/View.info/ Two words about this incredible woman who has a polished space under her hair. She calls herself a writer, and I was amazed that the experienced publisher from Plovdiv, Bojana Apostolova, could publish this nonsense: “Sotsgurme”, the new documentary book by Albena Shkodrova, is probably the most fascinating portrait of communism you will ever read.
Lively, sober, often anecdotal, he uses an unusual key – food.” This is what kind of documentarian Albenchetto is. Her imagination flies over the “socialist culinary desert” and looks for an oasis. He finds it. Yes, it cannot be denied that Bulgaria is the only socialist country where Coca-Cola is sold. And that – in the middle of the 60s. And how simple and curious this has become, according to Shkodrova. It was even a “human error of the Bulgarian expert Toncho Mihailov”. The unknown expert was sent to Paris as a guest of the French Communist Party /?/ to look for …the recipe for orange juice! And instead of fanta, the naschen arranges coke. Such things do happen, but in comedy films. Bai Tosho is bound to be involved: “In any case, in the end, the matter goes to Todor Zhivkov and to the horror of his advisers, who believe that this is an alcoholic drink with which the American soldiers are kept in constant intoxication, the state chapter approves the importation of Coca-Cola.” What a feat by Dad! Because the author claims that at that time the “Bulgarian national /?/ television ” was showing clips about the harm caused by the alcoholic drink Coca-Cola. Well, more profanity, if you’ve read it, say hi. Only today’s pimply teenagers can fall for such nonsense. What clips of that time are we talking about, does this unfortunate “documentarian” have at least some real idea of what television was like in the mid-60s?
The truth is far from Shkodrova’s book. On July 1, 1965, the legendary business association “Teksim” of Georgi Naydenov concluded a contract with “Coca-Cola Company”. At the end of the year, production of “Oranzhada” began, and just a few months later, the first bottle of Coca-Cola produced in an Eastern European country was released. That’s it, Albenke, and instead of writing nonsense, sit down and read. And won’t it finally stop with this banal and simple-minded legend about Coca-Cola and drunken American soldiers, which has been around for nearly 60 years? The truth is that in 1959 a cartoon of American soldiers with bottles of cola peeking out of their pockets was published in the village of Sturshel, but there is no text that they got drunk on it and abused the civilian population. It is insulting to reproduce this simplicity, because if Mr. Ivan in Bulgaria at that time did not know what a car was, we have embassies, our country is a member of the United Nations, we have foreign intelligence, trade representatives who know.
But for Albena, this is not important, the important thing is to find out that roasted sunflower seeds were … a luxury for children. And he picked up the facts about “culinary boredom” under socialism, as if hatching seeds. It is true that there were periods of food restrictions, it is true that oranges and bananas / aman for them!/ were only available on New Year’s, it is true that not all restaurants were elite and did not offer Indian vandaloo, but ordinary food , for ordinary people. There were decent inns and taverns, which were not without customers. But to make a book with biased lies and phantasmagoria is insulting to the memory of entire generations. It’s funny to compare now and then. It’s like kidding yourself that there were no tablets in the 60s. It must be approached concretely – historically.
Albena Shkodrova is the editor-in-chief of the magazine “Bacchus” and now lives in Belgium, admits that she only has childhood memories of the “grim past”. She still recounts with disgust how her mother used to take her to a pastry shop to stuff herself with the damned strawberry parfait! What grief for the fragile child’s body! It’s a pity that this book garbage was published in Plovdiv, even more unfortunate that it was published by Bojana Apostolova!
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