Warning against EU Dictatorship

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Found via Cryptogon dot org. The Brussels Journal published a piece about former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky *) warning that the EU is on its way towards becoming another Soviet-style dictatorship. I am posting this here because it confirms my feeling after reading thru the "EU constitution" and having seen several attempts (mine and of others) to initiate a discussion about the trouble the EU is, stifled and ridiculed by people who should have had an interest in such a discussion.

Here are some short excerpts

Vladimir Bukovksy, the 63-year old former Soviet dissident, fears that the European Union is on its way to becoming another Soviet Union. In a speech he delivered in Brussels last week Mr Bukovsky called the EU a "monster" that must be destroyed, the sooner the better, before it develops into a fullfledged totalitarian state.
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Vladimir Bukovsky: I am referrring to structures, to certain ideologies being instilled, to the plans, the direction, the inevitable expansion, the obliteration of nations, which was the purpose of the Soviet Union. Most people do not understand this. They do not know it, but we do because we were raised in the Soviet Union where we had to study the Soviet ideology in school and at university. The ultimate purpose of the Soviet Union was to create a new historic entity, the Soviet people, all around the globe. The same is true in the EU today. They are trying to create a new people. They call this people "Europeans", whatever that means.

According to Communist doctrine as well as to many forms of Socialist thinking, the state, the national state, is supposed to wither away. In Russia, however, the opposite happened. Instead of withering away the Soviet state became a very powerful state, but the nationalities were obliterated. But when the time of the Soviet collapse came these suppressed feelings of national identity came bouncing back and they nearly destroyed the country. It was so frightening.

read the rest (original) on the Brussels Journal website, here: http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865

*) Vladimir Bukovsky was a soviet union dissident who was imprisoned and psychiatrized for his views. His Wikipedia entry: http_colon_//en_dot_wikipedia_dot_org/wiki/Vladimir_Bukovsky


I also found an interesting piece written by Bukovsky and fellow inmate Gluzman, called "A Manual on Psychiatry for Dissidents". I only found it only in Russian (http://antology.igrunov.ru/authors/bukovsky/psychiatr.html) and the automatic translations are /decipherable/ at best. I am have the impression that the soviet bloc has left back many, many jewels of knowledge about the psychos, lobaczevski being just one of them, many others still to be discovered by the world.