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By Jeff J. Brown
Pictured above: The flag of the USSR on the left and Russia on the right. What an incredible civilization, what an amazing story to tell.
Right here, it takes just a second…
Sixteen years on the streets, living and working with the people of China, Jeff
Brighteon Video Channel: https://www.brighteon.com/channels/jeffjbrown
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Note before starting. I’d like to welcome Ms. Irina Crutcher Boyko to China Rising Radio Sinoland. Her understanding and deep knowledge of Soviet and Russian history makes for must reading. Due to great interest in these topics, she joined my China Writers’ Group in June 2021. It has been pure pleasure, to the point that I want to share her written work with China Rising Radio Sinoland fan, so you can learn too. The running blog below has the most recent contribution to start, on down.
Irina’s specialty is to subtitle Soviet and Russian films, videos, songs and cartoons into English. Here are her excellent channels. Like me, I hope you subscribe,
https://odysee.com/@IrinaBoykoCrutcher:5
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCumYAtpVN7-xqJrU1KRU7ug/videos
Running Blog
Numbered from first at bottom to the most recent up top.
Added to daily, so check back regularly…
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Cool! Explains how to translate any site into any language you want. Even without French, the visuals show you the way: https://youtu.be/r0-bTUgxoTQ
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449-It turns out that this video indicates my intolerance towards white Americans.
This is what one of those viewers who watched it on my channel on Odysee wrote to me. He expressed the wish that Odysee would do with my channel the same way YouTube does. That is, there are people who are offended by historical facts and therefore they do not want to know about them.
https://odysee.com/@IrinaBoykoCrutcher:5/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%8B:1
It turns out that this video indicates my intolerance towards white Americans. This is what one of those viewers who watched it on my channel on Odysee wrote to me. He expressed the wish that Odysee would do with my channel the same way YouTube does. That is, there are people who are offended by historical facts and therefore they do not want to know about them.
Irina
Irina,
Alexandre Dumas was Black. He is history’s greatest selling fiction writer.
Napoleon’s wife Josephine was also Black and had a huge influence on his life.
Barracks O’Bomba is half-Black and is a genocidal war criminal.
Jeff
Irina,
one person’s opinion of your work is as virtuous as one person’s opinion of trump or stalin or mao or reagan…the problem is the power ruling classes excercise over great masses of consciousness which can lead to otherwise thoughtful people indulging in nonsense about whether christ was black or gay or trans in order to strenghten an argument in favor of democracy? or ignorance to carry us further away from global democracy and salvation of humanity by ending capitalism and not simply comparing scriptures or interpretations of ancient mythology…
FS
Jeff,
The man was outraged by the very fact that the Russians did not enslave black people. He said that by doing so I offended white Americans, because there was not a single European state that did not participate in slavery. In general, the Africans were the first to enslave each other. The Americans themselves did not enslave anyone. I reminded him of Kamala Harris’ ancestors. And I immediately received an accusation of intolerance. And since I am not tolerant, I have no right to post any information in the public space. And in general, he doubts that I am an American (why did he get it? I am not an American either).
Irina
448-Russians always remain Russian: Cheburashka paralyzed radio in the USA
https://dzen.ru/a/ZKhUew09bGIH3qa0
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447-Death in a foreign tank. Why did the inhabitants of Russia feel sorry for the dying soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
https://dzen.ru/a/ZJBJupunUWRG04uq
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446-A History of Russian Innovation-On this historic day of May 9th, join me in taking a leisurely stroll through the history of Russian achievement.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/a-history-of-russian-innovation
445-On April 9, 1957, Soviet radio engineer Leonid Kupriyanovich demonstrated the first portable mobile phone
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444-The first microwave oven was invented in the USSR in 1941 on the eve of the Second World War
https://dzen.ru/a/XTBmU-bLmwCt9nSk
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443-Who is first? Scientists Teleportation could become real
https://proza.ru/diary/severinapolar/2016-04-28
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442-How a Soviet scientist created the Internet under Khrushchev
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441-Now Russia plays PMC “Wagner”: The West shuddered
https://dzen.ru/a/ZJskg-iPWzQDs3vD
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440-Zelensky began a terrible experiment: Russia may falter from the numerical advantage of the enemy
https://dzen.ru/a/ZJngnGbsOGD8Zpue
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439-“Rebels beheaded, instigators arrested”? And this is not Prigozhin
https://dzen.ru/a/ZJmY5mEu5ERzo4ZY
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438-A private Russian army has materialized in the heart of Europe. What is she waiting for and what is the real result of the rebellion
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437-How Russian snipers shared the “Loaf” with the people, and what do the front lines know about the upcoming counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
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436- Russian translated films
Here CTB Film Company translated its films,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmZVVA-X6wQ&list=PLUqXLVIhFhqRcqhBT5bFUxw7nDyYQz9-G
In this collection you can also find films with translation,
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAP2JOtWq9Elflo6C44NqhVA_bt6qCZyJ
Recently, the Mosfilm studio has been actively translating its films. StarMedia also has a YouTube channel with translated films,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbt-MRClgRw&
list=PL4dWJMOQ_a1QGyST4T_AfTgRng6owTwb8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz9gjJgXYvk&list=PLzb7Zhxq-W8Fon6jV-qwm3F1VTxxrv-Kj
435-Survivors in Artemovsk spoke: Ukraine stole our children, and mercenaries, having fun, fired at people
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434-“Angelic” hunting for children. Where Kyiv is forcibly taking kids out of Donbass
https://dzen.ru/a/ZDZ8V3T4MEPzFW3F
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433-Executioner School Runs for Seven Years: $80 Million for Maniac Psychologists
https://dzen.ru/a/ZDZPUGtBc1A4vZjv
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432-Foreigners broke stereotypes when they talked to real Russians
https://dzen.ru/a/YlV9v4SFUCqT7RRu
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431-People couldn’t do it
https://dzen.ru/a/ZCFyB0k9vTgB2dZK
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The atrocities of the punishers in the occupied territories defy human reason. Khatyn, destroyed 80 years ago, is just one episode, in other places everything was much worse. There were thousands of Khatyn in Belarus.
I read a lot about the atrocities of the German fascists during the war years. But when I read this article, I cried. And they think it can ever be forgotten? Now, if the Russians did such atrocities with them, their memory would not be so short.
Irina
Partner of the material – the portal “Together with Russia”
430-From “uranium” shells, Ukraine will turn into an uninhabited moon: What kind of ammunition is this and why are they so terrible
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429-Global concentration camp: The terrible truth about vaccines and US biolabs has been revealed
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428-What are you doing to me, I’m alive, I want to live!
https://dzen.ru/a/Y_J8EEgC7HADJDJT
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427-“Save Our Souls”: A million Americans dream of moving to live in Russia
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426-What did Hitler mean by “final solution of the Jewish question”?
https://dzen.ru/a/Y-c3vHdUkgWXO-Th
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425-The stink over the city. What kind of crematoriums work is in the port of Nikolaev and why are they?
https://dzen.ru/a/Y-ZLdtgHYxjBEwoC
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424-The Russian Defense Ministry presented evidence of the Pentagon’s involvement in the creation of the COVID-19 pandemic
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423-The second interview of Peter Tolstoy on French TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwXZ4LKwudo
The difference in mentality is simply amazing. Or is it a different level of education?
Irina
422-Hitler came up with the European Union in 1943. But stumbled over Stalingrad. Why is the special operation in Ukraine so similar to the battle with the Third Reich and its “coalition”
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27460/4715132/
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Irina,
It’s a pity that the vast majority don’t want to change it back to Stalingrad…in what appears to be sheer laziness. Costly and pointless? To remind forever the Russian people of their glorious past, and honor the millions who died there? The number should be 21+21+11+ 53+26+89% should be the percent who want it changed back to the name of the leader who even allows people to live there now. If it had not been for Stalin and the Soviet soldiers, there would not even be a city at all. And most of them would not even be alive.
Eric
Eric,
I can consider myself a descendant of my ancestors, my father’s paternal grandfather and grandmother, who lived in Stalingrad. My father’s mother lived and studied in Moscow, and my father visited relatives in Stalingrad. His mother barely managed to get him out of the city with the evacuation. So if anyone is interested in my opinion, then I will vote for the return of the Stalin name to the city.
Irina
421-Interview of Pyotr Tolstoy (the descendant of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy), the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, given to the French channel BFMTV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3PsqS7E6K0
This is a perfect example of the classical Russian education.
Irina
420-Banned on YouTube! Red Project documentary
https://rumble.com/v26iaps-the-red-project-documentary-by-dmitry-kiselev-english-subtitles.html
My YouTube channel’s been already banned
Irina
419-“Ukrainians hit our houses with tanks”: How Russia liberated Soledar and what the locals say about it
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418-They transfer power by inheritance and “draw” the results of the elections: the ins and outs of politics in the Baltics are revealed
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417-“Meat grinder” for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and 300 kilometers of salt tunnels through which the tank will pass: What will Russia get along with the liberation of Soledar
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416-The truth about the impending attack of Ukraine on Russia was revealed: secret documents were published. Prague began to support him long before the start of the Russian NWO
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415-What caused the repressions in 1937? How did Stalin hold on to the country, but capitulated to the partocrats?
https://dzen.ru/a/Y7bTAlHuW0Yfs0Jm
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Dear Irina,
A couple of years ago, I read a book by two Americans, Albert Kahn and Michael Sayers with a forward by a prominent senator, written in 1946. The Great Conspiracy Against Russia, which talks about this.
Also, the book and movie Mission to Moscow also showed that the US Ambassador to the USSR at that time, a trained lawyer, attended the trials and was convinced of Trotsky’s guilt and collusion with Germany and Japan, along with his co conspirators.
This is just another example of Western claims against Russia/USSR, when the US itself has been persecuting political dissidents for two centuries. And even now has the world’s largest prison population.
Kind regards, Eric
414-NATO planted a bomb in the center of Europe: Where it will flare up after Ukraine
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413-Sergei Lavrov issued a warning to Ukraine and the West: “It’s better to do the right thing”
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
As usual he sounds like an intellectual giant by comparison to the murderous morons running the usa and its western lapdogs.
Frank
412-“Our people, our land, our truth”: Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev – on the results of 2022, which changed the world order
https://rg.ru/2022/12/25/nashi-liudi-nasha-zemlia-nasha-pravda.html?ysclid=lc54mb4ru3786497132
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411-Why do black Americans demand to “cancel” this Soviet cartoon?
https://dzen.ru/a/Y4cOZmDD1FvXReEp
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410-My Boyfriend is an Angel, Christmas comedy, English subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4UnyRC5Ch8
409-“Suitcase. Station. Steppe”: Creation of a new nation in Kazakhstan
https://dzen.ru/a/Y6cNrN1VZx3sUg_d
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Irina,
This has been Russia’s failing all along, even extending into the 8 year delay in getting rid of the Nazies in Ukraine, and the SMO itself, which went in with only a third of the number of soldiers to fight and win.
Now, they characterize the slow advance of Russia as ‘attrition warfare’, not noticing that it is Russia that is being ‘attritioned’ with Kazakhstan next on the list to bleed Russia. But heaven forbid, Russia should look after its own interests, and instead allow another ex Soviet Republic to degenerate. The current leadership blames Lenin for allowing nationalities to have an identity, but this situation is far worse and threatening to the existence of Russia itself.
The long term plan to break up Russia is clearly still in full swing, regardless of how Ukraine turns out, just one battle in the long war.
Irina,
A friend in Volgograd sent me this,
Eric, I stop watching any information about the war. Too many lies. I know personally someones who came back from the front line. They don’t know what’s happening there too. One of them was in Afghanistan, Chechnya. So he has huge military experience. He told me there were a lot of weird situations. Like, he could have done a military monuver and won a local situation. But he didn’t get the order to do this. He tried to explain it would be in time. Officers postponed with orders like deliberately. He is not the only one who told me this.>>>
My other Moscow friend tells me something related, that the leadership is compromised.
I find it hard to believe as someone who talks with young Ukraine travelers in Thailand, that Russian military intelligence underestimated the degree of Russophobia in Ukraine, making the war much more difficult.
It took 8 years for Putin a trained KGB agent, not to notice Merkel was lying?
Again, it was the Communist Party that demanded Russia recognize the Donbass Republics. Not United Russia.
A lot of this doesn’t add up.
Eric
Eric,
After you quoted your friend from Volgograd that many reservists with experience in the Afghan and Chechen wars who are on the front lines in Ukraine these days and who do not understand the alleged inaction of the commanders, I talked to some of my acquaintances who have no less combat experience. All of them are sure that Surovikin uses Zhukov’s experience during the Battle of Moscow in 1941 and during the Battle of Kursk. These two historic battles were preceded by extensive artillery preparation for many months. And only after Zhukov was sure that the enemy was exhausted enough and would not be able to resist, he carried out these brilliant operations.
I do not want to downplay the danger of nationalism in Kazakhstan, as well as in Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, the Baltics, etc. They became beggars without the Union, without Russia. This was expected. Even ordinary people understood what was happening. I don’t think we’re sitting idly by here. No one will ever say what our people are doing in this regard. Everything that needs to is done and doing silently and accurately.
Irina
Irina,
There is a reluctance of so many in Russia to recognize that the US is not making mistakes – but is out to bring down Russia. And under this pressure Russia is kept from rapid modernization and raising its living standards.
There is now more urgency since with Russia standing and powerful, the US cannot really take down China. And that will be the beginning of the end of US hegemony and the first chance in centuries for the rest of the Global South to develop and establish a multipolar world.
Russia now fights for humanity to free itself from the US/G7, the masters of the neocolonial world.
John
408-Foreigners living in Russia
Here is one of the episodes of the stay of the famous Polish blogger Ania K in Moscow. And one of the comments of expats living in Russia,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pze3__VGT8
Jan Den Biesen
5 часов назад
Dear Ania,
We live in one of the oldest towns in Russia, 120 kilometres north of Moscow. It’s a small town where live people from The Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, France, GB, USA, Denmark, Brasil etcetera. From Poland, I don’t know yet. Everybody is happy to live in Russia. It’s a friendly country and all this western people here want to do their best for the good of Russia and it’s people. Greetings.
Irina
407-Gives with one hand, takes with the other
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406-Puppeteers rule from the shadows on the blood: the war of the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers has become the true cause of cataclysms in the world
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405-Victory is ours, performed by Denis Maidanov and Roman Razum, subtitled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYQvZRRmUFM
This video on my channel was the target of a mass attack by Ukrainian trolls today with very derogatory comments.
Irina
404-Germany got sick: Germans start a war with dead Russians
https://dzen.ru/a/Y3pR5GY6FQvREIld
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403-We are for the glorification of Nazism! Signature: Germany and further down the list
https://dzen.ru/a/Y55WzNfbPG2mk-_-
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Dear Irina,
Thank you so very much for bringing all this to our attention, it has been overdo that somebody pointed out to these terribly neglected parts of real history.
I only slightly want to object with one thought of yours “It is impossible to free Europe from these terrible evils, Nazism and fascism were the essence of the existence of all the countries of the Old Woman, …”
It need to be said, that there is an other story: There is an other heritage, too! In Berlin, Germany in “The Museum of Resistance” (in the Bendler Block, Ministry of Defence) you can study a huge map, it was drafted by the inmate of a NS concentration camp in Germany, showing the sites of over 10 000 such incarceration or death camps filled with people of dissent in Germany!
As of today there has always been resistance, and the “Other Germany”, the GDR was constructed by many of such resistance fighters. But look what they have done to them, to the anti-fascist, peaceful country these real antifascists had helped to build, wit the support of the SU. It is not documented how many committed suicide. The survivors have been deprived of their basic rights, they have been smeared as stooges of an illegitmate regime, treated like parias after the Fall of The Wall.
Every effort of resistance today is again met with such cunning brutality. See Michael Ballweg imprisoned in Stuttgart since June 22, deprived of everything! An IT expert who had been able to mobilize millions during the PLandemic two years of horror. Most of my compatriots do not even know his name and if they do they do not do much to defend him.
I certainly agree, none of my co-cititzens today is able to fully comprehend the original sin of equalizing the Soviet defensive and liberating struggle under Stalin with Hitler’s and his fascist handlers aggressive and barbaric war against the Soviet Union. The brainwashing machine together with the provision of wealth have ultimately achieved results which we are seeing today. In deep solidarity,
Irene
Dear Irene,
Tthank you for the subtly noticed idea that a different reality exists in Germany and not only there. We Russians are becoming more and more rigid in our assessments of the Second World War and the actions of the participating countries. The main thing is not to go too far and not to lose justice, аll bread is not baked in one oven. Everyone should be rewarded with justice. One is to be rewarded for crimes and betrayal, the other for heroism and noble struggle, and the third for his unconsciousness
Irina
Irina,
Thank you Irina for passing this on. This was originally Russian article, right? The true racist fascist nature of “The West” is cleverly disguised or covered up under the ultra cynical ‘Freedom and Democray’, or “white man’s burder”, or “Manifest Destiny”.
Russia (and China) have been on the list to be treated like the Native Americans, in North America, as well as the whole of South America, Africa and Asia.
I wonder if they are the real subhumans, little more than crocodiles with warm blood.
Eric
Yes, Eric, this was an original Russian article
Irina
402-The largest corruption scandal in the history of the European Union has been revealed: the Deputy mafia, fatal love and bought the World Cup
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401-I am Khortitsa, war movie, 1981, English subtitles
The latest version of The Avatar is out. The theme is the same, imperialists from planet earth wanting to plunder and kill the indigenous people. Except this version took ten years and cost a billion dollars to make.
This Soviet era film, made in Odessa, talks about the Nazis getting defeated on a small island in Ukraine, near Zaporozhe in 1941.
Same degree of excitement and the plot is probably similar but it didn’t cost a billion dollars.
One thing you can say about the West, they really know how to waste money.
https://odysee.com/@IrinaBoyko:6/i-am-khortitsa,-war-movie,-1981,-english:b
Eric
Dear Eric,
Thank you for promoting this film. This film is not commercial, it is not made to make money. Just for people know their history and remember it
Sincerely,
Irina
400-Ivan the Terrible. Or how history is falsified
https://dzen.ru/a/Y3XKOuDVHGXNnbNo
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399-Stories of Americans who moved to Russia
398-Soviet era spy series, 17 Moments of Spring
If you have ever seen the most popular Soviet era spy series, 17 Moments of Spring, you’ll know the basic story of Russian spies working under deep cover in the Nazi intelligence services. This documentary talks about the head of the Soviet Foreign Intellligence, Pavel Fitin.
Lots of fascinating information. I can’t think of Western documentaries that are as penetrating as Soviet ones.
https://odysee.com/@IrinaBoyko:6/pavel-fitin-vs.-walter-schellenberg.:6
Thanks Irina for your contribution to our knowledge!
Eric
Thank you Eric!
Irina
397-Rebecca died for the Nazis. A female name has been added to US losses in Ukraine
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396-UkroTV
395-Sanctions in the morning, applause in the evening: European leaders gave a standing ovation to the masterpiece of Russian classics
Do you know at least one operatic example of the “great” Ukrainian culture? Not? So why? Does Ukrainian culture really exist or was it invented?
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394-Russia returned its billions? NATO admitted that the West lost $ 200 billion of frozen assets
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393-Heavenly sluggish, war comedy, 1945
https://odysee.com/@IrinaBoyko:6/Heavenly-sluggish1:5
392-True story. Tehran 43, documentary, part 1 subtitled
https://odysee.com/@IrinaBoyko:6/true-story.-tehran-43,-documentary,-part:9
391-New slavery. The progress of the “dark” must be derailed. Andrey Fursov
https://dzen.ru/a/Yyx3i62GAFvhSrIs
Russia returned its billions? NATO admitted that the West lost $ 200 billion of frozen assets
390-There is nothing to fight. Ukraine ran out of weapons
https://dzen.ru/a/Y4dgxBkAx0XwEI46
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389-Winter will bring HIMARS to its knees: how General Frost will destroy NATO weapons in Ukraine
https://dzen.ru/a/Y37tr8YT93qW_Hkv
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Today is -14C in Moscow
388-The horror of “Katyn” was made by the Germans, not the Russians: Why did Stalin deprive his prosecutors of awards at the Nuremberg trials
https://dzen.ru/a/Y4S__-tdDiXm9tq0
387-Operation Anadyr. The Caribbean Missile Crisis, English subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8VRfXMddYU
386-Americans joined the Donetsk militia
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t5uVrLR7NM&t
385-Grenade stuck under the heart: risking their lives, doctors pulled an unexploded shell from the chest of a Russian soldier
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384-Foreigners who moved to Russia told what they like in their new homeland: “Where the French begin to panic, the Russian reacts calmly”
https://www.gazeta.ru/social/2021/09/12/13977212.shtml?ysclid=la8006uf19399368564
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383-From life “There are a lot of things here that are much better.” An American who moved to Russia was glad for the absence of fat people and respect for family values
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382-Mass escape: Americans are asking for Russia
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381-They do not know how to give up, so they will go to the end: the Russian special operation is taken out on their shoulders by forty-year-old “Kuzmichs”
https://dzen.ru/a/Y2QgQkWyfT5Cr8B6
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380-Letter from Kiev to all Russians
https://dzen.ru/a/Y0hXCzaMtmNw4CbG?&
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379-Terrible CIA sabotage in the taiga: how the United States blew up the Russian gas pipeline
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27452/4656455/
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378-Americans With Dual Citizenship Should Leave Russia ‘Immediately’ — Could Be Drafted, Embassy Warns
That’s funny.
First of all, only those who have called up by conscription or served a military contract service in the Russian army earlier are subject to mobilization. Are there really such Americans with dual citizenship who were previously called up for military service in Russia? Nonsense
This nonsense is spread by those who do not know how the mobilization service works in Russia. They are trying to fit some fragmentary information about this to their American realities. In Russia, everything works completely differently.
