Vladimir Bukovsky spent many years in Russian labor camps and psychiatric prisons for defending human rights. He came to Britain in 1976. He lectures and writes on the old Soviet system and the EU.
As, Soviet (Russian: ????´?, Russian pronunciation: ) was a name used for several Russian political organizations. Examples include the Czar's Council of Ministers, which was called the “Soviet of Ministers”; a workers' local council in late Imperial Russia; and the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
Now the Czar used it first.
And the word means
Soviet” is derived from a Russian word signifying council, advice, harmony, concord.
So if it was Harmonious and in Concord can't see a problem.
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European Union - the new Soviet?(Vote Below)