It is true that studying the Kremlin's internal struggles is more an art than a science. Stratfor uses systematic approaches in much of its work, though the art of Kremlinology involves watching hundreds of seemingly unconnected events and pieces move while attempting to draw common threads into a narrative. It is an imperfect art but an important one nonetheless, and it is back in demand now that the Kremlin is facing multiple crises.
Authors’ note:
A lot is happening parallel since Russia started its invasion of Ukraine on the 24th February 2022. In my bulletin I aim to conclude and share the information what I have gathered either through the support of the European Cyber Community or through my discussions with current and former members of armed forces in Europe. As my main profession – raising cyber resilience for organizations and nations to resist large scale cyber and hybrid incidents – requires me to holistically analyze the impact of multiple events happening parallel, I will not only focus on the cyber space aspect, but on all aspects that I find important to analyze and gain situational awareness with. For the strictly military movement timeline and events or ongoing fights there are many trustworthy resources out there, hence I will not put focus on that, same with each individual topics. This is not a study, I will not provide links and references. Many of the information you can simply search for, some are relying on personal discussions with subject matter experts.
Authors’ note:
A lot has happened in the last 5 days since Russia started its invasion of Ukraine on the 24th February 2022. In my bulletin I aim to conclude and share the information what I have gathered either through the support of the European Cyber Community or through my discussions with current and former members of armed forces in Europe. As my main profession – raising cyber resilience for organizations and nations to resist large scale cyber and hybrid incidents – requires me to holistically analyze the impact of multiple events happening parallel, I will not only focus on the cyber space aspect, but overall. For the strictly military movement timeline and events or ongoing fights there are many trustworthy resources out there, hence I will not put focus on that. This is not a study, I will not provide links and references. Many of the information you can simply search for, some or relying on personal discussions with subject matter experts.
Finally, everything written here is reflecting my own personal view.
Newsbud Exclusive – “From the Atlantic to the Pacific”: Vladimir Putin & the ...Chris Helweg
During the Beijing summit, Putin intentionally contrasted the positive prospects of Eurasian integrations “to promote steady development, increase citizens’ incomes and improve education and health care” with the instability, uncertainty, and unpredictability in other regions of the world, including the EU and the U.S. He stated that in the U.S. “an intense internal political struggle continues, creating a nervous atmosphere in both politics and the economy,” while in Europe,
It is true that studying the Kremlin's internal struggles is more an art than a science. Stratfor uses systematic approaches in much of its work, though the art of Kremlinology involves watching hundreds of seemingly unconnected events and pieces move while attempting to draw common threads into a narrative. It is an imperfect art but an important one nonetheless, and it is back in demand now that the Kremlin is facing multiple crises.
Authors’ note:
A lot is happening parallel since Russia started its invasion of Ukraine on the 24th February 2022. In my bulletin I aim to conclude and share the information what I have gathered either through the support of the European Cyber Community or through my discussions with current and former members of armed forces in Europe. As my main profession – raising cyber resilience for organizations and nations to resist large scale cyber and hybrid incidents – requires me to holistically analyze the impact of multiple events happening parallel, I will not only focus on the cyber space aspect, but on all aspects that I find important to analyze and gain situational awareness with. For the strictly military movement timeline and events or ongoing fights there are many trustworthy resources out there, hence I will not put focus on that, same with each individual topics. This is not a study, I will not provide links and references. Many of the information you can simply search for, some are relying on personal discussions with subject matter experts.
Authors’ note:
A lot has happened in the last 5 days since Russia started its invasion of Ukraine on the 24th February 2022. In my bulletin I aim to conclude and share the information what I have gathered either through the support of the European Cyber Community or through my discussions with current and former members of armed forces in Europe. As my main profession – raising cyber resilience for organizations and nations to resist large scale cyber and hybrid incidents – requires me to holistically analyze the impact of multiple events happening parallel, I will not only focus on the cyber space aspect, but overall. For the strictly military movement timeline and events or ongoing fights there are many trustworthy resources out there, hence I will not put focus on that. This is not a study, I will not provide links and references. Many of the information you can simply search for, some or relying on personal discussions with subject matter experts.
