Posted on 06/11/2010 4:43:56 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Kazakhstan's leading opposition party has warned that the customs union with Russia could be the first step in a project to re-instate the Soviet Union.
Bulat Abilov, co-Chairman of the National Social Democratic Party, said: "Our concern is that this economical Union can develop into a political one. We also know about some plans to revive the Soviet Union, maybe in another form, in 2017 on the anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution of 1917." The party has written an open letter to Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev, demanding a national referendum on the customs union, which is set to come into effect at the start of July. The union will see Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus set the same tariffs for the outside world, while allowing free trade between themselves.
The National Social Democratic Party won nearly five per cent of the vote in Kazakhstan's last parliamentary elections, making it the most significant opposition party in what is effectively a one-party state.
President Nazarbayev's Nur-Otan party won every parliamentary seat in the 2007 election, with 88 per cent of the votes. Mr Nazarbayev has ruled without interruption since independence twenty years ago.
Many Russians consider former soviet republics such as Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus as the "near-abroad", causing suspicion among Kazakhs.
The opposition leader said: "We think there exists some sort of imperialist nostalgia about a big, great and strong Soviet Union. Even if nobody speaks loudly about it now, the idea could appear later."
Karim Massimov, Kazakhstan's prime minister, signed up to the customs union in Moscow at the end of May.
A third partner, Belarus, held back over disagreements on energy import tariffs, but has since agreed to join.
In the letter, the National Social Democratic Party gave warning that the customs union risked smothering Kazakhstan's manufacturing sector, which
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How’s that Pax Obama working out? More like Pox Obama.
I say we let this happen, if Islam makes a big move for world conquest like we expect, it is better for them to be under Russian protection if possible.
How comforting is it to know that the Communist atheists of China and the former communist atheists of eastern Europe have the necessary backbone required to say no to the Islamists? Terrible that our country was so ‘diversity’ indoctrinated that we have destroyed ourselves.
Props to the Blacks though - you played that guilt game until you destroyed not only the United States but your actions will result in the deaths of probably millions of Africans. Great job! Hey! As long as you got yours...
Only one people were ever willing to face down the the russian threat.
They were essentially exterminated.
GO RUSSIA GO.
PING
I haven’t heard Obama say anything about the SPP/NAU since the Texas primary in 2008.
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