True as it sounds, it still seems like kind of a grave insult to Russia.
True as it sounds, it still seems like kind of a grave insult to Russia.
Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky is a former Soviet dissident who spent 12 years imprisoned (camp, prison, psychiatric hospital). In 2005, he published a pamphlet comparing the European Union and the Soviet Union. He compares the Soviet regime he knew and the European Union that installs intellectual gulags.
>It is very surprising that after having buried a monster, the USSR. One builds another, quite similar: the European Union. What exactly is the European Union? We may answer it by examining the USSR.
>The USSR was ruled by fifteen unelected people who named each other and who were not answerable to anyone. The European Union is governed by two dozen people who have chosen each other, who meet behind closed doors, who are accountable to none and who are indelible.
>One could say that the EU has an elected parliament. Well, the USSR also had a kind of parliament: the Supreme Soviet. They approved the Politburo's decisions without discussion, just like in the European Parliament where each group's speaking time is limited and is often less than one minute per speaker.
>In the EU, there are hundreds of thousands of Eurocrats with huge salaries, staff, servants, bonuses and privileges, judicial immunity for life, simply transferred from one post to another, whatever they do or do not do well. Is it not exactly like the Soviet regime?
>The USSR was created by coercion and very often with armed occupation. The EU is created, certainly not by armed force, but by constraint and economic pressure.
>To continue to exist, the USSR has spread ever more. As soon as it stopped spreading, it began to collapse. And I think it will be the same for the EU.
>We had been told that the purpose of the USSR was to create a new historical entity: the Soviet people and that we had to forget our nationalities, our traditions and our customs. It's the same with the EU, it seems. They do not want us to be English or French, they want you all to be a new historical entity: the Europeans.
>Make your national feelings disappear and force you to live in a multinational community. 73 years of this system in the USSR have resulted in more ethnic conflicts than anywhere else in the world. One of the great ambitions of the USSR was to destroy the nation-state. And that's exactly what we see in Europe today. Brussels wants to engulf the nation-states to cease to exist.
>The Soviet system was corrupt from head to toe and the same goes for the EU. The endemic corruption we saw in the old USSR flourished in the EU. Those who oppose or denounce it are silenced or punished. Nothing changes.
>In the USSR, we had the gulag. I think it is also in the EU. An intellectual gulag named the "politically correct". When someone wants to say what he thinks about race or gender, or if his opinions differ from those approved, he will be ostracized. This is the beginning of the gulag, the beginning of the loss of your freedom.
>In the USSR, it was thought that only a federal state would avoid war. We are told exactly the same thing in the EU.
>In short, the same ideology and the same systems. The EU is the old Soviet style served with Western sauce. But I insist, like the USSR, the EU carries in itself the seeds of its own loss. Alas, when it collapses, because it collapses, it will leave behind an immense destruction and gigantic economic and ethnic problems. The old Soviet system was not reformable. The EU either.
>But there is an alternative to being ruled by these two dozen self-proclaimed leaders in Brussels. It's called independence. You do not have to accept what they have planned for you. After all, you have never been asked if you want to join them. I lived in your future and it did not work. Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky (October 21, 2014)
Book :
Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky (2005). The European Union, a new USSR? Éditions du Rocher.
Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky is a former Soviet dissident who spent 12 years imprisoned (camp, prison, psychiatric hospital). In 2005, he published a pamphlet comparing the European Union and the Soviet Union. He compares the Soviet regime he knew and the European Union that installs intellectual gulags.
>>It is very surprising that after having buried a monster, the USSR. One builds another, quite similar: the European Union. What exactly is the European Union? We may answer it by examining the USSR.
>>The USSR was ruled by fifteen unelected people who named each other and who were not answerable to anyone. The European Union is governed by two dozen people who have chosen each other, who meet behind closed doors, who are accountable to none and who are indelible.
>>One could say that the EU has an elected parliament. Well, the USSR also had a kind of parliament: the Supreme Soviet. They approved the Politburo's decisions without discussion, just like in the European Parliament where each group's speaking time is limited and is often less than one minute per speaker.
>>In the EU, there are hundreds of thousands of Eurocrats with huge salaries, staff, servants, bonuses and privileges, judicial immunity for life, simply transferred from one post to another, whatever they do or do not do well. Is it not exactly like the Soviet regime?
>>The USSR was created by coercion and very often with armed occupation. The EU is created, certainly not by armed force, but by constraint and economic pressure.
>>To continue to exist, the USSR has spread ever more. As soon as it stopped spreading, it began to collapse. And I think it will be the same for the EU.
>>We had been told that the purpose of the USSR was to create a new historical entity: the Soviet people and that we had to forget our nationalities, our traditions and our customs. It's the same with the EU, it seems. They do not want us to be English or French, they want you all to be a new historical entity: the Europeans.
>>Make your national feelings disappear and force you to live in a multinational community. 73 years of this system in the USSR have resulted in more ethnic conflicts than anywhere else in the world. One of the great ambitions of the USSR was to destroy the nation-state. And that's exactly what we see in Europe today. Brussels wants to engulf the nation-states to cease to exist.
>>The Soviet system was corrupt from head to toe and the same goes for the EU. The endemic corruption we saw in the old USSR flourished in the EU.
Those who oppose or denounce it are silenced or punished. Nothing changes.
>>In the USSR, we had the gulag. I think it is also in the EU. An intellectual gulag named the "politically correct". When someone wants to say what he thinks about race or gender, or if his opinions differ from those approved, he will be ostracized. This is the beginning of the gulag, the beginning of the loss of your freedom.
>>In the USSR, it was thought that only a federal state would avoid war. We are told exactly the same thing in the EU.
>>In short, the same ideology and the same systems. The EU is the old Soviet style served with Western sauce. But I insist, like the USSR, the EU carries in itself the seeds of its own loss. Alas, when it collapses, because it collapses, it will leave behind an immense destruction and gigantic economic and ethnic problems. The old Soviet system was not reformable. The EU either.
>>But there is an alternative to being ruled by these two dozen self-proclaimed leaders in Brussels. It's called independence. You do not have to accept what they have planned for you. After all, you have never been asked if you want to join them. I lived in your future and it did not work.
Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky (October 21, 2014)
Book :
Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky (2005). The European Union, a new USSR? Éditions du Rocher.
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