Finally, everything written here is reflecting my own personal view.
Newsbud Exclusive – “From the Atlantic to the Pacific”: Vladimir Putin & the ...Chris Helweg
During the Beijing summit, Putin intentionally contrasted the positive prospects of Eurasian integrations “to promote steady development, increase citizens’ incomes and improve education and health care” with the instability, uncertainty, and unpredictability in other regions of the world, including the EU and the U.S. He stated that in the U.S. “an intense internal political struggle continues, creating a nervous atmosphere in both politics and the economy,” while in Europe,
A Call to Realism: How the ukrainian Crisis Exposed the Weak EUBright Mhango
Despite being all that a state should be and more, the EU is still unable to effectively move past some foreign policy hurdles. The Ukrainian Crisis, which was sparked by the EU is an example of the weak EU foreign policy. This paper argues that the EU, due primarily to its structure, makes it vulnerable in times of crisis such as the Ukrainian Crisis. The paper suggests that the EU can become a better player, and a stronger one by becoming more like the United States, with member states’ maintaining sovereignty over many issues but with a united and centralized foreign policy and security front.
Gustavo De Arístegui: "Putin Has Lost Touch with Reality, He Considers That W...Lina Maya
The diplomat Gustavo de Arístegui was interviewed on Onda Madrid's 'De cara al mundo' programme and analyzed the difficult situation that the war in Ukraine is causing. The international affairs expert criticized the aggressive stance taken by the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and assessed the significance it could have.
Senator Joseph McCarthy's war against communism. Contains the book, "Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and his fight against America's Enemies," by M. Stanton Evans.
A Call to Realism: How the ukrainian Crisis Exposed the Weak EUBright Mhango
Despite being all that a state should be and more, the EU is still unable to effectively move past some foreign policy hurdles. The Ukrainian Crisis, which was sparked by the EU is an example of the weak EU foreign policy. This paper argues that the EU, due primarily to its structure, makes it vulnerable in times of crisis such as the Ukrainian Crisis. The paper suggests that the EU can become a better player, and a stronger one by becoming more like the United States, with member states’ maintaining sovereignty over many issues but with a united and centralized foreign policy and security front.
Gustavo De Arístegui: "Putin Has Lost Touch with Reality, He Considers That W...Lina Maya
The diplomat Gustavo de Arístegui was interviewed on Onda Madrid's 'De cara al mundo' programme and analyzed the difficult situation that the war in Ukraine is causing. The international affairs expert criticized the aggressive stance taken by the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and assessed the significance it could have.
Senator Joseph McCarthy's war against communism. Contains the book, "Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and his fight against America's Enemies," by M. Stanton Evans.
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CHAPTER 5: RUSSIA
Russia
Book Reference
Terrill, R. J. (2016). World criminal justice systems: A comparative survey. Routledge.
Concepts to Know
· Marxism–Leninism
· Mikhail Gorbachev
· Democratization
· Constitution of the Russian Federation
· President of the Russian Federation
· Federal Security Service (FSB)
· Propiska
· Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation
· Judicial Department
· Procuracy
· Defense Counsel
· Justices of the Peace
· Jury
· Material Definition of Crime
· Measures of Restraint
· Plea Bargaining
· Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD)
· Commission on Juvenile Affairs
Introduction
THE LONGEST-RUNNING social science experiment of the twentieth century officially ended on December 25, 1991, with the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev as president of the Soviet Union. From the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 until Gorbachev’s resignation, the rulers of the Soviet Union had attempted to create a communist society that would be the envy of the world. Support for this goal was continual for more than 70 years, but the sense of purpose and direction began to unravel during the late 1980s. The principal cause for this shift in opinion was Gorbachev’s alternative rationale for achieving socialism. Although his ideas were a radical departure from some of the basic tenets of Leninism, Gorbachev generally favored implementing them incrementally. Nevertheless, disaffection with these ideas became quite pronounced among devoted communists, which led to the attempted coup of August 1991. This was followed by Gorbachev’s resignation and the formal dissolution of the country by year’s end.
