"The Triumph of the Bolsheviki"
In an October 1917 interview with
American Marxist journalist John Reed,
Trotsky said:
At the end of this war I see Europe recreated, not by diplomats, but by the proletariat. The Federated Republic of Europe—the United States of Europe—that is what must be. National autonomy no longer suffices. Economic evolution demands the abolition of national frontiers. If Europe is to remain in national groups, then Imperialism will recommence its work. Only a Federated Republic can give peace to Europe—and to the world. But without the action of the European masses, these ends cannot be realized—now."— Leon Trotsky, October 30th, 1917 (Gregorian calendar)
Trotsky interviewed in St. Petersburgh
by John Reed, whose article The
Triumph
of the Bolsheviki appears
in The Liberator,
Vol.1, No.1, March 1918, p.18 pdf
Perhaps you are familiar with Vladimir Bukovsky. He was a Soviet defector, like Solzhenitsyn, who was allowed . He found that the EU, in modern form, was the product of secret negotiations between the Politburo, and Trilateralists like David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Giscard Giscard d’Estaing, and Yasuhiro Nakasone. He gives information to this effect in an interview with the Brussels Journal: http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865
ReplyHe excerpted from the documents showing this to be the case in a book entitled "EUSSR": http://www.scribd.com/doc/87502960/EUSSR-The-Soviet-roots-of-European-Integration
on Bukovsky, I meant to say that he was allowed to examine Soviet archives, to look for evidence of criminality, when the power of the party waned.
ReplyThat's the first I've heard of Bukovsky. Thanks for the links, I read them both, although there's a few pages missing on the scribd link.