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Mr President, for 15 years, the collapse of the Soviet Union has resulted in major changes in Central Europe, while in the east, the authoritarian forms of government have remained virtually intact. They have carried out privatisations and major cuts in the public sector, resulting in a large group of new poor people. This led to anything but European-style parliamentary democracies. The one-party states were replaced by small dictatorial profiteering cliques regarding themselves as answerable to nothing and nobody. In Ukraine and Georgia, popular movements against such authoritarian leaders received support from the West, and rightly so. In Belarus too, where such a revolution has not yet been successful, the opposition, though weak, can count on much external sympathy. This is in contrast to former Soviet Republics, including Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, where America has now gained major military and economic footholds, but where there has, to date, been no such external support for popular uprisings. The regimes’ opponents risk jail or the death penalty, and there is no chance of free elections. In the coming weeks and months, Europe will need to manifest consistent solidarity with the opposition movements that focus their efforts on democratisation from the inside."@en1
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