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Extract from the Petrich Travel Guides:
PETRICH
is strictly for connoisseurs of Balkan towns that have got rich quick by shady means - sanctions-busting during the UN embargo on Yugoslavia in its case - with more dollar
millionaires
and top-of-the-range cars than anywhere in Bulgaria. It's a place that has always enjoyed raffish associations. In the 1920s and 30s, Petrich was the
murder capital
of Bulgaria, rife with so many hired killers that the price of an assassination dropped to US$6. This was largely due to the town's status as a forward base for fighters belonging to the IMRO, who spent most of their time selling their services to gang b...
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