Irina
377-‘I’m trampling on Rusnya (humiliating Russians)’
?The head of NATO’s Center for Strategic Communications came to the meeting wearing socks that said: ‘I’m trampling on Rusnya (humiliating “Russians”)’. Verbatim. How is this in general? How is this different from ‘Beat the Jews’, for example? No difference. How is this possible? Imagine for a second that he would say: ‘I hang blacks’. What would happen to this person now? He would lose not only all the regalia, any prospects for the rest of his life, he would definitely go to jail. For a long time. And those people who appointed him and who worked with him and did not notice his fascist inclinations – they would also suffer. And nothing will happen to him for the Russians: the Ukrainian audience applauds, they are in a frenzy of joy.
376-Recruitment of Ukrainian nationalists by British intelligence in 1946 in Germany
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To understand what is happening now in Armenia, from which there were many among collaborators and traitors in WWII.
Irina
375-Russia and China are ready to provide stability to the world: the results of Vladimir Putin’s speech and meetings at the SCO summit
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27446.5/4649098/
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374-Gorbachev: instead of an obituary
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373-“Beggars orcs without toilets and lights.” Why did Ukraine believe in the myth about Russia?
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372-Russia has found a simple and economical solution to launch satellites
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371-Fighting in Kharkov
Many people managed to be taken out of that part of the Kharkiv region, which is now completely controlled by Ukrainian nationalists and Western mercenaries. We receive information that those people who could not leave are subjected to repression or physical destruction. But most still managed to evacuate in time. Temporary accommodation centers are currently operating on the territory of the Belgorod region. Many settlements, I think, will soon be invaded by foreign mercenaries. I cannot name the exact number of evacuees.
Not everyone was able to register during the evacuation. Some of the people, we know for sure, left for the Lugansk People’s Republic. People were saved, they managed to escape.
We are working with the border services, the official figure that we know at the moment: we managed to save about 12-13 thousand. Someone even got out on foot, because the roads were shot through, but there is no connection with many.
You know, I’m used to looking at the situation quite optimistically, but based on what I experienced in the dungeons of the SBU, nothing good awaits people who fall into the hands of the Ukrainian Nazis. There is no need to create any illusions. Moreover, now we are receiving information that some black guys ????with machine guns drove through the streets and fired at everyone who was just walking on the street. Everything that is moving now in Kupinsk, in Dvurechny in Volchansk, everything is subject to destruction. Therefore, the forecasts are quite pessimistic for those people who stayed there.
Vitaly Ganchev, head of the military-civilian administration of the Kharkiv region, on the air Solovyov Live honestly about what is happening in the territory captured by the Ukrainian Nazis.
Irina
370-Scout Georgy Sannikov: We were steming the future chancellor of Germany in disguise
https://ria.ru/20190325/1552041649.html
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369-The logic of the special operation, the fate of grain and gas: Putin answered uncomfortable questions
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27441/4644180/?utm_campaign=zobov_07.09.2022_21_14_07&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Sendsay
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368-The IAEA did not understand who fired at the ZNPP
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27441/4643878/
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367-Russian occupiers
https://t.me/SolovievLive/123164 (use VPN)
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A friend of the scribe came across a unique album – a Soviet officer in 1946 photographed Germany in detail – Berlin, surroundings, other cities of Germany, accompanying the photo with extensive comments. And here is a remarkable episode. This is a photo of the Soviet general Nosovsky and his house in the vicinity of Berlin. The author of the album writes: “Before the arrival of Gen. Nosovsky, a certain butcher lived here and owned all this. He was legally evicted. At the end of the month, he presented the general, again in accordance with our laws, with an incredible bill of several thousand marks, which provided for the use of everything, including flowers, an arbor, and a view of the lake. Now that’s entrepreneurial! The general had to pay the capitalist shark, so as not to be like the allies … ”
How many American or British occupying generals have you seen carefully compensating occupied butchers for the use of flowers and lake views?
To the question of morality and behavior of the “Russian occupiers”.
Irina
366-Four out of five politicians responsible for the collapse of the USSR died after the start of the Russian NWO
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365-American propaganda network directed against Russia
[In reply to Alexey Rogozin ✈️??️]American scientists unexpectedly uncovered an American propaganda network directed against Russia. As you know, many social networks are trying to track and remove fake accounts. In this they are assisted by some specialized companies, and recently, it seems, some of them have been too quick and accidentally exposed the American propaganda network directed against Russia, China and Iran. The Cyber Policy Center (Internet Observatory) of Stanford University and Graphika (https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/sio-aug-22-takedowns), a social media analytics firm, detailed the group’s working methods, which promoted pro-Western narratives on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, VK, and Odnoklassniki, with a focus on influencing Russian-speaking people in Central Asia. The main ideas that were promoted in social networks to the Russian-speaking audience:
? “The United States is the main guarantor of the sovereignty of Central Asia against Russia”, which is trying to bypass sanctions with their help.
? “The CSTO is a dangerous tool that Russia can use to drag the countries of Central Asia into a war against Ukraine”
? “All Central Asian countries should reconsider their relationship with Russia in light of its illegal invasion of Ukraine,” which, among other things, could bring world hunger.
? “Russia is waging ‘imperialist wars’ in Ukraine, the Middle East and Africa” (at the same time, if attention has recently been focused on Ukraine, it was previously paid to the actions of Moscow and Wagner PMCs in Africa and Syria). ? The influence group has also been active in sharing content on the US success against the Islamic State and al-Qaeda in the Middle East, especially in Syria.
? Also, many messages were dedicated to China and mainly concerned the genocide of Uighurs and Muslim minorities in the “re-education” camps in Xinjiang and the humiliation of the rights of Chinese women. Twitter said the activity it noticed was likely originating in the US and UK. At the same time, Meta (Facebook) stated that the sources of information are in the United States. Propaganda accounts used memes, fake news sites, online petitions, and various hashtags in an attempt to promote pro-Western views. Fake accounts with photos generated by artificial intelligence became especially active after the start of the military operation in Ukraine. American fake accounts, according to researchers from Stanford, used translations from the websites of the US Embassies and the resources of Meduza and the BBC Russian Service as news sources. Stanford, keep digging. You will learn a lot of interesting things.
? Full text of the Stanford University study (https://t.me/rogozin_alexey/727)
? Examples of disinformation messages (https://t.me/rogozin_alexey/732) from an American influence group
Irina
364-Soldiers of the Bashkir battalion
Russian soldiers of the Bashkir battalion 220828
The Russian army switched to the formation of battalions for the SVO on a national basis. This renders the radio interceptions by Ukrainian intelligence and NATO intelligence useless, so radio communications are conducted in national languages,and NATO simply does not have translators from the languages of the small peoples of Russia.
Irina
363-British actor Ian McKellen gets pranked to lead a Nazi gay parade in Ukraine
British actor Ian McKellen, aka Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings, had a video conversation with “Zelensky” – or rather with pranksters Vovan and Lexus. Openly gay McKellen promised to come to Ukraine for the Bandera LGBT Festival.
– And I also want to hold a gay festival named after Bandera in Kyiv.
– Can I please, I’ll come to it!
– Of course! Of course! You will lead it! You will lead this festival. We will open it together with you, and I will kiss you at the beginning of the opening ceremony to show that I am close to gays too.
– Thanks a lot! What a contrast with Moscow, where gay parades have been banned for a hundred years.
Indeed, what a contrast with Moscow…
Irina
362-Air defences in Crimea
All I can do is once again attach a short video about how Ukrainian UAVs are shot down in Evpatoria. Yes, they are already being shot down there.
And the second video is the work of Russian air defense in Sevastopol on UAVs
Irina
You can find them on telegram channels https://t.me/SolovievLive and https://t.me/readovkanews
Air defense systems worked out in Kazachka and in the area of Cape Khersones. This was announced by the governor of Sevastopol.
Irina
https://t.me/readovkanews
Map of hostilities and the situation on the fronts in the evening of August 20
Today, the Russian air defense system is operating uninterruptedly in the skies over Crimea. Local residents from Evpatoria, Bakhchisarai, Sevastopol and the village of Olenevka report (https://t.me/readovkanews/40488) about the operation of air defense systems and gaps. The main blow was struck (https://t.me/readovkanews/40484) at the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol – there were no casualties. They tried to shoot down the drone (https://t.me/readovkanews/40485) with small arms, but in the end it fell on the roof of the headquarters and caught fire (https://t.me/readovkanews/40486). Also in the evening, there were reports of new attempts to strike (https://t.me/readovkanews/40517) with drones in Yalta and Sevastopol, but to no avail. As Sergei Aksyonov noted, an air defense system that worked in the Western Crimea during the day (https://t.me/readovkanews/40489) shot down the target. There were no casualties or damage. In Bakhchisarai, the air defense system worked in the air – there were no explosions on the ground. ⚔️
The situation on the fronts for the past day: ▫️More than 100 militants, including up to 20 American mercenaries, were destroyed in the Kharkov direction near Andreevka (https://t.me/readovkanews/40487).
▫️Clashes continue in the Slavic direction on the eastern outskirts of Soledar, it is reported about the advancement of the fighters of the 6th Cossack regiment of the NM LPR, but specific details are unknown.
▫️Fighting continues in the area of Yakovlevka and Kodema in the Artemovsky (Bakhmut) direction.
▫️In the Pervomaisky direction in Pesky, our guys from the 1st Slavic Omsbran (https://t.me/voenkorKotenok/39472) leveled the line for a couple of hundred meters, aligning it with the ring road.
▫️In the Maryinsky direction, tank battles are reported in the Ugledar area. It was possible to push the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the outskirts of the villages of Yegorovka – Novomayorskoye-Novodonetskoye.
▫️In the southern direction in the Apostolovo area of the Dnipropetrovsk region, the total irretrievable losses of the enemy amounted to (https://t.me/readovkanews/40487) more than 200 people. Arrivals. The Ukrainian military is again shelling the Zaporizhzhya NPP – the Armed Forces of Ukraine used (https://t.me/readovkanews/40514) Western long-range weapons to strike at the territory of the nuclear facility. The Donetsk agglomeration was also shelled again. Arrivals were also recorded in Kherson Chernobaevka. Assassination attempt.
An attempt was made in Mariupol (https://t.me/boris_rozhin/60953) on the life of the mayor of the city Konstantin Ivashchenko. An explosive device was planted at the entrance to the Mariupol Zoo and went off at the moment the official arrived. Konstantin Ivashchenko was not injured. Rocket strikes were inflicted by our Aerospace Forces on military-strategic facilities and command posts in Mykolaiv, Zaporozhye, Donetsk and Kharkiv regions. In the morning, a missile strike was launched (https://t.me/RVvoenkor/23526) in the area of the village of Voznesensk, Mykolaiv region. The target has not yet been specified.
In the world.
The journalists of the American publication asked Ukrainian officers about the possibility of the Kherson offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but the military confirmed (https://t.me/readovkanews/40504) that the Ukrainian army has no advantage both in equipment and in personnel on this sector of the front. Even attacks on the logistics channels of the Russian army do not lead to the fact that the RF Armed Forces are losing their positions.
Irina
361-Terrorist attack in Moscow 220820
An extraordinary event took place in the Moscow suburbs. A terrorist act took place, as a result of which a 30-year-old girl, the daughter of political scientist, philosopher, adviser to Vladimir Putin Alexander Dugin, Daria, died.
‘British intelligence services may be involved in the murder of Daria Dugina’ said a retired colonel of the SVR Andrey Bezrukov on SolovyovLIVE.
In 2010, the names of Soviet and Russian illegal intelligence officers Andrey Bezrukov and his wife Elena Vavilova became known throughout the world in connection with the exchange of a group of Russian intelligence officers and a group of American intelligence officers, which included the well-known traitor Skripal.
They was a patriotic song festival near Moscow, which was attended by Alexander Dugin himself, and many other patriotic famous singers, political scientists, statesmen in support of Donbass. It is obvious that an error has occurred. Rather, Alexander Dugin’s car was mined. But Alexander exchanged cars with his daughter. And literally 10 minutes after her departure, a mine laid under the driver’s seat, on which Daria was, exploded. This happened in front of her father, Alexander Dugin, who followed the wheel of her car. Alexander himself is now in the hospital, but the girl is gone.
And today, on the Solovyov Life channel and other channels, it was reported that a series of terrorist attacks by the SBU on the territory of Moscow and the Moscow region were prevented
Irina
360-Seagal: “Zelensky was implicated in crimes against humanity”
https://readovka.news/news/107584
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359-“KP” publishes a document “classified secret” from the case of Viktor Bout
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358-Stumbling Island: 5 Reasons Why Taiwan Is So Important to China and the US
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357-Ukraine lost 360 people in one attack, they fled so that they lost 6 tanks and 4 armored personnel carriers.
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356-Raising hate. How mass Russophobia was nurtured in Norway
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355-Executions of retreating soldiers, missile attack on prisoners: it is revealed how Ukraine destroys its own military
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27425.5/4624788/
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354-What the United States tried to hide by destroying the barracks with the prisoners who surrendered at Azovstal in the village of Yelenovka
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
56 or more Azov prisoners have been killed. 140 or more are wounded and now surely have no loyalty to Zelensky. The operation will make more talkers not less. As for future prisoners fearing the regime strikes, Russia will hold them further out of range. Their testimony is important.
It is said that HIMARS are inferior on the battlefield to Grads, Hurricanes, and Smerches. They are designed for different (diametrically opposite) purposes.
The damage area of a Smerch volley is 672,000 m2.
The damage area of a HIMARS salvo is 25,000 m2.
That’s with 12 missiles from either system. 26.5 times more effective in the area of impact. The HIMARS is designed like the Tochka-U or Iskander MLRS, and are used for high-precision strikes. I heard that the last time they successfully hit the Kherson bridge, there were 36 various missiles launched. And some of the HIMARS got through.
They are not effective as a striking force against a military offensive operation! But they are much better suited to destroy a headquarters, a warehouse, or an important strategic facility. The difference is that “Iskander” MLRS, not only destroys a headquarters, a warehouse, an important object, but also overcomes all kinds of anti-missile / anti-aircraft / anti-aircraft defense.
What is really worth buying are the KMZDK (Mass Launch Drone-Kamikaze Units) from Iran, and as we know this is already a fait accompli!
RC
353-Odessa brigade of Ukrainian volunteers formed in Kherson
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27422.5/4621932/
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
If the Odessa brigade gets some successes, and gains notoriety, this might open the willingness to act, of other Ukrainian people that are now too threatened to speak up individually. On the battlefield, Ukrainian soldiers might have the alternative to switch sides, and fight for this brigade. Whereas now the only alternative is to surrender into Russian captivity. Just a thought.
RC
352-FSB: Ukrainian intelligence considered the possibility of hijacking a Su-24, Su-34 or Tu-22M3
https://ria.ru/20220725/ukraina-1804702096.html
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351-The system is hacked: Leonkov explained why the US will no longer supply Ukraine with HIMARS MLRS
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350-Ukraine begins to die: why the inhabitants of Zaporozhye, tired of violence and betrayal, welcome Russia with joy
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349-What is happening near Soledar: Ukrainian troops still resist, but we upset them
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348-Letters from inner Ukraine: Kyiv is tired of waiting for victory over Russia
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347-Nuclear armageddon: Why did Ukraine almost give Europe a “second Chernobyl”
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346-Letters from inner Ukraine: Kiev is tired of waiting for victory over Russia
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I’m afraid that few people will understand this. But that’s the whole point.
Irina
345-The authorities of the Zaporozhye region urged Zelensky to withdraw troops from the region
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344-John escaped, Wojciech eliminated: the Ministry of Defense counted the mercenaries in Ukraine
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I partially translated the information from the tables in this article,
Number of foreign mercenaries killed during the NWO as of 06/17/22
Poland – 544
Romania – 123
UK – 124
Croatia – 84
France – 73
Bosnia and Herzegovina – 53
Estonia – 56
Kosovo – 69
Albania – 51
Lithuania – 60
Portugal – 20
Germany – 37
North Macedonia – 24
Finland – 20
Ireland – 26
Italy – 21
Switzerland – 17
Netherlands – 13
Sweden – 5
Czech – 15
Spain – 6
Latvia – 8
Norway – 6
Belgium – 3
Denmark – 2
Austria – 2
Greece – 1
Montenegro – 1
Nigeria – 38
South Africa – 10
Senegal – 4
Guinea – 4
Equatorial Guinea – 1
Gabon – 2
Liberia – 2
Canada – 177
USA – 220
Colombia – 14
Bolivia – 15
Brazil – 19
Australia – 2
Georgia – 170
Syria – 94
Turkey – 21
Israel – 10
Republic of Korea – 4
Azerbaijan – 1
Irina
China Writers’ Group comments…
From the Russian point of view, there is not even an indignation, but a calm contempt for those who want to hunt Russians. Did they come for a Russian safari? Did they want to play shooting games? You should not come to fight with us, it ends badly. Come to us with peaceful thoughts, and we are always glad to see you
Irina
Irina,
These charts appeared last month too, also in English. You wonder how they know all these things. Probably data leaks in the registry office. You may remember they were publishing long lists, of the name, address and birthday, of every Ukrainian KIA, unit by unit for each BTG. (They intercepted the data.)
I really wonder why foreign mercenaries are an issue, or even newsworthy? I pay no mind.
Sure foreign people confuse different concepts of adventure, and mix it with war. They did it before in a certain way. Now they will get a new concept of war, and many might go home. Others will melt into the dust, maybe only the vultures and the ants will care about their corpse. They’re just gong to be more protoplasm in the bottom of a trench.
Are they supposed to be like HIMARS or something, that they are going to teach the Ukrainians how to win wars. The Ukrainians could probably teach them a thing or two. How to die for instance. It is glory, you know.
They used to call it a “nothing burger”. (Where’s the beef?)
I am interested only in something that could make a difference.
(Thanks for your help though)
RC
RC,
By themselves, mercenaries, of course, are not interesting. Nobody cares about their names. And after all, only among them are the Brazilian fashion model, and the Hungarian swindler, and outright criminals who are wanted, and, so to speak, military “retirees”, who are the majority. But they don’t end up in Ukraine just like that. They are recruited by Ukrainian embassies openly in every country. And the governments of these countries are silently watching this process. And here it is interesting, what does this mean? Silent covert intervention? Or is it a desire to get rid of their criminals in the hope that they will never return home?
Irina
Irina,
From what you say about embassy recruitment, you might conclude that these countries want to test Russia. They de facto send in battalions or companies trained in Western methods. If the mercenaries can make a difference, then maybe NATO will get brave and think that they can step in. If these mercenaries are squashed like a bug, then NATO will cool it.
RC
RC,
From NATO’s point of view, this is understandable. They are undeniably exploring their options. It is not in vain that they send not only their soldiers, but also weapons to Ukraine. But the Russians also study them in battle. There are already known cases of seizure and even purchase of weapons from Ukrainians, which are now being studied. So it’s 50/50 whether NATO will benefit from this practice. However, the inaction of governments, which legally bear their own responsibility for connivance, will be judged when it’s all over. Although it seems that international law no longer means anything. And from this, too, we have to draw conclusions.
Irina
343-Drone war – “We chop them up, and they bring new ones all the time! Do they have extra people?
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342-Who shelled Novaya Kakhovka – Ukrainian military or American
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
What is HIMARS? Have you taken a look at it.
It is a lightweight 6-wheel truck with six tubes on it. It is nimble, but it is designed for air superiority, (like all NATO equipment), with no defense nor armor. I see no targeting apparatus either. The targeting must come from the supposed air superiority.
The advanced technology must all be in the missiles. They can be guided and hit targets at longer ranges. So Russian supplies must now be moved farther back. They also kill civilians distant from the front line. That is part of war. It is up to you to decide what killing is acceptable. That decision must be used as a public justification to do what YOU WANT TO DO ANYWAY. Not what you are forced to do as a reaction to dead citizens.
How will some dozens of light weight trucks with tubes, and some pretty good missiles affect this war? It will be grave if you are one of the civilians that is killed. It won’t matter a bit if you are one of the many 1000’s of defending soldiers that are chopped up daily.
I think that they are intercepting some Himars missiles. They need more practice, because what about in a nuclear war? Longer range means the missiles are up in that air for a longer time. They need to figure out how to intercept most of them.
My belief is the American commanders of NATO are running the HIMARS. The soldiers drive them around where they are told, but the firing apparatus is likely controlled directly by satellite. America feeds in the target and America pulls the trigger. Then the Ukrainians drive to the next spot. It is America’s war against Russia using someone else’s hands. All the targets are America’s choice.
RC
Irina,
A million new recruits put together within weeks without military training and exercise openly set a date to fight a much stronger high tech army?
Zelensky is a war criminal against the Ukrainians serving the interest of the US, he will end up like the former Japanese warmonger PM Abe.
I often wonder why European politicians often behave with the same: stubbornness, never do the maths(?), know no consequences (?), care no consequences (?)
while their country is down, people are dying and suffering in mass, economy destroyed, their mouth is still lethal.
I suspect this has got to do with the low quality badly written bible , the me-only dictatorial Christianity culture: stubbornly classify any non believers as evil (Satan), cursing them to mass death with the imagine of a judgement day when the world is destroyed and the believers will simply enjoy eternal life.
Europe will fight each other against like the past thousands of years when they no longer able to benefits from bombing, bullying and looting the world as a collective, as the world will be richer and better armed than them united by a win win belt and road program by the end of this century.
At least, some belt and road countries like the land kicked backward Laos ?? already having a rail system far more modern than the rail system of the dying super power USA ??.
341-Kiev ‘s “millionth army” is being prepared for a counteroffensive in August. Can we beat him back?
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340-The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed the first apartment built in Mariupol after the start of the SMO
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338-Western democracy demands new victims
https://argumenti.ru/opinion/2022/07/779779?from=feed&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com
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337-Vladimir Putin: They want to defeat us on the battlefield. Let them try!
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10 main phrases of the president at a meeting with the Duma
After the end of the spring session of parliament, Vladimir Putin met with the heads of the Duma factions. The president, in the best traditions, flashed his eloquence. Here are his main phrases:
– We have many parties, but one homeland.
– Yes, they (the authors of Western sanctions – Ed.) create difficulties for us. But not the kind that the initiators of the economic blitzkrieg counted on.
