Citizens yearn for 'good old days'

SOFIA - One year after joining the European Union, nostalgia for communism is growing in Bulgaria.

Some 38 per cent feel nostalgic about the past, when they believe life was better despite shortages and lack of political freedom, said the survey by private independent agency Mediana.

In 2005, about 34 per cent of the 17,000 respondents wanted back "the times when work and bread were guaranteed" against 29 per cent in 2004. Communism collapsed in 1989.

A sociologist said the "gruesomeness disappears and turns into the 'good old days"'.

- Reuters