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Hello /his/
I met someone from Bulgaria the other day. She was in her late 40's which means she was born during the cold war. I asked her what it was like to live under the USSR (because I thought Bulgaria was one of the satellite states) but she said Bulgaria had ties with the USSR but was its own thing really.
Was Bulgaria a satellite state? And what was it like to live in a country like Poland or Czechoslovakia that were definitely just an extension of the Soviet Union?
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>>2400090
Although I cannot answer your question, its very interesting.
Once spent a semester in Prague studying Eastern european law in sovjet times. Professor often just talked about life during the sovjet era. Loads of stories.
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I would actually like to asnwer your question, but fuck spoonfeeding. Fucking learn to use Google or Wikipedia
start with googling "iron curtain" and go from there.
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>>2400120
that sounds interesting, but the thing I wonder the most is did the people in eastern Europe know they were essentially the USSR? Or did they believe that they were in fact their own country?
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>>2400144
no one asked for you, you flaming faggot
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>>2400090
Bulgarian here. Bulgaria was no more of a satellite state than Latin America and Western Europe is to the USA. The Bulgarian communists could've become even more independent of Warsaw Pact policy like Romania, but they chose not to since close ties with the USSR benefited them. They benefited more from it than the USSR benefited from them(cheap oil, military equipment for free, technology transfers). Nowadays Bulgaria is more of a puppet to the EU since it doesn't even allow us to trade with whoever we want due to their shitty antiRussian stance(during the WP Bulgaria traded with France and the FDR and nobody gave a fuck). It was the corruption and incompetence of the Bulgarian communists that caused economic problems for us, not being USSR allies. We were even considered to be the most loyal ally to the USSR, and even the soviets were surprised at this.
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>>2400248
I meant BRD not FDR..
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