– They tell us: we started a war. Not! It was unleashed by the collective West, supporting the coup in Ukraine.
– Today we hear that they want to defeat us on the battlefield , well, what can I say, let them try!
– The beginning of the special operation is the demolition of the world order in the American way. The beginning of a multipolar world.
– Today the West is degenerating into totalitarianism, censorship and the closure of the media.
– The war to the last Ukraine, which is being waged by the West , is a tragedy for the Ukrainian people. But that seems to be where it all comes from. But we haven’t really started anything yet.
– We did not refuse peace negotiations , but the further, the more difficult it will be to conduct them.
– The idea of integrating Russia into NATO seemed absurd to the members of the alliance. And why? Because they do not need such a Russia.
– The sanctions had a goal : to sow discord, but it did not work and will not work!
336-Letters from inner Ukraine: “I want to somehow help your troops!”
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335-Russia’s World War II Victory Parade in Red Square Moscow, with English subtitles
https://rumble.com/v1a0pqn-the-historical-victory-parade-in-moscow-of-june-24-1945-subtitled.html
Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Irina,
It also helped liberate China by wiping out one million Japanese Guandong Army. Without the Red Army’s help.who knew how long it would take for China to defeat the Japanese. My Japanese students still refuse to admit that Japan was defeated by China today. I had to tell them that China did not defeat Japan in1945. But as long as China continues to fight, it was only a matter of time that it would beat Japan. In1950, China even beat the US that beat Japan in1945.
DPH
DPH is right. Japan already showing sign of stress across China before the crusader testing their atomtic bombs on mankind in Japan cities.
Japan stress is due to Japan over expansion in China. This is like the US led coalition in Afghanistan, these world most barbaric imperialist nations were unable to control their occupied land beyond the cities.
Even in the cities, they are unable to suppressed snipers, bombed and run activities, and sudden strike on Japanese logistics supplies conveys moving in and out of the cities.
If not the Russians and the chinese holding up most of Nazis and Japanese armies and resources, the crusaders may be defeated by Germany and Japan.
If Afghanistan is the cemetery of imperialist nations, Russia and China are even so.
Thousands of years of Chinese history already demonstrated that, any invader, if too aggressive and occupied China for too long will eventuslly become a part of China. So, Japan is lucky to surrender so soon, otherwise, Japan will eventually become part of China as well.
WLC
334-How the Ukrainian Nazis secretly took over Ukraine during the time of the USSR
https://rutube.ru/video/24a0c722ede77d742b7f0416a3105b99/
In the new issue of the author’s program “BezogonTV” Nikita Mikhalkov offers to talk about why the world’s tolerant community turns a blind eye to the openly promoted Nazism in the media? Who and how is educating young people in Ukraine? What kind of “new world order” is the American president talking about? How do the processes of “systemic corrosion” and “natural self-purification” combine in Russian society? And what meaning does the concept of “Motherland” have for each of us now?
Eric
Eric,
I can tell you something from my own experience.
In the early 80s, I lived in Ivano-Frankovsk in the western part of the Ukrainian SSR and worked in the Regional Committee of the Komsomol (!). And even then I was amazed, to put it mildly, by the strange behavior and way of thinking of the leading Komsomol members and party leaders in this part of Ukraine. Komsomol members were proud that the building of drama theater of Ivano-Frankovsk was a gathering place for OUN-UPA (Nazi) bandits. Do you understand? They were PROUD of this fact.
And at the same time, I was familiar with the leader of the Ivano-Frankivsk Komsomol, who headed the regional Komsomol committee in the 50s. She told me a lot about the fact that the Bandera people were hiding in the Carpathians until the end of the 50s and even the beginning of the 60s. And they continued to terrorize the population. But the Komsomol leaders were proud of them.
Irina
333-Marochko: AFU soldiers take documents and things from the bodies of the dead, by which they can be identified
https://ria.ru/20220622/ukraina-1797380892.html?from=feed&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com
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332-Five possible strikes on Lithuania as a response to the blockade of Kaliningrad-Is Russia being dragged into a war with NATO?
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331-We made it up to them. It became known how Russia responded to the strike on drilling rigs in the Black Sea
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27408/4606056/
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330-The mystical death of three “gravediggers of the USSR” at once – a grin of history or a sign of imminent change
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329-The FSB published documents on the participation of Latvians – Nazi accomplices in the murders of Jews-The pre-publication text notes that one of the countries actively resurrecting Nazism over the past three decades is Latvia.
https://tass.ru/obschestvo/14969617?from=feed&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com
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328-Debolonization of all Russia
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327-Combat drug addicts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
https://rusvesna.su/news/1655566545
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326-Russia may withdraw recognition of the independence of the Baltic republics and Ukraine
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325-A Child of war (translation of Russian clip)
Child of war Savely Smagar, 8 years old. Born in 2014, a resident of the village of the Abakumov mine. He lives with his mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Savely’s father Sergey is fighting. Savely’s uncle was killed at war in April 2022 near Yasinovataya. During the shelling, Savely sits in the corridor. In the corridor he eats, sleeps and learns lessons. Eight corridor years.
– I have a dream to be like Ronaldo. And to get like he seven golden cups. When they let me go outside, I train. But now we practically do not go out. And I sleep here with my grandmother for safety. Because when they shoot hard, we will not have time to run out into the corridor
– Are you scared when they shoot?
– If it whistles, yes
– And why if it whistles?
– This is when a grenade flies nearby
– If it’s a loud whistle, it means something big. If it’s very loud, it means airplanes. If so (whistles), then an ordinary bomb. If I do not have time to escape into the corridor, I fall to the floor. Like this. But most of the time I succeed. When planes shoot and whistle very hard, these moments are scary for me. And now they are very common. Mom is an accountant, deputy chief. Dad guards the mine
– And where is dad now?
– He is at war
– Does he call you?
– He does not call me, but my mom
– Is he fine?
– He always says that, but we don’t think it’s really true. How can it be good there?
Irina
324-The boomerang effect cannot be undone
https://thegrayzone.com/2022/05/31/us-trained-extremists-fighting-russia-blowback/
323-Composition of an international crime-Kyiv is trying to avoid responsibility for turning the Black Sea into a chronically dangerous area for navigation
https://www.fondsk.ru/news/2022/06/11/sostav-mezhdunarodnogo-prestuplenia-56414.html
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322-World scoundrelness-Scoundrels can’t give any guarantees
https://www.fondsk.ru/news/2022/06/02/mirovoe-negodjajstvo-56334.html
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321-The one to whom Ukraine owes its UN membership is remembered in Kyiv with gnashing of teeth-The Ukrainian SSR was launched into the international orbit by the leadership of the Soviet Union
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320-Why are the Hawaiian infantry made “Arctic angels”?
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319-The dismemberment of Russia as the embodiment of the Houston project. The experience of independent Ukraine is the experience of the downward evolution of a quasi-state carved out of the territory of Historical Russia
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318-Execution for war crimes: Ukrainian foreign mercenaries sentenced to death-They have a month to appeal the verdict, and then the lawyers can still apply for a pardon.
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317-Ukrainian military: “Our enemy is not Russia, but Zelensky!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnTvNSKAvZU&t=60s
Ukrainian military: “Our enemy is not Russia, but Zelensky!”
Soldiers and officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who were captured sent a video message to their “commander in chief”
Igor Yakunin
A frame from a video message from Ukrainian prisoners of war to President Zelensky.
Immediately, dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war recorded a video message to Vladimir Zelensky (see our website KP.RU ). A one-minute video in which each of the recaptured Ukrainian soldiers says only one phrase. But the words add up to an accusation against the President of Ukraine.
This, of course, must be seen – young and old, well-fed and exhausted, with bruises and with the faces of rested models. Various. But to the camera they say in unison:
– Volodymyr Zelensky. People are turning to you. Soldiers and officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Who you left to die Like cannon fodder. You tricked us into fighting. Fight against your own people. You filled our homeland with corpses. You bombed schools and churches. You took a peaceful life from the Ukrainians. You left us without food. Without clothing. No connection.
Zelensky appears in the frame for a moment and asks:
– Who am I?
The prisoners answer him:
You are a murderer and a rapist. Marauder. Murderer. And a fascist.
The only girl among the male choir says:
– You have no forgiveness. You have ruined our country.
Others echo her:
– You will answer for it. Russia is not our enemy. Our enemy is you!
The good actor Volodymyr Zelensky, who, by the will of fate and the oligarchs, became the leader of Ukraine, had a great chance in life to play the film role he had already played – the president. It was enough for him to give Ukraine a neutral status and implement the Minsk agreements. And guaranteed to avoid war. Yes, by doing so he would have doomed himself to the curse of the nationalists. And he could have lost his chair if he couldn’t handle them.
But he would have saved the country, including even the autonomous Donbass in its composition. And most importantly – thousands of lives.
But Zelensky was more expensive chair.
As a result, he reached the pinnacle of his acting career – he is a superstar, opens festivals in Cannes and makes speeches in a khaki T-shirt in front of the European Parliament.
But Ukraine is on fire, millions of refugees, thousands of soldiers are dying and being taken prisoner. At the same time, the neutral status of the country (if it remains) will still have to be accepted – this is already recognized even by Kyiv’s allies. And Donbass will never be part of Ukraine. Like, very similar, and a few more regions.
Is it worth all the chairs and applause of Cannes?
No, this is worth the curses of their own soldiers, their own people.
Ukrainian military: “Our enemy is not Russia, but Zelensky!”
Read on WWW.KP.RU: https://www.kp.ru/daily/27401/4598603/
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Irina
316-Ukrainians, retreating, burn wheat
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27402/4598665/
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315-Two-loop system of monetary circulation in the Stalinist model of the economy
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Banks, like the entire economy, need to be under the ownership and control of the public..private banking is vital to the fanatic religion of capitalist marketing…democracy in a national sense has never existed for a microsecond but a global form is at last possible due to communication improvement which, under public control, will make it so…meanwhile, we all need to understand that “my” bank is a total contradiction in material and philosophic terms…”our” bank is vital to global revolution.
FS
314-Russia imposed retaliatory sanctions. It’ll be a knockout right from the first pack
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313-Captured according to instructions. Their commanders have already begun to agree on the surrender of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
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312-Ukraine is a black market in transplantation-The West is rearing up because it is afraid of publicity
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311-What do the tattoos of the Nazis with “Azovstal” mean: Bandera, Hitler, the devil
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310-Why denazification?
https://vnnews.ru/pochemu-denacifikaciya/#close
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Irina,
Very interesting. Indeed, as I watched the sequence of events unfolding with the Bush family takeover in 2000 in the USA, it looked to me like a full Nazification was occurring in the US. It’s now manifesting as ‘Cancel Culture’.
And since I anticipated this, I got out. Even now, Americans don’t even realize that they are living in an Information Ghetto, thinking things like American Exceptionalism, or the rest of the World supports them, not Russia and China.
And they don’t understand the implications of the final sentence, that as the US/Euro White Supremacist/World Colonial project implodes, the will be the next dish to be eaten. It’s already happening.
But intelligent people saw this coming even in the 1980’s. In the movie, My Dinner with Andre, Andre says that New York is the new concentration camp where the inmates construct the prison and are both guards and prisoners.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8v_XqFO8Bc
Eric
Eric,
Excellent movie.
Irina
309-How fugitive Russian corrupt officials spend fortunes in the States
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27398/4594905/
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308-Today Russia has officially abandoned the Bologna Process. We return back to the Russian traditional scientific school
Irina
Irina,
I found this,
https://russtrat.ru/en/comments_/19-may-2022-0108-10391
Jeff
307-Zelensky “nationalizes” the Polish army to send it to fight under the flag of Ukraine
306-“War is not always a scourge, sometimes salvation” – what was Dostoevsky talking about? Why did Russia’s military victory turn into a defeat?
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305-Anthem of the USSR playing in the newly liberated Azovstal steel plant in Marioupol, Donbass. The flag is known as the Victory Flag in Russian and shows the seal of the USSR.
Another blow against Western empire.
Jeff, with thanks to Irina for explaining music and flag.
304-The leaders of the Azov Battalion who surrendered in Mariupol are facing the death penalty
https://vk.com/wall-163061027_2260575
The leaders of the Azov Battalion who surrendered in Mariupol are facing the death penalty. At least if they are tried according to the laws of the DPR
The laws of the DPR do not ratify the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which provides for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty. This means that if the trial takes place on the territory of the DPR and LPR, and the crimes of the Azov militants are confirmed, they will be shot.
This is also confirmed by the statements of a number of Russian figures, including Senator Andrei Klishas, who noted that all neo-Nazis from Azov should be tried for crimes committed in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. The militants committed crimes on the territory of the DPR, which is why they must be tried in accordance with the laws of the Republic, said State Duma deputy Artyom Turov. The State Duma also announced the need to judge the Azovites – today a draft resolution prohibiting the exchange of “Nazi criminals” will be considered.
303-“Girded with barbed wire”: the wild atrocities of the Finns in World War II are revealed-Killed every third Red Army soldier who was captured by them
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302-Former Ukrainian deputy Kiva accused Zelensky of exporting state grain reserves to Poland
https://www.kp.ru/online/news/4743552/
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301-Pyotr Tolstoy: withdraw from the WHO and the WTO, abandon the Bologna system and total digitalization
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300-Not less than 300 militants from Azovstal are being transported by buses.
About 300 militants left Azovstal Approximately 50 of them are wounded. They are being taken to the Central District Hospital of Novoazovsk, where they will receive the necessary medical care. The rest were taken away by buses towards Yelenovka, according to rt.com correspondent Maksim Touri.
Irina
Irina,
I sure hope they can ID the Nazis, to try them in the upcoming Moscow War Crime Trials.
Jeff
Jeff,
The fighters of Azov are being taken to hospitals not just by civilian buses. These are buses for transporting prisoners of the Federal Penitentiary Service. And they will be treated not in civilian hospitals, but in closed hospitals of the Federal Penitentiary Service. Investigators have already started interrogating the prisoners
Irina
299-Will Russia have enough “Caliber” for a special operation in Ukraine?
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298-The Nazis did not apologize, they were not afraid, but they could not look us in the eye. The enemy at Azovstal began to surrender
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297-The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation publishes footage of the surrender of militants from Azovstal
https://zen.yandex.ru/video/watch/62836daff6317e1878e825a9
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296-Ukraine records fallen soldiers as “dead from coronavirus”
https://zen.yandex.ru/video/watch/628332579ef63f4d330dce0b
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Ukraine records fallen soldiers as “dead from coronavirus” “Show them Zelensky, let him add to his motivational speech about the “liberation of the Kharkiv region” as an illustration. These are the corpses of Ukrainian soldiers who are buried by the Russian military. The Ukrainian side now records all the dead as “coronavirus deaths,” but does not take the bodies.” – informs TC “Kharkov Z”
Irina
295-“Diarrheal March”: How a column of Nazi prisoners was held in Moscow in July 1944
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294-Update on Victory Day, and a message from a friend in Russia (with Ukraine relatives)
Friends,
I have a friend who lives in Volgograd, formerly known as Stalingrad. I had intended to visit in 2020, but Covid has prevented a visit to Russia. However, I struck up a friendship with a guy, who is an engineer there. Of his two parents, one is Ukrainian, one is Russian. So he has family in Kiev. And he is able to reach them by phone.
Yesterday was Victory Day, not just in Russia but for all those who honor the defeat of Nazism in 1945. Unfortunately, Ukrainian Nazi collaborators who were responsible for Babi Yar and other atrocities escaped punishment and were in fact nurtured for decades by the US. Ultimately this led to the US led coup headed by Joe Biden and Victoria Nuland, who obviously are still in power. These Nazis, backed by the US, UK, Canada, Nato, with weapons, money and political support murdered 14,000 people who resisted this illegal takeover of their country between 2014 and 2022.
In the city of Mariupol alone, there was bloody repression of the mostly Russian speaking population. (To speak Russian as a language was criminalized by these extremists)
This brings us to the ramp up of military activity that threatened breakaway regions of Ukraine, in the Donbass region. After a huge increase in shellings of civilian areas, Russia finally put a stop to it, for which the West blames Russia–for defending these people after 8 years of war by Kiev, again, fully backed by the US/Nato (Most civilian buildings ruined in the past two months, according their own testimony, was the Azov extremists shelling their own Russian speaking citizens. Russia’s intention is to NOT intentionally harm civilians, since they are quite literally, often family members like my friend in Volgograd..
Well, now many cities have now ‘fallen under control’ of Russian forces. Which leads me to the following items:
First, a message my friend in Volgograd sent me. Here it is: [brackets are mine]
Sergey In Volgograd, 5/10/2022
Hello dear Eric. Yes I know. It’s not possible to fake or design. People are indeed happy there [Ukraine] because of this indeed great day. Yesterday I called all my relatives there [in Kiev]. They were happy to my call. We changed Best wishes. If only you know how much we dream when this nightmare is over. I mean thoughtless activity with attraction Foreign Weapons and sending new troops from West of Ukraine for pointless death. Actually maybe this is huge secret… Our government [Russia] gave big order to prepare rebuilding programme for destroyed cities and villages. That means Russia will make this territory as it used to be or better. Volgograd plant of building materials made of gypsum and concrete is already accumulating huge amount of material at their storages. Several Volunteers camps were arranged. Number of participants are rising. What ever West media say about russian activity in Ukraine and city distructions… We will rebuild everything. West sent no one brick…. They send weapons only… To kill more and more…
Once territory is rebuild – no one refuge stay abroad. If territory is beautiful, good rebuilt and safe population come back immiadeately to their homes. I prey only for one thing that nobody interrupt it. Peace and development are much better than war and death.
Here is a link to the Victory Day parades, formerly forbidden by the Nazi controlled government:
You won’t see any Yellow and Blue flags or “I stand with [gangster] run Ukraine”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqy4bcaDJ8o
The Victory day (May 9) in the liberated territories of Novorussia
Whatever you’ve been told by the US media is opposite to the facts.
On a final note.
My friend is on medical leave for treatment in a hospital. Treatment is free and he’s receiving 100% sick leave pay.
While Biden and the US politicians (Republican and Democrat) send yet another $33 billion dollars in weapons while millions of their own people are starving and homeless, with medical bankruptcy a national epidemic of its own.
Eric
293-France confiscated the money collected for the children of Donbass
https://iz.ru/1334405/2022-05-14/vo-frantcii-konfiskovali-sobrannye-dlia-detei-donbassa-dengi
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Irina,
No surprise from a looting civilisation. Just do a research on France socalled “overseas territories” and you will find dozens of them including some more than 10000 km away from French.
Chua
Chua,
292-Accelerated acquisition of Russian citizenship
Deputy of the State Duma Alexander Khinshtein stated
Compatriots wishing to move to Russia will now be able to do so as quickly as possible. Alexander Gorovoy, First Deputy Minister of the Interior, informed me about this.
Starting next week, a round-the-clock center for receiving documents for participation in the state program for the voluntary resettlement of compatriots will begin operating at the Main Directorate for Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (GUVM). Here they will accept and process applications from people from the CIS, the Baltic states and neighboring countries, for whom Russia is their historical homeland.
It is important that applications can be sent not only by e-mail, but also by fax, since in a number of “friendly” countries access to Russian Internet resources, including the State Service portal, is blocked.
Applications will be reviewed within 15 days. With a positive decision, compatriots will be able to immediately enter the territory of Russia, to the region of their choice, after which they will be able to apply for citizenship in an expedited manner.
Police Colonel-General Gorov has already sent letters to the governors of the regions and the heads of the territorial bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs about the priority reception of such compatriots.
I think this decision is very correct, timely and fair. It is essentially about saving people who do not want to give up their origin and are exposed to real threats. The initiative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is a clear confirmation of the principle “we do not abandon our own”. Earlier, also at the initiative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the simplified procedure for participation (https://t.me/glavpolit/12432) in the Compatriots state program was extended to refugees from the DPR and LPR
Irina
291-South Ossetia to host referendum on joining Russia on July 17
The corresponding decree was signed by the President of the Republic Anatoly Bibilov. “Today the CEC unanimously supported the initiative to join South Ossetia to Russia. Documents submitted to the court. We are waiting for the decision of the court and very soon our big dream will come true!” he said.
Irina
290-It’s NATO for you: the State Duma did not rule out breaking the agreement on the Saimaa Canal with the Finns
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289-Harvard scientists help Russia weaken the US
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288-Victory Day – what is May 9 for us, a parade and a holiday with tears in our eyes …
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287-Ukraine gas supply
On May 11, Ukraine stops gas supplies to Europe through the Sohranivka station, located in the Luhansk region. The GTS Operator of Ukraine did not offer additional transit capacity for April through the gas distribution stations Sudzha and Sokhranivka, the auction was cancelled. Thus, Ukraine declares that Europe needs to seriously think about where it will get gas in the conditions when Nord Stream-2 is blocked for Europe until 2028, the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline does not pump gas to Germany through Poland, and Ukraine will begin to blackmail Europe by cutting off gas supplies through its pipelines.
The problem is not that unexpected, it was strange that Ukraine did not immediately take up this, in the conditions of military operations, continuing to ensure the pumping of gas to Europe. They could have raised the question long ago – if you won’t help us, you’ll lose your gas. Force majeure, gentlemen, we have a war, we cannot help you live in warmth and prosperity. War is war for everyone, Ukraine is Europe! Therefore, let’s share not only goodies, but also problems.
Irina
Irina,
It’s so ironic that it is now Ukraine that is, in effect, sanctioning Europe, even though Europe is supplying it with weapons against Russia. It saves the Russians the trouble of cutting off gas supply in countersanctions to the Europeans. It shows the sick psychological state of all of Europe. No wonder they don’t accept Russia, the only sane country in Europe.
Eric
Eric,
Europe, in its outburst of love for Ukraine, has moved into Lewis Carroll’s Looking Glass.
Irina
286-It happened: Russia prohibits the export of its raw materials and products to unfriendly countries
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Irina,
Russia is being kind. These countries have been saying for a long time that they don’t want to trade with Russia. So Russia is granting their wish. I hope Russia shuts off Finland’s electricity before Finland applies for Nato membership. Then it can experience just a taste of what it’s like to antagonize Russia.
