Vladimir Bukovsky ‘s speech to the Cato.ru Summer School is…..breath taking. His insights from his studies of the archives of the Communist Party, his personal experience, his explanations of the the events of the past fifty years, his analysis of the collapse of the Soviet Union, his analysis of the current regime in Russia, and his prognosis for the future are beyond compare. The video and audio should be on the web (in Russian) within the next month.
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Bukovsky is also great about the dangers of the EU, although he sometimes seems to lapse on some right-wing-conservative-sovereignist-nationalist arguments.
He is a man of principle, dedicated to expousing the horror of communism and its multifarious legacy into the present day, on both sides of the former Berlin Wall – and he does this with inexhaustible passion. I remember hearing him recounting how, on his way from Heathrow to London, the taxi driver told him he just drove to the former chief of the Stasi for a BBC interview. He apparently reacted by saying that it was like hearing that he just sat where Himmler just sat before.
If this is in your power, please make a translation of the lecture and make it available more widely for English-speaking people to see. It seems is as necessary as ever to remeber people that the present is to a large extent the product of the past.
I wish you could have been here, Bogdan. It was simply amazing. He has such depth, such insight, and such passion for truth and justice. I learned a great deal this morning, not only facts about the world, but about how a man of integrity acts in the world.
I will ask him today for permission to post it with subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Persian, Portuguese, etc.
Hi Tom,
Is it possible to get a transcript so I can print it out and read it? Thanks!