After the Brexit and recent attacks against migrants in Britain, I can’t get rid of a deja vu feeling. As if I’ve already watched this movie a quarter century ago. I know its end, and it’s not a happy one.
In summer of 1989, the Lithuanian Sejm decided to withdraw from the Soviet Union and establish Lithuanian laws in the country. It was the beginning of the end for USSR — a giant corrupt monster, which for 70 years bullied the world and its people under the pretense of communist ideology.
Intimidation and sanctions could not prevent the collapse. A fabricated artificial entity, thoroughly impregnated with falsehood and lies, fell apart like a house of cards.
It came out of the clear blue sky, but the collapse was inevitable, due to the very nature of the “Red empire” — as was the inevitable disintegration of the EU.
Set aside the scenery and the nuances. Without a doubt, EU’s bright and vivid facade does not resemble the meager greyness of the Soviet entourage. Of course, EU hasn’t the power, assertiveness and strict centralization that USSR had. However, supporting structures and the foundation were made from the same materials with the same guidelines.
One can easily find numerous and fundamental similarities between these two entities.
– The Soviet Union created a planned, controlled, and unsustainable economy managed by bureaucratic apparatus. The EU did the same, has tried to regulate economy artificially. USSR has redistributed wealth on an equal basis — the EU has been wasting money on benefits to those who refuse to work.
– The USSR and the EU had imposed an artificial universalist ideology on their people that promised a paradise on earth for next generations. In the USSR it was called Communism. EU calls it “postmodernism”. Using this slogan — “Let’s denounce the old world!” — Soviet apparatchiks, like the European bureaucrats, drove their people to hell.
– The USSR created a huge bureaucratic machine, dictated ideology in all spheres of life — from politics to theater, architecture and fashion. This bureaucracy was completely cut off from the reality and the citizens. The same happened in the EU.
– The USSR instituted most severe censorship with persecution of dissidents. By subjugating governments, national media, the academy and the judicial system, the EU has established a cultural totalitarianism. The pursuit of dissidents has been more sophisticated, thus more efficient, veiled by concepts of “tolerance”, “human rights” and “cultural diversity” — a demonic invention.
– The Soviet Union cultivated a new “formation of people” — the “Soviet people”. Like the unskillful Gnostic Demiurge, the EU cultivated “post-modern people” – consumers without roots, values and moral compass, unable to see the difference between good and evil, fact and fiction. In order to create a “Soviet man”, the USSR deliberately carried out migration of nations, while destroying homogeneous historical communities and arbitrarily creating alien enclaves in the social body of other republics: Ukraine, Baltic States, Moldova, the Caucasus and in Central Asia. EU has intentionally flooded its countries with masses of migrants from Third World countries and Muslim countries to destroy national cultures — labeling the process “multiculturalism”.
– Communists created the fussy, worthless and senseless art of “Socialist realism”, symbolized by “Worker and Kolkhoz Woman”. Postmodernists invented infantile “postmodern art” with cult of primitivism, rafting archaic forms, meaningless set of sounds and wall paintings.
– The USSR intimidated its people with the threat of a nuclear apocalypse to distract them from poverty. EU frightens Europeans with environmental apocalypse; promulgating doubtful ideas about global warming by suppressing the real threat of global terrorism, the clash of civilizations and the collapse of the national states.
– The USSR drained the resources of wealthy republics — the Baltic States and Ukraine — to feed the weak, unproductive South. The EU doesn’t fall behind.
– The USSR treated the Jews with the “fifth column”, regardless of their contribution to science and medicine. The EU has betrayed the European Jews while obstinately undermining Israel, despite its contribution to science and medicine, only to appease Muslims. The USSR had created the “Palestinian people” and the PLO, coining “anti-Zionism” to ram through its “anti-imperialist” policies. The EU has turned the creation of “a Palestinian state” into “the sacral dogma” of its foreign policy, ignoring the geopolitical reality, Islamic fanaticism and the Middle East chaos.
– The USSR has been limitlessly and greedily wasting resources to feed its various regimes until it had ultimately collapsed from exhaustion. In its greediness and unscrupulousness, the EU is infinitely expanding by association with Turkey, North Africa and the Caucasus.
– The USSR had dispersed the miasma of its pseudo-ideology throughout the world under the pretense of “fighting for the freedom of peoples” and “social justice.” The EU is operating in a similar manner.
