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  "textContent": "Yet until voters enforce a return to economic literacy, rational energy policy and national sovereignty, Western Europe and Britain will continue its Soviet-style trajectory: central planning without the gulag, energy rationing without bread queues and narrative control without necessitating ‘nine grams of lead in the back of the head’ in the cellars of Stalin’s Lubyanka.\n\nThe post The UK and EU Increasingly Resemble the Soviet Union With Their Sham Democracy and Rigid Ideology appeared first on Watts Up With That?.",
  "title": "The UK and EU Increasingly Resemble the Soviet Union With Their Sham Democracy and Rigid Ideology"
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