“We, in the East, we’ve always been thinking that the whole ‘nomenclatura’ is our problem, this old communist elite sitting tight in high places and not letting anyone in, preserving the position of power, remaining the opinion and decision makers. We thought this was our problem in the sense that it wasn’t possible in the civilised Western societies. And now, as we look at the documents, we suddenly discover that we have the same problem in the West.” Russian dissident Pavel Stroilov met with HotNews.ro in London to discuss about an issue he studies microscopically in this week’s Spectator issue: the KGB infiltration into the Labour Party during the Cold War and its present day reminiscences.
According to Russian dissident Pavel Stroilov, the young researcher who copied precious KGB archive pages from Gorbachev’s Foundation, the British Labour Party used to be full of Soviet agents, secret communists and not very secret communists, dominated by them for long periods of time. “Eventually, the present leaders have, at least, enjoyed patronage of communists or pro-communists in the Labour Party during the Cold War, or were communist themselves. So they are essentially the product of the Soviet infiltration and subversion of the LP. Quite a few of them were communist agents” Stroilov told HotNews.ro.
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Reporter:When did this trend to infiltrate the Labour Party begin?
Pavel Stroilov: If you want a date, it’s 1919. It happened in several lines. One was KGB. Another important one was the Communist Party of Great Britain. It is in open, available and even classical (so to say) literature: Lenin’s Left Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder. There is a chapter about British communists. He refers to the debate which British communists had during the formation of their P