Wasn’t it a cruel mockery of History that the European Union that was on the verge of collapse virtually awarded itself the Nobel Peace Prize, as it was done by senile Soviet leaders?
I’ve claimed that I know the end of this “movie”. At first, the collapse will occur alongside the borders of “Pink Empire” countries. After that, the very fabric of the social organism of the countries will start to decay. Alien and hostile enclaves already exist in European cities in the form of extraterritorial “Sensitive Urban Zones”, with laws of sharia or clan and tribal law codes. They will expand and become quasi-states inside states. Territorial entities will appear in Europe similar to Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria and Chechnya, the republic of Donetsk and Luhansk Republic. In the former USSR, these entities get the support of Russia. In the EU, they will get support from giant Islamic world.
Timeworn grievances will flare up. The body of the crumbling “United Europe” will be covered with ulcers and bleeding wounds. European states (including perhaps new ones such as Scotland, Catalonia, Wallonia and so on) will have to regain power with force, to declare states of emergency, to carry out repressive measures. Dictatorship will be the alternative for chaos, and it will be the end of democracy. Bellum omnium contra omnes (“The war of all against all”) will bring Western Europe back to the “Social Contract” of Hobbes, i.e. to voluntary tyranny. Ironically, hundreds of thousands of migrants will become victims of “multiculturalism”.
The elite will either flee or will “adapt”, like Soviet apparatchiks after “Perestroika” who became oligarchs and Orthodox nationalists.
One more experiment comes to an end, leaving behind anarchy and ruin. The EU-SSR elite has destroyed prosperous countries just in a few decades – ironically, they’ve achieved even more than geriatric Soviet elite.
Alexander Maistrovoy is the author of Agony of Hercules or a Farewell to Democracy (Notes of a Stranger), published recently by Xlibris, Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Angemon says
And nowadays Putin holds to power with the threat of an invasion by the US – not much has changed.
Mr. Lucky says
You have no idea what your are talking about. Putin is loved in Russia, and he has restored Christianity, and he enjoys killing muslims. Get your facts straight.
Angemon says
None of your propaganda points even addresses what I wrote: that Putin holds to power with the threat of an invasion by the US – not much has changed since the time of the USSR.
Alien Republican says
Angemon – not much has changed indeed. The threat of a Russian invasion is still held as well. Well there was the “thing” with the Ukraine but let’s face it – the country was lured into civil war by false promises of the delusional EU.
Not much has changed in the ways Russia is denigrated by some of otherwise very smart contributors.
Angemon says
“Civil war”? With Russian troops in Crimea?
gravenimage says
Actually, Putin is enabling a nuclear Iran and has allowed Chechnya to become a Shari’ah state. He is inconsistent *at best* in opposing Jihad.
And of course he was threatened by any former Soviet republics joining the free West–he just knew he could not do anything about Poland and the Czech Republic.
Peggy says
I don’t think we should care how they live in Chechnya. If they are happy with their lifestyle why not let them live as they wish?
It seems that since they run their own affairs they no longer have an interest in importing terrorism to Russia.
Look at what happened to ME since western military intervention. It’s a complete and utter mess.
Putin’s smart. He isn’t going to start something that is only going to get very ugly and his people aren’t experiencing the terrorism the west is.
So who’s got it right. Our governments on him? Where are terrorist attacks happening. In the west or in Russia?
Personally, I couldn’t care less how they live.
Angemon says
Peggy posted:
“I don’t think we should care how they live in Chechnya. If they are happy with their lifestyle why not let them live as they wish?”
Oh, they’re “happy with their lifestyle”? Is that why it takes a Putin boot-licker in charge violently and brutally suppressing an ongoing insurgency?
You sure have a strange way to define “happy with their lifestyle” and “live as they wish”…
You mean pike what happened in Beslan, Moscow, etc.?
Nigel GFF says
A great article – golden nuggets all.
Food for thought – even if eye watering.
The imposition (globalisation) of homogeneity on heterogeneous peoples is “a demonic invention”.
As a voter for ‘BREXIT’ I look forward to further ‘EXIT’s.
Nigel GFF says
Who knows, Germany next – another attack in Bavaria, explosive device in wine bar. Sadly, one dead & 10 injured (what a miserable word – shrapnel can be very ‘cruel’).
