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AUTHOR: Bernard GUETTA – IMAGE
BIO: French Member
of the European Parliament (Renew Europe). In 1978-1980,
journalist with Le Monde specialising in Central Europe;
later, head of L’Expansion and Le Nouvel Observateur
.
In the 1970s, I was a journalist with the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur specialising in dissident movements
in communist-bloc countries. This gave me a unique
opportunity to get first-hand insight into the nature of the
USSR and its satellite states. I realised quickly that the
history of communism in Europe was in fact the history of
its downfall.
Moscow s vassal regimes were incompetent
in managing their economies. To be fair, the only efficient