My fiancee and I went to Budapest and Prague about a year ago. In our trip, we saw evidence of and talked to folks about the horrors of essentially being subjects of the USSR. The lessons we learned then prompted the fiancee to recently ask, why would any country want to be part of the EU after being freed from communism?
The ideologies underlying the USSR and the EU are completely opposed. Nonetheless, the practical implementation and effects of both systems will be shockingly (although nowhere near completely) similar. How? First, corruption -- it was rampant in the USSR and is rampant in the EU. Second, orthodoxy -- in the USSR, citizens had to adhere to the policies of the Communist Party and there would be no dissent; in the EU, only Europhiles are acceptable, those who question the EU Parliament, structure or policies are heretics. Read this piece from a British member of the European Parliament for details. Next up, a command-and-control economy.
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