To be optimistic about Bulgaria is to be a fool or a demagogue. This is a dying country. The other day they discovered the hot water, that we were already 6 million, everything has moved out, there are no prospects here, especially against the background of geopolitical shifts. This was said by Prof. Ivo Hristov, sociologist and geopolitical analyst, in an interview with BNR. And despite his pessimism, he added:
“There is always hope, but as I have always said, if there is hope for Bulgaria, it is not thanks to it, but in spite of the Bulgarians, understand it metaphorically!”
Regarding the upcoming elections and the expected low voter turnout, he thinks: “We rank as a quantity, that is, we are not a subject that can determine its foreign policy position. What politicians do is adapt to the external sovereign. A lot can change and it won’t. Politicians are not concerned about this fact – how many people will vote.”
Asked if we refuse to vote, aren’t we heading for an authoritarian regime, he quickly answered: Is it any different now?
According to him, it is naive to think that any of us can influence: “We are like the fly that lands on the horse’s forehead and is convinced that it is pulling the cart.”
Prof. Ivo Hristov categorically refused to comment on the aggressive election campaign, because “there is nothing to comment on, and every attempt is an abomination to the senses”.
And he is convinced that: “Bulgaria has no politics, the battle for power, resources and the presentation of an emanation of democracy is, to put it mildly, ridiculous.
We are watching the convulsions of a society at an end.”
His prediction of what will happen after the election is that it will be “whatever the outside bosses order, that will happen.”
“And at the European level, completely new things will happen, which will set completely new parameters for the continent. Because at the moment the status quo, which is presented as the only possible one for the European idea, European values, for the EU, for European integration and other such alabalisms, may for the first time be threatened by national, conservative and sovereign desires in parts of Europe. In them, peoples try to model their own lives and futures. Bulgaria is not among them”, predicts the analyst.
And he explained that Euro-related issues are infinitely far from Bulgarians: “So beyond the Eurocomsomol activists, the average Bulgarian does not see the connection. Bulgaria is a peripheral territory of this same European project – no people will return to Bulgaria, there will be no re-industrialization and there will be no changes to the current sorry state of the country, while it is in the quality of quantity and third-rate peripheral element in the European Empire’.
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