Post by mrkrenden on Apr 3, 2022 13:17:32 GMT -6
The Contemplative Observer says:
April 3, 2022 at 12:43 pm
Meet Madame Georgieva’s alma mater (her PhD thesis that I quoted above is of 1986), the once-Karl Marx Higher Institute of Economics, Sofia, Bulgaria, not until 1995 officially renamed into University of National and World Economy:
www.unwe.bg/en/
The website, presented in communist deep-red, has also the slogan, “The Spirit Makes the Power”, which sounds heavily Leninist to me! As one looks at the photographs and the institutes into which the university is divided, one can’t help being reminded of another famous communist/post-communist university: Once-Patrice Lumumba University for People’s Friendship, Moscow, since the auto-demolition of the USSR coyly renamed to RUSSIAN University for People’s Friendship (thus, good old communist “people’s friendship” has visibly remained on the menu).
Mrs. Georgieva, by the way, has been a long-time heavyweight in EU- and UN institutions (there seems to be an inbuilt revolving door somewhere):
Her 1993 to 2010 career at the World Bank included from 2004 to 2007 the position of World Bank’s Moscow Director and Resident Representative – those good old comradely bonds! – responsible for World Bank projects all over the Russian Federation and from 2008 to 2010 the post of Vice President and Corporate Secretary of the World Bank.
After that, she changed over to the European Commission in Brussels where she “served” from 2010 to 2014 as European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management as well as European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development. From 2014 to 2016 she was European Commissioner for the Budget and Human Resources. She then changed back to the World Bank and became Chief Executive there for another almost three years, after which she was raised to Managing Director of the IMF in October 2019.
As Anatoliy Golitsyn predicted on pp. 341, 342 of his 1984 reference work, New Lies for Old,
“The EEC [the then-European Economic Community] on present lines, even if enlarged, would not be a barrier to the neutralization of Europe and the withdrawal of American troops. It might even accelerate the process. The acceptance of the EEC by Eurocommunist parties in the 1970s, following a period of opposition in the 1960s, suggests that this view is shared by the communist strategists. The efforts by the Yugoslavs and Romanians to create stronger links with the EEC should be seen not as inimical to Soviet interests, but as the first steps in laying the foundation for a merger between the EEC and Comecon. The European Parliament might become an all-European socialist parliament with representation from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. ‘Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals’ [in fact, to Vladivostok] would turn out to be a neutral, socialist Europe.”
All of the above has come true, even though NATO, widely reduced to a paper tiger anyway, is still in place. And so, in the final analysis, the much-praised European eastward enlargement has turned out to have been a SOVIET WESTWARD ENLARGEMENT instead!
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prayinginok says:
April 3, 2022 at 1:18 pm
That was VERY interesting, Contemplative Observer. Thank you for typing all of that up! It helps me to see the bigger picture of what is going on.
Jeff Nyquist says:
April 3, 2022 at 1:31 pm
These are excellent points. In 2014 and after, Moscow was attempting to corral Ukraine using the EU and the Obama administration as secret helpers from the West, who would interfere in subtle ways — almost always without real effect (recall Biden’s threats to force the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor). Despite outside interference here and there, an internal process of freeing the country from hidden Soviet structures nonetheless continued after 2014. Changes were gradually occurring. The process in Ukraine was so painfully slow many did not realize its subtle effects on the hidden Soviet structures. The public mood of the country was, perhaps, decisive. To expose oneself as a Russian shill in Ukraine was debilitating to one’s image. Since official corruption and plunder was the key to Russia’s control of the Ukrainian system in years’ past, the gradual peeling away of administrative theft wrought untold damage to Putin’s mafia networks within Ukraine. The thieves would have to run for protection to Moscow. How could Moscow regain control? Invasion was Putin’s last resort. He had to confront the Ukrainian people with a massive assault. Right now it appears that Britain and Poland are providing the most effective and immediate military supplies to Ukraine, with the EEC doing very little. More help must be provided if the Ukrainian front is to be stabilized. Mariupol and Kharkiv are besieged, with terrible suffering. When these cities fall a moral shock will be felt in Kiev. Europe must do more. Does anyone know if Biden’s weapons have begun to arrive yet? I have seen evidence of British weapons being used in the war.