Eric
285-“Hopeless. Fanatic” – the reality of the life of General Karbyshev in German captivity, and what did the Germans themselves write about this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdzTo4Dd_Qc
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284-“Azov” * demands food and medicine for the hostages
https://www.fondsk.ru/news/2022/05/05/azov-trebuet-za-zalozhnikov-produkty-i-lekarstva-56108.html
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283-Poland began to build defenses around Lviv: How Ukraine will eventually be divided
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282-And the Canadian general was still pulled out from Azovstal
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Hi, Irina,
Lots of information about a 3-star NATO general captured from Azovstal, already sent to Moscow, U.S. Army Lieutenant General Roger Cloutier. As well, that there are 20 French special service soldiers still trapped inside. These are both massively denied in the BLPM.
Anything about announcements that there will be war crime trials for those caught?
Any confirmation in the Russian media about all this?
Thanks,
Jeff
Jeff,
So this makes two generals that were captured and are sent to Moscow.
US Army Lt. General Roger Cloutier
Canadian Forces Lt. General Trevor Cadieu
Apparently, this Canadian bloke was in charge of the bioweapons programs.
Andrei discusses the capture of this Canadian General on You-Tube.
https://thesaker.is/war-realities-top-gun-romantics-mercenaries-the-reality-of-a-wall-socket/
Best regards,
Robert
CWG,
General Trevor Cadieu (Trevor John Cadieu), captured by Russian troops while trying to escape from the cellars of Azovstal, was the commander of the Canadian Ground Forces, APA reports citing Mailbd.
Seated in the catacombs under the Mariupol steel plant “Azovstal” nationalists staged a provocation, trying to hide the Canadian general’s attempt to escape. After the capture of a high-ranking foreign soldier by units of the RF Armed Forces, it became clear why so many efforts were made to save him.
A high-ranking mercenary tried to break out of the encirclement at Azovstal several times. It was for this that the West insisted on humanitarian corridors for the exit of civilians: among them, foreign specialists had to leave the catacombs.
According to media reports, the general’s name is Trevor Kadieu. Seven months ago, he was appointed to the post of commander of the Canadian Army, but before the inauguration, he was involved in a sex scandal. In the harassment that occurred back in 1994, he was accused by a former colleague. The general called the accusations false, but in April 2022 he retired from military service.
Chua
Dear Jeff,
We do not have any information regarding these two generals. But there is general information that an international tribunal is being prepared and they will be tried.
Irina
281-For the first time it does not hurt me that I am Russian
https://zen.yandex.ru/media/dodo/vpervye-mne-ne-bolno-chto-ia–russkaia-621e34dff3098d14641a3777?&
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Irina,
You should be proud of being a Russian. In China, they called Russians 战斗民族。Russians are tough people with fighting spirit cannot be defeated. The 1600s Poland and Slovenia invasion, the 1700s Sweden invasion, the 1800s France invasion, the 1900s German invasion, and now the combination of all crusaders, NATO, US, Japan etc.
Stay strong and the world will be liberated from the crusaders bombing, bullying, slavery, and looting.
Cheers, Chua
The thing is that over the past 30 years, many liberals have appeared among the Russian intelligentsia. Although most likely, they were always liberals – traitors. Many of the actors and singers who lived richly in recent years got scared and left Russia. The funny thing is that they were not afraid that Russia was showing its strength, but they were afraid for their property, which they managed to buy in Europe and the states. They were afraid that the West would take away their property and bank accounts. And they began to fawn even more before them, to fall on their knees before them, to be “ashamed” of being Russians. However, not all Russians who do not live in Russia for various reasons are ashamed of being Russian. As you can see from this article
Irina
280-Dead lions can be kicked by donkeys-Baltic schizophrenic phantasmagoria
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279-“Is it new for us to argue with Europe? Or is the Russian weaned from victories?”
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278-Maria Zakharova on FB, 32 minutes ago
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby is losing his nerve. He is rude, calls names, he’s being naughty. Some nonsense breccia about the President of Russia. Among other heresies, he stated that it was “hard for him to look at what Russian troops are doing in Ukraine.” Is it difficult for an American rear admiral to look at something ?! Kirby has a solid track record. 28 years in the Navy from 1986 to 2015, including serving as Chief Information Officer for the US Navy. That is, he was among those senior US officers, at whose disposal all the information of the Pentagon flowed, he was aware of literally everything. He knew about depleted uranium in Yugoslavia, he knew about the “Iraq dossier,” as they now call a significant amount of documents testifying to war crimes by US military personnel in Iraq. We learned about all this thanks to Wikileaks and its authors, who are being exterminated by Kirby’s colleagues, and John himself read these reports every day: about thousands and thousands of civilians who died in the villages of Iraq and Syria from the atrocities of the American contingent. Given the level of equipment of the US military, there is no doubt that he saw photographs, saw video materials. I wonder if it was not difficult for him to watch these inhuman spectacles? Here the matter is different. I see two reasons. First. His department was taken on illegal activities to develop biological weapons in Ukraine. This is where you get nervous. Given the international obligations of the United States. Second. All this against the backdrop of a political team leaving the White House. Everyone is running. According to the American media, an outflow of high-ranking officials has begun from the White House. The reason given by experts in the United States is decadent moods against the backdrop of a lack of trust in the Administration and Biden personally. And if control of Congress passes to the Republicans, it will not seem enough to anyone at all. And Kirby gets dragged into the public hearing first. No, Nuland first. Then Kirby. I have already written about the sudden desire to take a break from the deed that arose from the architect of anti-Russian sanctions, Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security Duleep Singh. And, as it turned out, many were tired there during the year. According to American media reports, Biden’s senior adviser on public relations S. Richmond is resigning, Biden’s senior climate adviser J. McCarthy, White House deputy director of communications P. Tabor, and Biden’s special representative for climate chief D. Feldman are also planning to leave. . John Kerry is thinking whether to leave this ship before the end of the year, as the same American media write. But I believe in him. At a moment like this, it’s just dishonorable to leave the climate and Biden. What is going on in the ranks of US Vice President K. Harris, and I don’t feel like writing. It’s just a mass exodus. The chiefs of staff, the press service will follow the example of dozens of key employees who have already left. So it’s hard for Kirby to look not at Ukrainian events, but at his own future.
277-Who will understand them, these Russian soldiers?
https://zen.yandex.ru/media/dodo/kto-ih-poimet-etih-russkih-soldat-6269b4ff4944762aa9148b5f?&
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276-THE TRUTH ABOUT ZOYA KOSMODEMYANSKAYA
An act of vandalism has been committed in the Western Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi. Nationalists smashed a monument to Hero of the Soviet Union Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
Around the feat of the young Komsomol member, who became the first woman – Hero of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War, gossip and speculation still curl.
“Secret” mission
Lies rarely arise from scratch, its breeding ground – all sorts of “secrets” and omissions of official interpretations of events. Some of the circumstances of Zoya’s feat were classified, and because of this, they were somewhat distorted from the very beginning. Until recently, the official versions did not even clearly define who she was, what exactly she did in Petrishchevo.
Zoya was called either a Moscow Komsomol member who went behind enemy lines to take revenge, or a reconnaissance partisan captured in Petrishchevo while performing a combat mission.
Not so long ago, I met Alexandra Potapovna Fedulina, a veteran of front-line intelligence, who knew Zoya well. The old spy said:
– Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was not a partisan. She was a Red Army soldier of the sabotage brigade, led by the legendary Artur Karlovich Sprogis. In June 1941, he formed a special military unit 9903 to carry out sabotage operations in the rear of enemy troops. It was based on volunteers from the Komsomol organizations in Moscow and the Moscow region, and the command staff was recruited from students of the Frunze Military Academy. During the battle near Moscow, 50 combat groups and detachments were trained in this military unit of the intelligence department of the Western Front. In total, in September 1941-February 1942, they committed 89 penetrations behind enemy lines, 3,500 German soldiers and officers were destroyed, 36 traitors were liquidated, 13 fuel tanks and 14 tanks were blown up. In October 1941, we studied in the same group with Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya at the reconnaissance school of the brigade. Then together they went behind enemy lines on special missions. In November 1941, I was wounded, and when I returned from the hospital, I learned the tragic news of Zoya’s martyrdom.
– Why, then, was the fact that Zoya was a fighter of the Active Army kept silent for a long time? I asked Fedulina.
– Because the documents that determined the field of activity, in particular, the Sprogis brigade, were classified.
Later, I happened to get acquainted with the not so long ago declassified order of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command N0428 of November 17, 1941, signed by Stalin. I quote: it is necessary “to deprive the German army of the opportunity to be located in villages and cities, drive the German invaders out of all settlements into the cold in the field, smoke them out of all premises and warm shelters and make them freeze in the open. Destroy and burn to the ground all settlements in the rear of the German troops at a distance of 40-60 km in depth from the front line and 20-30 km to the right and left of the roads. For destruction settlements within the specified radius of action to immediately drop aircraft, make extensive use of artillery and mortar fire, teams of reconnaissance, skiers and sabotage groups equipped with Molotov cocktails, grenades and explosive devices. With the forced withdrawal of our units … take the Soviet population with them and be sure to destroy all settlements without exception so that the enemy cannot use them.
This is the task performed in the Moscow region by the soldiers of the Sprogis brigade, including the Red Army soldier Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. Probably, after the war, the leaders of the country and the Armed Forces did not want to exaggerate the information that the fighters of the active army burned villages near Moscow, therefore the above-mentioned order of the Stavka and other documents of this kind were not declassified for a long time.
Of course, this order reveals a very painful and controversial page of the Moscow battle. But the truth of war is much more cruel than our present ideas about it. It is not known how the bloodiest battle of World War II would have ended if the fascists were given a full opportunity to rest in the heated village huts and feed themselves on collective farm grubs. In addition, many fighters of the Sprogis brigade tried to blow up and set fire only to those huts where the Nazis lodged and headquarters were located. It should also be emphasized that when there is a struggle not for life, but for death, at least two truths are manifested in the actions of people: one is philistine (to survive at any cost), the other is heroic (readiness for self-sacrifice for the sake of Victory). It is precisely the clash of these two truths both in 1941 and today that takes place around the feat of Zoya.
What happened in Petrishchevo
On the night of November 21-22, 1941, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya crossed the front line as part of a special sabotage and reconnaissance group of 10 people. Already in the occupied territory, the fighters in the depths of the forest ran into an enemy patrol. Someone died, someone, showing cowardice, turned back, and only three – the group commander Boris Krainov, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya and the Komsomol organizer of the intelligence school Vasily Klubkov continued to move along the previously determined route. On the night of November 27-28, they reached the village of Petrishchevo, where, in addition to other military facilities of the Nazis, they were to destroy a field station for radio and radio intelligence, carefully disguised as a stable.
The eldest, Boris Krainov, distributed the roles: Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya penetrates into the southern part of the village and destroys the houses where the Germans lodge with Molotov cocktails, Boris Krainov himself – into the central part, where the headquarters is located, and Vasily Klubkov – into the north. Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya successfully completed her combat mission – she destroyed two houses and an enemy car with bottles of “KS”. However, when returning back to the forest, when she was already far from the place of sabotage, she was noticed by the local headman Sviridov. He called the Nazis. And Zoya was arrested. Grateful invaders poured Sviridov a glass of vodka, as local residents told about this after the liberation of Petrishchevo. Zoya was tortured for a long time and brutally, but she did not give out any information either about the brigade or about where her comrades should be waiting.
However, soon the Nazis captured Vasily Klubkov. He showed cowardice and told everything he knew. Boris Krainov miraculously managed to escape into the forest.
Traitors
Subsequently, Klubkov was recruited by fascist intelligence officers and sent back to the Sprogis brigade with a “legend” about escaping from captivity. But he was quickly exposed. During the interrogation, Klubkov spoke about the feat of Zoya.
From the protocol of interrogation of March 11-12, 1942:
“- Specify the circumstances under which you were taken prisoner?
– Approaching the house I had identified, I broke a bottle of “KS” and threw it away, but it did not catch fire. At this time, I saw two German sentries not far from me and, showing cowardice, ran into the forest, located 300 meters from the village. As soon as I ran into the forest, two German soldiers fell on me, took away my revolver with cartridges, bags with five bottles of “KS” and a bag with provisions, among which there was also a liter of vodka.
– What testimony did you give to an officer of the German army?
– As soon as they handed me over to the officer, I showed cowardice and said that there were only three of us, naming the names of Krainov and Kosmodemyanskaya. The officer gave some order in German to the German soldiers, they quickly left the house and a few minutes later brought Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. Whether they detained Krainov, I don’t know.
– Were you present at the interrogation of Kosmodemyanskaya?
– Yes, I was present. The officer asked her how she set fire to the village. She replied that she did not set fire to the village. After that, the officer began to beat Zoya and demanded evidence, but she categorically refused to give any. In her presence, I showed the officer that this was really Kosmodemyanskaya Zoya, who arrived with me in the village to carry out acts of sabotage, and that she set fire to the southern outskirts of the village.
Kosmodemyanskaya did not answer the officer’s questions after that either. Seeing that Zoya was silent, several officers stripped her naked and beat her severely with rubber sticks for 2-3 hours, trying to get her to testify.
Kosmodemyanskaya told the officers: “Kill me, I won’t tell you anything.” Then they took her away, and I never saw her again.”
From the protocol of the interrogation of A.V. Smirnova dated May 12, 1942:
“The next day after the fire, I was at my burnt house, a citizen Solina came up to me and said: “Come on, I’ll show you who burned you.”
After these words spoken by her, we went together to the Kuliks’ house, where we moved the headquarters. Entering the house, they saw Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, who was guarded by German soldiers. Solina and I began to scold her, in addition to swearing at Kosmodemyanskaya, I waved my mitten twice, and Solina hit her with her hand.
Further , Valentina Kulik, who kicked us out of her house, did not allow us to mock the partisan .
During the execution of Kosmodemyanskaya, when the Germans brought her to the gallows, I took a wooden stick, went up to the girl and, in front of everyone present, hit her on the legs. It was at the moment when the partisan stood under the gallows, I don’t remember what I said at the same time.
Execution
From the testimony of a resident of the village Petrishchevo V.A. Kulik:
“… They hung a sign on her chest, on which it was written in Russian and in German: “Pyro”. Until the gallows, they led her by the arms, because due to torture, she could no longer walk on her own. There were many Germans and civilians around the gallows. They led her to the gallows and began to photograph her.
She shouted: “Citizens! You do not stand, do not look, but you need to help the army fight! My death for the Motherland is my achievement in life.” Then she said: “Comrades, victory will be ours. German soldiers, before it’s too late, surrender. The Soviet Union is invincible and will not be defeated.” All this she said at the moment when she was photographed.
Then they put up a box. She, without any command, having gathered strength from somewhere, stood on the box herself. A German approached and began to put on a noose. At that time, she shouted: “No matter how much you hang us, you don’t hang everyone, we are 170 million! But our comrades will avenge you for me.” She said this already with a noose around her neck. She wanted to say something else, but at that moment the box was removed from under her feet, and she hung. She instinctively grabbed the rope with her hand, but the German hit her on the arm. After that, everyone dispersed.”
For a whole month, the body of a girl hung in the center of Petrishchevo. Only on January 1, 1942, the Germans allowed the residents to bury Zoya.
To each his own
On a January night in 1942, during the battles for Mozhaisk, several journalists ended up in a village hut in the Pushkino region that had survived the fire. Pravda correspondent Pyotr Lidov talked to an elderly peasant who said that the occupation overtook him in the village of Petrishchevo, where he saw the execution of some Muscovite girl:
“They hung her, and she spoke. They hung her, but she kept threatening them … ”
The old man’s story shocked Lidov, and that same night he left for Petrishchevo. The correspondent did not calm down until he spoke with all the inhabitants of the village, did not find out all the details of the death of our Russian Joan of Arc – that is how he called the executed, as he believed, partisan. Soon he returned to Petrishchevo together with Pravda newspaper photo journalist Sergey Strunnikov. They opened the grave, took a photo, showed it to the partisans.
One of the partisans of the Vereisk detachment recognized the executed girl as the girl he met in the forest on the eve of the tragedy that broke out in Petrishchevo. She called herself Tanya. Under this name, the heroine entered Lidov’s article. And only later it was revealed that this is a pseudonym that Zoya used for conspiracy purposes.
The real name of the executed in Petrishchevo in early February 1942 was established by the commission of the Moscow City Committee of the Komsomol. The act of February 4 stated:
“1. Citizens of the village of Petrishchevo (surnames follow), according to the photographs presented by the intelligence department of the headquarters of the Western Front, identified that the Komsomol member Kosmodemyanskaya Z.A. was hanged.
2. The commission excavated the grave where Kosmodemyanskaya Zoya Anatolyevna was buried. Examination of the corpse … once again confirmed that the hanged is comrade. Kosmodemyanskaya Z.A.
On February 5, 1942, the commission of the Moscow City Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League prepared a note to the Moscow City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks with a proposal to present Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously). And already on February 16, 1942, the corresponding Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR saw the light. As a result, the Red Army soldier Z.A. Kosmodemyanskaya became the first woman in the Great Patriotic War to be awarded the Golden Star of the Hero.
The headman Sviridov, the traitor Klubkov, the accomplices of the fascists Solina and Smirnov were sentenced to capital punishment.
- TURCHENKO
After it became known about the Nazi atrocities against Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Stalin ordered no one to be taken prisoner from the 332nd regiment, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Rüderer.
Soviet intelligence of all levels and purposes (regimental, divisional, army, including undercover intelligence) tried to track down, to establish more precisely where at the moment, in what sector of the Soviet-German front, the division, the regiment of Nazi executioners, the killers of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, is located. And soon, in the battles near Smolensk, the 332nd regiment of Lieutenant Colonel Ruderer was defeated by the Soviet army. The same amateur photographer officer was also killed in battle, in his field bag the soldiers found photographs of all the Nazi atrocities in Petrishchevo. Five “phased” pictures of the last minutes of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya’s life were published in front-line and central newspapers and caused a new wave of anger and indignation of our people fighting against fascism… Leaving for battle, the Soviet soldiers swore that they would severely, mercilessly avenge Zoya. Here is what the war correspondent of the newspaper “Forward to the enemy!” wrote. Major Dolin October 3, 1943: “A few months ago, the 332nd Infantry Regiment, whose soldiers and officers brutally tortured Zoya, was marked on the sector of our front. Upon learning that they were facing the regiment of the executioner Rüderer, who had executed Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, the soldiers swore not to leave alive any of the warriors of this of the accursed regiment. In the battles near the village of Verdino, the German regiment of executioners of our Zoya was finally defeated. Hundreds of Nazi corpses remained in the ruined bunkers and trenches. When the captured non-commissioned officer of the regiment was asked what he knew about the execution of the young partisan, he, trembling with fear, stammered: – It wasn’t me, it was Rüderer, Rüderer…
I think you understand what awaits the Nazis who desecrated Zoya’s monument.
Irina
Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Thank you so much Бойко Ирина Львовна for sharing. I feel terrible, that with German consent and open military support even, support by an ignorant green young woman who poses as foreign minister, atrocities of that sort can be committed again. I pray for Russian victory.
Irene
Thank you for your support, dear Irene. During WWII, the communist international had slogans in different languages of the world. “No pasaran” in Spanish, “Rot front” in German, “Not one step back” in Russian. It’s time to remember the international solidarity of workers
Irina
275-Cancellation of the assault on “Azovstal” and liberation of Mariupol. What Putin and Shoigu discussed at the meeting
https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/14434291
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Today, Mariupol, tomorrow Odessa.
Jeff
Yes, now the forces will be released from Mariupol and they will be transferred to Odessa
Irina
274-Why did his colleagues give Stepan Bandera the nickname “Baba”?
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273-Map of hostilities in Ukraine for April 20
https://readovka.news/news/94524
Designations on the map:
– red color – territories under the control of the Russian Federation,
– red stroke – territories of hostilities,
– blue stroke – accumulations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
white explosion – shelling by the Russian troops,
yellow explosion – shelling by the troops of Ukraine
272-The ex-deputy of the Rada showed Zelensky’s Russian passport. Screenshot
https://ura.news/news/1052547129
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271-“Mom, write immediately to captivity.” What surrendered “drivers” and “cooks” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine say
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Thanks, Irina, people in the USA never get this kind of information.
Eric
270-Hedgehogs, toilet bowls and Magadan. How the Ukrainian media work according to the precepts of Goebbels
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269-Atrocities and sadism of the Ukrainian national battalions: the “Tornado” case
https://ria.ru/20220420/tornado-1784201831.html
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268-Gonzalo Lira, who covered the special operation from the side objectionable to Kiev, does not get in touch
https://zen.yandex.ru/video/watch/625dc01d72982049e99fa8d1
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267-HERO FROM OUR CITY- Alexander Pechersky
https://kg-rostov.ru/history/histori_cult_person/geroy-iz-nashego-goroda1699/
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266-Ministry of Defense: kindergartens, schools and hospitals of Ukraine are turning into firing positions-Ukrainian nationalists are going to continue to hide behind the walls of social institutions
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27380.5/4573878/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com
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265-Zelensky’s blasphemous manipulations around Jewish victims in Ukraine
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Irina,
Thank you for this excellent article. Not knowing all the history, I did understand that the reason my family came to the USA was because of pogroms. But gross antisemitism also existed, not just in Ukraine, but also in Poland and Lithuania, my maternal grandmother’s home.
I know of two Jewish songs that praised Soviet Russia as helping the Jews, both on Yutube. And the commander who first freed Auschwitz was Jewish, so I’m told.
However, this article does imply that at least a faction that now dominates Ukraine under the banner of Bandera has been staging pogroms for well over 100 years, if not longer.
