[CTRL] Tr: WITH HER EYES OPENED - A LETTER FROM BULGARIA

[Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General]

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Roger ROMAIN
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Envoyé : jeudi 9 septembre 1999 4:03
Objet : WITH HER EYES OPENED - A LETTER FROM BULGARIA


> Dear people,
>
>  http://www.emperors-clothes.com received the following from
> a Bulgarian reader a few days ago.  Addressed to the
> Serbian opposition, it clarifies the meaning of the
> 'democracy' dispensed by Madeline Albright's
> "'Indispensible Nation."
>
> WITH HER EYES OPENED
>
> A Letter to the Serbian 'Democratic Opposition'
> by Doncheva
>
> [Note <http://www.emperors-clothes.com> encourages everyone to distribute
> the following in any way possible but please include the entire text
> including this note. ]
>
> I was an activist in the Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) until June 1993.
> UDF is the mirror image of the Serbian Alliance for Change (the United
> Democratic Opposition).
>
> The Bulgarian Union of Democratic Forces or UDF received a lot of money in
> 1990 - cars, computers, luxurious placards (transported from abroad in big
> trucks) for the 1990 elections and the next ones - until the consolidation
> of the UDF in power. We think that a certain amount of money continues to
> flow, but now it is directed only to the UDF officials presently in power.
> You all know what the Bulgarian government of the UDF did during the US
war
> against neighboring Yugoslavia. I will remind those who might happen not
to
> know or who have forgotten.
>
> It provided FULL SUPPORT for the USA.
>
> It gave the US and NATO all the asked-for corridors - in the air and on
the
> ground. (There is talk that Southern Serbia has been demolished by US
> planes flying over Bulgaria from a US Turkish base.)
>
> For the first time since the end of the 500 year Turkish Yoke last century
> Turkish ground force passed through Bulgaria.
>
> Here's an easy question: "From whence does money for the UDF (and now for
> UDF leaders) mainly come?" You get one guess.
>
> So. We, here in Bulgaria, have had US-style democracy since 1989. For 10
> years already.
>
> MY TEN MOST AWFUL YEARS.
>
> What happened during that most awful period of my life on Earth?
>
> Through the ardent UDF leaders in power, the International Monetary Fund
> and the World Bank are successfully devouring Bulgarian industry,
> destroying the social fabric and opening national boundaries. (Our
national
> boundaries, mind you, never those of the US or Germany.)
>
> Three ways they devour Bulgarian industry
>
> - privatizing the Bulgarian plants and factories and liquidating them
> afterwards;
>
> - directly liquidating them;
>
> - selling them for twopenny-halfpenny to powerful foreign corporations.
For
> instance, the Copper Metallurgical plant near the town of Pirdop producing
> gold and platinum as well as electrolytic copper was sold in 1997 to Union
> Miniere, Belgium for next to nothing.
>
> Conclusion: Bulgarian industry and infrastructure (the roads for instance)
> have been most successfully demolished - and this WITHOUT bombing! - in
> less than ten years. All this, just from doing what the Serbian opposition
> is saying the Serbs should do.
>
> A popular joke here during the US war on Yugoslavia: two Turkish pilots,
> flying over Bulgaria, are looking down at the Bulgarian landscape. One of
> them says: "I wonder? Have we dropped bombs here?" "Don't be silly,"
> answers the other. "It is Bulgaria! They look like that without bombing.")
>
> Side results: - hordes of unemployed, as you can well imagine.
>
> Beggars in the streets.
>
> Children dying in the street from drugs and malnutrition.
>
> Old people digging in the rubbish containers for some rag or moldy piece
of
> bread.
>
> In 1989 my friend mother's pensions had been 105 leva. Now it is 46 leva
at
> $1 = ~1,87 leva. - August, 27. So, calculate for yourselves how much
> dollars that 75 year old woman receives per month.
>
> Yesterday my brother in law told me he had seen the former headmistress of
> his son's school to dig in a rubbish container?
>
> The Infant death rate has increased.