April 3, 2022 at 12:43 pm
Meet Madame Georgieva’s alma mater (her PhD thesis that I quoted above is of 1986), the once-Karl Marx Higher Institute of Economics, Sofia, Bulgaria, not until 1995 officially renamed into University of National and World Economy:
www.unwe.bg/en/
The website, presented in communist deep-red, has also the slogan, “The Spirit Makes the Power”, which sounds heavily Leninist to me! As one looks at the photographs and the institutes into which the university is divided, one can’t help being reminded of another famous communist/post-communist university: Once-Patrice Lumumba University for People’s Friendship, Moscow, since the auto-demolition of the USSR coyly renamed to RUSSIAN University for People’s Friendship (thus, good old communist “people’s friendship” has visibly remained on the menu).
Mrs. Georgieva, by the way, has been a long-time heavyweight in EU- and UN institutions (there seems to be an inbuilt revolving door somewhere):
Her 1993 to 2010 career at the World Bank included from 2004 to 2007 the position of World Bank’s Moscow Director and Resident Representative – those good old comradely bonds! – responsible for World Bank projects all over the Russian Federation and from 2008 to 2010 the post of Vice President and Corporate Secretary of the World Bank.
After that, she changed over to the European Commission in Brussels where she “served” from 2010 to 2014 as European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management as well as European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development. From 2014 to 2016 she was European Commissioner for the Budget and Human Resources. She then changed back to the World Bank and became Chief Executive there for another almost three years, after which she was raised to Managing Director of the IMF in October 2019.
As Anatoliy Golitsyn predicted on pp. 341, 342 of his 1984 reference work, New Lies for Old,
“The EEC [the then-European Economic Community] on present lines, even if enlarged, would not be a barrier to the neutralization of Europe and the withdrawal of American troops. It might even accelerate the process. The acceptance of the EEC by Eurocommunist parties in the 1970s, following a period of opposition in the 1960s, suggests that this view is shared by the communist strategists. The efforts by the Yugoslavs and Romanians to create stronger links with the EEC should be seen not as inimical to Soviet interests, but as the first steps in laying the foundation for a merger between the EEC and Comecon. The European Parliament might become an all-European socialist parliament with representation from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. ‘Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals’ [in fact, to Vladivostok] would turn out to be a neutral, socialist Europe.”
All of the above has come true, even though NATO, widely reduced to a paper tiger anyway, is still in place. And so, in the final analysis, the much-praised European eastward enlargement has turned out to have been a SOVIET WESTWARD ENLARGEMENT instead!
Reply
prayinginok says:
April 3, 2022 at 1:18 pm
That was VERY interesting, Contemplative Observer. Thank you for typing all of that up! It helps me to see the bigger picture of what is going on.
Jeff Nyquist says:
April 3, 2022 at 1:31 pm
These are excellent points. In 2014 and after, Moscow was attempting to corral Ukraine using the EU and the Obama administration as secret helpers from the West, who would interfere in subtle ways — almost always without real effect (recall Biden’s threats to force the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor). Despite outside interference here and there, an internal process of freeing the country from hidden Soviet structures nonetheless continued after 2014. Changes were gradually occurring. The process in Ukraine was so painfully slow many did not realize its subtle effects on the hidden Soviet structures. The public mood of the country was, perhaps, decisive. To expose oneself as a Russian shill in Ukraine was debilitating to one’s image. Since official corruption and plunder was the key to Russia’s control of the Ukrainian system in years’ past, the gradual peeling away of administrative theft wrought untold damage to Putin’s mafia networks within Ukraine. The thieves would have to run for protection to Moscow. How could Moscow regain control? Invasion was Putin’s last resort. He had to confront the Ukrainian people with a massive assault. Right now it appears that Britain and Poland are providing the most effective and immediate military supplies to Ukraine, with the EEC doing very little. More help must be provided if the Ukrainian front is to be stabilized. Mariupol and Kharkiv are besieged, with terrible suffering. When these cities fall a moral shock will be felt in Kiev. Europe must do more. Does anyone know if Biden’s weapons have begun to arrive yet? I have seen evidence of British weapons being used in the war.