Kind regards,
Eric
264-With a Ukrainian accent. Why does the SBU’s “intercepts of conversations” smell like fake?
https://aif.ru/politics/world/s_ukrainskim_akcentom_pochemu_u_sbu_perehvaty_razgovorov_pahnut_lipoy
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263-On the West’s anti-Russian sanctions
The smartest text of the Russian poetess, born in Kiev, Yunna Moritz about the main thing,
“During the Great Patriotic War, Goethe was not withdrawn from any Soviet library. No orchestra has excluded Wagner from the repertoire. And today Russia also does not refuse either Taras Shevchenko or Lesya Ukrainka. Nobody cancels Twain and Dreiser. No one thinks of throwing O’Henry out of the libraries. No one will ever cancel William Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde, despite the fact that both are English, and one of them is completely homosexual. We loved, love and will love them. We value them not because of their nationality, sexual orientation or attitude towards slavery. But because they are more than the British or Americans, more than adherents of any political views. They are the property of the world. And ours too. By accepting samples of world culture, we do not impoverish our own, but enrich it. By canceling Dostoevsky or Tchaikovsky, the West does not take anything from Russia – only from themselves. Because we are talking about a world heritage to which the Americans, the British, the Russians, and representatives of many other countries have contributed. Tolstoy and Bulgakov do not care how they are treated in the West. They cannot be belittled or humiliated. Because immortals don’t care about political squabbles. You are not canceling them, you are canceling a part of the great culture in yourself. And Russia will never give up either Shelley or Villon or Salinger. We are not idiots. Yunna Moritz”
Irina
262-Breaking All Russians: How the Nazi Nuremberg Laws 2.0 Work…
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Irina,
The Empire of Lies keeps telling everyone that they saved the world by dropping a couple of weapons of mass destruction on defenseless civilians, a war crime by the way, whereas the truth is no such surrender was forthcoming until the Red Army launched the attack in Manchuria, where the Japanese still had an army of almost a million soldiers relatively untouched by war, fairly well prepared to fight to the death. If one has never read in the history of warfare of a well entrenched army of a million being crushed in ten days, it’s because American history is mainly the glorification of war crimes told by liars to idiots. As a comparison, in the Battle of Iwo Jima which involved 20,000 besieged Japanese defenders and five to six times American GIs with overwhelming firepower and air superiority. It took them 35 days. If the Red Army fought like the Americans, they’d still be fighting in Manchuria today. Corollary: America may be good with war crimes and lying, but they’re not going to meet Russia on the battlefield.
As for canceling Valery Gergiev and Anna Netrebko, the Empire of Lies is again exposing its own lies. I’m pretty sure Gergiev and Netrekbo will not find themselves short of fans in the world of music. And I count myself to be a fan of both for a long time. I love the story of how Anna worked at the Mariinsky as a cleaning lady, and was recognized by Gergiev when she auditioned for a singing job. It’s like a fairytale come true. I have practically watched Netrebko change from a young lady to a middle aged woman. Her rich expressive voice never fails to stir my heartstrings. Here’s a clip of “Dein ist mein ganzes Herz” by Anna Netrebko with Placido Domingo and Rolando Villazon from some years ago. Wait for the finale. They didn’t get their standing ovation because the Empire of Lies gave its approval. What a sad pathetic joke America has become!
Peter
Thanks to Irina, I feel terribly ashamed for our politicians, and for those who act as ever in history and everywhere misinfomed people do, incapable of making up their own minds. The leading politicians were not elected in the way they are holdiing power now. These “leaders” in politics, in the media and in the judicicial apparatus do not reflect the will of the German people who do not hate Russians, on the contrary. People in my surrounding are appaled by the dismissing of Anna Netrebko and Valery Gergiev.
In solidarity, Irene
261-They hung a stone around their neck and threw it into the river: how Bandera did with Soviet prisoners of war
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260-Traitor doctors abandoned sick children and left Kherson for Europe, taking advantage of the situation
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27379/4572021/?utm_campaign=zobov_13.04.2022_18_11_02&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Sendsay
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27379/4572021/?utm_campaign=zobov_13.04.2022_18_11_02&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Sendsay
259-Apotheosis At Azovstal
Exciting … What will happen next…
Irina
258-Video of Bulgarian giving Nazi salute in European Parliament against critcism of NATO
https://zen.yandex.ru/video/watch/625275888f167372b43c69b7
I forwarded this video without my comments. Not only for you to hear the Irish representative of the Parliament, but at the end of the video you can see the Bulgarian representative Angel Dzhambaski doing the Nazi salute
Irina
Irina,
The incident in the EU parliament happened op 16 February.
Transcript of Claire Daly’s speech:
European Parliament. Ireland’s Claire Daly is sick of Bulgarian Russophobia. She turns to Angel Dzhambazki, the Bulgarian MP who spearheaded the anti-Russian initiatives:
“- Let my colleague give me at least one example where NATO has achieved peace anywhere. I would be glad to listen. History teaches us that sanctions do not end wars and do not bring peace. It is the ordinary people, not the oligarchs, who suffer from them. In this case the people of Russia and the people of Europe.
They will not save a single life. The more weapons you pump into Ukraine, the longer this war will last and the more Ukrainians will die. This may sound radical, but you cannot respond to war with more war. But only peace! And peace will be brought not by guns, but by diplomacy and dialogue.
We may not like it, but Russia is a part of our continent. And we will sit down with Russia at the negotiating table and negotiate peace. The European Parliament should have called for this a long time ago! Instead of putting it off and waiting for more Ukrainians to die. Your sympathy is feigned! It makes me sick!”
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Bulgarian nationalist MEP Angel Dzhambazki is facing sanctions by the EU Parliament for making the NAZI salute. Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, stated that Dzhambazki could be sanctioned under Rule 10 of the European Parliament’s rules of procedure which deals with the conduct of members of the European parliament. Dzhambazki said his hand sign was a goodbye signal.
(Yet, today, two months later, I haven’t seen any sanctions against Angel Dzhambazki)
Frans
Frans,
Shortly before his death, the Russian scientist Sergey Kapitsa said – The Society does not see anything, because it is kept in a state of deep hypnosis. Never before have people been so dark as they are now. A person is not given a chance to stop and comprehend what is happening. Endless serials, one dumber than the other, a vulgar stage, lustful or aggressive movies, gently influencing the subconscious, cultivate the spirit of selfishness and violence. A normal person in a short period of time turns into an unscrupulous animal leading an absolutely meaningless life.
Irina
257-It seems that the United States and Europe lost their bet on Ukraine and Zelensky. They will not receive anything for the supplied weapons.
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Dear Irina,
This argument is similar to the one made, whereby the USSR was never legally dissolved, so the USSR still exists. It can be legally true that Ukraine is still officially part of Russia since it never declared a border, but de facto, it is irrelevant.
As you know, Mao said, Political power comes from a gun. So it appears that Russia is rightfully asserting its rights in this ongoing civil war, not to mention a continuation of the denazification program that was ongoing following WWII.
But the Nazis were never fully wiped out, no doubt with the help of the CIA. So the cancer has returned. Hopefully this time it will be wiped out.
But since the main “Tumor” is in Washington, I don’t see this being resolved until that tumor is removed.
Eric
Dear Eric!
I agree with you that it was a huge mistake that during and after WWII they did not clean out all the Nazis and showed humanism. But legal international norms, in my opinion, still hold back those who think about what will happen after the fact. Of course, if they are still able to think.
For example, the latest news that in Mariupol, on the territory of Azovstal, several high-ranking NATO servicemen, including the American General Cloutier, have been blocked. According to one report, he was killed. According to other sources, he is alive and it was for his sake that the Armed Forces of Ukraine repeatedly and desperately made attempts to take him out by helicopters. Even Turkey has joined the negotiations on providing the NATO military with a humanitarian corridor. The General can tell us a lot.
It seems that the Americans will not like it precisely in accordance with international law. And depending on how international law interprets the ownership of the territory of Ukraine, there may be big troubles for the United States in connection with his direct participation and leadership of the hostilities in Mariupol
Irina
Highly interesting from the perspective of international law!!!!! Thanks to Eric and Irina.
Irene
256-Searching for the Wolf (subtitled movie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Ft6OljBBA
Irina,
I just watched the new video you posted. It is shocking yet explains what Russia is facing in Ukraine. This is a cancer that has spread and will be difficult to cure.
Kind regards, Eric
Eric,
Yes, that’s how it is. Nothing changed.
Thank you, Irina
Irina,
With the demonization and ‘isolation’ of Russia, we seem to be having a replay of the Iron Curtain.
We used to hear as Westerners, that the Soviet Union put up an Iron Curtain to imprison its people. But more likely, Churchill’s hatred of Russia, as personified by the USSR, was in fact to isolate Russia from the West, because the West feared what the Soviet Union represented….the sovereign right to self determination out of the control of Western capitalism/imperialism.
Russia was a ‘good guy’ as long as it allowed itself to be raped. Like Greece or like today’s Ukraine, which is being sucked dry while doing double duty as a thorn in the side of Russia.
Since Russia is no longer willing to play along, it is ostracized. The people who make policy in the West are clearly mentally ill.
I like to say that the West accused the Soviets of living behind the Iron Curtain. What people in the West, or as Putin says, The Empire of Lies are doing, is they are living behind the Bullshit Curtain, facilitated by the Big Lie Propaganda Machine.
The Soviet Union and the people of the USSR, who looked up to the West, made their biggest mistake in deciding to give up their isolation and open to the West. Since the Berlin Wall came down, Russia as well as the Chinese have finally figured out what the West’s game is. The West will be quarantined until it grows up, which may not happen. Rather it’ll sink into a dark age until the people in EuroAmerica decide to wake up.
Just my thought for the day.
Eric
255-“Do you speak Russian? So, a traitor “: How in America they now treat emigrants from the former USSR
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
I have not lived in the United States for 2 years now. It so happened. But at the time when I lived there, almost every American who met me and found out that I was Russian would definitely say the phrase “I love Putin.” Perhaps I was just lucky for such Americans. And most importantly, they were all sure that I also love Putin. I must say that I do not love Putin (and of course don’t want his baby..haha). I respect Putin as the head of our state and as a strong person and I support him.
Irina
Irina,
I am not surprised. America has a long history of racism against the world. From massacre of the native when they arrived from Europe, to racism against the black slaves they kidnapped from Africa to work for them for free, than racism against the Chinese slave labors they kidnapped or lie to them to get them into America to build rail road, mining as slave labor , and then the Japanese , Latin Americans, … this is an evil country doing nothing good for humanity.
Chua
253-Cleansing of Mariupol: good Chechens, hryvnia underfoot and “How we were waiting for you!”
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252-Civilians of Bucha were shot by the Nazis “Boatswain”
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251-Translation please!
Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Can you please tell me what this says?
John
Irina,
249-Russian general announced the capture of those who tortured Russian military in Ukraine
https://lenta.ru/news/2022/03/29/zahvat/?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop
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248-Ukie Nazis torture Russian prisoners (video)
Watch this video to the end. It shows Ukrainian soldiers taking handcuffed Russian POWs out of a bus and then shooting them en masse in the legs and kicking them when they’re on the ground. The Ukies filmed it themselves. This is who the US supports, and why Ukraine needs “denazified.” The goddamned mockingbird media has already banned the video. US serfs live in a bubble of lies and propaganda.
https://southfront.org/shocking-evidence-of-ukrainian-regimes-essence-video-21/
Some of them in the video have already died from blood loss. And at the end of the video, the flayer asks if there are officers? and shoots the soldiers in the legs. We remember these nonhumans
Only when our special forces press them and they have nowhere to go, these “brave men” take off their army undies, put on bras, ladies’ clothes and under the guise of women try to escape.
Irina
247- We are coming back home, by Donbass singers Natalia Kochura and Margarita Lisovina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuhELG4hx_Q
246-Mariupol with my own eyes is now a branch of hell
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245-Biden’s son funded biolaboratories in Ukraine
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244-Mariupol, Kadyrovites and a pregnant cat
https://zen.yandex.ru/media/dodo/mariupol-kadyrovcy-i-beremennaia-koshka-623cb413f0c7f918d700c6c1?&
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242-The head of Naftogaz: transit gas pipelines in Ukraine were not damaged
https://news.ru/economics/glava-naftogaza-tranzitnye-gazoprovody-na-ukraine-ne-byli-povrezhdeny/
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241-Refugees from Ukraine are bringing Nazism to Europe (PHOTO)
https://rusvesna.su/news/1647799514
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240-Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov: Russia is the last obstacle that Western hegemony needs to overcome before challenging China
https://zen.yandex.ru/video/watch/623219af3d7a7f1afefba5ad
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Lavrov – to the question “Why couldn’t the situation with Ukraine be resolved peacefully?”:
Because the West did not want to solve this situation by peaceful means. This is not about Ukraine at all. Or rather, not so much about Ukraine, but about the world legal order. The United States took over the whole of Europe. Under Biden, the United States set itself the task of subjugating Europe and achieved its unquestioning adherence to the American course. The current crisis is a fateful moment. This is an epochal moment in modern history. It reflects the battle over what the world order will look like. A misunderstood sense of one’s own infinite superiority also prevails in the situation that we are considering. Building a world in which the West will lead everything with impunity and unquestioningly. There’s a lot of speculation that Russia is being pushed right now because it’s the last hurdle to get past before China gets involved. This is simply said, but there is a serious truth in it. Why couldn’t it be solved by peace? We have been proposing to solve this amicably for many years.
239-Subtitled song: “Donbass Is Behind Us”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRg7pTZ91oo
238-The Holodomor: A Ukrainian Fascist Lie | Unmasking Imperialism Ep. 71
Dear comrades, colleagues, friends:
I was interviewed today, Saturday, March 19, 2022, by Mr Funez. He has already put the interview on line:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06SH0b8AlOY
I hope you find it of value. If you do, feel free to circulate it.
Warm regards and solidarity,
Grover Furr
Dear Dr. Furr,
I found your interview extremely interesting and objective. I shared this video interview with my friends.
You are absolutely right, that history does not belong to the exact sciences, like physics and chemistry. And therefore, historical events are often subject to personal interpretations, depending on the worldview of a particular person. Such an interpretation allows not only to distort the events, that actually happened, but also to create myths, engage in pseudo-historical myth-making with impunity, and thereby form a distorted view of things among the population.
You gave an excellent example of the recent Ukrainian myth-making about kobzars allegedly persecuted by Russia. Unfortunately, the level of modern education of people is so low and, I would say, flawed, that few of today’s Ukrainians know, that the most famous Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko, who is often quoted in modern Ukraine as an Ukrainian patriot and simply called Kobzar, wrote his verses mostly in Russian , most of his life he lived and died in Russia in St. Petersburg and he considered himself Russian.
And on a global scale, to even greater regret, people have stopped reading smart books and they learn about historical events only from movies. The modern generation is now absolutely convinced, that (I use an intolerant expression) Anne Boleyn was black, the Fairy in The Cinderella fairy-tale was a transgender man, and the Russians deliberately starved Ukrainians during the so-called “Holodomor”.
Lies dress up as Truth. And liars make honest people believe that lies are true.
Sincerely,
Irina
237-The feat of the Pacific squadron: for which the inhabitants of San Francisco thanked the Russian sailors
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236-FM Lavrov comment about recent events
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZSdRPxmJ2/
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZSdRPuPDH/
Anyone has the full transcript of this speech? Such experience should spread across the world.
Chua
Without a translation there isn’t much the world can do.
Frank
Perhaps, only our Russian comrade can find the full English’s transcript.
Chua
Lavrov said,
“We will solve this problem so that we will never again depend on Western partners in any way, be it governments or companies that are not guided by the interests of their business, but have become instruments of political aggression, which Russia is now experiencing from the West. We will make sure that we never find ourselves in a similar situation again. And so that no uncle – neither Sam, nor anyone else – could destroy our economy”.
Irina
Thanks for that brief excerpt which sounds completely understandable but they really should stop referring to “partners” who have been trying to destroy them since 1917.
Frank
Our problem is that when they seem to come to us with an open heart, we also go to them with an open heart, into which they often try to stick a knife.
Irina
235-“Girl on a ball” “hostage” by Europeans: Will the legendary masterpieces of painting from France return to Russia?
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234-What was the mistake of the Soviet ideology?
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
All human ideologies are flawed in some way, even if they’re perfect. The reason is that they must be implemented by humans, who are flawed. These flaws are not insidious; they are in fact needed for survival of the species. Humans will easily be corrupted, they will always tire, they will get bored, they will be lazy, they will be selfish, they will forget, they will misunderstand, they will disobey, they will have desires, they will want power, they will want fame, they will want adulation, they will want to lord over others, they will keep secrets, they will turn a blind eye, they will be indifferent, they will be ignorant, they will be superstitious, they will be racist, they will be sexist, they will be biased, they will be greedy, they will want to have everything but not work for it, they will bully, they will enjoy winning by any means, they will be delusional, they will scam the susceptible, they will manipulate the mentally weak, they will lie to cover up their own crimes, they will believe in lies because the lies make them feel good, they will ignore reality, they will be hypocrites, they will hold grudges, they will be cruel to the defenseless, they will kill without remorse, they will lose their minds, and you can go on for hours, but people don’t really want to admit it. And they’ll keep arguing about ideologies. If you want a well run society that will maintain peace, harmony, fairness, and equipoise for a long time, reduce these human flaws to a minimum and keep human influence to a minimum in major decisions. And it has to be a global project for the human species, not just for a nation, for the simple reason that wars between nations will change the algorithms.
Peter
233-Languages spoken at home in Ukraine, 2009 map from Kyiv National Linguistic University
Red is Russian and orange is Surzhik, which is a southern Russian dialect. Ukrainian is in yellow.
Irina
232-What does this map mean?
Dear Irina,
Please help. It is an image, so I can’t run it through an online translator.
I got this from my WeChat forum.
Is this the percent of Russian speakers in Ukraine, or ethnic Russians? In 1991?
Thanks if you will,
Jeff
This is a poll of citizens of Ukraine in 1991 about whether they consider it necessary to preserve the USSR. Red marked areas that are for the preservation of the USSR. Areas marked in green are against it
The question was formulated as follows – do you think that it is necessary to preserve the renewed federation of the USSR of equal sovereign republics, in which the rights and freedoms of people of any nationality will be fully guaranteed?
Irina
231-“The enemy slept through the operation”: the defense of Mariupol was broken through to the city center
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27377/4559905/
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Sigh, so difficult…..but unavoidable. The Nato generals are angry because they wanted this to take place in Moscow.—if there even would be a Moscow after they fired their nukes.
Eric
230-What should we do with such a Ukraine after the special operation
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229-Fighting near Kiev is taking place in the same place as in 1943, when the city was liberated from the Nazis
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228-The daughter of Yaroslav the Wise observed the birth of a phenomenon that centuries later would be called “Russophobia”
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227-European war against Russian culture
https://www.fondsk.ru/news/2022/03/12/evropejskaja-vojna-protiv-russkoj-kultury-55760.html
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
The Euro American marauders of the past 500 years have done us a favor by revealing their true nature.
Unfortunately for them, Mother Russia is not the same as the Native Americans which were exterminated. They’re about to learn a lesson they won’t forget, assuming they survive at all.
Chua
Disgusting, unbearable, outrageous. In solidarity,
Irene
226-COVID-19 is not a pandemic, but an undeclared biological war: Covid Bioweapons: Made in the US, aimed at China
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225-The Nazis tried to leave Mariupol under the guise of civilians. The deception failed, and again accused Russia of disrupting the evacuation.
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224-Biden banned the supply of dollar bills to Russia
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Surprisingly, the United States began the de-dollarization of Russia with their own hands. And this is the action that economists in Russia have been talking about for several years now. Great job!
Irina
223-The German movie “Downfall”
I found the YT link to the German movie Downfall, I think the German is Untergang.
This is the source of the scene in the Hitler Parodies series. It tells the story of the final days of the Nazi period in Germany.
Goebbels is told that the kids he has sent to the front in Berlin are getting killed needlessly and he says he has no sympathy.
He goes on to say, The German People chose their fate.,,,we didn’t force the German people. They gave us the mandate and now their little throats are being cut. At the end of the movie, Hitler’s young secretary is forced to admit that she was willfully ignorant.
A lesson still not learned by people today.
The people of the Donbass refused to accept the fate the latter day Nazis had in store for them.
This film is especially poignant when I see what is going on with the people of Ukraine, the people of Europe and the USA.
We can warn them and warn them, but instead, we are vilified.
The people in the West overlook the one thing: Russia didn’t start this war. It’s been ongoing since 1945, without a stop, and only getting worse.
Russia doesn’t start wars, but it does finish them. That is what I believe we’ll be learning yet again. Unfortunately.
Watching the movie, and seeing how out of touch with reality Hitler and his followers are, one has to ask how out of touch those who dream of American Hegemony and restoration of the British Empire, and European colonialism are. And to what lengths they’ll go as they try to cling to power as it slips away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObYh02ve6sY
“The people in the West overlook the one thing: Russia didn’t start this war. It’s been ongoing since 1945, without a stop, and only getting worse.”
Actually Eric, it began in 1917 when we first invaded russia in response to a vicious revolution which claimed a thousand loaves of bread and a thousand people meant everyone got a loaf of bread. What murderous filth!!!!!
Frank
Russia has been under European sanctions since the time of Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible. For the first time in our history, he allowed British merchants to trade in Russia. As a token of gratitude, the British Crown imposed the first economic sanctions on Russia.
After that, there were not only sanctions, but also invasions of Russia with the aim of seizing territories. But there is one very important moment in the history of Russia. This is the Paris Conference of 1916. They practically do not remember about it, and if they remember something, they confuse it with the Versailles Conference.
During the Paris Conference, the Entente countries – Great Britain and the United States – persuaded Tsar Nicholas II to impose economic sanctions against Germany, which historically is Russia’s main trading partner. Among them was the refusal to export grain to Germany (which accounted for 40% of all Russian grain exports) and the refusal to purchase industrial equipment from Germany. Tsar Nicholas 2 refused the proposal of the Entente. Many historians believe that this incident served as the trigger for his overthrow a year later. And in 1917, our “allies” in the Entente attacked Russia and robbed her resources and killed people
Irina
So many remarkable similarities with the conquest and occupation of China by the Western crusaders !
