The renaissance of the KGB ideology

In Romania former members of the Securitate play an active role in everyday politics and in Bulgaria, former secret police members are running for election to the European Parliament. Is Europe witnessing a revival of KGB ideology ? asks commentator Alexander Andreew. "It's no coincidence that the only European politician who dares to voice her opinion about Putin's system is Angela Merkel, who grew up in socialist GDR. Like millions of Eastern Europeans she can distinguish between official democratic government and secret power... I don't know whether there will be a new Cold War but I'm convinced that the societies that continue to tolerate the despotism and arrogance of the so-called Chekists [the name given to members of the secret services in the states of the Warsaw Pact] are in danger of being disgraced within democratic Europe and also of falling victim to a creeping restoration like the one in Russia."

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