The Soviet Union had been composed of 15 republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Byelorussia, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirghizistan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia, Russia, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Russia was not only the largest republic in terms of territory and population, but it also dominated the policies of the Soviet Union—so much so that the words Russian and Soviet were often used interchangeably when referring to the foreign and domestic policies of the Soviet Union. Today, Russia is the largest country in the world, almost twice the size of the United States. It encompasses more than 6.5 million square miles that stretch from Eastern Europe through the northern half of Asia. The population of about 139 million has become more urban over the past 50 years. In fact, it has reached about 80 percent of the population— almost an exact reversal of the urban and rural ratio at the time of the 1917 Revolution (see Figure 5.1).
Russia is a federation consisting of six categories of administrative units. These include 21 republics, nine territories, 46 provinces, two federal cities, one autonomous republic, and four autonomous regions. Among these administrative units, the republics have the greatest claim to self-government. Although Russians comprise more than 80 percent of the country’s population, there are some 126 national ...
The breakup of the Soviet Union, the largest country in size, in 1991 was one of the top five news of the 20th century
Caused by multiple reasons, it resulted in multi-dimensional consequences, short term as well as long term
Some of the consequences we are still witnessing even in the 21st century, some may be witnessed by the coming generations
This presentation is an attempt to analyse the causes of this momentous event and assess its far-reaching consequences
Here is another installment of PlanetCNC writings. Again, looking back and needless to say, I grew up under the influence of Cold War anticommunism. A good part of my life so far has been me reasoning my way out of a right-wing political culture. I mentioned before that I’m based in Long Island, New York, the United States of America. It’s a stronghold for right-wing politics in the U.S. Some of the essays here reflect that political influence—an influence I’ve come to thoroughly, completely reject. In any case, feel free to take a look. It’s another collection of curios, knick-knacks, etc. You’ll also get a glimpse of a then-adolescent writer’s mindset.
Stephen Cheng
Saturday, January 16, 2021
Letters of Oliver Cowdery to W. W. Phelps on the origin of the Book of Mormon and the rise of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Includes the famous (to those interested in Book of Mormon geography) Letter VII.
By M. Stanton Evans. Forty years ago this month, the mortal remains of Joseph R. McCarthy were laid to rest near Appleton, Wis., not far from the modest farm where he was born. His death apparently closed a raucous, controversial saga, one of the most bitter and brutal in our nation’s history, with McCarthy typecast as the villain. Events of recent years, however, suggest the final chapters of this astounding story have yet to be recorded.
Essays on the tyranny of regulations, licensure, and permits. It's way past time to restore the liberty of the individual. Compiled by Robert D. Gorgoglione Sr.
The Great Debate: Revisiting the Sino-Soviet Split and the Failure of the “Ch...Steven Montgomery
Article written by Nevin Gussack in September 2011. Based on the evidence presented in this essay, one can come to the following conclusions: despite the pretensions of friendship and non-hostility, China was irrevocably committed to the destruction of the capitalist and imperialist U.S.A. and the Sino-Soviet dispute was either a strategic deception or a conflict that could be healed under the rubric of internationalist communist solidarity. Indeed, the open split was publicly healed as the 1980s progressed and became an unrealized threat to the NATO countries, CONUS, and the non-communist Asian countries. Such an anti-American axis developed and morphed into what is presently called the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
A book, entitled: "Origin and History of the Montgomerys comtes de Montgomery, Ponthieu, Alencon and Le Marche, Earls of Arundel, Chichester, Shrewsbury, Montgomery, Pembroke, Lancaster, Mercia, Eglington and Mountalexander Princes de Bellame, Marquis de Montgomery de Lorges. A history of the surname "Montgomery." Written by B. G. de Montgomery. The book is a "family history" or "genealogy" of the surname, "Montgomery." Includes Nordic history, northern European history, Normandy, France, Sweden, German.
