By Gudrun Schultz
BRUSSELS, Belgium, November 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The European Union is rapidly approaching a state similar to ideology-driven totalitarian regimes, a former Soviet dissident and expert witness against the Soviet Communist Party warned last week in Brussels.
Speaking at the invitation of the United Kingdom Independence Party, Vladimir Bukovsky, 63, said the EU was a “monster” that must be destroyed before it developed into the next Soviet Union, the Brussels Journal reported.
“The Soviet Union used to be a state run by ideology. Today’s ideology of the European Union is social-democratic, statist, and a big part of it is also political correctness,” Mr. Bukovsky said in an interview with Paul Belien. “I watch very carefully how political correctness spreads and becomes an oppressive ideology…Look at this persecution of people like the Swedish pastor who was persecuted for several months because he said that the Bible does not approve homosexuality.”
Pointing to a further example in the introduction of “hate speech” laws in France and Britain, Mr. Bukovsky said, “What you observe, taken into perspective, is a systematic introduction of ideology which could later be enforced with oppressive measures.”
Mr. Bukovsky said he gained access to confidential documents from the Soviet era in 1992, which revealed plans, dating back twenty years, to turn the European Union into a socialist organization. In 1985-1986 an informal agreement between Moscow and left-wing parties of Europe began to develop, according to Bukovsky, a plan that would see the Soviet Union “mellow” toward a social-democratic structure, while Western Europe would adopt a socialist structure.
“Then there [would] be convergency,” said Mr. Bukovsky. “This is why the structures of the European Union were initially built with the purpose of fitting into the Soviet structure. This is why they are so similar in functioning and in structure.”
While he acknowledges EU policies are not aggressively enforced as they were under the Soviet leadership, Mr. Bukovsky said nonetheless European countries are under enormous pressure to conform to EU ideology.
“It is almost blackmail. Switzerland was forced to vote five times in a referendum. All five times they have rejected it, but who knows what will happen the sixth time, the seventh time. It is always the same thing…The people have to vote in referendums until the people vote the way that is wanted.”
“It looks like we are living in a period of rapid, systematic and very consistent dismantlement of democracy,” Mr. Bukovsky warned.
“Today’s situation is really grim. Major political parties have been completely taken in by the new EU project. None of them really opposes it. They have become very corrupt. Who is going to defend our freedoms?”
He believes the repression of national freedom and identity he sees in EU domination of European nations will eventually lead to a backlash similar to the chaos that followed the collapse of the Soviet state.
”[Y]ou can press a spring only that much, and the human psyche is very resilient you know. You can press it, you can press it, but don’t forget it is still accumulating a power to rebound. It is like a spring and it always goes to overshoot.”
See coverage by Brussels Journal:
https://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865
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