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"Mr President, thank you for giving me this opportunity to explain how I voted on this issue.
There were two interesting sentences in the report that merit further attention. The first recognised that Communism and Nazism have a common legacy and called for an honest and thorough debate to be conducted on all the totalitarian crimes of the past century.
The other sentence which stuck out was ‘calls for a pan-European public academic debate on the nature, history and legacy of totalitarian regimes on the basis of an international legal framework’.
I really wonder whether there is need for such a debate. It is quite clear what the common thread is between Soviet socialism and National Socialism. The clue is in the phrase, and the answer is ‘socialism’.
When Socialist MPs try to ban an MEP from chairing the first session of the next Parliament, no matter how vile his views are, that is an attack on free speech. When the British socialist Government refuses to honour its manifesto commitment to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, that is an act of intolerance. We should be careful it is not the first step towards totalitarianism."@en1
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