Aspoň káva #61 aneb RVHP versus EU

At least coffee 61 or the RVHP versus the EU
So, let's talk about the RVHP and the Union. It's known that there was an organisation called the RVHP which tried to help its member states by sort of distributing production between the states. Our shoe industry suffered a little bit when some of the shoe production moved to Bulgaria and so on. But it also had another meaning in that we were dependent on ourselves and had to be able to look after ourselves. And there, again, the RVHP was of great importance. It was because we were not allowed to have a lot of technology from the West, but not because of the RVHP, but the West didn't allow us to have it. So we had to develop on our own and the quality of our engineers, technicians and workers exceeded all expectations. We know ourselves how our assemblers and technicians successfully represented this country, especially in the Arab countries, i.e. where the West did not care about any industrial development. It was our people who built industry there. Brick factories, sugar factories and God knows what else, you can trace it. And since they were not allowed to supply us with anything, of course there was nothing else to do but to have the Soviets build a nuclear power plant, not one, but three. Well, they were building... Here it must be admitted that a lot of the work was done by Czechoslovak companies. Aside from construction, a lot of the technology came from here. It was mainly the Soviets doing the know-how and supervision. A lot of technology was produced here. Air engineering and especially the Skoda plant in Pilsen. That was the second headquarters of Rosatom, where Soviet technicians and engineers worked with our technicians and engineers to produce parts for nuclear power plants. And those Soviet engineers and technicians were the ones that today's hateful commentator Sasha Mitrofanov liked to write about in his Shkodovak.
Well, what can we say. We simply managed to build the Czechoslovak power plants - Jaslovské Bohunice, Dukovany and Temelín - mostly by ourselves. It is a pity that Temelin was not built in its entirety, because the original project was for four units, but the new government of the new era stopped the construction.
Well, some time has passed, and we need to expand the Dukovany power plant with more units. Well, for ideological reasons, Rosatom and a Chinese company were excluded. Ideology rules everywhere. Okay, so the Korean firm that supposedly gave the best bid was chosen, but the American firm was not chosen, although God knows whose it is, and neither was the French firm. So the French took the crucial step of filing a lawsuit against the decision of the Antimonopoly Office the day before they signed the contract with the Koreans. And the court had no choice but to issue an interim measure and prohibit the signing of the contract. There was really nothing else to do, the court cannot do anything else in the case of an irreversible act, no matter what anyone thinks.
Suddenly, the European Union steps in and demands that we postpone the signing of the contract, which has already happened anyway, and wants to audit the Korean company to see whether its bid is influenced by anything. If they wanted to audit CEZ to see if the bosses of CEZ had received some kind of a kickback, I could still understand that, but what does the European Union, or rather the European Commission and its Commissioners, care how the Koreans want to supply their product to us?
So, what the former RVHP was unable to do, the European Union is demonstrating to the full extent? What have we come to? Probably really to the Fourth Reich, because there were no regulations coming out of Moscow like there are coming out of Brussels, there were no ideas coming out of Moscow like there are coming out of Brussels, and the only thing that Moscow sort of constrained us with was the ideology. Which most people didn't feel and didn't take seriously anyway. Yes, we had to learn to live with the fact that a lot of things from the West were unavailable or hard to get, but otherwise we could live quite peacefully. Without such restrictions, regulations and bans. So this, this was not there. Today it is here. Unfortunately.