The Ukrainian crisis has revealed the extent of Russian support in Europe. This is the new “Comintern” - Gorbulin
The Ukrainian crisis demonstrated the scale of Russia's influence on European politics. Russia has built a new “Comintern” on a pan-European scale, which significantly influences both the policies of individual European countries and the European Union as a whole.
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About it Vladimir Gorbulin, former secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine during the time of Leonid Kuchma, writes in his article for the influential Ukrainian weekly “Zerkalo Nedeli” and the current adviser to Poroshenko and one of the participants in the Contact Group in Minsk from Ukraine, Vladimir Gorbulin.
“Thanks to” the Ukrainian crisis, internal conflicts within the EU itself began to appear more and more clearly. Only after the events of 2014 and the Kremlin’s attempts to influence the Eastern European policy of Brussels, the full extent of Moscow’s penetration into EU politics, especially at the level of its individual countries (from Greece or the Czech Republic to France and Germany), became clear. Of course, to one degree or another, the Kremlin’s sympathies were known before, but no one could imagine the scale this was acquiring.
Figuratively speaking, Russia has built a new “Comintern” on a pan-European scale (similar to the Stalinist Comintern of the 1930s and 40s), which significantly influences both the policies of individual European countries and the European Union as a whole,” writes Gorbulin.
The former secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine draws attention to the threat to European unity posed by pro-Russian politicians in EU countries.
“Not only members of the European Parliament, but entire political forces in individual countries (like the National Front in France or SYRIZA in Greece) find themselves under the close tutelage of Moscow, which is thus trying to disrupt European unity. Brussels is still trying to pretend that the scale of this is insignificant, but sooner or later (and given the protracted nature of the conflict in Donbass, this will definitely happen) the mentioned problem will have to be faced seriously,” - warns Gorbulin.
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