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   Soviet Roots of Socialist European Union   
   Book Review by Richard Salbato   
   unitypub@unitypublishing.com   
      
   Back in 1985 I wrote a book called "The Ark of Apocalypse", and sub-titled   
   it "A fiction story of the future - I think".  I believed that based on true   
   and approved prophecy and the trends in the world, I could figure out where   
   the world was headed and how.  I saw it heading to total economic disaster,   
   starting in Europe, which was becoming more and more socialistic.   I   
   envisioned (without hard evidence) the Communist Politburo in Moscow   
   financing and directing a gradual infiltration of Western European   
   governments making them more and more socialistic to the point of no return.   
   The more a government gives you the more it owns you.  This was happening   
   all over Europe and seemed to have some kind of master plan.   
   To some people the USSR was a communist success but I knew better.  It   
   seemed to be successful because it kept expanding.  Let me explain it this   
   way.  If you have a business that gets paid up front 50% before starting   
   work on each contract, you suddenly have money in your pocket.  But if at   
   the end of that project you loose 20% you will go broke.  If, however, half   
   way through that contract you sign another contract that will bring you the   
   same loss and get another 50% cash up front, you still seem to be successful   
   because you have 100% less 20% of other people's money.  As long as you keep   
   expanding you do not see what a failure you are.  In the 75 years of   
   Russia's expansion they did not see what a real failure they were.  But in   
   1985 they began to see that the entire system was going to fail.  This was   
   when Gorbachev took office and when I had already finished my book.  Quickly   
   Communism in Russia seemed to fall apart and I began to think I was wrong   
   about my book and never published it.  I kept trying to re-write it but   
   things kept changing so fast I just gave up.   
   I just read a small booklet by Vladimir Bukovsky called "EUSSR: The Soviet   
   Roots of European Integration" exposing secret documents of the Politburo in   
   Moscow and I now know that I was right in the first place.  My original book   
   was more exact than the re-written versions.  To explain this we must go   
   back into history a little bit.   
   The 1914 Communist Split   
   In 1914 Socialists split into Bolsheviks (communists) and Mensheviks   
   (socialists).  The Marxist ideology was the same but they differed on   
   methods of achieving the goal.  The communists took control by force and the   
   socialists used the democratic systems to gain power.  For 70 years they   
   were antagonistic toward each other.   
      
   It was in the late 1970s and early 1980s that both sides had to re-consider   
   this hostile attitude towards each other and try to work together.  In 1981   
   Communist Mitternad became President and began to introduce socialism in   
   France.  In just a few years Mitternad's socialism almost destroyed the   
   economic system of France and like all socialist countries, it headed for   
   complete collapse.   
      
   Russia was on the brink of economic disaster because it was no longer   
   expanding, Ronald Reagan was pushing them to more and more military spending   
   that they could not afford and the entire system was about to collapse.  Now   
   both the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks had to re-think their style of   
   communism.   
      
   "The soviet economic model, unproductive and wasteful by definition like all   
   socialist models, had brought them to the brink of bankruptcy.  On the   
   other, their very 'success' in exporting that model to other countries was   
   becoming an unbearable burden to carry on their shoulders.  With their   
   troops bogged down in Afghanistan, and with the Polish crisis looming large   
   on their doorstep, the 'cost of Empire' became virtually unsustainable.   
   Simply put, they had suddenly realized that their economic base was too   
   small for their global ambitions.  Added to that a new round of the arms   
   race forced on them by Ronald Reagan, falling oil prices and a growing   
   discontent at home, and one could understand their sudden urge for reforms.   
   A final blow came with Reagan's obsession with the 'Star Wars' project.   
   Americans might have been bluffing, but the Soviets had to follow suit   
   regardless, trying to compete in the very sphere where they were most behind   
   the West - hi-tech. The only way to modernize the Soviet economy was to use   
   the 'class enemy's' technological potential." 1   
      
   Perestroika   
      
   On March 26, 1987 Gorbachev and the Politburo saw that they had to unite the   
   Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks and both sides had to compromise their methods   
   because both were loosing ground fast.  Gorbachev believed that the   
   Mensheviks had to become more aggressive in government control and less   
   democracy and mapped out a plan to do just that.  On the other hand the   
   Bolsheviks had to become more like the Bolsheviks and give up more control   
   to the masses and to the productive businesses.  For this objective,   
   Gorbachev started having secret meetings with the socialists of Western   
   Europe and international Socialist Organizations like the Trilateral   
   Commission.   
      
   In these secret meeting (transcripts of which are in Vladimir Bukovsky's   
   booklet) Gorbachev and the Politburo came up with Perestroika for the   
   Soviets to become more like Western Socialists.  But the failure of Western   
   Socialists was their lack of central control and their inability to   
   constantly grow, which is the failure of all Socialism.  To find a solution   
   to both the Western weakness and the East's weakness the secret meetings   
   came up with a new policy called the ''Common European Home''.  At that   
   Politburo meeting ''Common European Home'' was given the highest priority.   
   Having a plan for the Western Socialists and the Eastern Communists required   
   that both work to help each other.  It meant to bring together all the West   
   and the East in a common EAST WEST GOVERNMENT, but little by little so that   
   the principle of constant expansion could apply and not let what happened to   
   Mitterrand's France happen to Europe as a whole.   
      
   The plan was to get rid of NATO and push America out of Europe and unit   
   Europe in the west, expand to the east and eventually to Russia.  To   
   accomplish this they met with the Trilateral Commission on January 28, 1989.   
   Gorbachev - Rockefeller, Kissinger, Nacasone and Giscard d'Estaing worked   
   out how the Soviets could integrat into the world's economic and financial   
   institutions (e.g. GATT, IMF) and how to convert the Ruble into world   
      
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