Former Soviet political dissident and lecturer compares EU to the USSR

The Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991. In the Soviet Union, the nation-state was secondary to the Union. In the European Union, the nation-state is subordinate to the Union. The USSR was an evil empire’, whilst it is difficult to see it EU on the same level there are many similarities. There are currently 27 EU commissioners who seemingly dictate to a population of over 500 million. In the USSR commissars were an all baring presence.   

The EU and the USSR were lessons in deceit. The true nature and cost of the system one is entering are hidden until after the ink has dried on the contract. One example of this was Maastricht. Once in 1973, the PM Ted Heath took the UK into what was then called the European Economic Community or Common Market, the tone was set. Ted Heath told the British public that they would get a veto over important issues, this has proved not to be the case. Leaving the Soviet Union was unheard of, as is leaving the European Union.

UNN’s Oliver Down has obtained quotations from the Writer, lecturer and political dissident from the former USSR, Vladimir Bukovsky. Mr Bukovsky pulls no punches stating that “The Soviet Union was governed by 15 unelected people, who appointed each other and who were not accountable to anyone. The European Union is governed by two dozen people, who appoint each other and are not accountable to anyone.” Mr Bukovsky then goes on to compare the European Parliament with the equivalent, the Supreme Soviet. Mr Bukovsky stated “One may say that the EU has an elected parliament. Well, the Soviet Union had a parliament of a sort too, the Supreme Soviet. They just rubber-stamped the political decisions, pretty much like the EU parliament does.”  Is the initial comparison as absurd as it originally seems?