Vladimir Bukovski on the EU, Russia, KGB, USSR

 

 

The famous anti-Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky is the one who documented the criminal nature of the communist system and Russian imperialism, but he has another exceptional achievement. He is the one who, having access to the KGB archives, signaled the farce of the collapse of Soviet communism.

The "monster" was never destroyed, it was simply integrated into the modern world. The system was reborn under a different guise both in Russia and globally through supranational structures in the West.

Putin publicly declared that NATO, the EU and the West are the enemies of Russia, and all the actions of this country culminating in the 5 years of infernal war against Ukraine have fully confirmed the warning and prediction of Vladimir Bukovsky. .

                                                          

***

AI's assessment of Vladimir Bukovsky's assessment and interpretation of the totalitarian system in Russia is probably much less partisan and more neutral than one made from one ideological position or another, and confirms Vladimir Bukovsky's vision and foresight in its essential points. .
 

Vladimir Bukovsky argued that the collapse of the USSR was not a definitive defeat of communism, but a "controlled collapse" orchestrated by the Soviet nomenklatura and the KGB. The goal of this strategy was to save assets, maintain real power in the shadows, and revive the system in other forms, both in the new Russia (through force structures) and globally (through supranational structures).. [1, 2, 3, 4]

This central thesis is detailed at length in his seminal book (Judgment in Moscow), published after the dissident secretly copied thousands of documents from the secret archives of the Central Committee of the CPSU. . [1, 2]

The pillars of Bukowski's theory of "controlled collapse" .

The failure of Perestroika as an initial plan: .Bukovsky explains that Mikhail Gorbachev did not want democratization, but rather the streamlining of socialism in order to obtain credits and technology from the West. When the system got out of economic control, the nomenklatura switched to "Plan B": the formal liquidation of the company called "USSR". [1]
Privatization of the state by the KGB : Before the USSR officially dissolved, massive funds of the Communist Party and the KGB were illegally transferred to Western banks and shell companies. *) The power structure metamorphosed overnight from a "socialist bureaucracy" to a "capitalist oligarchy", retaining the levers of control. [1, 2]
The Lack of a "Nuremberg Trial" for Communism: Bukowski warned that not officially and legally condemning the crimes of Communism would allow the monster to reinvent itself. Because Soviet leaders and KGB officers were not indicted or prosecuted, they quickly returned to rule Russia, culminating in the regime led by Vladimir Putin.[1, 2, 3]
The parallel EURSS (European Union as a new form) : In a highly controversial analysis, Bukowski argued that collectivist ideology and Soviet centralized structures had been reborn in the West in the form of the European Union. He called the EU the "European Soviet Union" (EURSSR), arguing that both shared an obsession with excessive regulation, the destruction of nation-states, democratic deficits, and the elimination of opposition through political correctness. [1, 2, 3]

Bukovsky's conclusion

The Soviet system did not die in 1991, it merely changed its skin. The nomenklatura abandoned a bankrupt ideology (Marxism-Leninism) to preserve its absolute control over resources, giving rise to Russian crony capitalism and extending its ideological influence into Western institutions. [1, 2]

Notes

*) This is also the recipe for the emergence of "cardboard billionaires" in Romania (probably in other post-communist countries as well) in which the nomenclature, the Securitate and their heirs took over the massive funds of these political and social megastructures (PCR, Securitate, UTC, Trade Unions, etc.) sanctifying the kidnapping through the Romanian Constitution because it omits the existence and regime of illicitly acquired wealth :

Art. 44(8)  Property acquired lawfully cannot be confiscated. The lawful nature of the acquisition is presumed (s.n.).