Vladimir Bukovsky - short interview

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Former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who has lived in England since 1976, interviewed by Paul Belien in Brussels Thursday 23 February 2006, after his speech as a guest of UKIP. Bukovsky issues a stark warning that the EU is well on its way to becoming another Soviet Union.

"Mr Bukovsky [is] one of the heroes of the 20th century. As a young man he exposed the use of psychiatric imprisonment against political prisoners in the former USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1917-1991) and spent a total of twelve years (1964-1976), from his 22nd to his 34th year, in Soviet jails, labour camps and psychiatric institutions. In 1976 the Soviets expelled him to the West. In 1992 he was invited by the Russian government to serve as an expert testifying at the trial conducted to determine whether the Soviet Communist Party had been a criminal institution. To prepare for his testimony Mr Bukovsky was granted access to a large number of documents from Soviet secret archives. He is one of the few people ever to have seen these documents because they are still classified. Using a small handheld scanner and a laptop computer, however, he managed to copy many documents (some with high security clearance), including KGB reports to the Soviet government."

Further details, transcript and mp3: http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865

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