Ethanol Makes The Eu Leader Real Happy

The European Union is every bit capable of hiding basic facts every bit the USSR

One twelvemonth ago, on May 21st in addition to 22nd, 2015, roughly politicians gathered at the "EU-Eastern" summit inward Riga, Latvia. I don't mean value that anything useful came out of the coming together – except for the weird story that the European Union Commission leader Jean-Claude Juncker said hey, the dictator is coming spell greeting Hungary's prime number government minister Viktor Orbán.

A video was offered at that time. Juncker in addition to Orbán had roughly lineament fourth dimension in addition to they behaved inward an exceedingly friendly way. For a year, nosotros were encouraged to mean value that it was Viktor Orbán's icon that was the driving strength behind the weirdness.




Juncker was exactly making fun out of Orbán, right? He was beingness deliberately comical.

Only now, to a greater extent than than i twelvemonth later, most of the civilized globe has learned well-nigh the truthful driving strength behind this foreign encounter.




Well, the weird events on that solar daytime were much to a greater extent than numerous than the friendly Juncker-Orbán interaction. They involved several Juncker-Someone interactions. Well, many.



This video is clearly a viral i – but you lot pick out never seen inward earlier despite the fact that it was starting fourth dimension posted to YouTube on May 28th, 2015, to a greater extent than than i twelvemonth agone in addition to i calendar week after the Riga meeting.

I don't mean value that beingness drunkard is such a large number for a politician. As the electrical flow Czech president Zeman likes to say, for sure reasons ;-), Churchill liked to potable spell Hitler was teetotal. And the latter lost the war, anyway. And the alcoholic isn't the homo who drinks but the homo who doesn't know how to drink.

But what I regain amazing is the fact that this viral video, spell posted on YouTube, was basically hidden from all the Europeans for to a greater extent than than a year. You may consider that roughly comments were posted past times readers from many nations during the year. But the video exclusively move on away "nominally viral" yesterday or in addition to therefore in addition to is getting tens of views per minute correct at nowadays (450,000+ inward total correct now). The Swedish YouTube channel NollToleransTV exclusively has other videos alongside less than 6,000 views, except for a brusk monologue inward the Swedish Parliament that got 70,000 views.

It's non surprising that the European Union regime haven't informed all the media well-nigh Juncker's beingness drunkard inward Riga. But how is it possible that no journalist has constitute out a twelvemonth ago? Or did they regain out in addition to something prevented them from running the stories?

Also, the Swedish people who knew well-nigh this viral video weren't able to bring this precious rock to almost anyone exterior Sweden. In my opinion, this also shows the huge isolation that separates private European Union fellow member states. The European nations exactly don't "live together". There are sure as shooting lots of Europeans who would dear to larn well-nigh this amusing story in addition to whose thinking well-nigh the story is basically the same, regardless of their nationality. But they exactly couldn't because the charge per unit of measurement at which they communicate alongside people inward other European Union countries is tiny.

The Soviet Union used to endure able to enshroud similar information rattling efficiently, too. Brezhnev drank a lot. Sometimes, he was shown to endure drunkard but people weren't quite allowed to utter well-nigh these matters. For example, his 1978 see to Prague was aired past times the Czechoslovak TV. You may consider that he had roughly dandy fourth dimension earlier the speech. ;-) But most people didn't know such things. Similarly, the nontrivial touching on of the Chernobyl accident was beingness hidden for one-half a year, too.

The Czech social club isn't perfect but the media by in addition to large exercise their job. When Zeman was seen drunk inward a higher house the Bohemian Crown Jewels (he was tired, non every bit energized every bit Juncker), some media (and lawmakers inward the Parliament) straight off conjectured that he was drunkard – in addition to endure sure that he was (as confirmed past times another politicians who accompanied him – they could odour it, too). The Prague Castle did number an explanation that Zeman had a "viral infection" but almost no i bought it. It instantly became a pop joke in addition to slogan for many Czechs, too. People exactly learned plenty information in addition to they did in addition to therefore fast.

To elevate an ethanol-free example, Zeman's predecessor Václav Klaus "liked" the pen inward Chile on Apr 4th, 2011. The Czech Television has recorded a lot of things in addition to they didn't quite realize what a precious rock they had for a while. So the regain was delayed past times a few days. Nevertheless, the Czech Public TV showed the viral video on Apr 10th, exactly half dozen days later.

When Juncker does these things at this visible place, it remains hidden from us Europeans for to a greater extent than than a year. This innocent instance helps to demo that something is incorrect at the European Union level. Similar regimes discouraging the gratuitous menses of information are creating a virtual reality. For example, inward the morning, I was reminded that many people brainwashed past times the Bolshevik propaganda believe that Lenin was a charismatic man.