>
> The Birth death rate has increased. The reasons in most of the cases:
> mothers suffering of shock and malnutrition).
>
> The Death rate generally has increased.
>
> Young people refuse to marry and have children.
>
> Will there be a Bulgarian nation in the 21 century? What have the Big US
> think-tanks planned for Bulgaria? The answer is getting clearer with every
> year?
>
> EATING AWAY SOCIAL PRIVELEGES
>
> Before 1989 Bulgaria was a SOCIAL state: Free medical care, FREE
education,
> social help and privileges for the mothers and the elderly. According to
> the old (totalitarian) pension law people retired at 55 years of age for
> the women and 60 years of age for the men.
>
> According to the new (U.S.-democratic) pension law and the adopted new
> system there will not be any retired people here.
>
> The new system demands gathering of 90 points for the women- age plus
> number of years in service - and 95 points for the men. The small number
of
> people about 55 still at work will managed to retire at about 58 years of
> age (for the women) and 63 (for the men).
>
> But what about the people at 35-40-45 years of age, some of them
unemployed
> for years on a run already?
>
> How will they gather the number of years in service, necessary for
> retiring?
>
> Nobody needs them, nobody wants them at work, nobody offers work to them.
> When you open the newspapers at the pages with job offers you see the
> repeated demand for age of 30 for the eventual applicants. Even if the
> offer is for building workers or scrub women.
>
> So, if you are under 30, you have some chances to slave for 12 hours for
> next to nothing for a newly hatched businessman.
>
> All the others are expendable and the only open exit for them is the
> crematorium. Amen.
>
> And the IMF and WB aim will be achieved: less population, less pensioners,
> less children?And THEY (the Global Super Rich?) will get closer to their
> Global Aim of providing an Earth inhabited only by the Golden Milliard
> [billion] (after the messy job of clearing away the redundant/unwanted 6
> milliards?)
>
> WHAT ABOUT EDUCATION?
>
> Now the number of children that do not go to school increases with every
> year. Only comparatively well to do parents or parents who still have some
> saved money can fulfill their children desire for a higher education.
>
> HEALTH?
>
> People have turned to old grannies' ways of healing.
>
> Going to the dentist is looked upon as a kind of a luxury.
>
> There are talks for a drastic raising of all the medicine prices here -
> with 60-70% - from September 1st 99.
>
> The chasm between the handful of rich and the great majority of poor
people
> is disastrously deepening with every day.
>
> By the way, the last remnants of privileges will be taken away after the
1st
> of January 2000.
>
> I have in mind the lower prices for train tickets for students, mothers
> with children and the elderly.
>
> IMF DEMANDS: NO MORE SUBSIDIZED TRAVEL!
>
> Taking away these special, lower fares was one of the INTERNATIONAL
> MONETARY FUND (IMF) conditions for the latest loan, agreed to willingly by
> the UDF leaders now in power.
>
> Note that the UDF is short for Union of  Democratic Forces, whose program
>  is the mirror image of the Serbian Alliance for change or United
Democratic
> Opposition.
>
> Note that the names are almost the same, aren't they?
>
> Bad.
>
> A proof of very poor imagination on the part of the Money-givers.
>
> They should insist on variety in names.
>
> WHAT TAKING AWAY TRAVEL PRIVILEGE REALLY MEANS
>
> It means additional separation of people, forcing them to stay either in
> the towns, where they will die away from hunger, or in the villages with
> the same result. Because most of the still active pensioners presently add
> to meager family and personal income through some occasional jobs in the
> towns or by providing vegetables and fruit for the winter in their
father's
> village gardens. It is possible and worth while NOW when they are
> travelling by train at half the price. After January 1 it will be
> senseless.
>
> So the death rate will increase - one of the IMF's apparent goals will be
> successfully realized and the servile UDF leaders will be correspondingly
> rewarded.
>
> I wonder. How much does it pay to destroy one's own people under the
> sweetened slogans of "democracy" (what democracy?) and joining the
"Western
> civilization" (what civilization are we speaking of.) Does it pay really
> well?