Alien Republican says
Germany will be the last to exit. Brexit has been provoqued by Merkel and narrow minded EU-Apparatschiks. Once the UK has left for good and I still have to see that materiialize before I believe it that Merkel run or rather ruined Germany will weigh even more within the EU and eveutally alienate the Eastern European countries for good. The vicious attacks by German politicians against decision by Poland’s, Hungary’s and Slovenia’s decisions of reestablishing border controls have been noted….
Watch and see…
Alexander Maistrovoy says
Thank you very much, Nigel! The paradox that Communists built their Utopia on the ruins of rotten and corrupt Russian Empire but EU have destroyed healthy and successful countries
mortimer says
The USSR was a fictitious, theoretical house of cards because it was 90% built on lies and exaggeration.
Like all socialists, they soon ran out of ‘OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY’ and then were in financial crisis for the next 70 years while pretending all was well.
Islam, like the USSR, is totally built upon falsehoods which the dumb and uneducated peons accept because they’ll get killed if they disagree.
There is no voting in Islam. There is no choice in Islam.
mortimer says
And I largely agree with Alexander Maistrovoy. The elitist, smug EU bureaucracy also reminds me of the smug NOMENKLATURA of the former USSR. They have never worked in the salt mines, in the factories or in the sewage plant, but they know what’s good for those of us who do.
Peggy says
USSR has collapsed and it’s time EU collapses too. There are too many similarities between them. Both oppressive and determined to take away people’s souls.
Linde Barrera says
To Alexander Maistrovoy- Thank you for to your excellent article. Very disturbing but profoundly truthful.
Alexander Maistrovoy says
Thank you very much, Linde, I will be glad if I wrong
Mathews V. George says
Wonderfull. enlightening and thought provoking.
Alexander Maistrovoy says
Thank you very much, Mathews. Frankly, it’s so sad how Europe destroys itself – especially, for man that hate Soviet totalitarianism and Communism at all
Pong says
One has to stretch facts (like the author did) to find similarities between EU and USSR.
Economically, politically and culturally they are very different entities.
To start with, there is a huge difference between EU bureaucracy and NOMENCLATURE of the soviets. It might come as a surprise to Mortimer, but almost ALL of the nomenclature started as working people. Statistic in USSR showed that nomenclature reflected the general population in percentage to rural and factory workers and intelligencia. Almost all of them started in one of those groups. Sons and daughters of the powerful were looked after, but none of them came even close to have a real power. There is a difference in their social standing. Bureaucrats are mostly parasites. They are not involved in economy and that is the main reason for their numbers to grow. Nomenclatura more like a public company, were ones share depends on his position in the hierarchy. That is why their numbers were slowly going down in USSR.
It seems, if I go step by step, it will take too much space, therefore I just conclude that both are bad, but very different.
Jay Boo says
Pong you are being a bit unfair, especially since the ‘author’ states that this is not an exact match and is merely making an analogy. — non sequitur
Peter B says
To Andrew Maistrovoy:
Thank you for that interesting analysis. There’s another important similarity: the USSR experienced a demographic collapse. There is some improvement under Putin, perhaps even enough though it’s still a problem. The EU’s demographic collapse continues.
Alexander Maistrovoy says
Thank you, Peter! You absolutely right – I have been in Europe a lot and there are practically no children on streets in large cities. But a lot of children from Third world. Tragic situation.
Bezelel says
If you want to mix oil and water, you have to shake the s–t out of it. Then it never really mixes, it just breaks up into smaller particles. If you leave it alone it will separate again. How do these social engineers ever get traction?
Peggy says
Angemon said:
Putin’s smart. He isn’t going to start something that is only going to get very ugly and his people aren’t experiencing the terrorism the west is.
You mean pike what happened in Beslan, Moscow, etc.?
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Anything happened since?
Compare that with what’s happening in the west and we have the answer.
Angemon says
Peggy posted:
“Anything happened since?”
How would one know, given the draconian grip the Russian government has on the press?
“Compare that with what’s happening in the west and we have the answer.”
Just to be clear: you’re suggesting that the way to end islamic terrorism in Europe is to do as the Russian government did and give an appointed muslim boot-licker a patch of land that he’s free to run as he please? If so, perhaps the French should name a bridge after that jihadi who killed scores of people in Nice, the same way the Russians named a bridge after Kadyrov, a muslim leader who waged jihad on Russia and who exhorted his followers to kill as many Russians as possible – that ought to show the muslims a thing or two and keep them in line!
