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Zlatni Pjasci and Privileges for Journalists
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The resort complex Zlatni Pjasci, just off the port of Varna was meant to be a school-book example of the superiority of Socialism in everything. People who had never been to France would not even blink saying - it is very much the Croisette of the Black Sea. One needs to dangerously stretch imagination to liken the coast of the Black Sea here with the Med at Cannes, but that is besides this entry.
My father had pulled all his strings and he got, at a very short notice, a table for four at the International Journalists Union Summer Resort but the sleeping quarters outside of the main building.
Where?
In a ramshackle shed all alone in the far side of a vineyard relatively near the main, nicely done, comfortable hotel-residence building of this establishment.
I was furious. Now I want to punish myself for being so inconsiderate and that is why you read this story: there must be more establishments and more situations like this going on right now in many countries of the world.
My dad was a victim of the Stalinist era. Now I know that he had to risk a lot by explaining to some secret-service-connected clerk that I (that is his son) was a very important Yugoslav (thus "international") journalist. He got it nearly right there, with a small correction. The Yugoslav Journalists Union did not recognize this Eastern-bloc organization, we were affiliated with the one in Brussels, this one was headquartered in Prague.
And all this for a simple week-long holiday on the Black Sea!
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