One Place to Reflect
Those photos may not seem too informative but let me first share some info about the place where I took them.
This is a part of the fishermen village of Svishtov, Bulgaria, the city with the fastest population decline in the country.
There isn't any official explanation of that fact but I heard people saying that due to political lobbying, many local businesses have been literally shut down so there is cheap labor for one particular factory, owned by a friend of the leader of one of the major political parties.
This tells a lot about Bulgaria.
It is still the wild-wild East and many "businesses" operate in such a way, and not a true competition.
Yeah, my friends, so many things around here are so messed up, still, that sometimes I don't know if I should laugh or cry...
So for me, this was a place for reflection, given how poor this bank of the river looks, compared to the other bank, that factory seen over there is actually in Romania, as this is river Danube, large part of the Bulgarian-Romanian border is the river itself...
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I’m not sure you often allow yourself to write things like that - that is, the truth 😄- something I never fail to point out in every single one of my posts. It just comes naturally to me/out of me. (Perhaps because I am utterly desperate, with no hope for the future or for any kind of normal life.)
Anyway, I was very disappointed to learn about the fate of this city as well - a city with great potential, thanks to its history, location, renowned university, culture, architecture, people, and everything.
For decades, the state, represented by those in power (and no, the state is not the people), has been committing genocide against its own population. It is as if someone had tasked them with destroying every local inhabitant and demolishing everything built with such toil over the centuries.
It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but anyone left on their own - forced to battle through life here by themselves - can understand me.
And you’re right about that: nowhere else along the Danube in Western Europe does the river look quite like this. But that is the least of what could be said about this poor city. It is very sad.
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What can I say... Divided we fall...
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De esos posts que uno lee y le cambian el humor para bien. Se agradece la frescura en medio de tanto contenido repetido.
Con el laburo uno se olvida de estas cosas. Tu post me hizo frenar un minuto y valorar lo que tengo.
Your reflection on the state of Bulgaria is really thought-provoking - it highlights the complex issues at play in the country. What do you think is the key to promoting true competition and economic growth in places like Svishtov? 🌊💔📸