Centralization and collectivization: Oliver sees parallels to the Soviet era

Neil Oliver: "People will insist that there is no similarity between what happened in the countries under Stalin's rule in the second half of the 20th century and the centralizing policies of progressives and so-called liberals in the 21st century.

I see that what happened in the past can happen again, including the worst of times, and if we do not respond to the threat now, it will certainly happen.

There are again discussions about the collectivization of agriculture, plans to confiscate farmland, evict farmers and thus gain control over food production. I say the threat no longer comes from the East, it is home-made, it lives here in the form of those who treat citizens with open contempt, who work day and night to seize even the last control over our lives, who would silence and even imprison those whose opinions differ from the mainstream, who want to restrict freedom of expression ever further, who leave their own people out in the cold while pumping billions of pounds into lucrative wars and proxy wars abroad, with the wealth flowing shamelessly back into the pockets of the rich, who advocate a centralized digital currency that gives the state control over what you can do, where you go, what you buy to eat, at all times.

I have said that the centralizing, collectivist totalitarians of the Soviet Union dismantled and dissolved national identities. That is the goal of all totalitarian regimes. We are supposed to believe that all this is behind us, that we should even forget that it ever happened. And yet the ideology still lives among us today, in different clothes and with different acronyms. An ideology that is always anti-human, anti-family, anti-individual, anti-human...".