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Quotes About Bulgaria

Bulgaria is a true friend of Israel, that stood up to save the Jewish people 70 years ago in Europe, and who stood by throughout the terror attack that took place in Burgas last July.
~ Shimon Peres
Our guys were just playing at being gangsters—the Yugoslavs had been thieving and killing in Europe for real over decades. They were seriously tough, and to this day, if you want to kill somebody in Bulgaria and you want the job done reliably and cheaply, then you hire a Serb. They are the best assassins.
~ Misha Glenny
For years, I had a top secret clearance and never left Russia. Just once did I go to Bulgaria with my wife for a holiday at the Golden Sands resort, but I could not mention my real name. I was allowed to travel abroad only in the early 1990s.
~ Mikhail Kalashnikov
I attended sports school in Bulgaria just like my parents. I attended class twice a day and trained twice a day.
~ Rusev
According to the health-efficiency index compiled by Bloomberg News, which combines longevity and healthcare spending into a single metric for almost every country, the United States is second from the bottom, better only than Bulgaria.
~ Kurt Andersen
As we know from Richard Glazar's story, 24,000 Bulgarians – those who had been in Salonika – did die in Treblinka in the spring of 1943; but there can be little doubt that the 25,000 Jews of Sofia were saved by the intervention of the future Pope and the courage of a king.
~ Gitta Sereny
Pues en Bulgaria dicen: Si pones una vela para Dios, pon dos para el diablo.
~ Laura Gallego García
Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.
~ Anatoly Karpov
Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.
~ Ivan Krastev
precarious tranquillity had indeed been achieved in Greece, and it seemed that a free democratic Government, founded on universal suffrage and secret ballot, might be established there within a reasonable time. But Roumania and Bulgaria had passed into the grip of Soviet military occupation, Hungary and Yugoslavia lay in the shadow of the battlefield, and Poland, though liberated from the Germans, had merely exchanged one conqueror for another.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Ricordando la disfatta bulgara, evento decisivo per l'esito della 1° guerra mondiale e dunque per la fine di una civiltà, il conte Károlyi scrive che, mentre lo aveva vissuto, non aveva percepito la sua importanza, perché "in quel momento, non era ancora diventato ." P.42
~ Claudio Magris
Según el Banco Mundial, los cinco países donde obtener un crédito resulta más sencillo son Malasia, Sudáfrica, Reino Unido, Australia y Bulgaria.
~ Moisés Naím
And because, from the Western perspective, the main source of the heresy seemed to be Bulgaria, the heretics were often called Bulgars—bougres in French, thus buggers in English.
~ Unknown