Frans
222-Little Nazis grew up: A network of camps worked in Ukraine for years, where children were taught to hate Russians
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27374/4556520/?utm_campaign=samuskov_10.03.2022_18_29_20&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Sendsay
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221-An hour before the Apocalypse. Growing evidence that Russia’s special operation saved much of the world
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220-Battalions “Azov” and “Aidar”: from “revolutionary romance” to violence, “Nazi performances”, organized criminal groups …. and getting out of control
https://readovka.news/news/90498
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219-Kadyrov: Chechen special forces do not meet the resistance of Bandera
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218-INDIVIDUAL XX. Mothers, daughters, wives and brides of modern fascism.
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217-Farewell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhhptOQ-NGM
216-Map of hostilities in Ukraine over the past day
https://readovka.news/news/90344
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215-“Bread for a thousand”: a German expert recognized the dependence of the world on fertilizers from Russia
https://rusvesna.su/news/1646285104
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214-There was a message about the rapid advance of the troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Russian Guard in the southern direction, which are already moving towards Odessa
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213-Latest news about the situation around Ukraine on March 4, 2022: London asks Moscow to evacuate, Chechens near Kiev, water went to Crimea
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27371/4553913/?from=feed&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com
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212-Since December 2021, Russia has been receiving information about NATO plans to deploy 4 military brigades (2 land, 1 sea, 1 air) on the territory of Ukraine.
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Since December 2021, Russia has been receiving information about NATO plans to deploy 4 military brigades (2 land, 1 sea, 1 air) on the territory of Ukraine. Moreover, air brigades had the ability to carry nuclear warheads. NATO wanted to agree on this deployment of troops in the summer of 2022 at a meeting of the UN Security Council. Then, most likely by the end of the year, they would have provoked a conflict and launched full-scale military operations against Russia with the use of nuclear weapons. That is, NATO planned to unleash the 3rd world war with the use of nuclear weapons against Russia.
The key role in this was given to the current American-controlled ruling elite in Ukraine and the nationalists. In order to prevent World War 3 and an attack on Russia using nuclear weapons, the Russian government decided to stop this situation and restore order there.
The West presses information through social networks and other things that Russia has attacked Ukraine. They are offended that their plans were destroyed and now Russia cannot be destroyed by nuclear weapons that are in Ukraine and at the expense of Ukraine.
By the way, Putin said that the flight time for the warheads from Kharkov to Moscow is 3 minutes, there is no time for a retaliatory strike. Flight time from the USA is 30 minutes, there is time to answer. Only today it became possible to publish intelligence data on the preparation of a provocation followed by a treacherous strike with the destruction of the population on the territory of the LPR and DPR.
Putin was ahead of Ukraine and NATO and actually saved hundreds of thousands of lives in the republics. A day before the start of the war to exterminate the Russian-speaking population, fateful decisions were made in the Donbass. The Ukrainian army under the leadership of the national battalions was preparing to start a military operation in the Donbass on 02/25/22.
Vladimir Putin was literally a day ahead of the plans of Kiev and the West, which made it possible to seize the strategic initiative. About a week before the start of the Russian special operation, Eduard Basurin reported on a map of the attack on the Donbass that was intercepted from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
It was clearly laid out there when long-range artillery strikes would be launche. First there would be MLRS strikes, then there would be air strikes, then strikes by the operational tactical group (OTG), respectively “North”, “South” and “East”. OTG “Vostok” was supposed to act on the dissection of Donetsk and Lugansk. They were given three days to reach the border, and the OTG “South” would act together with the Aidarovites, who, according to the plan, were supposed to play the role of a barrage detachment. In the north, in Luhansk, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were supposed to operate under the cover of the “Right Sector”, they were supposed to meet in the Komsomolsk region south of Donetsk and cut off the LDNR from the border with Russia. Within two days, it was planned to begin a “complete cleansing.”
Moreover, Donetsk, Lugansk and several other cities they did not plan to capture at this stage, but simply surround them and block, that is, a complete blockade of settlements was envisaged, before a “complete cleansing”. There is a belief that this plan was developed jointly with NATO curators, since the Americans had previously transferred about 5 thousand of their soldiers to Poland, plus there was also the Polish army – according to the plan, they were supposed to block Russian Kaliningrad group, so that in which case it could not advance to the attacked territory of the south-east of Ukraine.
The second grouping is a thousand soldiers of the Stryker brigade (armored vehicles) in Romania. This grouping should block Transnistria so that the peacekeepers stationed there would not be able to advance through the South to Odessa. It was all a single set of actions that were to begin on the night of February 24-25. In fact, the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Putin was only one day ahead.
Why are they so hysterical? Because everything was ready to seize the territory. And then suddenly, one day earlier, units of the LPR and DPR began to actively operate with the support of the RF Armed Forces. First of all, airfields and runways were attacked so that it was impossible to land transport aircraft with weapons from the United States and other countries, command posts, air defense systems, radar stations, anti-aircraft missile divisions, etc. were disabled. The people’s militia of the LDNR, with the support of Russian artillery and high-precision weapons, launched an offensive against the Vostok group.
And there is another interesting coincidence. Russian special military operation in Ukraine prevented the launch of two NATO biolabs in addition to the already 15 operating
Irina
211-Eduard Basurin: the OSCE mission supplied the Ukrainian Armed Forces with data on military facilities in the Donbas
https://smotrim.ru/article/2683401
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210-I’m the grandson of that soldier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2sgV-63O-k
If it is possible for someone to understand what we Russians feel now
Irina
209-The The second address of President Putin to the Ukrainian military 25.02.2022 (subtitled video)
208-Azov militants took dozens of residents of Mariupol hostage: women and children are locked in a school that is being mined
https://rusvesna.su/news/1646242746
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207-Text of deleted TikTok video, which has joined the ban on all Russian content
“I should also appeal to the military personnel of the armed forces of Ukraine.
Dear comrades!
Your fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers did not fight the Nazis, defending our common Motherland, so that today’s neo-Nazis seized power in Ukraine. You took an oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people, and not to the anti-people junta that plunders Ukraine and mocks these same people. Don’t follow her criminal orders.
I urge you to lay down your weapons immediately and go home.
Let me explain: all servicemen of the Ukrainian army who fulfill this requirement will be able to freely leave the combat zone and return to their families. Once again, I insistently emphasize: all responsibility for possible bloodshed will be entirely on the conscience of the regime ruling on the territory of Ukraine.
Now a few important, very important words for those who may be tempted to intervene in ongoing events. Whoever tries to hinder us, and even more so to create threats for our country, for our people, should know that Russia’s response will be immediate and will lead you to consequences that you have never experienced in your history. We are ready for any development of events. All necessary decisions in this regard have been made. I hope that I will be heard.”
President Putin
206-Only radical intervention can help here: a Ukrainian woman’s appeal to a Russian soldier
https://rusvesna.su/news/1645974797
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205-Genocide laughed at by Europe
https://rusvesna.su/news/1646149596
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204-Announced the creation of the Ukrainian Federal Republic
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203-War in Ukrainian: cowardice, lies and chaos
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27369.5/4551846/
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202-Joint Statement of the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation on International Relations and Global Sustainable Development in the New Era
http://en.kremlin.ru/supplement/5770
201-Putin launched a military operation in the Donbass. Full text of the presidential address on February 24, 2022
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27368/4550170/
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200-What’s confusing about Putin’s address on Ukraine
https://www.politnavigator.news/chto-smushhaet-v-obrashhenii-putina-po-ukraine.html
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199-Kharkov residents appealed to Putin to send Russian troops to the region
https://www.dp.ru/a/2014/03/16/V_Harkove_aktivisti_pros
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198-KKE, statement
Hello,
I just came across this article.
http://www.idcommunism.com/2022/02/kke-on-recognition-of-so-called-peoples-.html
Perhaps somebody can comment on this statement by the KKE?
I have some doubts about it, I personally don’t think Russia is ”imperialist”, I don’t know what Putin exactly said in his speech, according to the KKE Putin made some anti communist statements:
”In his message, Putin sought to justify his current stance with a recital of anti-communism, an attack on the Bolsheviks, Lenin and the Soviet Union.”
But is that true?
Thanks in advance en greetings,
Martin
Hi, Martin!
This is not like this. The people who created the Soviet Union followed a path unknown to anyone. And as is common to all people, they made mistakes along the way. It was these mistakes and miscalculations that Putin spoke about. There was no condemnation in his words of what those people had done. But many mistakes in their actions led to fatal consequences, which we can only appreciate today.
Irina
197-Analysis of Putin’s speech
Hi Irina,
As you may know from his YT channel, which is in Russian but I can get a reasonable English autotranslate subtitle, Sovietsky’s position is that slowly but surely, the former Soviet Republics will realize that going with the West is a mistake, and that they’ll be gobbled up by Western capitalists. They were far better of as part of the Soviet space. Seems unlikely that the USSR will rise from the ashes, but some new and improved version, will hopefully return, followed by great advancements.
That’s my hope, anyway.
Kind regards,
Eric
So do I, Eric.
Irina
196-Finally it happened! Cool! Hooray!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkmdoAjbXQc
195-Fireworks in Donetsk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fCFIwaEAb8
194-Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of February 21, 2022 No. 71 “On the recognition of the Donetsk People’s Republic”
https://rg.ru/2022/02/22/prezident-ukaz-donetsk-site-dok.html
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193-Recognition of Donbass
Belarus should recognize Donbass.
Why don’t other communist-socialist-anti-imperialist friends, like China, DPRK, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, et al., do the same?
When the US recognized that Mafia thug Guido as Venezuela’s president, all of its allies did the same, pronto.
It would send a powerful message of solidarity to Eurangloland.
Jeff
Syria, Venezuela, Cuba have already recognized Donbass.
Irina
192-The Russian border checkpoint in the Rostov region is destroyed
https://news.mail.ru/incident/50143895/?frommail=1
191-One more step to Nuremberg-2, “Not only the right, but also the duty to resist”
https://www.fondsk.ru/news/2022/02/13/esche-odin-shag-k-nurnbergu-2-55543.html
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190-18 February 2022 update
Today, all day since last night, the territory of the LPR and DPR has been subjected to massive shelling from Ukraine. It is no longer only the front-line zones that are being shelled. In the center of Donetsk, not far from the administration building, a terrorist act took place, a parked car was blown up. Children, women, old people are urgently evacuated from the republics by buses to the territory of Russia
Irina
Comments from China Writers’ Group,
At the urging of the Americans and some NATO semi-deranged Russophobes in Ukraine, the Baltics, Poland, etc., probably some segments of the Ukie army—neonazis, or simply bribed rogue units— are carrying out this war crime in order to provoke Russia into the “aggression” the Western media craves and that Biden has invested his “credibility” in, just to “prove” that Moscow needs to be isolated from Europe and punished severely by all means available short of all out war.
The repetition of the announcement that war would begin—via “Russian aggression on Ukraine”—suggests the Americans knew about this planned attack (by their own intel assets) and were and still are banking on leaving Putin no choice but to unleash some of its military. It’s all infinitely grotesque and cynical and stunningly hypocritical, but par for the course for the West and the Washington/London axis.
Moscow should raise the “pain dial” on the West. Putin should declare a “no-fly zone” over the Donbas and maybe the whole Ukraine. As well, they should prohibit Western airlines from using Russian airspace. That for starters. Let the pain speak louder, instead of all the wasted diplomatic maneuvering, whose utility has been recorded but it’s now past. Russia must act or this nonsense will only continue indefinitely until we really find ourselves looking at the Big Bang.
Patrice
There is a lot more that Russia could do. It could tell SWIFT to go take a hike, future payments on Russian goods sent to the US should be paid for in Gold or Rubles. Suspend selling ‘bad’ Russian oil to the US, along with the critical element, titanium, needed for the US aircraft industry. And stop selling rocket engines. The ‘gas station masquerading as a country’ can tell the US to make its own damned rocket engines.
But the main thing is to reject US dollars as payment. When the dollar crashes that will cause me personally a lot of difficulty, but this gangster dollar paradigm has to go if the world is to have any peace and progress.
Eric
The Russian titanium alloys that the US uses are not the only leverage. Russia is called a country-gas station to divert eyes, this is a false flag. Obama has long since torn our economy to shreds.
If you dig a little, you can find a lot of amazing things! So, for example, the Voronezh “TyazhMekhPress” supplies its press equipment to the factories of Renault, Peugeot, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Samsung. Russian forging presses for crank mechanisms are practically exclusive to the world. Only 17 presses of this type have been built worldwide, with a force of more than 10,000 tons, and 8 of them have the TMP brand.
Probably everyone has heard about sapphire crystal for Apple, only few have heard that in total Apple buys more than 20 items of consumables and parts in Russia for the production of its products, ranging from ultra-pure tin for soldering to power tantalum capacitors, for some reason they don’t like it very much advertise. At the same time, we are threatened that Apple computers, mobile smart phones, etc. will no longer be delivered to Russia.
What is the “American” iPhone?
- Development, engineering and exterior design – USA. The team includes scientists from Russia, China and India
- Display – Korea (LG)
- Camera – China (Foxconn)
- Artificial sapphire (camera, display) – Russia, Stavropol
- Element base and production – China (Foxconn)
- Equipment for laser cutting of sapphire – Russia, St. Petersburg etc
Everyone has also heard about titanium for Boeing and Airbus, only few people understand that Russia does not supply titanium. Particularly complex titanium products are exported; titanium processing technologies similar to Russian ones are not found in any country in the world. In addition, it was Russian firms that designed the Boeing assembly facility in Ellington. And the development of all Boeing and Airbus models is not complete without such companies as Progresstech, NIK, Kaskol Group.
The Moscow company “Motorika” is not heard to supply cybernetic prostheses to twelve “highly developed” countries of the world. In 2021, Motorika’s developments were recognized as one of the best in the world in the Wearables category of the Innovation League of the G20 (G20).
The group of domestic companies GRAND-Cryo independently develops, manufactures and sells medical cryocapsules abroad
The Laser Export company develops, manufactures and sells laser analyzers of the chemical composition of metals abroad. Among the buyers are countries such as Germany, Japan and Switzerland.
So oil and gas are only related products. But preparations are already underway for the full refining of oil in order to sell not crude oil, but products of its processing.
Irina
Interesting! So how badly does Russia need all of those sales to the USA? It should be sanctioning the US.
Eric
This is the flip side of the coin. Of course, no one wants to shoot themselves in the foot in order to inflict a more significant wound on another. My personal opinion is that in any case, with or without sanctions, Russia needs to stop the export of the most important resource. I mean brain exports – scientists, programmers, etc. We need them here.
Irina
189-What was the mistake of the Soviet ideology?
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
All human ideologies are flawed in some way, even if they’re perfect. The reason is that they must be implemented by humans, who are flawed. These flaws are not insidious; they are in fact needed for survival of the species. Humans will easily be corrupted, they will always tire, they will get bored, they will be lazy, they will be selfish, they will forget, they will misunderstand, they will disobey, they will have desires, they will want power, they will want fame, they will want adulation, they will want to lord over others, they will keep secrets, they will turn a blind eye, they will be indifferent, they will be ignorant, they will be superstitious, they will be racist, they will be sexist, they will be biased, they will be greedy, they will want to have everything but not work for it, they will bully, they will enjoy winning by any means, they will be delusional, they will scam the susceptible, they will manipulate the mentally weak, they will lie to cover up their own crimes, they will believe in lies because the lies make them feel good, they will ignore reality, they will be hypocrites, they will hold grudges, they will be cruel to the defenseless, they will kill without remorse, they will lose their minds, and you can go on for hours, but people don’t really want to admit it. And they’ll keep arguing about ideologies. If you want a well run society that will maintain peace, harmony, fairness, and equipoise for a long time, reduce these human flaws to a minimum and keep human influence to a minimum in major decisions. And it has to be a global project for the human species, not just for a nation, for the simple reason that wars between nations will change the algorithms.
Peter
188-Azov militants took dozens of residents of Mariupol hostage: women and children are locked in a school that is being mined
https://rusvesna.su/news/1646242746
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187-I’m the grandson of that soldier
186-Eduard Basurin: the OSCE mission supplied the Ukrainian Armed Forces with data on military facilities in the Donbas
https://smotrim.ru/article/2683401
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185-INDIVIDUAL-XX. Mothers, daughters, wives and brides of modern fascism.
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184-Kadyrov: Chechen special forces do not meet the resistance of Bandera
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183-Russian Defense Ministry: US financed the development of biological weapons in Ukraine
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182-Only radical intervention can help here: a Ukrainian woman’s appeal to a Russian soldier
https://rusvesna.su/news/1645974797
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181-Genocide laughed at by Europe
https://rusvesna.su/news/1646149596
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180-Announced the creation of the Ukrainian Federal Republic
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179-Shelling of the LNR and DNR
178-One more step to Nuremberg-2 “Not only the right, but also the duty to resist”
https://www.fondsk.ru/news/2022/02/13/esche-odin-shag-k-nurnbergu-2-55543.html
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177-A real cowboy has no reason to! The Americans are going to impose anti-Russian sanctions, “without waiting for the invasion” of Ukraine
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176-February 15, 1989. The 33rd anniversary of the end of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPR6HHLSj70
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A54d1Uec0Q
History repeated itself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJH8KhDwlrs
175-Where is the gold reserve of the Russian Empire stored today
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Irina,
Good luck getting anything out of the Western banks. Look at how they’ve treated Venezuela. You might as well ask for mercy from pirates and slave traders. Besides, the gold was probably re-stolen from the banks. So finding the gold, much less having it returned seems unlikely, in my opinion.
Eric
Eric,
174-Europe, Japan and even the United States (Apple) have long used our components and high technologies, but they prefer to keep quiet about it
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173-Political analyst Chaplyga told how the Russian Federation conducted a successful operation to expel NATO from Ukraine
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172-CBC says Putin behind Canada Tucker Convoy. Trudeau in a bunker
CBC says Putin behind Canada Tucker Convoy. Trudeau in a bunker – YouTube
Putin once responded to a similar accusation against him with a quote from an old Soviet comedy movie. It was understood only by those who saw this movie. This movie was shown in American cinemas in the 60-70s under the name “Kidnapping in the Caucasus”. The essence of the film was that a folklore student came to one of the Caucasian republics to collect holiday toasts at the table. Toast is not fried bread, but those wishes that we traditionally say to those present at the table before drinking a glass of wine or vodka. And since in the Caucasus a toast is not said without wine, he got very drunk. The police listed him everything that he broke in a drunken fight including an old ruined from age church. That is, it was clear that they wanted to impute to the student what he did not do. And the student asked the question – what, did I also ruined the church? This question was once answered by Putin. We all had fun here. It’s just as funny now.
Irina
171-Just for fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRyTels4-kk
Irina
Irina
Can’t trust those ‘evil Russians’…That was great, Irina:) Brought a real smile to my face.
Eric
Irina,
Much fun. Are these known artists or everyday citizens?
Jeff
Dear Jeff,
These are musicians and singers who live in different cities of Russia. They did not gather together, but each played his part staying in his city. And then the organizer of this project, Timur Vedernikov, combined them in one video. These are several projects that are called Music Together. The song of the Bremen Town Musicians is known to all children and adults of the USSR. It is from our favorite old Soviet cartoon “The Bremen Town Musicians”
This is the link to the channel. There are many other fun soviet times songs
Irina
170-The history of anti-Russian sanctions: from Ivan the Terrible to the present day
https://nic-pnb.ru/analytics/istoriya-antirossijskih-sanktsij-ot-ivana-groznogo-do-nashih-dnej/
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169-The American was quarantined at a dacha in the Leningrad region and trolled his friends and business partners across the ocean
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168-Sergey Lavrov: If it depends on Russia, there will be no war. But we will not allow our interests to be attacked.
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Given the nature and history of the West, that is USA, UK, France, and the other Western European countries secondarily, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, etc, which are based on racist sense of superiority and entitlement, war, a second Operation Barbarossa or a nuclear First Strike attack is inevitable against Russia and China. Both will have to use force preemptively to dislodge and disrupt Western encirclement and encroachment. Only the actual use of force, or the overwhelming proof of their imminent destruction if they persist will stop them. Note that Iran attacked a US base and took down a US drone did not result in military action by the US. NATO must be physically kicked out of the countries east of Germany per NATO’s unkept agreement. Otherwise, Western imperialism will crush the world.
Eric
167-Some quotes from the statements of American leaders about the USSR and Russia
Comments from China Writers’ Group,
James Baker, US Secretary of State, 1991, Washington:
“We have spent trillions of dollars over the past 40 years to win the Cold War against the USSR. The main thing is that there were traitors.”
Soros, 1992:
“Now we finally got to the most tasty morsel, to Russia. At stake is the main jackpot – the entire state as a whole … “.
Clinton:
“NATO’s goal in the future is to deploy peacekeeping forces in regions of ethnic conflicts and border disputes from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural Mountains.”
US President Clinton Directive No. 13, February 1992
Clinton:
“… We spent many billions of dollars on bringing Yeltsin to power, but they more than paid off, we knocked out a competitor, Russia, and for negligible prices pumped out of Russia 20 thousand tons of copper, 15 thousand tons of aluminum, 2 thousand tons of cesium , beryllium, strontium and much more. The US profit on bringing Yeltsin to power was more than 5700% . This has never happened in history! “. (Message of US President B. CLINTON “On the state of the country” dated February 7, 1997).
Advisor to the US President Zbigniew Brzezinski:
“The smaller the population will be in this territory (USSR and Russia), the more successful its development by the West will be”
“Slavs – Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians – are the most recalcitrant peoples in the world. They can be destroyed, but not conquered. That is why this seed must be eliminated. Due to global warming climate zones will shift. Slavs in their territories are temporary guests. We will drive them far to the north. There will be a reservation with a compact population.”
