Summer Session Kansan
Communism O.K., But...
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Bulgarians Dig Capitalist Goods
By K. C. Thaler
This sprawling city, already swelled to a population of 800,000 and rebuilt and modernized since the war, is flexing its muscles to cope with a steady influx from the countryside and with the great housing shortage. New housing developments are going up here and in other cities of the country, all in modern style.
SOFIA—(UPI) Communism is all right, said the pensive Bulgarian, but you need money.
The symptoms of the affluent Communist society lately have begun to appear in this country as in other east European Communist nations.
THERE ARE more goods available. People see things they did not see before. The longing for earthly possessions is growing from the radio to the television set, the washing machine, the scooter and the motor car.
NEW RESTAURANTS and cafes are springing up in truly western fashion. Small places have been built lately in the country to attract the tourist and the city people on Sundays. Large hotels have gone up at the Black Sea resorts in anticipation of a growing tourist trade with an eye on the western tourist, whose hard currency is a much cherished commodity in these parts.
Shops have gone in for better display, some of the best in east Europe. But the quality of the goods often leaves much to be desired. Nevertheless, Bulgarians are adequately dressed despite the high prices for clothes and shoes. A pair
The ladies in the capital of this Communist country are sporting dainty umbrellas, with colored handles and tassles. Refrigerators and washing machines are gracing windows of shops owned, supplied and run by the state.
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of men's shoes costs between $13 and $25. Women's shoes go up as high as $30 for the more fashionable mode. They pay very little for rent and almost nothing for education, but spend about half their income on food.
Earnings average some 70 levs monthly or about $60. A typist would make a little over $50 a month. Office and factory managers earn most, about $125. A doctor's income is in the same range, though they increase it by some private practice .
PEOPLE ARE allowed to own a one-family house. A few manage to build small bungalows in the country. Some of the building in villages is attributed to the fact that farmers, unable to acquire land, are investing in a little house if they can afford it. Renting whole houses is banned, but letting rooms is tolerated.
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