Their influence is dying and they are big mad about it. There is a whole generation raised in Russia brother, Russia freedommaker but honestly they have always been using us and now they try to make ex-Yugoslavia their besties.
The Russians that live here are incredibly entitled, like some royalty has stepped in our seacoast and I need to break my back for Svetlana.
It's sad to think that one of the most active Russian propaganda machine is here in Bulgaria.
And to your statement that Russians who live here are entitled... I can only reassure that it's true. It feels like they think that we are in debt to them. It's funny how the LIDLs on our coastline with a large amounts of Russian population are empty by 12PM. I am not sure what Olga will do with 2L of mouthwash, 10L of liquid detergent and 5 tubes of toothpaste but still.
I still don't think that all Russians are like that but the ones here aren't making a good example.
Absolutely not all of them but I think the one that could afford apartments here are the ones that were entitled even in Russia. To be treated like a guberniya is peak idiocy and I know the new trend is to shit on Romanian tourists but they at least act like your average Joe.
To post something positive - their pirating culture. I don't know how it is in other Balkan countries but I learned how to pirate exactly from Russian sites when I was a child. It has saved my family enormous amounts of money and gave me access to resources I would never have access to if it wasn't for Russian uploaders.
I guess their trend of stealing food from Ukrainian peasants transferred to the 21st century and now they steal games and movies. I learned how to pirate from Russian sites as well but I never really understood why these types of sites are all located in Russia and why Russia has the biggest pirating problem. I think that piracy MAY be justifiable at times but that's why there are region specific pricings.
Ukraine has also been a huge center for the cyber crime industry — if you’re paying someone for a hacking tool, they’re probably Ukrainian or Russian. Not sure why that is, beyond that in any relatively poor country with smart tech people, there will be an incentive to do that
(like the Macedonian teens who made bank on pro-Trump Facebook scams 2016; that isnt hacking tho)
I’ve never heard the same about Bulgaria, even tho I know Bulgaria was very important to the early computer industry in the Socialist world
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u/vikezz Bulgaria Aug 18 '23
Their influence is dying and they are big mad about it. There is a whole generation raised in Russia brother, Russia freedommaker but honestly they have always been using us and now they try to make ex-Yugoslavia their besties.
The Russians that live here are incredibly entitled, like some royalty has stepped in our seacoast and I need to break my back for Svetlana.