[berkes]

> The 'bulgaren-fraude' was the cause

No. It wasn't a cause, it was an excuse.

Even back then, politicians warned that by cranking down on the relative few "frauding Bulgarians" a lot of collatoral damage was imminent. A politician even refused to implement it because of this and resigned.

It was predicted to have this collatoral damage. I was publicly known that such fraud would be hard to fight at all, even if collatoral damage was accepted. And still, government wanted to appear tough so proceeded anyway.

It was a choice. Not a force of hand.