>
> Do you, the so-called opposition in Serbia REALLY think that the best road
> for you is joining THAT "civilization"? What will be the bitter fruit
later
> of your efforts now? Cheap labor for the US and Western corporations and
> the humiliating agony of a slow torturous death through wretched poverty
> for your people.
>
> Look back into your history - a history of tough people able to find
> solution of their OWN, to overcome obstacles with their OWN resources.
> We saw what our contemporary "Western civilization" actually stands for
> during those awful 79 days.When they bombed a sovereign EUROPEAN country
> they defined themselves.
>
> Since Yugoslavian capitulation we all are DAILY witnesses what Western
> civilization stands for in Kosovo.
>
> Everybody knows now that:
>
> 1/ The US and Europe are against ethnic cleansing of the Albanians by the
> Serbs.
>
> 2/ But THEY are for the ethnic cleansing of the Serbs by the Albanians.
> What has happened to the sugared talk about Human Rights?
> Ah, sorry, I have forgotten. Serbs are not Human. (With the exception of
> those that take the U.S. and NATO countries' money to betray their people
> and their country!)
>
> You in the opposition, do you really want to lick the soles of those cruel
> greedy monsters?
>
> OPENING OUR BOUNDARIES, MAKING US AN 'OPEN SOCIETY'
>
> ...as expounded by George Soros, the international financier of
newspapers,
> radio stations, NGO's and political parties that facilitate the
destruction
> of previously viable nations. That philanthropist of the 'open society.'
> We have learned the hard way what those pretty slogans about "opening the
> boundaries" mean.
>
> It means KILLING the part of Bulgarian industry that is still managing to
> stay alive and thereby give bread to a certain number of people.
>
> It means that lots of LOW QUALITY - I use the phrase deliberately: LOW
> QUALITY - food products and other goods (socks for instance) flow freely
> through the "open(ed) boundaries" into Bulgaria, undermining the efforts
of
> local producers.
>
> We have been perhaps one of the biggest consumers of the
> notorious Belgian dioxin chickens. Result: some of the local producers
have
> gone bankrupt and sunk into dismal poverty. Some of the salami and sausage
> producers have had the same fate. The same holds true for producers of
veal
> and veal products.
>
> I have a cousin who has a small farm - four cows. He hasn't been able to
> sell his calves for two successive years. Two of the cows have already
> died. He is smashed. The veal-buying firms explain that they prefer to
work
> with the frozen meat imported at low prices ready to be stuffed and turned
> into salami and sausages. Never mind the salami and sausages' quality...
>
> "Fasan", the sock and stocking factory in the Danube town of Rouse, is
> slowly sinking down (maybe it has already gone bankrupt and hundreds are
in
> the streets). Because of the Turkish socks, flooding the Bulgarian market
> and sold at 0.5 leva a pair. The "Fasan" socks are sold at about 1 leva
($1
> =1,87 leva).
>
> They cannot sell them at a lower price - they will go bankrupt.
>
> They cannot sell them at the only possible-for-them price - and they have
> gone bankrupt. Amen. Rest in peace.
>
> So much for "open boundaries." So much for Mr. Soros' "Open Society".
> I hope you have now a clearer picture of what U.S.-type democracy has
> brought Bulgaria and its people. Of the real, practical meaning of the
> sugared phrases.
>
> WHAT BREAKS MY HEART
>
> I personally live in abject misery. I pay my Internet fee at the expense
of
> great limitations in food, forgoing other needs as well. I do not know how
> long I will be able to support it.
>
> But it is the sight of the old men and women, digging into the rubbish
> containers that is breaking my heart.
>
> And the old people begging in the streets? the outreached trembling
> hands?the tears of pain and humiliation in the eyes?They make me cry.
>
> Because, you see, street beggars might be only part of the New York
> scenery. But it is a new and very shocking sight for us here, and our
> hearts are bleeding.
>
> PRICES - BEFORE U.S. DEMOCRACY AND AFTER
>
> I enclose a comparing table of some prices in 1989 and 1999 from "Appeal",
> the monthly newspaper of our activist group.
