Soviet Union guaranteed civil liberties in the West

Soviet Union and East Germany were these excellent examples of totalitarian regimes. As long as they existed, the West wanting to differentiate itself from the red East, used to appreciate their civil liberties. Now when both totalitarian countries are gone, the West seems to be gravitating closer to the center, towards a totalitarian or even classic fascist regime.

I really liked the way the leader of the Swedish Pirate Party Rickard Falkvinge put it.

When the Iron Curtain fell, all of the West rejoiced that the East would become just as free as the West. It was never supposed to be the other way around.

Read the full intellectual interview with Rickard Falkvinge at P2P Consortium.