The small country of Moldova where most communists are still willing to call themselves communists has voted communism out of power. On July 29, voters gave candidates of four political parties a slim majority at the expense of the ruling Communist Party’s 45.1 percent of the vote. This means that someone other than a communist will now be named president.

While it is gratifying to learn that the people of this very poor country of fewer than five million persons have finally rejected communist leadership, it is less than pleasing to know that the man expected to be named to the nation’s highest post is a “former” communist. Marian Lupu, who defected to the Democratic Party, will receive support for his bid to become president from communist deputies. 

The events in Moldova lag behind many of the nations previously ruled by the Kremlin.  When the Berlin Wall came down and Moscow terminated its iron grip on more than a dozen nations, numerous once-proud communists announced that, presto, they have become socialists. Russia itself is now run by individuals who were not only communists but leaders of the dreaded KGB. 

In a recent report appearing in Germany’s Der Spiegel, Olga Kryshtanovskaya of the Russian Academy of Sciences used the term “siloviki” when referring to individuals with previous KGB assocaition. “Four out of five members of Russia’s political and business elite have a KGB past,” concluded Kryshtanovskaya. 

Vladimir Putin, Russia’s obvious leader, is the former head of the KGB that now operates as the FSB. Some who have sought to alert the world about there being no real change in Russia have paid dearly, examples being the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in London and the gunning down of a prominent female journalist in Moscow.

Under ex-communist Lupu, Moldova is expected to make formal overtures about eventual membership in the European Union. Many of its citizens have relocated to EU countries seeking employment. But the EU, once described by former USSR leader Mikhail Gorbachev as “the new European Soviet,” is steadily concentrating power in Brussels over all of its member nations. And Vladimir Bukovsky, the 65-year-old former Soviet dissident, has repeatedly warned that the EU is racing toward duplicating the totalitarian power he recalls from his former homeland. He sees in the EU the type of central planning and widespread corruption that he remembers characterized Soviet Russia.

Moldova seems to have moved away from leadership by an obvious communist to a state-of-mind communist. And the nation now appears willing to forget decades of domination by Moscow in favor of eventual domination by Brussels. Free market economics and limited government seem unknown in this nation, as in many others.           
 

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ken creech said:

	... I suppose we in America will look like Moldova in about fifty years!!! Wake up USA and vote the business as usual out of the world. Look for Constitutional minded people rather than the same old statist talking heads who represent only world wide corporations who only use people till they can no longer perform as expected by the elitist require and then are discarded!
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Peter Steele said:

My father and I We were sons of the American Revolution and I have a thirteen star Betsy Ross Flag at my house along with the POM/MIA flag. Vietnam was a disaster as I can attest to the fact and was character assassinated by the Carter Democrats. It only shows that FDR caused all this to happen along with Korea and his Stalinist United Nations which I gave the Devil's number. Bad mistake Democrats and Carter for the film "The Day After" which shortened Dad's life because he felt the Russians would shoot him - I blamed LBJ for Vietnam and blamed Carter for not caring about our POW/MIA left in Vietnam. Korea sprang out in the mind of Stalin and FDR just let him do it. I am tired of David Rockefeller luxuriating while our soldiers fight and die in foreign lands. Communism is not dead in spite of my late father's best efforts. Best, BGen Peter F. Steele, USMC [Ret] son of RADM Peter Steele, USN as we were both JBS.

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Danielm said:

	Dupe I bet this guy is another CIA-funded dupe like most of the 'Pro-western' leaders in former combloc countries.
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danwhitehead1 said:

	Is anyone really surprised? I certainly am not. The more things "change", the more they stay the same, particularly where communists are involved. And the scum that would rule just keep moving ahead.
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still free said:

	... Doesn't matter what they call it ("Communism" or "Socialism"), it's still the exact same thing. So, yes, "Danwhitehead1" I am not surprised either, things are still the same, and the scum does keep inching along. They have to be stopped.
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