Happy holiday… I watch others wave flags, pat each other on the back, climb Shipka… Commendable. Quick question – are we only free on March 3rd? A little IHU and then quiet? Let me clarify.

I remember the time when we were entering Europe, I was close friends with one of the accession commissioners, we worked together. I was just entering the game, he was about to leave it. We met at a stand at an exhibition, we worked on fulfilling the criteria, then we kept in touch for many years. Here are some of his insights, the years of work had made him cynical.

Understand, he told me, all small productions and shops will die, in their place will come the big players from Europe, and you will all become their slaves – workers and customers. The new slaves are putting on the yoke themselves, don't forget that. When you choose whether to give your leva to a Bulgarian manufacturer or for something shiny from Europe, think about it. Where is your money going? How much of it will stay here? Will you pay the salary of Aunt Ganka, who feeds her children, or will you finance another luxurious vacation for some German or Austrian billionaire? I'm not telling you to replace the whiskey with brandy, no. In the end, the money is yours and you think you have free will on how to spend it.

Another thing – why are some products cheaper in Europe? Isn't this where the lowest wages are paid? Isn't the rule that all producers should have equal rights? How does this happen? Very easy – politicians. There are countries that manage to fight for much more serious subsidies than ours, and their business is booming. You don't pay per liter of milk, you pay per cow. Except our cows are fewer cows than theirs. Like in Orwell's Animal Farm – all animals are equal, but some are more equal. It was written by a pig from the farm's management.

When Poland stopped exporting apples to Russia, its government fought for very serious subsidies for their orchards. So Polish apples entered Bulgaria at half the price and now we are left with almost no apple trees. Bad, huh? The Bulgarian egg producer, this nasty, hungry, cannibal private individual, earns half a penny per egg. Greedy ass. French egg producers get 20 million in subsidies per hat per year. They can sell at whatever price they want.

I've worked with all the chains in addition to my other job, on my birthday I gave the final notice to terminate the last of the scumbags, after more than a quarter of a century of suffering with them. I refused to be blackmailed. A gift from me to myself.

Let's not be petty, let's get back to the holiday. We want to be free, right? And not just on the third, right? It depends on us, only on us. It's a war, physical, informational and economic. The knife is resting on the bone. Choose the Bulgarian one.

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