Peggy says
Circumstances in Russia and Europe are completely different. Muslims have been living on that land for centuries and were part of USSR for a long time too.
Muslims causing terrorism are “migrants” or “refugees” OR invaders to be precise.
Russia hasn’t imported Muslims.
As far as getting information out of Russia is concerned, you are confusing Russia with North Korea. Russia is no longer Communist and information does flow out of Russia.
Your pathetic clutching to a straw with “Who knows” answer is not even worth considering.
I know that you don’t like these FACTS because they don’t suit your blind hatred for Russia but you can’t dispute them if you want to look credible.
Angemon says
Peggy posted:
“Circumstances in Russia and Europe are completely different. Muslims have been living on that land for centuries and were part of USSR for a long time too.”
That didn’t stop them from rebelling every once in a while, did it? For the same reason that “migrants” are going jihad in Germany – the tenets of their religion. Also, special pleading is a logical fallacy.
Finally, if “circumstances in Russia and Europe are completely different” why did *you* – not me, you brought up the comparison with Russia? You wrote, and I quote:
You’re shooting yourself in the foot with your “circumstances in Russia and Europe are completely different” argument…
“Muslims causing terrorism are “migrants” or “refugees” OR invaders to be precise.
Russia hasn’t imported Muslims. ”
Huh, so what? We’re talking about *combating jihad*, not the origin of each and every of the individual jihadis. Are jihadis in Chechnya driven by something different than jihadis in Germany? Something else other than the quran and ahadith?
“As far as getting information out of Russia is concerned, you are confusing Russia with North Korea. ”
No, I am not. How many Russian news agencies are NOT affiliated with the Russian state? And how many Russian news agencies that are affiliated with the state are NOT regarded as propaganda outlets?
“Russia is no longer Communist and information does flow out of Russia.”
Despite the interference of the Russian government, not because of it. Also, information flowed out of Communist Russia during the Cold War – you might want to get your facts straight. Of course, the issue here is NOT whether or not information flows out of Russia, it’s who is responsible for the flow of information – and in our current day and age, it’s mostly state sponsored agencies. It’s no accident that CB often links to RT or SputnikNews. Notice what I said – it was “how would one know, given the draconian grip the Russian government has on the press”, not “How would one know since there’s no information coming from Russia”.
“Your pathetic clutching to a straw with “Who knows” answer is not even worth considering.”
Of course – much easier to dismiss something out of hand, right?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2016/02/09/how-censorship-works-in-vladimir-putins-russia/
https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2016/russia
BTW, Peggy, at least have the basic human decency to quote what I actually said. It was not “who knows”, it was not “there’s no information coming from Russia” (which was what you replied to via your fallacious comparison with North Korea), it was “How would one know, given the draconian grip the Russian government has on the press?” – a draconian grip I believe was more than adequately demonstrated by the two above links. I hope hay is cheap in your neck of the woods – if not, all those strawmen will add up…
“I know that you don’t like these FACTS”
Right, I forgot – you’re a mind reader. And “FACTS”? Citation needed. You accused me of confusing Russia with North Korea – prove it.
“because they don’t suit your blind hatred for Russia”
There’s no hatred of Russia on my end. But, of course, it’s much easier for you to dismiss what I said as “blind hatred of Russia” than to actually address my arguments. Much like critics of islam who point out to islamic scripture are dismissed as “islamophobes” and “hate mongers”.
“but you can’t dispute them if you want to look credible.”
According to whom? Oh, that’s right – I need to get bogged down on your swamp of irrelevances an strawmen if I want to get your seal of approval (which, spoiler alert, I’ll never get unless I echo your opinions). Time to get your train wreck of a reply back on track. You tried to defend Putin’s handling of muslims in Russia. You also tried to argue that muslims in Chechnya were living as they wanted to. I pointed out that Putin’s handling was to give a muslim boot-licker that exhorted his coreligionists to kill as many Russians as possible his own fiefdom to rule as he pleased. And even that did not work, with the ongoing insurgency in Chechnya.
Surely you can see why I, a Western European, do NOT want to give muslims a stretch of land in Western Europe for them to rule as they please. Putin did that and it’s not working for him – why would it work for Western Europe?
