Eastern Europe: From Soviet Satellites To American?

Posted on Tuesday, January 18 at 12:43 by N Say
The standard operating procedure in a particular country has been to send in teams of specialists from U.S. government agencies, non-governmental organizations, labor unions, or private organizations funded by U.S. corporations and foundations. These teams go in with as much financial resources as needed and numerous carrots and sticks to wield; they hold conferences and seminars, hand out tons of material, and fund new NGOs, newspapers, and other media - all to educate government employees and other selected portions of the population on the advantages and joys of privatizion and deregulation of the economy, teaching them how to run a capitalist society and remake the country to appeal to foreign investors. They encourage these new institutions to embrace the policies favored by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

The U.S. teams have been creating a new class of managers for a new market economy, as well as providing the capital and good old American know-how for winning elections against the non-believers. They undertake to unite the opposition behind a single candidate to optimize the chance of unseating the government; they pass information and experience from one country to another; thus the Soros organization -- which has offices throughout the former Soviet domain -- had people from Serbia, who had been involved in the successful campaign to oust Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, share their experiences with people in Georgia who were seeking to oust Eduard Shevardnadze in 2003, and were likewise successful.

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