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yay , ı have created a discussion or something !

ı think a kinda formal apology is in order for ı hadn't read the newspapers on Friday before making the post above -cause being an apparent interference in the internal affairs of Bulgaria . Now , it seems there are elections on the 5th of October and local political organizations aim to get 48 MPs , a number enough to propose amendments to the Bulgarian Constitution and Bulgarian Nationalists apparently propose to block border crossings to prevent Emigrees with dual citizenship to vote . The New Turkey's failure in the last Bulgarian elections to divide the "Turkish voter base" with a second party must be a partial reason for the agitation . The Starfleet , for starters , is not into election fixing and stuff .

the gist on the other hand comes from -as you would expect- a wargame played on a not extremely unlikely premise of Berlin deciding to put Dachau to a proper use and stock it with them the Gastarbeiter or whatever the hell that word is in German . Which then of course entails the Units-Reserved-for-the-European-Theater . If any reader checks a basic map it will be easy to see that the geography with the two attendant mountain ranges funnels the apparent "keep steady on the West-North-West" route into a gap of something like 50 kilometers with the roads going through a single town . Gets to be called the "Filibe Bottleneck" in Turkish wargaming history - which in itself is not a territorial claim on Plovdiv , but for the run of bad luck the "Turkish" group of players got . All wargames in the end are essentially about rolling the dice . It started right after the last air raids of "NATO" were defeated with a total toll of 260 Tornados shot down - USAFE was handled further to the South . The roll for urban combat in Plovdiv came particularly bad . The "Russian President" then for vanity reasons (and no doubt encouraged by the 'disbelief in the performance gap as provided by the would-be F-27') "thought" the entire story about the Turkish Army was just a fabrication and our bolt had just been shot in this 5 hours of the Bulgarian Stalingrad . Remember , we are talking early 90s and hence Yeltsin . So the "Russian President" puts the so-far neutral Russia into war ; ı don't know if they had a "Drunk-Over Drunk-Far too Drunk" category to decide the thing . He would be the saviour of the world and not just the Bulgarian Slavic brothers . Vanity and stuff ; so he launches a dozen tactical nukes .

then the "American President" , "shaken" by the THK raids on Washington and wrongly "assuming" that at least some of the nukes went in successfully , "thinks" the Pandora's Box is open and lets fly . The Polar routes and the EMP blanketing of the interceptions confuse the "Russians" and the "Russian Military Commander" loses the roll to arrest the "Russian President" . Oh yes , Russians are thinking America is stabbing them in the back for their earlier refusal to join the war and will destroy Russia with framing us for the wholesale murder . Russia answers by "return" fire -leading to a day of stuff . Total casualties , 560 million deaths including Nuclear Winter and a particularly bitter decade long COIN campaign thoughout the globe . Turkish wargames can result up to 2 billions killed ; there are valid reasons to discard the entire "Nuclear-Thermonuclear" inventory and go for the Anti-Matter route , however expensive that might be . Or fielding the T-65 which certainly doesn't come cheap compared to the likes of TIE fighters .


finally the kinda relevant part . The ops tempo must remain high ; for Corps not-in-contact , a speed of 40 kilometers per hour is planned . To this end route mapping and prepation gets regularly updated for the last 18 years since the acceptance of the current "way" and people doing this are actually known by the Bulgarian Goverment to be not of the Turkish minority in Bulgaria -now that 5th Columning is not something we Turks do . We don't want your women or wine and land will be taken only if there is any particular reason to roll this sea of armour to the "current" centers of Civilization that still insist on insisting we barbarians are just a joke . If there is any need for anything like this we will be entirely content with parcelling you into bands of guerillas waiting for the convoys' ends . Although expect this for sure : You will get no flanks , with so early in the game and with us a bit concentrated . Keeping casualties low is the aim . Of ours and yours and theirs ; afterall we will get blamed no matter what .
 
To above post: can i have a tl;dr version, preferably translated?

What was life under communism like ? Was there food, electrical and clean water shortages and problems, did you have to queue up for western goods ? Did everyone have money but nothing to buy ?

From page 5:

And for a while, things did seem nice. Heavy industry (at the expense of debts, but hey, if you're Communist, would that bother you once you reach utopia?) flourished, the city of Dimitrovgrad, by the labour of brigadiers, appeared in Southern Bulgaria, in honour of Georgi Dimitrov. Of course, that also came with a darker side. Everyone stole. It was the custom. Steal from the government, it's giving it out all for free. Lands, machines, anything that from owner G, went into owner X, where owner X could be literally anyone.

These times, however slowly started to end. Clouds, in the end of the 70s started to appear. People were hearing rumours about things not working. Something was slipping.

As the war in Afghanistan, fought by the Soviets, went nowhere, and the perestroika that was also running at that time, Gorbachev realised, that he can't actually run the entire Russia, alongside the Eastern Bloc, and so, he slowly started cutting down the support for everyone, including us. Energy regimes began. TV could be watched only on a 3-hour shifts. Lines grew, and the products certainly weren't first grade.

Also, there were no Western products; it was only post-1989 when they started appearing. Until then, only local/Soviet products were there, and the selection was mostly "whatever there is".
 
there are things that would be rather useful to think about if things need to applied . As said Turkey is not after conquest of your country or anybody else's. However stupid as it may sound .
 
