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The article features a misleading infographic starting at ~3M which makes me question its credibility or whether it was written with some agenda in mind. Accord

• axegon_ 6y ago
  I wouldn't jump to conclusions and blame western reporting. I don't rule it out entirely but they could very well be taking those numbers from our media/sources which goes back to my original supply and demand argument. Our history has been re-written multiple times between 1944 and now and much of the data you'll find in the books since then has been written by someone with an agenda. Data from the periods before that were destroyed the day the red army set foot here. Coincidentally I own an almanac of Bulgaria from 1898 which survived (my family literally hid it in the woods, along with many other books which would have been confiscated and destroyed otherwise). Now they all proudly sit in my library and I'm certain that if there are other copies left, they are not more than 2 or 3. The official numbers which we are presented with now are very different from what this book states. And given my knowledge on my own family's history, I'm willing to believe the data in the almanac is a fairly accurate representation of the reality back then, which is arguably comparable to what we are experiencing now: not perfect but overall pretty good.