The Meme War Continues
<p><a href='http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865'>Former Soviet Dissident<br />
Warns For EU Dictatorship.</a>  Sound like a crazy premise?  Wait.  It gets<br />
better.  Vladimir Bukovsky, a leading dissident of the Soviet era whom was<br />
invited to testify at the Russian government&#8217;s inquiry into whether the<br />
Soviet Communist Party had been a criminal institution. got to see more<br />
of the KGB&#8217;s secret reports to its masters than perhaps anyone else since<br />
the old Soviet Union fell.  He says:</p>
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<p>In 1992 I had unprecedented access to Politburo and Central<br />
Committee secret documents which have been classified, and still are<br />
even now, for 30 years. These documents show very clearly that the<br />
whole idea of turning the European common market into a federal state<br />
was agreed between the left-wing parties of Europe and Moscow as a<br />
joint project [...] the structures of the European Union were initially<br />
built with the purpose of fitting into the Soviet structure.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s right.  The European Left cooperated with a Soviet project<br />
to make Europe amenable to totalitarian control from Moscow, and not<br />
way back in the 1950s, either; the key agreements were made around<br />
1985!  Read the whole article; I can&#8217;t do justice to Bukovsky&#8217;s report<br />
in a summary.</p>
<p>To anyone who read my essay on <a href='http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=260'>Gramscian Damage</a> and scoffed<br />
at the idea that the western Left operated as instruments of Soviet<br />
ideological subversion intended to wreck the West, wake up!  This is<br />
not a phenomenon of the far past.  Bukovsky draws a straight line from<br />
Western &#8220;political correctness&#8221; back to the Soviet meme war. </p>
<p>&#8220;[T]hat is one field in which I am an expert,&#8221; Bukovsky (who spent twelve<br />
years in Soviet labor camps) says, &#8220;I know how Gulags spring up.&#8221;</p>
