Ecological Disaster Perils East Europe, Prince Charles Says
Britain’s Prince Charles today praised East Europeans for casting off communism but warned that the region faces an “ecological Armageddon.”
Speaking in the shadow of a statue of Karl Marx at a Budapest university that until recently bore the name of the father of communism, Charles was strident in his condemnation of Stalinism.
“In the name of Karl Marx, Lenin and Stalin charted a course that divided Russia from Europe and then, after the Second World War, forcibly removed Hungary from Western Europe, turning half of Europe into a form of Marxist prison camp,” he said.
Europeans can now “reshape the moral and political future of our continent,” Charles said.
But he warned that the future is in danger from the grave ecological damage wrought by developed industry in the West and centralized planning in the East.
“Central Europe has itself been the victim of ideological experiment and the worst follies of a command economy,” said Charles.
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