, while in BULGARIA their prices are getting also unbearable for the majority of the population!... Obviously this takes place in the view of the expected WINTER BOOM in this business which promises to turn into the only one dynamically developing branch of the economy. At the same time, this may create certain undesirable sanitary and hygienic COLLATORIAL PROBLEMS for those, working hard to reach the MACROECONOMIC FRAMEWORK STRATEGIC END RESULTS in the AUSCHWITZ OF TODAY - BULGARIA. So, it is high time for all in charge of it, both globally and locally, to grasp that, and to take measures that m i n o r difference and contradiction with the WWII prototype - AUSCHWITZ - to be abolished. It goes without saying it, of course, that if the economic reform in Bulgaria is carried out for purposes different from those of AUSCHWITZ’ ones, some very different things should be started - and the sooner, the better... We understand that all this may sound quite absurd to lots of people. The tragedy is that it is true. In previous days AUSCHWITZ stories also were difficult to believe. Hardly anybody questions them now. The same is the case with one of AUSCHWITZ’ new versions, this time somewhere in Eastern Europe... Ivan Angelov, born 1943; International Relations Graduate (1969); Ph.D. (1975); Associate Professor (1988) Secretary General Mrs. Jela Jovanovic Art historian =========================== _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
[L-I] Bulgaria Under USA Yoke
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