Anti-communists need not apply. (Insider Report).Throughout Eastern Europe Eastern Europe The countries of eastern Europe, especially those that were allied with the USSR in the Warsaw Pact, which was established in 1955 and dissolved in 1991. , reported Brian Mitchell in the June 25th Investor's Business Daily Investor's Business Daily (IBD) is a national newspaper in the United States, published Monday through Friday, that covers international business, finance, and the global economy. Founded in 1984 by William O'Neil, its headquarters are in Los Angeles, California. , "the U.S. and its European allies have worked to defeat popular center-right governments and replace them with left and center-left governments. The aim is to elect leaders who are gung-ho for NATO NATO: see North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO in full North Atlantic Treaty Organization International military alliance created to defend western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion. and eager to sell public assets to foreign investors." Those leaders, Mitchell points out, are invariably in·var·i·a·ble adj. Not changing or subject to change; constant. in·var  i·a·bil "[Communist] Party members, apparatchiks and spies. Ex-Communists today are the preferred rulers of the former Warsaw Pact. Ex-anti-Communists are the new enemy." "The problem is that in this part of the world a large number of Communists have, by changing their colors marginally, ended up even more powerful," observes Jonathan Sunley, a British business consultant in Budapest. "And all [of this has happened] with the blessing if not the active connivance The furtive consent of one person to cooperate with another in the commission of an unlawful act or crime—such as an employer's agreement not to withhold taxes from the salary of an employee who wants to evade federal Income Tax. of the West!" Among the Communists given preferred treatment in Eastern Europe is Peter Medgyessy, the socialist elected prime minister of Hungary last April. Medgyessy spent his professional life in the finance ministry of the Communist regime. Although Hungarian voters were aware of this element of his background, they didn't learn until late June "that he was a KGB KGB: see secret police. KGB Russian Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (“Committee for State Security”) Soviet agency responsible for intelligence, counterintelligence, and internal security. asset, code-named D-209," comments Mitchell. Rudolph Schuster, president of Slovakia, "attended his last Communist Party meeting in 2000. The die-hard delegates honored him with a bottle of Stalin's Tears vodka." In his farewell address, Schuster declared: "I am proud of what I did under the former regime." |
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