Bulgaria As I perceived in 1986
BULGARIA Smashing Myths By Camil Parkhe From the very day the first socialist nation came into being curiosity has been gathered into the minds of the people living in the capitalist or non-socialist countries about the pattern of the socialist system and also about the people purportedly living as per the ideals of Karl Marx. Due to the several novels and books regularly published in the West, the curiosity is now mixed with several notions about the socialist pattern such as the uniformity of life-style, close network of the intelligence people on the style of the KGB, total absence of freedom of expression etc. These were some of the notions in my mind too when I was selected for the training course in journalism, organized for the members of the Indian Federation of Working Journalists in Sofia, the capital of Socialist peoples’ Republic of Bulgaria. The short visit to Moscow, capital of Russia before the long stay in different parts of Bulgaria, did give me an opportunit...