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