>
> Prices in leva 1989 and 1999
>
> $1 = 1,87 leva (as of 8/27/99)
>
> Bread, 1 kg (white flour) 0,48 0,63
>
> Bread, 1 kg (wholemeal) 0,15 0,45
>
> Salami 1 kg 2,80 3,60
>
> Yogurt 0,22 0,32-0,75
>
> Tram ticket (Sofia) 0,06 0,25
>
> Steam Heating, average 14,0 80,00-150,00
>
> El. energy,1 kwh:day/night 0,042/0,022 0,08/0,04
>
> Luxury lady shoes 30-40 100
>
> Suit, average price 100 300
>
> Lighter, ordinary 0,20 4,00
>
> Books 1-2 6-10
>
> Cinema ticket 0,40-0,80 4-8
> Salary, average 200 150
>
> Pension, average 100 50
>
> And so on and on and on ?
>
> ALL GENOCIDES ARE NOT EQUAL IN THEIR EYES
>
> The USA started bombing Yugoslavia officially because of the still
unproven
> genocide on the poor Albanians by the Serbs, the Demons.
>
> Meanwhile they are carrying out invisible at first sight but very
effective
> genocide on my people in Bulgaria. As in all the countries in the deadly
> grip of the US type of democracy and its envoys, the INTERNATIONAL
MONETARY
> FUND and THE WORLD BANK.
>
> What are the Serbs thinking?
>
> I am truly amazed at some Serbian people's reactions lately. I have never
> looked upon them as being a nation of suicides.
>
> What are they striving for? What do they want? The dismal, hopeless life
of
> their Bulgarian neighbors?
>
> Do they REALLY want to see their old people dig in the dung containers?
>
> Do they REALLY want to stop their children from going to school because of
> lack of money for shoes and text-books?
>
> Do they REALLY want to slave for the American or German corporations 12
> hours per day for miserable pay? Because think: what is the greatest
> attraction for a foreign corporation in a devastated country like
> Yugoslavia? The cheap labor! That is it!
>
> The so called Sweatshops.
>
> I cannot believe my eyes and ears! AFTER 78 or 79 DAYS OF AMERICAN BOMBS
at
> that! Over the bodies of killed Serb children by the A M E R I C A N
bombs!
>
> It is simply UNBELIEVABLE!
>
> And after the good example of what the US kind of "democracy" has done to
> Bulgaria, the Yugoslavian neighbor.
>
> I do not want to vindicate myself for having been an activist of the UDF
> till 1993. I only would like to point out that at that time we all
believed
> the totalitarian state [the former, Communist Bulgaria] was simply lying
> about the USA. That all the warnings about the USA were simply propaganda
> lies. We had not heard anything about the IMF or the WB or the
> transnational corporations and their expansion policy in 1990. We fell for
> the seductive talk about democracy and openness and the rest.
>
> But it is impossible to say the same for the so-called Serb Opposition.
>
> Especially after the U.S. war on THEIR country!
>
> They, the Serb Opposition, are even not ashamed of the $100 million of US
> "help", arrogantly announced in the face of the whole world! [This refers
> to US aid openly given to help the opposition in Serbia]
>
> Don't you, all the Serbs that are hanging at the lips of that US or German
> flunkey, [Alliance for Change leader] Djindnic, feel humiliated at having
> chosen to work for the US and West European interests against your own
> people?
>
> When the blood of the Serbian children is still fresh on the money they
are
> giving you?!
>
> SHAME, SHAME ON YOU!
>
> Desanka Maksimovic has a poem saying:
> My forebears and fellow-villagers
> Have never been traitors.
> They have gone since times immemorial
> Where Justice has called them.
>
> She is lucky she is not alive today.
>
> WHAT IS AT ISSUE?
>
> The issue is not Milosevic. US and the "Western civilizations" are
reaching
> greedily for your country. Their geopolitical interests and their
> corporations demand it: they need the land and what resources you have.
>
> Doncheva,
> Sofia, Bulgaria
> the Balkans
>
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Secretary General
Mrs. Jela Jovanovic
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