Irina
166-Two notable articles from Soviet and Chinese history
Comments from China Writers’ Group,
I’m in contact with an old friend of mine from my Zen Center days, who is an editor. He’s interested in publishing my work on travels in China, from a Buddhist point of view. In any case, we agree politically on US politics but he is not aware of the Soviet and Chinese viewpoints on Stalin, Mao and Zhou En Lai. So I did some checking and found these two historical gems, neither are too long.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202104/1221684.shtml Anna Louise Strong on Mao and Zhou En Lai, discusses the perfidity of the KMT.
This one is about her impressions of Stalin, which basically crush the narratives of him as ‘ruthless dictator’. You have to hand it to Western propagandists. They can turn snow white into the wicked witch of the west. And people believe it.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/strong-anna-louise/1941/x01/stalin.htm
Eric
Dear Eric!
What do you think about the situation when the Ukrainian military says that there is no concentration of Russian troops on the border. Russia is not going to attack. The Ukrainian president calls on the population not to panic, not to buy buckwheat and salt, there will be no war. Russia declares that we are not going to attack and fight with Ukraine.
But the US says, no, you guys are going to fight each other, we know that better than you do. Fight! Doesn’t this seem ridiculous to you? And did the WW2 not begin with a similar case?
Irina
165-The current year is 7530 according to the Slavic calendar. What was it like and why is it so much more elaborate than the Gregorian one
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164-Documentaries about the breakup of the USSR
Hello Irina,
I tried to watch the video, but what a terrible way to read English. Since I know you, I thought to ask just please post the transcript here. I will read it. Then, maybe I could watch the video again and watch the images instead of just concentrating on the small line of English going so fast.
I only got to 4 minutes. Several times he says the country had “problems of stagnation” and had to be restructured. I do not yet know what his conclusions are about that. But I have my conclusions.
You remember when we first met, you recommended several on-line sources for Russian history. One was a full history of the Soviet Union, a text that is currently used in the Moscow State University junior and senior level courses in history and political science. It is all in Russian, written by Russian Scholars and from a Russian point of view.
At first I didn’t want to translate it. Besides being immense, it was presented on 530 web pages. That’s right, it was free, but spread out on over 500 pages that I had to visit, copy and paste and then translate and edit into 4 books. (What’s the point, I don’t know)? Other than each web page had a dozen intrusive ads and by that method they got more than 5000 ad impressions out of me. Hey, I am not complaining about it.
At first I was only interested in the collapse and dissolution, so I only translated the part about Gorbachev and Yeltsin (ending with Putin). But it was obvious that there were so many ongoing problems inherited from before, that I had to translate the Khrushchev / Brezhnev period also. Then guess what? Same same, I had to go back and translate the Stalin period. So finally I translated everything back to Lenin and Trotsky and the revolution.
But I did it all backwards, (chronologically reversed). Anyhow I read through it several times in my editing process and also went forwards. It is an amazing series, which I put into 4 books. It is what Russian students are taught. I feel not much is hidden, since the USSR is no more, and who is there to censor? Not much opinion was given, no slant, so that it was just all the events that you could draw your own conclusions from. Surely other period studies might have more details, but these 400,000 words basically tell all.
I feel that the moment Stalin died, the Soviet Union was consciously dismantled, with nothing to replace the structures that were removed. It was put into stagnation on purpose over 3 decades. I don’t believe that the breakup of the republics was what killed the Soviet Union. In fact it was the best result and it was even proposed in 1953. I won’t go into that one. The republics were kept for strategic military reasons, but economically and socially they were the time bomb that was sure to go off. And they did.
Furthermore, Lenin and his cohorts designed a system that was perhaps the worst imaginable for Russia. They kept Russia weak as possible because of their idiotic dreams that the the workers of Germany and the rest of Europe would soon join with Bolshevism. They didn’t give one rotten shit about Russia, but only about their own demented fantasies. This is what they teach in the Russian University.
If you know any Soviet leader that was honorable, (probably only Stalin honest to Russia, still with all of his faults), please tell me. I think Soviet leaders were all a bunch of Rogues, perhaps with only little windows of doing some one thing right, and very seldom????
(Sure know that I am not comparing, and I think the West are 100% gangsters.)
Richard
Dear Richard!
I have uploaded the subtitles in text format for you.
We call the period of Brezhnev’s rule a period of stagnation. Officially, it is believed that by 70-80 the development of the economy has slowed down. Although, as can be seen from the statistics, there was no slowdown in the development of the economy during this period. But human nature is such that we always want more than what we already have.
By the way, Brezhnev was not the worst leader of the country. At the very least, he tried to fix what Khrushchev had done and keep what Khrushchev hadn’t had time to break. However, Brezhnev is not Stalin in terms of his leadership, organizational and other qualities. And of course he is not a thinker in the sense that he could not come up with something new that would improve the situation in the country.
With regard to history textbooks, with the advent of a new government, the view of historical events changes every time. Therefore, in my opinion, it makes sense to focus only on dates and events, but not on their interpretation. Today, liberal views still prevail in Russia. But the situation has already begun to improve.
Irina
I would like to add something. The Soviet Union practically existed within the borders of the Russian Empire, with the exception of Poland and Finland, which after the revolution of 1917 became independent states. But the difference of the Russian Empire was that there was no national division in it, there were no national republics. And I agree with Putin’s opinion that it was the artificial division of the territory of the USSR along ethnic lines that became the problem that helped him fall apart.
Irina
Hello Irina,
I have read your translated subtitles. I would have written it exactly in that way. I knew from my reading that all the “breakup stories” are false and only cover-ups. Who is left alive of those leaders? Should they be prosecuted and spend their ending years in prison? What do you think? They should also be tried after their deaths and found culpable. I think their inherited fortunes must be redeemed also.
Re: Leaders and losers of the former USSR: how GDP grew & What Soviet republics Spend On Food
I think that I have an unconventional view of the Soviet Union, which I can share. First I will discuss the EU, which is not my main point.
- All the ex-Republics of the USSR voiced a loud love for the EU and a disdain for Russia. (Some say that “the people” don’t really feel that way, but we have to go with what the government is doing, don’t we?)
Yet those that have joined the EU have not really flowered economically. Why did they join? What you are doing in the EU, you are renting your territory out for a future atomic battlefield. You get a NATO base that is not in your control, and if they ever shoot off a missile with any excuse, You will gain various radioactive no-go dead zones in your country. (Of course you’ll get many many 1000’s of dead people too.)
They do it because some of the leaders will become very rich, and others rich people will become billionaires. And the common people support it, because EU membership is their doorway to get the heck out of the country. I think population decline is evident in all the new EU members. Some from emigration and some for declining birth rate, (which is the same thing), it’s no belief in the future. I found a very detailed EU study on population, but it was a long-term projection into the future, so I won’t include it here.
- Many Russians say that the Soviet Union was good for them. So they wish they had it back. But I ask you?
What did the Soviet Republics ever give to Russia?
Did they have anything that you needed?
From the very beginning in 1922, at its creation:
Soviet leaders schemed on how to subdue “Russian Chauvinism.”
Cripple Russia with every known device.
(I posted details before and am not going to repeat it.)
At every tremor in relations, separatism raised its ugly head.
Giving, and more giving were the only proposed solutions.
Bleed Russia dry. (dozens of times)
We Can Fight the battles on these buffer zones.
The territories were strategic even for the tzars.
If you give up the Republics, you’ll have NATO bases on your border.
Guess What??? Where are the NATO bases now?
So in my view it is not a loss to be rid of the Republics.
But it’s how they went about it, that created an enormous loss.
A so-called market economy perhaps could have worked for Russia.
But instead of carefully building the institutions for the market, they only dismantled the currently working planned economy. With nothing to replace it, they built a bandit economy. Why did they do it? After examining the events of the time, I have to conclude that the leaders of the Soviet Union for 30 years, from Khrushchev to Yeltsin, were Enormous Gangsters. The whole lot had to be complicit too, or why did they let them get away with it.
I don’t allow them to say “Ooops, I guess I was naive”. I go with Roosevelt when he said, “If it happened, it was planned that way”.
- Now let’s take back the republics? Are you kidding?
What do they have for Russia?
Let them beg like they are begging the EU. Don’t give a nickel, now it is their turn to give.
Build Russia. Fuck the Republics. Just watch out they will send their terrorists.
- Of all the statistics, GDP or whatever they come up with, only one tells the truth every time. What percentage of income do the people need to pay for food?
Read it and be informed about who has an economy.
(2020 infographic from: https://ria.ru/20201214/raskhody-evropa-1588904334.html
The country Share of spending on food, % Share of spending on alcohol and tobacco, % Share of spending on cafes, restaurants and hotels, % Share of spending on leisure and culture, %
1 Luxembourg 8,4 1,3 8,5 6,2
2 Netherlands 10,6 2,9 5,7 8,4
3 United Kingdom 10,6 2,2 8,8 13,1
4 Ireland 11,5 2,3 6,4 8,3
5 Germany 11,7 1,6 6,2 11,2
6 Finland 11,7 2,1 4,7 9,2
7 Austria 11,8 2,3 6,9 11,5
8 Norway 11,8 2,7 3,6 10,0
9 Denmark 12,1 2,2 5,7 9,7
10 Switzerland 12,1 2,0 11,0 10,9
11 Iceland 13,1 2,6 5,7 11,1
12 France 13,2 3,8 7,7 8,0
13 Sweden 13,5 2,0 н/д 18,7
14 Belgium 14,0 2,0 6,6 7,2
15 Spain 14,2 1,7 9,7 5,5
16 Portugal 14,3 1,6 8,8 4,2
17 Slovenia 14,4 1,8 6,6 9,1
18 Cyprus 15,3 1,6 8,9 4,4
19 Italy 18,1 1,8 5,1 5,0
20 Czech Republic 19,2 3,0 6,9 10,6
21 Malta 19,8 2,4 8,3 8,1
22 Greece 20,0 3,4 11,1 5,0
23 Turkey 20,8 4,3 6,5 3,1
24 Estonia 21,5 3,2 5,4 10,8
25 Slovakia 23,2 3,0 6,0 6,9
26 Latvia 23,3 2,9 5,4 8,1
27 Poland 25,1 2,5 4,9 6,6
28 Hungary 27,7 3,7 4,4 5,4
29 Croatia 28,2 2,9 2,9 5,5
30 Montenegro 29,7 3,7 4,0 3,3
31 Russia 29,7 3,0 3,5 8,4
32 Lithuania 31,5 4,0 3,6 6,4
33 Romania 32,5 8,2 2,1 4,2
34 Serbia 34,2 4,8 3,2 5,1
35 Belorussia 35,8 2,8 2,9 7,6
36 Bulgaria 36,2 5,1 н/д 6,4
37 Northern Macedonia 37,8 4,0 3,6 1,8
38 Moldova 40,6 1,8 2,6 2,8
39 Ukraine 47,9 3,7 3,1 2,0
40 Kazakhstan 49,4 2,4 2,9 1,7
Richard
Dear Richard!
The issue of preserving their territories lies not only in the economic plane. This is a matter of preservation and survival of any state.
At first we were told, why do you need Alaska? She is so far away from you, she brings nothing to you. Give it to us. They gave it to the states. So far, no money has been received for Alaska. What income do the states get from Alaska now? Is it great? Let’s propose to the states to give it independence. Or California, for example. You must know that she was also Russian. Nothing was paid for it at all. And why do the states need California now? Why do they feed millions of unnecessary people for free? Let them give their independence. What will we hear in response to our questions?
Now we are being asked again, why do you need republics that did not bring you anything? Give them to the EU. And what will they bring to the EU? Why does the EU need them? And will the rich countries of the EU not become poorer from the fact that they will receive new freeloaders?
Further more. Questions have already asked, why does Russia need Siberia? Almost no one lives there. We need to take it away from Russia. I have never heard such questions and statements addressed to other states. China, for example, has a large territory occupied by mountains and almost no one lives there either. Let’s take these territories away from them.
As for the governments of the former republics that are asking to join the EU, governments and peoples are not the same thing.
Not all, but most of those who took part in the collapse of the Union are still alive. Their so-called fortunes are acquired or rather stolen from the state and must be confiscated from them or their heirs.
I indirectly answered your question about the former republics in my last post. I can only add that the main resource of any state is the human resource. The human resource of the republics of the USSR was of the highest level – highly educated and highly organized. Now this human resource clean toilets in Europe
You were right when you talked about the bandit economy that was developed in Russia in the 90s. At that time, the laws did not work and they simply did not exist. But now things have finally changed. I must say that even now many do not like the way the state has learned to control their income.
But there is no market economy anywhere I think. The democratic market economy is inherently bandit. If someone is not given something voluntarily, then he will be forced to give it up, no matter what – under sanctions or weapons.
And now they don’t even offer us a ransom. They just take it for free. Do you think we agree to give anybody anything voluntarily and for free?
Irina
Irina,
You are always on point. I knew that the area where I lived near Fort Ross (Rossiya), Sebastopol, the Russian river, in Sonoma County California, was paid for with a promissory note, but was never paid in cash! Yet, these parasites whine and cry when their ill-gotten gains (think also of the Kulaks) complain about their ‘human rights’ and ‘rules’ are ‘violated’.
That is what is meant by ‘dictatorship of the Prolitariat.’ Feudalists and Capitalists stole it. Now they have to return it and pay the bill.
Eric
163-Russia got the opportunity to look into the US military laboratory in Kazakhstan.
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162-Signs of Russian troops entering the country
https://zen.yandex.ru/media/dodo/priznaki-vvoda-rossiiskih-voisk-61d99ae1fc8ecc6a6e641956?&
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161-The countdown has started. China has disabled tracking systems for its ships and aircraft
160-The origins of Polish Russophobia
https://hist-etnol.livejournal.com/2782941.html
https://news.rambler.ru/science/45786747-chudo-na-visle-otkuda-vzyalas-polskaya-rusofobiya/
https://skeptimist.livejournal.com/1550827.html
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159-Who invented Ukraine and the Ukrainians?
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158-20 countries refused to sign a truce resolution for the duration of the Olympics
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157-Sivkov: DPR border guards disrupted a special operation of German special forces in the Donbass
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156-How NATO is developing Ukraine and teaching terrorist attacks in Crimea
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155-“Widespread vaccination, the introduction of troops, the cementing of graves”: how the Soviet Union defeated smallpox, plague and cholera
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154-A poem by boris lapin 1905-1941
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boris lapin 1905-1941
Soldier, learn to carry your own corpse,Learn to breathe in a loop,Learn to boil your coffeeOn a narrow wick,
Learn not to remember black eyes,Learn not to wait for heaven –Then you will meet the hour of death,Like your Birnam Forest.
Take a look at the pastures of warHerds of cows are crawling,The carts are fat and fullThe undressed dead,
A swollen corpse lies in the water,And the shadow creeps from the faceUnder the sun, heavy as croupA bay stallion.
It should be in the springRich harvest,And not in vain in the skyA dog can be heard barking.
O ye chain sages,I understand your speech, –These dead men will rise,And we will be mowed down by the sword.
And the field men,”Twisting the reins”,Buried in the dust like cornflowers,There are traces of bloody deeds.
153-Torture by sound, hunger and theft – the special correspondent of “KP” experienced the role of a refugee to Europe
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152-Scientists of the Ministry of Defense created dietary supplements against coronavirus
https://www.rbc.ru/society/12/11/2021/618d8cc09a79473cf1aa8c62
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151-“Shadow CIA” again took up Russia: Poland and Turkey are thinking to take away from us the lands they lost 400 years ago. It looks like Russia is facing difficult times, if she doesn’t do anything
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150-Putin admitted that it took him a lot of effort to launch the Zvezda plant in the Far East
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149-Sanctions taught: RUSAL has equipped a new plant with Russian equipment and is building a city for transfer to state ownership
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148-Famous Russian TV movie series, “17 Moments of Spring”
Dear Irina,
I have enjoyed watching the famous TV series, 17 Moments of Spring, which portrays the master Soviet spy who infiltrated Nazi intelligence and the Gestapo.
This is a fictional presentation about the real conspiracy by Allen Dulles to sign a separate peace with the Nazis, excluding the Soviet Union, and a gross violation of Allied agreements.
While the series is fictionalized, I wonder if there are any actual Soviet documentaries about this. I know that there is a series about the Soviet spy Richard Sorge, who operated in Japan, and warned of future Nazi actions against the USSR as well as noting that the Japanese would not open a second front.
However, that is a real true story. Is there a similar series telling the true story of “Operation Sunrise” or “Operation Sunrise Crossword”? That would be great to watch. The fact that the Soviets were able to thwart it shows that there may well have been a “Standartenfuhrer Stirlitz” equivalent in the SD, German intelligence service.
Kind regards,
Eric
Here is the link. It’s 12 hour long segments. So get the popcorn if you want to watch it.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHiAMOiVIvsD2u8g0RLwvdRScEe9yiUr5
Dear Eric,
“Contrary to popular belief, Stirlitz’s real name is not Maxim Maksimovich Isaev, as it can be assumed from “Seventeen Moments of Spring”, but Vsevolod Vladimirovich Vladimirov. The surname Isaev is presented by Yulian Semyonov as the operational pseudonym of Vladimirov already in the first novel about him – “Diamonds for the dictatorship of the proletariat.”
This information is from the Russian Wikipedia.
But as the prototypes of Stirlitz there were called many intelligence officers, including German ones, who served in the high headquarters of the Reich and worked for the Soviet Union. The author of this series, Yulian Semyonov, was a unique writer. He had the opportunity to work with documents from closed war archives.
It seems to me that Stirlitz was a collective image of many intelligence officers who during the war years, under the guise of Germans, worked in the highest echelons of Germany. Although in the GDR itself and in the USSR in the Soviet years, Stirlitz was perceived as a real-life character.
When the series “17 moments” was on TV , all the streets in the USSR and in the GDR were empty. And when in the 80s the actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov (who played Stirlitz) visited the GDR (my mother accompanied him), then in every smallest shop people admired “Oh, Stirlitz”.
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Irina
147-How Stalin was carried out of the Mausoleum: “Ilyich said that it was unpleasant for him to be near him”
https://www.kp.ru/daily/28349/4496471/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com
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146-NATO is already quietly building bases in Ukraine. How many and where are they “hidden”
https://www.kp.ru/daily/28345/4491907/
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Russia has said that Ukraine joining Nato crosses its red line. But Ukraine is already occupied by Nato and Russia is just watching. How come?
Eric
Then we will wait for the appearance of “polite people” somewhere at them. Quiet and sudden.
Irina
This reminds me of all the subterfuge, lying, plotting, installing and planning the Allies did for 10 years, to start World War I.
Jeff
Those of them who served in the Soviet Army have the same school as ours. Maybe a little outdated.
Irina
I would like to add a drop of info to your excellent summary of the complex interactions between revolutionary & counter-revolutionary forces in play for a quite long time now, hopefully ending one day synthetically in global cultural uplifting and physical economy development for all…
François Asselineau, a French political man and founding president of the UPR (Union Populaire Républicaine) in 2007 produced many remarkable and lengthy videos on Youtube which were quite successful. He mentioned Coudenhove-Kalergi in the 3 hours long one called ” Les origines cachées de la construction européenne ” (The hidden origins of European construction). He elaborated on the origins of the European Union, needless to say or as de Gaulle said sarcastically, ” Le Machin”/The Thing. Speaking of revolution, he’s probably one of the few Frenchmen who deeply understood that “Mai 68″ was a color revolution set to get rid of Charles de Gaulle and with de Gaulle, everything that was France. Unfortunately, his educational success is not matched by his electoral results. He will try a second time to be the next French President in may 2022.I invite those who speak French to have a look at UPR TV on YouTube, you will find a lot of remarkable lectures. His lecture called ” Qui gouverne la France & l’Europe ? ” (Who rules France & Europe ?) is quite outstanding in revealing the backstage in minutiae…
Since President François Mitterrand let the Lepen family have access to national media and gain prominence, they played the role of “repoussoir” (repulsive element) at each French election since the 80s, allowing the “Left” or the oligarchy’s protégé to have the upper hand & win the election. For the May 2022 French election, I think the oligarchy’s protégé is Éric Zemmour, Macron will be the “repoussoir” in the second turn after being their darling & favorite puppet in May 2017 (Chacun son tour..)
All this to say that intention matters in geopolitics & history or to state my mind clearly, intentions are of paramount importance in human development and the intentions of those having the Resources to make their ideas take shape in physical reality are of the outmost importance. (The dark nobility, the Venetian origins of the Dutch-Anglo banking system etc. but not only them since the last decade…)
So, Powers and Resources are needed…
By Powers, I mean : Being (pure awareness & good intentions are included in it), Knowledge (including right epistemology), Know-how (right education and right political organization and everything art, science & tech are included in it) and Resources (natural resources, human resources, organizational resources including the banking system or the more or less secret entities and connections used in the shenanigans of the Cabal aka the PBGC (see below for those who ignore this acronym’s meaning) etc.)
The trillion dollars question :
Who on Earth nowadays possess Powers and Resources in meaningful amount & scope ?
Essentially 2 groups : the PBGC and the SCO
The PBGC (The Psychopathic Barbarian Genocidal Crusaders or simply the Crusaders, better known in mainstream academia as the Anglo-American Establishment) have a lot of resources but I’m not so sure they have true Powers as explained in the paragraph above.
The SCO (The Shanghai Cooperation Organization aka the Sovereign states Coalition Organization) has true Powers & Resources.
For the first time since the last 3 centuries, a group will be able, because it’s powerful enough, to put serious limits to the whims of the PBGC and thus giving hope to the overwhelmingly vast majority of mankind because true development is beginning to be possible and not the usual repetitive psychodrama acting as a not so efficient veil to multi-faceted shenanigans maintaining an exploitative machine for a Lilliputian minority.
NURTURING TRUE POWERS (Being, Knowledge, Know-how) and using them for cultural uplifting and true physical economic development for all, for me, IS TRUE REVOLUTION
And to go deeper into what I mean by true Powers, who can be a better guide than Professor Martin Jacques ?
