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'EU starting to resemble old Soviet Union with its DICTATED rules and values’
The Express UK ^ | 32 Dec 2016 | Zoie O'Brien

Posted on 01/01/2017 7:07:01 AM PST by fella

THE EUROPEAN Union is starting to take on the hated traits of the old Soviet Union, according to a controversial advertising guru currently splitting opinion in Germany and Switzerland

Advertising guru Alexander Segert said the EU elite were operating like the old Soviet politburo imposing centralized one-size-fits-all rules and values on everyone in the community.

He added: “They are trying to bring different mentalities and cultures under one roof and level them. And people don’t like that.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Society
KEYWORDS: brexit; eu; europe
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1 posted on 01/01/2017 7:07:01 AM PST by fella
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To: fella

THE EUROPEAN Union is starting to take on the hated traits of the old Soviet Union,And Obama missed it just by that much.


2 posted on 01/01/2017 7:13:06 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: fella

Started as the “European Common Market” to promote trade after the devastation of WWII. Now a overreaching govt. bureaucracy that has destroyed national sovereignty. Brexit is the start to dismantling the EU.


3 posted on 01/01/2017 7:14:17 AM PST by nickedknack
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To: fella

Obamunism has given us dictated rules and values as well.

See the USSA in your ‘lectric Chevrolet...


4 posted on 01/01/2017 7:14:48 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: fella

That’s an interesting concept.


5 posted on 01/01/2017 7:15:23 AM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: fella

That Alexander Segert is sharp as a tack.


6 posted on 01/01/2017 7:16:04 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: fella

The EU/Soros is Hydra, and with Jarrett’s help they almost took us down.


7 posted on 01/01/2017 7:19:39 AM PST by txhurl (Chode: a word about taglines)
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To: fella

That’s what centralization gets you. It’s inevitable.


8 posted on 01/01/2017 7:20:58 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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“The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in Western Europe.” ― Mikhail Gorbachev
9 posted on 01/01/2017 7:28:26 AM PST by Rusty0604
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“The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in Western Europe.” ― Mikhail Gorbachev
10 posted on 01/01/2017 7:29:00 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: fella

Merkel approves.


11 posted on 01/01/2017 7:29:35 AM PST by TruthBeforeAll (November 18, 1978, Jonestown Guyana. What happens when liberals don't get their way.)
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Before the brexit vote I watched the ‘brexit movie’ online about how the EU operated and one of the surprising things for me was to learn the ‘elite’ had their own shopping centers/malls etc., that no one else could use, making themselves European royalty while dispensing overbearing laws and regulations at will on the citizenry,

Astonishing really that any free thinking peoples would allow or go along with such a blatant dictatorship rising up right in front of them and want more it,

I pray that England can truly escape this beast, I’m not so sure it will ever be allowed if they don’t have strong leaders to see it thru,


12 posted on 01/01/2017 7:32:07 AM PST by captmar-vell
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To: fella
...Alexander Segert said the EU elite were operating like the old Soviet politburo imposing centralized one-size-fits-all rules and values on everyone in the community.

Alexander Segert is seeeing the underlying truth...

13 posted on 01/01/2017 7:35:21 AM PST by GOPJ (Anyone remember New York Times CRYBULLIES calling for 'moder'ation' when Obama was elected '08?)
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To: fella

EU is an increasing dictatorship (as was the intent of some of its sponsors from the beginning)

having peaceful relations and trade between nations is one thing, a very desirable thing

but a dictatorship (whether its called a relocated Soviet Union or the Fourth Reich) is quite another thing

dictatorship is NOT necessary for peaceful relations and trade!


14 posted on 01/01/2017 7:37:06 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: GOPJ

“starting”?? Those losers all moved to Brussels after ‘89.


15 posted on 01/01/2017 7:44:16 AM PST by cornelis
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“The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in Western Europe.” ― Mikhail Gorbachev _________________________________________ That's a theme for a novel. Apparently a human tendency to bring down their own forms of government, no matter how democratic or tyrannical. What invent of governing would work in perpetuity? I wonder.
16 posted on 01/01/2017 7:54:26 AM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: faithhopecharity

Neither is the UN. Get us out!


17 posted on 01/01/2017 7:57:44 AM PST by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: captmar-vell

I watched the same vid.
11,600 “regulations” in the production of milk.


18 posted on 01/01/2017 8:00:47 AM PST by Original Lurker
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To: fella
Years later Mikhail Gorbachev said that "the most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in Western Europe." I couldn't agree more.

Taken from this story which was a very good read posted here on FR.

How the Collapse of the USSR Felt from the Inside

The story posted here on FreeRepublic

An extremely good read that I recommend for all Freeperes to read.

19 posted on 01/01/2017 8:31:26 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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The goal of the EU is to eliminate the individual countries and establish a strong socialist central government.


20 posted on 01/01/2017 8:58:00 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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