12/24/2022 0 Comments Jean claude juncker karl markx![]() ![]() The ideological poles have shifted their places altogether. ![]() More to it: the monuments to Karl Marx, Frederic Engels and Vladimir Lenin (the unholy communist trinity) which “graced” East European towns and cities as well as streets and squares that were named after them were toppled down or renamed as the case may be after the fall of the socialist-cum-communist system in Eastern Europe (Lenin monuments still linger in Russia). ![]() Two: Since the early nineties Karl Marx has not been celebrated in Russia nor in any of the former soviet republics nor in any of the former East European states that were once dependent on Moscow. One: A leftist speaker, an EU commissioner (which is another form of the word commissar, and commissar was the name for the ministers who made up the collective dictatorship in the early years of Soviet Russia and during the times of the Commune of Paris of 1871) used the Trier Basilica, one of the most important shrines of Christianity to praise to the heavens an atheist who went down in history as someone who described religion as the opium (opiate) for the people and of the people. 3) The significance of the event should not be lost on anybody. A few days ago European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker (an EU apparatchik with a number of honorary rewards 1) equalling that received by Leonid Brezhnev, the erstwhile secretary general of the Supreme Soviet) delivered a speech in the Trier Basilica commemorating the 200 th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth and unveiled a huge monument to the top ideologue of the leftist movement, a monument donated – of all the world’s countries – by China 2) and sculpted by Chinese artist Wu Weishan. ![]()
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