> that is not the point. Point is, it was contributing for years with good paying jobs, well-educated folks etc. Since 1990 - nothing. Providing say 1000 good

> that is not the point. Point is, it was contributing for years with good paying jobs, well-educated folks etc. Since 1990 - nothing. Providing say 1000 good paying jobs... In the same way Chernobyl did, and look at how well that ended. Since 1990 - a large number of mid sized software companies have shown up, each of which has employed more than that. > Like gasp nuclear engineer? Yeah... Let me think of how many nuclear engineers there are among me, my family or anyone I've ever known... Hmmm... It appears none. > Really? It was that bad in Bulgaria? Definitely not like that in Soviet Russia Well there were always gulags. > Yeah, except those nuclear engineers > I bet they were dreaming at the reactor controls about moving to be a swine herders Yes, out of 8M population that's 0.0125%, 99% of which were closely related to the communist party. Great job, we created a prosperous c̶o̶u̶n̶t̶r̶y̶ communism.