UNCLE VLADDI says
Yes, they’re all cowardly hypocritical victimology-extorting criminal gangsters.
Lloyd Miller says
Islam is an ugly stain on our world that must be eliminated. Islamic people must become formerly Islamic. The ugly ideology / religion must die.
Peggy says
Angemon Wrote:
No, I am not. How many Russian news agencies are NOT affiliated with the Russian state? And how many Russian news agencies that are affiliated with the state are NOT regarded as propaganda outlets?
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Angemon, take a look at news outlets in the US, UK and other parts of the western world.
How many of them are just propaganda outlets for the globalists?
How many of them spew rubbish out and hide important information?
I could ask you exactly the same questions.
Let’s not go down that road.
BTW, you say you don’t hate Russia but you have always pointed all the negative about Russia and keep attacking anyone who dares say something positive. At least be honest and admit that you have a tremendous bias when it comes to Russia. It shows in everything you say. Just because you won’t admit it doesn’t mean it doesn’t show.
Angemon says
Peggy posted:
“I could ask you exactly the same questions.
Let’s not go down that road. ”
She said, having willingly walked down the road. Whether or not Western media outlets are propaganda outlets for the “globalists” has exactly 0 (zero) to do with the draconian grip the Russian government has on the Russian media and its reporting, or lack thereof, of events taking place in Russia. This much should be blatantly obvious. Not sure you thought tu-quoquery was a valid argument – it’s a logical fallacy, you know?
“BTW, you say you don’t hate Russia but you have always pointed all the negative about Russia and keep attacking anyone who dares say something positive.”
This is, of course, blatantly false – citation needed. The truth is that you have yet to see any criticism of Russia you can say “yes, that is true”. Hence why my stating of facts was deemed as “hatred” and “attacking”. Did Putin placed a boot-licker that promised to play ball with him running Chechnya or not? Did that boot-licker called on his coreligionists to kill as many Russians as possible or not? Frankly, I’m baffled at you deeming my indignation for someone who called for killing Russians to be rewarded as Kadyrov was as “hatred”. If I hated Russia as you claim I should be overjoyed – but you don’t really like logic when it says you’re wrong…
“At least be honest and admit that you have a tremendous bias when it comes to Russia.”
Facts are not biased, my dear, they are, well, *facts*. If you have a problem with facts don’t lash out at me. Did Putin placed a boot-licker that promised to play ball with him running Chechnya or not? Did that boot-licker called on his coreligionists to kill as many Russians as possible or not? Facts, my dear – stick to them.
Anyway, this is the little game you play. I made a perfectly valid criticism of your post and you’re derailing it to claim I hate Russia. I’m not sure why you keep resorting to stupid little petty tactics like that. It makes you look terrible. Either address my arguments or ignore my posts, but please, don’t bother wasting both our time by engaging in petty, spiteful diversionary tactics. You should know by now it won’t work. Here, I’ll repeat my argument that you saw fit to ignore to instead act like a chola gutter rat and go on personal attacks:
You tried to defend Putin’s handling of muslims in Russia. You also tried to argue that muslims in Chechnya were living as they wanted to. I pointed out that Putin’s handling was to give a muslim boot-licker that exhorted his coreligionists to kill as many Russians as possible his own fiefdom to rule as he pleased. And even that did not work, with the ongoing insurgency in Chechnya.
Surely you can see why I, a Western European, do NOT want to give muslims a stretch of land in Western Europe for them to rule as they please. Putin did that and it’s not working for him – why would it work for Western Europe?
Are you going to address my argument or are you going to engage in more petty derailing and name calling?
Peggy says
Are you going to address my argument or are you going to engage in more petty derailing and name calling?
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What name calling? What did I call you?
Now Angemon, since you are so sure that we are not going to hear the truth from journalist in Russia about terrorist attacks etc, tell us how do you know this and what information do you have that Russian media hasn’t reported on.
You’ve made that statement so let’s get down to evidence.
Also, the fact that you are constantly replying to my posts and picking problems with them is telling of your confidence that I am always wrong in everything I say and you are right.
Why else would you constantly reply to my posts and try to show that you are against everything I write?
Do you ever agree with anything I say?
Angemon says
Peggy posted:
“What name calling? What did I call you?”
