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POLES vs BULGARIANS [160]
@mafketisHow Poland is divided? Ideologically? Politically? About the international orientation? People's positions on certain issues?
Bulgaria is politically divided as far as international orientation goes, that's the main belief around here, although the last presidental elections showed that voters of one of the major parties voted for the candidate of the other major party, i.e the belief that people worship certain political party unconditionally simply because they are "supposed" to do it was proven wrong. The nationalism, the patriotism is fashionable in Bulgaria - even in institutions such as universities. Although many simply cannot identigy themselves as part of certain political party, regardless of it's political leaning, most of the people who express their positions tend to be nationalistically-oriented. Speech of political correctness is considered low level and rarely tolerated, if at all. I don't personaly know a single Bulgarian person who is welcoming towards the illegal migrants from Africa and Central Asia. The government is in unspoken dilema - should they expell the "refugees", as they already do to a degree, or welcome
some of them in order to avoid to look like "xenophobes", or to be pointed with a finger in other words. They are between pressure from the Bulgarian people and pressure from outside. They know that whatever path they pick, they will not end well anyway.
I agree that the Bulgarian language has it's distinguished vibe, but probably to me Polish is the weirdest because although I've never studied the rest of the languages in the group, I understand them all, except Polish. I get a some of it when I read it, but the speech...
@ZiemowitI've red somewhere that there are claims that Varnenchik did not died in Varna. Also there are poems, written by participants in this battle, who claim that he was buried near the place he was killed. Currently there are 2-3 (as far as I know) places (churches) suspected for having Varnenchik's grave under their floors. Because most of them were destroyed and rebuilt again and again (and so since the 1600s), to attempt to discover his grave, large archaelogical operations are required. Today, with the technology we have access to, such archaelogical operations are more easily carried with least damage. Time will show.
Tsar Simeon had two marriages, and he had numerous daughters from both of his wives. The only thing we know is that he had an affinity to infliltrate foreign courts with family members, as he did with Byzantium, for example, becoming a tutor of the East-Roman emperor himself. He had so many daughters that even the chroniclers did not knew their count. He used them for diplomacy at will, so a dynastic connections with the ancestors of the modern Poles would not be impossible. This is the first time I hear about this.
As for the "odpochivka", seems like your wife picked the worst time for shopping. :) Odpochivka means "a rest", something shop owners across the Black Sea coast take advantage of regularly, because of the hot weather.
Weird enough, in Bulgaria many people think exactly the opposite. That we are amateurs in corruption, compared to the west. There's a saying that the difference between Bulgaria and the west as far as corruption goes is that although the Bulgarian government steals much less, they don't know how to do it, nor how to hide what they are doing. :)
