It’s a well known song by Scorpions from 1990 which was written as a tribute to the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the emerging freedom among countries from the Communist bloc. I’ve been listening to it in the past days on the radio (Antenne Bayern – awesome station, btw.) and in the context of the growing world economic crisis talk from the past months it struck me with its hope.

Perhaps it’s also the memories I have from my childhood, when in the early 90s people were empowered by hope of free life. Right, things didn’t work out quite the same all throughout the ex-communist bloc, but even that didn’t stop the majority of hoping for a change up till about year 2000/02 (in Bulgaria at least). It was around that time that hope found itself in stagnation in Bulgaria. Enough governments had changed for people to realize that they ain’t finding anything good there. So, since then I have the feeling that politics in Bulgaria exists on air and air alone. But not just politics… people as well. Read more…