United States History regarding: "Declarations of War and Authorizations for the Use of Military Force: Historical Background and Legal Implications. 2011 Document prepared for Members and Committees of Congress.
Hillary Clinton's 1969 thesis entitled, "There is only the fight," in partial fulfillment for a Bachelor of Arts Degree at Wellesley College. The thesis is an analysis of Saul Alinsky's early version of "Rules for Radicals."
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
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1. ___________________________________________________________
The lies that blind:
Is communism dead?
For the past 25 years, Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn has
been publicly warning the West against acceptance of this
deadly illusion.
By William F. Jasper
www.thenewamerican.com
_____________________________________________________________
Two critically important (and crucially intertwined) events that concern
our national security--and our survival--occurred during the week of
July 5-11, but you almost certainly didn't hear a peep or read a word
about either one of them. Apparently, our political and media elites
think it's not important for us to know about such things.
Here is the first event to which I refer, as presented by the Sino-Soviet
"news" agencies.
"Russian troops are getting aboard a Chinese train Wednesday to take part
in joint anti-terrorist exercises Peace Mission 2009, that will be held on the
Chinese territory," the Russian agency ITAR-TASS reported on July 8,
2009. In addition to a Russian motorized rifle battalion and an airborne
company, the Chinese train also transported 150 Russian tanks, armored
personnel carriers, and trucks. Some 20 Russian aircraft--bombers, fighter
jets, transports, and helicopters--were flown to the exercise site in northeast
China.
The headline of a July 12 story for Communist China's Xinhuanet news
agency reported, "More Russian military forces arrive in China for joint
anti-terror exercise." The massive five-day war games, held July 22-26 in
the Shenyang Military Area Command, are a repeat of similar China-Russia
joint military exercises in 2005 and 2007, which also took place under the
name of "Peace Mission." A shorter two-day joint "anti-terror" drill took
2. place in April of this year. The operation, dubbed Norak-Antiterror 2009,
was conducted in Kazakhstan on April 17-18 with units from the armed
forces of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO): Russia, China,
Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.
These military operations (which have gone virtually unreported in the
United States) underscore the extensive and growing military, economic,
technological, and political cooperation between Moscow and Beijing over
the past decade and a half. They also demolish the supposed wisdom of the
prevailing "experts" at the CIA and State Department, who contended that
the "Sino-Soviet split" was "permanent," and that the United States should
encourage this perceived split by wooing both communist regimes with
diplomatic overtures, aid, and trade.
Four decades of this bipartisan wisdom by U.S. policymakers has resulted in
the transfer, virtually, of America's entire manufacturing base to China and
the transformation of Mao's "People's Republic" from a weak and hopelessly
primitive Third World state into a global economic and military superpower.
The second event to which I referred above took place in Moscow about the
same time as the Sino-Russian military operations were being set into
motion in China: President Barack Obama and his entourage landed in
Russia on July 6 for a three-day state visit. In addition to meeting with
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin,
Obama met with former President Mikhail Gorbachev and Gennady
Zyuganov, chairman of the Russian Communist Party, who said he
complimented President Obama on his economic stimulus program. "I
said that I had thoroughly studied [Obama's] anti-crisis program, that I
liked it, as well as that it is socially oriented and primarily aimed at
supporting poor people and enhancing the state's role," Zyuganov told
Interfax, a Russian news agency. "I said all this to President Obama."
These two events illustrate two fatal fallacies that underlie our decades of
suicidal policies vis-a-vis Russia and China, as implemented by both
Democratic and Republican administrations.