Just wait till they discover Balkanite*. Then they'll be all over you. Like a rash.

* a very little known substance

Spoiler :
that I've just dreamt up.


edit: did I speak too soon?

An orthorhombic-disphenoidal white gray mineral containing copper, mercury, silver, and sulfur
 
Will we ever discover the mysterious Britanite, which will someday reveal us the reason why the British uphold imperial policies without an empire?
 
I'm pretty sure nobody is actually interested of conquering anything in the Balkans.

Drakas were interested in conquering Bulgaria. Fortunately, they do not exist in this timeline.
 
Also, there were no Western products; it was only post-1989 when they started appearing. Until then, only local/Soviet products were there, and the selection was mostly "whatever there is".

I thought that Stalin looted most of the western countries after ww2, transporting everything including heavy industry into the east, which caused a lot of problems for the soviet bloc client states?
Was everything subsidized by the state ? cheap energy, cheap food, cheap clothes and free education, free healthcare ?
Did you get any western news ? Like illegally listening to BBC radio like the Germans did in ww2 ?
 
To above post: can i have a tl;dr version, preferably translated?

with apologies to CFC and stuff , basically it comes to these :

there is enough willpower to extend , let alone material . Because ...

it's not some theory of "deterrence" that has kept the Evil Turks down .

hence it's just normal , what people would actually expect from us that we will "create" the conditions for a Denmark 1940 and probably there will be no Donovans left to make a bad mark when the war ends . The last is the founder dude of the OSS who threatened the Serbians with consequences , leading a full scale German invasion which then justified the cancellation of original Wehrmacht plans that asked for an armistice that would have created a Vichy Greece .

and if this fails the guys in uniform have actually been steadily spotted and Sofia wasn't particularly enraged or something ; knowing very well that there is a "Prime Directive" and it is adhered to . But any notion of "hostage taking" or stuff will bring more guys in uniform and trigger-happy and this is just a fact ; not a threat .

finally , Die Welt or some German magazine has just accused us having a nuclear bomb programme since 2010 ; which the New Turkey probably thinks it must have . Reportedly with a current inventory of 10 or 20 centrifuges , compared to the thousands the Iranians are hiding in plain sight . Oh-kay , the American attempts to get us to learn the secrets of the Atomic Bomb is one of the more annoying aspects of the 20th Century , but let's not get into this .
 
I thought that Stalin looted most of the western countries after ww2, transporting everything including heavy industry into the east, which caused a lot of problems for the soviet bloc client states?
Was everything subsidized by the state ? cheap energy, cheap food, cheap clothes and free education, free healthcare ?
Did you get any western news ? Like illegally listening to BBC radio like the Germans did in ww2 ?

By what I know, most of the heavy industry was done rather haphazardly, and it had quite a few times when things were rather misplaced, like a factory far away from any transport arteries.

Yes, everything was more or less subsided by the state. You go to the store and pick your thing (note the selection wasn't really amazing or huge), and later in, there was nothing.

From what I've heard, only Radio Free Europe, I'd guess.
 
It is, although it's not correctly pronounced. It might be in Serbian, but not in Bulgarian.

Drop the "j" and you'll be fine, however.
 
I could write it as 'за(ј)еби' if you so prefer.
 
Quick questions: Is hummus popular in Bulgaria? If so, how is it usually eaten? Was it popular in the past?
 
By what I know, most of the heavy industry was done rather haphazardly, and it had quite a few times when things were rather misplaced, like a factory far away from any transport arteries.

Yes, everything was more or less subsided by the state. You go to the store and pick your thing (note the selection wasn't really amazing or huge), and later in, there was nothing.

From what I've heard, only Radio Free Europe, I'd guess.

That sounds so much like the communist, a lot of failed building projects, Russians were into giantitism (sp?) and over ambitious public works.

Do you have any photos ? Interested to see what stores looked like mostly westerners had images of empty shelves, long queues and unhappy people at the end of communism. Mostly I think of everything stuck in 1960s and everything is old.

Did you get any western movies at all under the communist ?
I also heard that western music was very popular.
 
Quick questions: Is hummus popular in Bulgaria? If so, how is it usually eaten? Was it popular in the past?

Not really. However, balaclava is pretty popular here.

I could write it as 'за(ј)еби' if you so prefer.

Good lord, latin letters have nothing to do with slavic letters. Only Serbians do that, and it's terrible.

That sounds so much like the communist, a lot of failed building projects, Russians were into giantitism (sp?) and over ambitious public works.

Do you have any photos ? Interested to see what stores looked like mostly westerners had images of empty shelves, long queues and unhappy people at the end of communism. Mostly I think of everything stuck in 1960s and everything is old.

Did you get any western movies at all under the communist ?
I also heard that western music was very popular.

Well, there were a lot of French movies in the 60s, and especially French serials.

There are plenty of photos, but most of them are made by our dear government, i.e propaganda fodder.
 
Not really. However, balaclava is pretty popular here.
Surely you mean baclava, right?
Tolni said:
Good lord, latin letters have nothing to do with slavic letters. Only Serbians do that, and it's terrible.
Then how would you lot spell it in Cyrillic? Get rid of the stupid Yeris and the iotated letters! Embrace the reformed spelling!
 
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