But industrializing fast just gets you to one point: two problems with that in Bulgaria. First: yeah, this was a good thing .. until technology moved forward w

But industrializing fast just gets you to one point: two problems with that in Bulgaria. First: yeah, this was a good thing .. until technology moved forward which was very hard to replicate in plan economies.. in Bulgaria hard industry and many factories were built without good economy reasons and they didnt really compete with western stuff which was made obvious after the changes. Yes, some of this privatization stuff seemed so chaotic and yes, we did have our own mafia years.. but AFAIK it was deeply (and still is) connected to the same class that ran the "communist" country before that which gets me to the second point: you cant just say economic equality, without context: yes, on paper stuff was like this, but from what i've heard reality was much more a gray zone: inequality was being pronounced in other means, ability to travel, development in army/life/job(after all: you didnt have much choice as the government decided on most of that), all kinds of car/apartment/other government assistance things, secret police pressure: it wasnt a rosy picture just to get stuff that is available in many nordic countries