"Splits" and Scissors
Belief in a strategically exploitable Sino-Soviet split became not only the
foundation for U.S. policy toward Communist China, but also provided the
3. rationale for our relations with all communist regimes. If the world
communist monolith was fragmenting owing to internal fissiparous forces,
the argument ran (and continues to run today), then why not speed the
process? Thus we saw policies aimed at courting communist regimes in
Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and elsewhere,
with the announced aim of wooing them from the Soviet orbit.
From the strategic "split" doctrine came a corollary: besides working to
create cleavages between communist countries, why not also work to create
cleavages within communist countries by supporting "liberal" and
"democratic" political factions among the ruling communist elites?
Of course, that is what the bipartisan strategists such as Henry Kissinger and
Zbigniew Brzezinski claim to have done. Communism has collapsed, they
say; the former Soviet Union has fragmented, with the former Warsaw Pact
nations joining the European Union and NATO, and the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union (CPSU) no longer holds sway in Russia. Yes, China is still
ruled by the Communist Party of China (CPC), but the "hardline" Marxists
in Beijing have lost out to the regime's pragmatic capitalists, goes the
argument.
Unfortunately, the delusional acceptance of these fatal fallacies has achieved
the exact opposite of the benefits promised by the "wise men" of foreign
affairs. The supposed permanence of the Sino-Soviet split--as noted above,
and as could be demonstrated by hundreds more examples--has proven as
evanescent as a popsicle in Hades. The new Sino-Soviet axis, thanks to our
aid, is far more dangerous now than ever it was during the Cold War.
As far as Russia goes, even many of the erstwhile enthusiasts of the so-
called sea-change events of 1989-1991 have been forced to admit in
recent years that Vladimir Putin has, in many ways, reinstated the
Soviet model of dictatorship. In fact, by 2006 much of the western media
had finally awakened to the reality that KGB veteran Putin had stacked
the top levels of the Russian government with comrades from the KGB
(and its successor, renamed the FSB) to the tune of 80 percent--a higher
percentage than had ever been seen in Soviet history. The iron fist is
now showing through the velvet glove in ways that were predictable,
and were indeed predicted.
4. When the delusions of the Sino-Soviet split and "democratization" were
being sold to the American people and U.S. policymakers a generation ago,
there were many who soundly warned against accepting such dangerous
deceptions. The most cogent and authoritative analysis exposing the
looming danger came from KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn. For the past
nearly 50 years he seems to have been destined to experience the agony of
Cassandra, who in vain warned her disbelieving countrymen against
bringing the Greeks' gift horse inside Troy's impregnable walls. In a
series of memoranda to the CIA, which were later published as two books--
New Lies for Old (1984) and The Perestroika Deception (1995, U.S.
edition)--Golitsyn provided a remarkably detailed expos6 and penetrating
analysis that is probably without parallel in human history.
Over the past 90 years, there have been many defectors (both genuine and
false) from communist countries, some of whom have provided us with very
valuable information and insights. What makes Golitsyn so unique? Golitsyn
was a member of the super-secret "inner" KGB--Department D--which
planned long-range, strategic disinformation. Other members of the "outer"
KGB did not even know of Department D's existence. It was a crucial
creation engineered during the 1959 reorganization of Soviet intelligence by
KGB Chairman Alexander Shelepin. Shelepin and the top Soviet leaders
determined to undo much of the damage caused by the recently deceased
Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, whose paranoia and bloody purges had
devastated not only the USSR but the entire global communist system. The
KGB would be redirected away from Stalin's ham-fisted use of the agency
primarily for espionage and brutal police-state oppression, into Lenin's
conception of the "Cheka" (NKVD, predecessor of the KGB) as an
instrument of strategic deception that would manipulate and control the
Soviet Union's enemies (the United States and the West) by manipulating
and controlling the enemy's perceptions of geo-strategic realities. Shelepin
and the Kremlin strategists set out to recreate and test two of Lenin's most
successful strategic deceptions of the 1920s: the New Economic Policy
(NEP) and the "Trust."
