Looks like this is a big rabbit hole most of you don't even suppose to exist. :) If you have questions (literally any, regardless all that PC crap or biases) - ask me. I'll try to be as unbiased as possible. May be you will find something interesting or/and important.
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I was in Bulgaria few times in late 90-s on vacations (Brgas,Nesebr,Varna), and I can't say it was trashy. Very few differences from Russia, really. Yes, it is not Sweden or Germany, but not that bad.
You lost nothing if you lived in Bulgaria.
Interesting fact - socialist Bulgaria and USSR banknotes and coins was nearly identical. In USSR was common to discover Bulgarian stotinki coins in change.
http://karbofoz.narod.ru/Monets/Bulgaria/2_stotink_1989.jpg
https://moneta-russia.ru/upload/monety-20-vek/1961-2kop.jpg
Other things was as similar as that coins. :)
There are a lot of Russian immigrants in US who are green card immigrants and work as janitors and truck drivers. Much more than professors.
Yes, this is a common problem for all eastern block and post-USSR itself. Socialism in soviet manner is a huge negative selection filter.
This is the case for Russia too. Nearly everything in Rusiian social and politic spheres is made using western templates. Coronavirus histeria is the latest proof. Modern world moving to global unification, and seem to have one single source of instructions for every country leader. So we will have less variety across countries very soon.
You definitely should not.
It could be, if there was no revolution and 70 years of what they called socialism. In alternate history without revolution in Russia, US and Russia could be very similar in all possible ways.