So petty derailing it is. What’s next, complaining that I try to go against everything you say? After that little stunt of yours, that would be projection – so, considering your history, I suspect that’s exactly what you’ll do.
“Now Angemon, since you are so sure that we are not going to hear the truth from journalist in Russia about terrorist attacks etc, tell us how do you know this and what information do you have that Russian media hasn’t reported on.
You’ve made that statement so let’s get down to evidence.”
And the petty derailing continues – please point exactly where I said what you’re claiming I did. This is especially egregious because it’s after I pointed ut what I said – because you had already try to distort it.
“Also, the fact that you are constantly replying to my posts and picking problems with them”
Again: why would your posts be above criticism? Why are you so afraid of discussing what you say?
“is telling of your confidence that I am always wrong in everything I say and you are right.”
That makes no sense – are you acknowledging you’re always wrong? Or do you have some sort of victimhood complex that makes you confuse someone’s desire to engage in good-faith, open discussion of what you say with attempts to belittle you?
“Why else would you constantly reply to my posts and try to show that you are against everything I write?”
I *don’t*. Your petty derailing and s***-flinging continues.
Peggy says
Surely you can see why I, a Western European, do NOT want to give muslims a stretch of land in Western Europe for them to rule as they please. Putin did that and it’s not working for him – why would it work for Western Europe
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Putin never gave them any land. They lived on that land for centuries.
What? You didn’t know that? I thought you knew everything the way you push for evidence but never offer any yourself.
Angemon says
Peggy posted:
“Putin never gave them any land. They lived on that land for centuries.
What? You didn’t know that? I thought you knew everything the way you push for evidence but never offer any yourself.”
Selective reading much, Peggy? “Give muslims a stretch of land in Western Europe for them to rule as they please”. Tsk tsk – and this is coming from someone who just above wrote:
Now, back on track:
You tried to defend Putin’s handling of muslims in Russia. You also tried to argue that muslims in Chechnya were living as they wanted to. I pointed out that Putin’s handling was to give a muslim boot-licker that exhorted his coreligionists to kill as many Russians as possible his own fiefdom to rule as he pleased. And even that did not work, with the ongoing insurgency in Chechnya. This is something you’re NOT addressing – I suspect it’s because you can’t deny it.
Peggy says
Angemon says
July 27, 2016 at 8:08 pm
Peggy posted:
“Putin never gave them any land. They lived on that land for centuries.
What? You didn’t know that? I thought you knew everything the way you push for evidence but never offer any yourself.”
Selective reading much, Peggy? “Give muslims a stretch of land in Western Europe for them to rule as they please”. Tsk tsk – and this is coming from someone who just above wrote:
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So when and were did I say to give Muslims a stretch of land in Europe?
I actually said the opposite. I said that situation in Russia is different to Europe.
They are allowed to invade Europe when this could’ve been stopped.
Muslims in Russia have had that land for centuries so nobody needed to give them permission to enter.
I will ask you to show me where I said that we should give Muslims land in Europe.
Angemon says
Peggy posted:
“So when and were did I say to give Muslims a stretch of land in Europe?”
My God, does your pettiness knows no bounds? I believe this passed the thresholds of “naive misunderstanding” and “stupid person” a long time ago – you’re deliberately asking me to defend points I did not make. And while you do so you avoid addressing the points I actually make.
“I actually said the opposite. I said that situation in Russia is different to Europe.”
Which, as I pointed out, was you shooting yourself in the foot since you – not me, you – brought up the comparison with Russia.
You tried to defend Putin’s handling of muslims in Russia. You also tried to argue that muslims in Chechnya were living as they wanted to. I pointed out that Putin’s handling was to give a muslim boot-licker that exhorted his coreligionists to kill as many Russians as possible his own fiefdom to rule as he pleased. And even that did not work, with the ongoing insurgency in Chechnya.
Surely you can see why I, a Western European, do NOT want to give muslims a stretch of land in Western Europe for them to rule as they please. Putin did that and it’s not working for him – why would it work for Western Europe?
Christopher471 says
Interesting piece but I also see an analogy between the EU and Hitler: When in his bunker in 1945, with the Russian troops only a few hundred yards away, a destroyed city pounded by artillery, a few dejected soldiers and a population living underground, he was still planning on a counter attack while his generals looked on in amazement at how insane he had become.