Lenin's Models
Under Lenin's NEE limited private enterprise was allowed. This was heresy
to communists, of course, but Lenin the pragmatist explained that this was
just a temporary step backwards in order to gain strength for the next steps
forward in the socialist revolution. The NEP was necessary both to provide
5. the Russian people with incentives to produce and to lure western capital to
the Soviet Union. It worked: Ford Motor, DuPont, General Electric, U.S.
Steel, and other western companies flocked to Russia, providing the
essential wherewithal and technical assistance needed to reindustrialize the
Bolshevik regime. When the Kremlin strategists determined that the NEP
had finished its usefulness, they shut it down, renationalized all private
enterprise and reinstituted the harsh Bolshevik program. The NEP deception
would be repeated again (and again) to win further western concessions and
aid under new labels: "peaceful co-existence," "detente," "glasnost," and
"perestroika."
Lenin's "Trust" was the forerunner to the KGB's fake revolutions and
dissident movements that would be unleashed later in the USSR and the
Warsaw Pact countries. The Trust, supposedly, was a powerful, secret anti-
communist group within Russia that had widespread support among the
people and even among leading officials. The Trust carried out spectacular
raids and guerrilla activities throughout the USSR and convinced western
intelligence agencies to support it. But after several years of this elaborate
charade, the Trust was revealed to have been purely an invention of the
Cheka, and is the case study par excellence of what the KGB terms the
"scissors strategy."
The term derives from the application of the Marxist-Leninist dialectic
methodology, which allows communists to achieve victory by creating
phony struggles in which they control both sides. The unwitting adversary is
lured into making alliance with the ersatz "dissidents," "liberals," or
"democrats," only to be trapped and cut in half by two sides he thinks are
opposed to one another. Through its adroit use of the Trust, the Cheka
manipulated western government policies regarding the Soviet Union and
lured many true Russian anti-communists into the open, so they could be
arrested, tortured, imprisoned, and executed.
According to Golitsyn, the Kremlin strategists used the newly reorganized
KGB (of which he was a key "inner" member) to launch a succession of
Trust and NEP deceptions that would be part of a decades-long process to
implement "a strategy for 'restructuring' the whole world." In The
Perestroika Deception, Golitsyn argues:
The Soviets are not striving for genuine,
lasting accommodation with the
6. Western democracies but for the final
world victory of Communism.... They
intend to exploit the same illusion to
induce the Americans to adopt their
own 'restructuring' and convergence
of the Soviet and American systems
using to this end the fear of nuclear
conflict.
According to Golitsyn, Gorbachev (and his predecessors and successors)
is pursuing an incredibly intricate "global strategy ... to lure the United
States into convergence and World Government." [On communist terms of
course, and with them in control. The communist will, when the time is
right, liquidate the “insiders” that created them.]
The charge would be too fantastic even to contemplate except for two
things: 1) Anatoliy Golitsyn has correctly called the shots--often years in
advance--on some of the most astounding geo-political events of our age;
and, 2) The verifiable facts on the ground more accurately fit his analysis
than all the wishful thinking and deceit peddled by the acclaimed (but
always colossally wrong) "experts" of the disinformation axis in Washington
and Moscow.
Concerning the first point, we should note that author Mark Riebling
(Wedge: The Secret War Between the FBI and CIA, Knopf, 1994)
conducted a systematic analysis of Golitsyn's book New Lies for Old, and
found that out of a total of 148 falsifiable predictions, 139 had been verified
by 1993, giving Golitsyn an accuracy rating of 94 percent. And his
predictions were not small matters; they included details of the forthcoming
fake liberalizations throughout Eastern Europe, followed by similar
developments in the Soviet Union. He predicted the removal of the Berlin
Wall, the unification of Germany, and the admittance of former
communist Warsaw Pact nations into the European Union.
