The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in Western Europe.
— Mikhail Gorbachev Contemporary

Last Soviet leader, glasnost

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Criticizing EU centralization

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2000

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Controversial

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3605088/The-EU-is-the-new-USSR…

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