We’ve lost our sovereign currency, and that matters.

The lev carries deep symbolism, old Bulgaria meaning "the lion" as freedom, dignity, and resistance and also tied to a beloved Bulgarian revolutionary for freedom who got the nickname lion (Vasil Levski my hero 😭) who was betrayed and killed by a traitor… and the fate of the lev now feels the same to me. It feels like a monumental death, one that brings real grief.

In Lagarde’s own words, this transition wasn’t entirely consensual, yet she claims the country is “ready” for it.

From my perspective, that feels like a deep betrayal of revolutionary values, a symbolic echo of Levski's fate and the silencing of something deeply Bulgaria.

I’ll be honest… I wish I had followed the unfolding of this more closely earlier, but I hoped it wouldn’t happen. Some people close to me believe this is good for the country, but it doesn’t feel that way to me. I want a reversal. Or maybe this is the narrative inflection point where mass orange pilling begins in Bulgaria.

What truly worries me is the direction this points to… increased centralization and systems like CBDCs that could pull Bulgaria deeper into EU surveillance, control, and command structures. Bulgaria has been the poorest country in the EU for decades, yet now we’re expected to absorb shared debt and systemic risks we didn’t create.

That’s an enormous weight for an already depleted population.

This doesn’t feel like solidarity… it feels like burden-shifting and preparation for installing digital surveillance and control rails.