lihouba
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bulgaria
Subject: Re: MILK PRISE
From: lihouba@dapsas1.weizmann.ac.il (Christo Houbaviy)
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:45:35 GMT
Organization: Weizmann Institute of Science, Computing Centre

In article <92351.184303ANTHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <ANTHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
writes:

>THE EXCHANGE RATE OF BULGARIAN NATIONAL BANK IS ..., KEEP REPEATING
>
>THE COMMUNISTS ON THE NET.

In several of your articles, you have been referring to the
(Bulgarian) readers of this newsgroup as communists, communist
comrades etc. This is extremely annoying and I believe that many of us
feel offended. Please understand that now any Bulgarian citizen can
leave the country regardless of his/her political views and provided that
he/she can finance that. If you want to address the communists, try to
find another way.

>WHAT EXCHANGE RATE IS THIS?  WHO DETERMINED THE
>
>WEIGHT OF THE BULGARIAN CURRENCY TOWARD THE MAIN CURRENCIES?
>
>WHO YOU ARE FOOLING COMRADES?  THE ENTIRE WORLD KNOWS THAT THE BULGARIAN
>
>COMMUNIST MONEY ARE FAKE MONEY.  THEY ARE NOT BACKED BY BULLIONS, STABLE
>
>ECONOMY AND POLITICAL STABILITY.  THE SO CALLED "EXCHANGE RATE" IS INDEED THE
>
>PRISE ON WHICH THE COMMUNISTS IN BULGARIA BUY CURRENCY, BUT THEY DO NOT SELL
>
>THERE IS NO MONEY MARKET IN BULGARIA.

We all know that the Bulgarian Lev is not hard currency. Neither is
the Israeli Sheqel and there are restrictions on purchasing hard
currency here but this does not hurt the economy so much.
I am not an economist and I have been away from the country for a
while, but as far as I know any Bulgarian citizen can buy dollars or
other convertible currency for Bulgarian Leva at the established
exchange rate - at the bank or at a currency exchange office. Anyone
can buy hard currency on the street and in fact the 'Magura street'
exchange rate influences (and is the same as) the official exchange
rate.

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> 1. TO EXCHANGE IMMEDIATELY THE PRINTED IN LENINGRAD (USSR) BILLS WITH NEW
>
>    BILLS PRINTED IN COUNTRY WITH GOOD REPUTATION LIKE ENGLAND,
>    FRANCE, GERMANY OR THE USA.

You may wish to learn that the new BGL100 bills were printed in
Germany.

>     THE INTERNATIONAL MARKETS.  THIS WILL RECREATE THE NATIONAL ELIT SLOTERED
>
>     BY THE COMMUNISTS ON SEPTEMBER 9TH, 1944.  THE MOST CAPABLE AND TALENTED
>
>     WILL BE AT THE TOP, NOT THE MOST OBIDIENT.

The national elite, I am afraid is now in exile, as nothing is left of
the Bulgarian science. I believe that many people would be glad to
return home, even if their wages are not that high and the living
conditions are not that good, provided only that they are given an
opportunity to do their jobs.

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>THE BULGARIAN
>
>GOVERNMENT DIDN'T FOLLOW THE ADVICE, INSTEAD THEY CHOSE TO SQUEEZE WHAT THEY
>
>CAN AND TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY.  TO FACILITATE THEIR EXODUS THEY EVEN CREATED
>
>JES AIR, A COMPANY WITH ONE TASK ONLY TO MOVE THE BULGARIAN COMMUNISTS TO
>
>THE USA AND CANADA ON BULGARIAN EXPENCE.  THE COMMUNISTS DIDN'T PAY
>
>TICKETS.
>
>DURING THE SUMMER OF 1992 ALL COMMUNIST ABROAD CAME BACK TO BULGARIA.
>
>OF COURSE JES AIR PAYS, WHICH MEANS BULGARAIN TAX PAYERS.  THEY MADE A GOOD
>
>VACANTION AND RECEIVE BACK 50 DEKARA LAND THAT THEY HAVE NEVER HAD.

Well, there were rumours that the Jess Air money are 'Red Money' but I
do know a few people who flied that company, paid their own tickets
and were never members of the Communist Party. It is a bit difficult
to believe that Tax-Payers' money were used to pay the transportation
of someone by Jess Air, it would be much easier to do that by the
State owned 'Balkan Airways'. In any case if you have such information
then could you provide any more specific examples. This last sentence
refers to most of your articles. I don't think that anyone needs any
anticommunist propaganda nowadays, as we all know that the Communists
are the bad guys. Also most of us have learned that any propaganda is
usually very far from the truth (no matter communist anti-communist or
whatever else). You were referring to some events from our modern
history in our articles and I believe that many of us would like you
to share your knowledge about them instead.

Merry Christmas t'you all,

Christo
--
Christo Houbaviy [lihouba@dapsas.weizmann.ac.il]
Department of Molecular Genetics and Virology
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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