Facts on the Ground
Concerning the second point, the facts today argue more strongly than ever
that Golitsyn's analysis was--and is--correct. Among the literally hundreds of
examples that could be cited that have been barely mentioned, completely
ignored, or misreported in the western media:
7. 1. Contrary to the claims of the "end of communism" school of thought,
"former" KGB and Communist Party leaders continue to dominate the
former USSR and Warsaw Pact countries, occupying the crucial centers of
power: the military, the security services and police, the main political
parties, the media, the financial institutions, the educational institutions,
virtually all economic sectors, and all branches of government.
2. This overwhelming dominance by unrepentant and unchastened
communists accounts for the fact that "lustration" laws aimed at ferreting
out those responsible for murder, torture, imprisonment, and oppression on a
scale never previously seen in history have been almost completely
thwarted. Nothing remotely comparable to the post-World War II de-
nazification of Germany has occurred; only a handful of communists have
been prosecuted.
3. Russian Orthodox Christians continue to suffer horrible betrayal by their
KGB-controlled clergy, who fully support Putin and the Kremlin leadership.
The death in 2008 of Patriarch Alexy II, head of the Russian Orthodox
Church (and a dedicated KGB agent since 1958), showed the continuity of
the Soviet state. All three replacement candidates were identified KGB
operatives, including Archbishop Kirill I, who was chosen to be the new
patriarch.
4. In Russia, Putin has been able to use his KGB-FSB siloviki to harass,
intimidate, kidnap, torture, imprison, and assassinate his opponents, whether
journalists, politicians, businessmen, or activists.
5. The European Union is being drawn ever tighter into Moscow's noose of
energy dependency through the Russian state oil and gas mega-
corporations--Rosneft, Gazprom, Nord Stream--run by Putin's "former"
KGB-FSB comrades.
6. The United States is traveling the same path, with the KGB-run LUKoil
taking over more than 2,000 gas stations on our eastern seaboard that
formerly were owned and operated by Mobil and Getty Oil.
7. KGB operatives who have been exposed in top positions of the "post-
Soviet" European countries include Polish Prime Minister Jozef Oleksy;
Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski; Lithuanian Prime Minister
Antanas Valionis; Lithuania's head of State Security, Arvydas Pocius;
Hungarian Finance Minister and Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy;
8. Hungarian Prime Minister Gyula Horn; and Bulgarian President Georgi
Sedefchov Parana.
8. Hungarian KGB agent Sandor Laborc was made head of Hungary's secret
services and then intelligence chief for NATO, where he was put in charge
of the West's most sensitive secrets. Estonian Defense Ministry official
Herman Simm was recently exposed as an FSB asset who has passed many
NATO secrets to Moscow.
9. While pretending for decades to oppose the European Union, the KGB's
most trusted moles played major roles in building the "Europe from the
Urals to the Atlantic." Two key French KGB agents on the EU project were
Alexandre Kojeve and Charles Hernu. Kojeve wrote that a world socialist
state could be realized through the gradual expansion of European
integration across the globe.
10. Lifelong Marxist-Leninist Mikhail Gorbachev has approvingly
described the EU as "the new European Soviet." Russian dissident
Vladimir Bukovsky has disapprovingly warned that
"having just buried one monster, the Soviet Union, another
remarkably similar one, the European Union, is being built.... The
EU is the old Soviet model, presented in Western guise."
11. Western politicians and intellectuals may insist that Beijing has
abandoned Mao's communist ideology, but Hu Jintao, Chinese president and
general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and other top
CPC officials regularly affirm their commitment to Marxism-Leninism and
point to market "reforms" as a temporary expedient along the lines of
Lenin's NEP.
12. Before he was murdered, former KGB-FSB Lt. Col. Alexander
Litvinenko revealed that al-Qaeda's No. 2 man, Ayman al-Zawihiri, was an
operative of the FSB, as are many of the other so-called "Islamic" terrorists.
"The bloodiest terrorists of the world were or are agents of the KGB-FSB,"
he said.
[I’ll say it AGAIN; “It’s NOT Islam, its Communism stupid!!!]
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