I suggest 2 videos featuring Professor M. Jacques :
1- The Great Disjuncture : what the US-China contest means for the world ? (2 hours 25 minutes)
2- To understand China’s success, first understand civilization (35 minutes)
Below is the YouTube ID for the second video
Quan
145-Evgeny Primakov: Those who participated in the persecution of Russians will not visit and study in Russia
https://www.kp.ru/daily/28344/4491261/
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144-Lviv Mayor Sadovyi: court ordered to transfer Kuznetsov’s remains to Russia, but we won’t do it
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143-“I wasn’t afraid for myself, but for my men.” What do ordinary Muscovites remember about the battle for the capital
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142-“The first bell for sislibs and US-British agents”
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141-Pioneer camp in the USSR and pioneer Streuselkuchen-a symbol of Soviet happy childhood.
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140-Chechnya, Khodorkovsky, ISIS, the Nobel Prize – ” creative path “of the editor-in-chief of Novaya Muratov.
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139-His feat was included in the American historiography under the title “Turchyn attack behind enemy lines”.
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138-MH17 – The full version of the Malaysian Boeing tragedy in the skies of Donbass.
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137-Stop the mockery!
https://zavtra.ru/blogs/ostanovit_glumlenie?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com
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136-Khrushchev and Fidel Castro met for the first time in a cheap hotel in Harlem, where the Soviet delegation came to spite the Americans
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135-“Smart voting”: failure instead of an opposition trump card up your sleeve
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134-The beauty of Putin’s translator is driving the American leadership crazy
https://yandex.ru/turbo/vz.ru/s/politics/2021/9/30/1121617.html
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133-About Lenin’s Tomb
I forgot to mention why we call Lenin’s Tomb simply Mausoleum in Russian.
The word Tomb in Russian is associated with the tombs of the pharaohs. Therefore, we use this word only when it comes to the Egyptian pharaohs.
And at the same time, we call it just the Mausoleum. We do not specify that this is Lenin’s Mausoleum. Simply because we have no other mausoleums and there is no need to specify, and not because we have no respect for Lenin.
Indeed, in our society, many years of discussions continue about the need to bury Lenin’s body, and not keep his body in the Mausoleum.
Some believe that he was buried in a non-Christian way, i.e. not in the ground.
Others believe that the main thing is that his body is below ground level, and this is Christian.
Still others cite as an example the medieval burials of Russian tsars in the cathedrals of Red Square, where their RAKAs (it means stone coffin) with their bodies are installed right on the floor of the cathedrals and they are generally not below ground level.
This is such a difficult debate question.
Irina
132-How the vanquished wrote history
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131-Furious Sergey Kurginyan: “get to the bottom of it”
When this person’s performance is announced, the viewer has a premonition: something is about to happen. And, as a rule, intuition does not deceive. A man with glasses and a bare crown always gives heat. And if he also gets an opponent who is not timid, then the situation quickly ceases to be languid – from the atmosphere prevailing in the studio, you can light a cigarette. At the same time, Comrade Kurginyan invariably gets into a rage, begins to get professionally hysterical, which causes a double attitude to himself. He seems to be saying the right things, but with such heightened emotion that he feels a little uneasy. In addition to this habit of spluttering in the heat of the moment… However, whether you like Kurginyan’s style of communication or not, one thing is clear – the guy is very interesting, you should listen to him. That is why he is a frequent guest on various programs with a political bias.
Sergey Kurginyan
Now let’s move on to the biography smoothly
Sergey Kurginyan was born in a family of Moscow scientists. It happened on November 14, 1949. His father, Yervand Amayakovich, is a historian by profession, which in all probability determined the fate of his son Seryozha. Her mother, Maria Sergeevna, worked as a researcher at the Institute of World Literature. Their child has combined hot Armenian blood with cool Russian-Swedish.
The boy did well at school, and at the end of it successfully passed the exams in the Moscow Geological Exploration Institute. In 1972, the graduate received a diploma in geophysics. 6 years later, Sergey defended his dissertation and became a candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. Until 80, he worked as a researcher at his native university and the Institute of Oceanology.
Since the late sixties, he became seriously interested in theater, and even graduated in absentia from the Shchukin School with a specialization in dramatic directing. During the years of Perestroika, he preached a philosophical approach to theater work. At that time, he headed the Experimental Creative Center and the Na Ploskakh Theater. In this field, he did not win any laurels – Kurginyan’s metaphysical quest was too far from the public’s preferences.
Since the 80s, Sergey has been gradually introduced into the political processes taking place in the country. In ‘ 88, he joined the CPSU. He repeatedly went to “hot spots” on behalf of the Central Committee of the Party to conduct expert examinations on interethnic conflicts.
In the 90s, he proposed to carry out repressions against representatives of the shadow economy. At the same time, he ran for People’s Deputies of the RSFSR. In his program, he pointed out the unfairness of the distribution of funds between the union republics.
In ‘ 91, he allegedly refused to become an adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev due to differences in political views. However, there are witnesses to the opposite.
During the August coup, he took the side of the State Emergency Committee.
In ’92, he called on Russia’s “constructive forces” to reconcile, but to no avail.
In ‘ 93, he worked as an adviser to the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet Ruslan Khasbulatov, although Khasbulatov denies this fact. Nevertheless, during the October events and at the time of the shooting of the parliament by tanks, he was inside the defending building. He was an opponent of the “campaign on Ostankino”.
In ‘ 96, he suggested that the oligarchs take a pro-state position to preserve the democratic system in the country.
In 2011, he headed the “Essence of Time” movement, whose main political task was the restoration of the Soviet Union. The author’s program of the same name was released from February to November 11 of the year. Later, another “author” “The Meaning of the game” was born.
In 2012, he spoke out against the threat of an” orange revolution ” in Russia. He accused the “liberoids” of seeking to destroy the state. He made enemies among representatives of the non-systemic opposition, who accused him of aiding Putin.
In the future, he paid attention to the fight against juvenile justice.
He welcomed the entry of Crimea into the Russian Federation and supported the struggle of the DPR and LPR against official Kiev.
He became known to a wide TV audience due to his participation in numerous historical and political projects. At first it was the “anti-show “”The Court of Time” and “The Essence of Time”. Then a program in a similar format called “Historical Process” was broadcast on the Rossiya TV channel. In these TV shows, he defended left-wing views and argued for the advantages of the Soviet system.
More than once he was invited as an expert to “Duel ” and” Evenings “by Vladimir Solovyov,” The right to Know ” with Roman Babayan.
He is married, his wife is Maria, a classmate of Sergey at the Institute and later an actress of his theater “On the Boards”, a publicist, an employee of the Kurginyan Center.
The couple has a daughter and a granddaughter.
He always spoke respectfully of the activities of Lenin, Stalin, and Beria. He still feels personally guilty for the collapse of the USSR. He criticizes both the current government and the liberal opposition.
Author of many books and journalistic articles.
At one time, he was awarded the titles of “the smartest opposition ideologue” and “punk Stalinist”.
Sergey Kurginyan
Kurginyan is convinced that…
… when the “winds of democracy” begin to blow with full force, everything ends in totalitarianism.
… the only possible form of existence for our country is an empire.
… Russia is an alternative Europe that traces its history back to Byzantium, while the West is the heir to Rome.
Communism is the emancipation and awakening of each individual’s highest creative abilities.
Interesting statements of Sergey Yervandovich
About the musician Yuriy Shevchuk: Beautiful, superficial and so bright chatter – that’s what the proposals of our creative intelligentsia, who want to frond… It is necessary that the OMON does not beat Shevchuk – and then all the problems will be solved. Figushki they will be solved!.. Once you start making this democracy, it will turn into chaos. The herd will carry-fuck knows where, sweep away everything in its path. Either the bandit dictator gets out… or the whole thing just falls apart.
About blogger Alexey Navalny: Navalny’s task is immediately set incorrectly, illiterate, populist, at the level of PR – why? Because the point is not that there is corruption – these are pimples on the body… but that the country cannot be taken out of the initial accumulation of capital… Corruption is nothing compared to the creation of a criminal state… Navalny’s fight against corruption is a fight against headaches by cutting off the head.
About the policy of Gennady Zyuganov: I always believed that the main pillar of the Yeltsin regime was Zyuganov. And Zyuganov always played the role of a clown, who frightened himself and collected votes and rallies… He knew for a fact that he wasn’t going to win… so this was all business.
About President Putin: Putin is conditioned by the course he believes in in life. He believes in a liberal economy, joining the West, and a strong state, strong government. He believes it all together. What will happen when he realizes that all this is not realized together?
Original article posted здесь: https://natroix.ru/karera/neistovyiy-sergey-kurginyan-doyti-do-samoy-suti.html
Irina
130-Russian Professor Kagarlitsky was arrested for ten days
Savelovsky District Court of Moscow arrested Professor Boris Kagarlitsky for ten days
Savelovsky District CourtMoscow has arrested Russian professor and political scientist Boris Kagarlitsky for ten days for organizing an unauthorized rally. About it on Thursday, September 30, it is reported inTelegram channel of the capital’s courts of general jurisdiction.
“Kagarlitsky B. Yu. was found guilty of committing an administrative offense under part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (“Organizing or holding a public event without submitting a notice of holding a public event in accordance with the established procedure”), he was sentenced to administrative arrest…” — the report says.
It is specified that the decision can be appealed within ten days after its delivery.
The detention of Boris Kagarlitsky became known on Wednesday evening, September 29. The professor wrote on his Twitter page, the police detained him at the door of the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (MVSESEN), where he was going to give a lecture on Marx.
Earlier it was reported that the coordinator of the Left Front movement, an oppositionist, was detained in MoscowSergey Udaltsov, for the post about the meeting with deputies on September 25.
Irina
129-Between Soros and Navalny: The Higher School of Corruption lost its head
The first and only rector of the Research University “Higher School of Economics” Yaroslav Kuzminov, known in financial circles as “old man Nabiullin”, left his post.
Kuzminov’s instructions
Yaroslav Ivanovich Kuzminov was born in 1957 in Moscow into a rich nomenclature family. There was a joyful event on May 26 – not without an evil irony in 50 years, the Day of Russian Entrepreneurship will be celebrated on this day. Another coincidence: on Kuzminov’s birthday, Jack “Doctor Death” Kevorkian, the future preacher of euthanasia, celebrated his 29th birthday, and the young journalist Allan Chumak, the future TV healer, celebrated his 22nd birthday. As if having absorbed the spirit of these people, Kuzminov became a” cross between ” Chumak and Kevorkian for the Russian economy: we will try to charge through the TV, and if it does not help – “voluntary” killing.
Kuzminov’s father, after the war, was deputy editor-in-chief of the Bolshevik magazine, then worked at the Higher Party School and the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU, became a doctor of Economics, and among other things published the book “Impoverishment of workers under capitalism” in 1960, which his young son may have taken as an instruction.
The Soviet Union was an amazing country that simultaneously fought nepotism and glorified labor dynasties. From these mutually exclusive paragraphs, young Yaroslav chose the second one, entered the Economics Department of Moscow State University, where after completing his studies he remained at the Department of History of National Economy and Economic Studies. In 1985, he defended his PhD thesis “The basic attitude of the primitive communal mode of production” – few people guessed then that this, again, was a look not so much into the past of human civilization, but into the near future of Russia.
Soros ‘ Children
Even before perestroika, Kuzminov actively participated in the then-proliferating economic circles, where he met future foremen of privatization. In these circles of young specialists, who were openly idle at official places of work in research institutes, sentences were pronounced against the planned Soviet economy, but at the same time the market principles by which the supposedly prosperous West lived were raised to the absolute. Young idealists cannot be blamed for this – they lacked neither life experience nor professional knowledge. But it is possible and necessary to condemn those of them who, without experience and knowledge, rushed at the first opportunity to equip a huge country to their liking.
Kuzminov avoided this temptation – he remained a far-sighted academic worker, preferring to influence the situation from behind the scenes. In order for his friends to effectively manage society, it was necessary to prepare the appropriate society, and in this Kuzminov proved indispensable. For two years, he led the George Soros Cultural Initiative Foundation, which published “correct” textbooks and built a new educational paradigm. At the same time, Soros financed a young, but already Higher School of Economics, the rector of which Acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar appointed his friend Yaroslav Kuzminov.
In 2003, Kuzminov recalled how Soros gave a” group of Russian enthusiasts ” a grant of several thousand dollars so that they could organize an alternative course in economic theory. Then, however, funding stopped, for which Kuzminov is only grateful: “If this hadn’t happened, we would have become a private school, received good salaries, and eventually would have gone to the West”, and having lost funding, the HSE began to participate in the reform of the Russian economy. “The main thing that Soros did in Russia was to give us money in time and take it away in time,” Kuzminov described the formation of his brainchild in a not very logical but very emotional way.
Preacher of the Unified State Exam
Unfortunately, he did not go to the West – “We are well fed here, too,” and they also allow us to “participate in the reform of the economy.” It is in the depths of the HSE that most of the strategies that have been used to lead us to prosperity over the past three decades were born. Most of these excellent plans were super-generously paid for with state money, especially during the ministerial posts of Alexey Kudrin and Elvira Nabiullina, but neither Strategy 2010 nor Strategy 2020 actually came close to objective reality: they turned out to be the same witchcraft on the TV screen in front of a” charged ” glass of water in a poor provincial apartment.
However, HSE managed to do some things, and first of all, according to the precepts of Soros, it managed to drag the unified state exam through the experimental stage and into everyday reality. A characteristic detail: one of the authors of the idea of the Unified State Exam, Kuzminov, made sure that additional entrance tests were preserved in his own university, which exists on state money: “children of the Unified State Exam”, in his opinion, are suitable for ordinary institutions, and he needs to keep those very” corrupt ” exams.
In general, he was extremely sensitive to the Unified State Exam, as if he was wearing an embroidered backpack. I remember how ten years ago, after my quite innocent polemic with Yaroslav Kuzminov’s laudatory articles about the unified State exam, a representative of the HSE rector threw a completely indecent tantrum to the editor-in-chief of the publication where I worked at that time. It worked, of course, the other way around: our usually good-natured boss declared that it was not appropriate to meet people who did not know how to behave to such an extent.
On Navalny’s shoulders
Kuzminov can now talk as much as he likes about his principles, about the impossibility of reaching an agreement with the authorities, even about his reputation, but in 2014 he was elected to the Moscow City Duma as a self-nominated candidate who was fully supported by United Russia. We emphasize that this happened after Bolotnaya and Crimea, when the division of society became particularly clear, so that the registered liberal quite deliberately betrayed those who stood for the principles previously declared by him. At the beginning of the tenth, by the way, Kuzminov organized an open discussion about the HSE’s procurement activities with Alexey Navalny, completely outplayed the opponent who did not particularly resist, and thereby in one fell swoop whitewashed his activities in the eyes of both supporters (“even Navalny did not find”) and opponents (“like Navalny!”) of the future main opposition leader. A brilliant tactical move by a serial strategy maker!
And now, after a series of corruption scandals at the fraternal RANEPA and a pedophile scandal at HSE, the great tactician calculated the situation and defiantly washed his hands of it. The handwriting of an experienced master is given out by a safety net: a few days before his resignation, he suddenly “went into business” – he was elected to the board of directors of Sistema. And at the Higher School of Economics, he will now be listed as a research supervisor. The 64-year – old Kuzminov apparently intends to hold this post until at least 87 years old-that’s how old Evgeny Yasin is now, who for health reasons added the word “honorary”to the name of his former position.
God be with him, with Yasin, especially since Evgeny Grigoryevich, due to his age, is already in front of His gates. But the career of a new HSE research director may well be curtailed by an impartial investigation of HSE’s highly useful activities during his tenure as rector. For the comparison of the funds spent on the HSE and the “exhaust” from the institute’s scientific activities is impressive: both of them brought losses to the state and society on a particularly large scale.
Irina
128-Igor Froyanov: the forgotten great historian
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127-It’s about time we did too…
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126-Before the Brest Peace, there was a convention on the division of Russia by the allies
https://arctus.livejournal.com/236642.html
125-They are trying to take away “other people’s” gold from Russia again. But what if she demands her own?
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124-The game of politics: the Americans stood up for Sputnik V
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123-Scientists: Sputnik V is more effective than other vaccines against delta strain
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122-Russian diplomat summoned to British Foreign Office over Skripal case
121-A Dash of Disorder: How Controlled Uncertainty Can Help Russia’s Defence
Worth the read and some new thinking about it.
One option is called “spatial or parallel uncertainty”. For example, if two countries introduce sanctions against Russia, one is hit with hard counter-sanctions while the other is randomly spared any consequences, (this is a crude example but it does illustrate the principle). Needless to say, analysts are stumped since they cannot explain the decision via the available information. One can profit from the ensuing confusion and use it to set up follow-up scenarios.
“Serial or temporal uncertainty” refers to the inability to predict a point in time of a reaction.
“Scale or fractal uncertainty” refers to the alignment of elements of a response at different scales. From individual reaction up to geopolitical movements, or a combination.
Three forms of uncertainty can be combined and varied so that rather complex schedules can be devised and implemented in a controlled environment. “Operational unpredictability and deterrence”. What is suggested is a combination of deception and bluffing.
What prevents the opponent from deploying the same strategy? This is where I believe that the uncertainty approach has potential. The strategic and tactical advantage lie fully with the defender. The total war on Russia has been so ferocious that no change in strategy can increase the harm.
Richard
120-The United States by the hands of Ukraine can repeat the scenario with the downing of MH17 deep in the territory of the Russian Federation
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119-The best fights in the parliament of Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JnYFP4-eEU
Irina
118-Leaders and losers of the former USSR: how GDP grew in the former Soviet republics in the last 30 years. Almost 30 years have passed since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and it is already possible to summarize
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27042/4107418/
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I think that I have an unconventional view of the Soviet Union, which I can share. First I will discuss the EU, which is not my main point.
1. All the ex-Republics of the USSR voiced a loud love for the EU and a disdain for Russia. (Some say that “the people” don’t really feel that way, but we have to go with what the government is doing.) Yet those that have joined the EU have not really flowered economically. Why did they join?
What you are doing in the EU, you are renting your territory out for a future atomic battlefield. You get a NATO base that is not in your control, and if they ever shoot off a missile with any excuse, You will gain various radioactive no-go dead zones in your country. (Of course you’ll get many 1000’s of dead people too.)
They do it because some of the leaders will become very rich, and others rich people will become billionaires. And the common people support it, because EU membership is their doorway to get the heck out of the country. I think population decline is evident in all the new EU members. Some from emigration and some from declining birth rate, (which is the same thing), no belief in the future. I found a very detailed EU study on population, but it was a long-term projection into the future, so I won’t include it here.
2. Many Russians say that the Soviet Union was good for them. So they wish they had it back. But I ask you?
What did the Soviet Republics ever give to Russia?
Did they have anything that you needed?
From the very beginning in 1922, at its creation:
Soviet leaders schemed on how to subdue “Russian Chauvinism.”
Cripple Russia with every known device.
(I posted details before and am not going to repeat it.)
At every tremor in relations, separatism raised its ugly head.
Giving, and more giving were the only proposed solutions.
Bleed Russia dry. (dozens of times)
We Can Fight the battles on these buffer zones.
The territories were strategic even for the tzars.
If you give up the Republics, you’ll have NATO bases on your border.
Guess What???
So in my view it is not a loss to be rid of the Republics. You should have done it in the 50’s, you’d be a super-power.
But how they went about ending the USSR, created an enormous loss.
A so-called market economy perhaps could have worked for Russia.
But instead of carefully building the institutions for the market, they only dismantled the currently working planned economy. With nothing to replace it, they built a bandit economy. Why did they do it? After examining the events of the time, I have to conclude that the leaders of the Soviet Union for 30 years, from Khrushchev to Yeltsin, were Enormous Gangsters. The whole lot had to be complicit too, or why did they let them get away with it.
I don’t allow them to say “Ooops, I guess I was naive”. I go with Roosevelt when he said, “If it happened, it was planned that way”.
3. Now let’s take back the republics? Are you kidding?
What do they have for Russia?
Let them beg like they are begging the EU. Don’t give them a nickel, now it is their turn to give.
Build Russia. Fuck the Republics. Just watch out they will send their terrorists.
4. Of all the statistics, GDP or whatever they come up with, only one tells the truth every time. What percentage of income do the people need to pay for food?
Read it and be informed about who has an economy. Sorted from the least to the most.
(2020 infographic from: https://ria.ru/20201214/raskhody-evropa-1588904334.html
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| The country | Share of spending on food, % | Share of spending on alcohol and tobacco, % | Share of spending on cafes, restaurants and hotels, % | Share of spending on leisure and culture, % | |
| 1 | Luxembourg | 8,4 | 1,3 | 8,5 | 6,2 |
| 2 | Netherlands | 10,6 | 2,9 | 5,7 | 8,4 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 10,6 | 2,2 | 8,8 | 13,1 |
| 4 | Ireland | 11,5 | 2,3 | 6,4 | 8,3 |
| 5 | Germany | 11,7 | 1,6 | 6,2 | 11,2 |
| 6 | Finland | 11,7 | 2,1 | 4,7 | 9,2 |
| 7 | Austria | 11,8 | 2,3 | 6,9 | 11,5 |
| 8 | Norway | 11,8 | 2,7 | 3,6 | 10,0 |
| 9 | Denmark | 12,1 | 2,2 | 5,7 | 9,7 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 12,1 | 2,0 | 11,0 | 10,9 |
| 11 | Iceland | 13,1 | 2,6 | 5,7 | 11,1 |
| 12 | France | 13,2 | 3,8 | 7,7 | 8,0 |
| 13 | Sweden | 13,5 | 2,0 | н/д | 18,7 |
| 14 | Belgium | 14,0 | 2,0 | 6,6 | 7,2 |
| 15 | Spain | 14,2 | 1,7 | 9,7 | 5,5 |
| 16 | Portugal | 14,3 | 1,6 | 8,8 | 4,2 |
| 17 | Slovenia | 14,4 | 1,8 | 6,6 | 9,1 |
| 18 | Cyprus | 15,3 | 1,6 | 8,9 | 4,4 |
| 19 | Italy | 18,1 | 1,8 | 5,1 | 5,0 |
| 20 | Czech Republic | 19,2 | 3,0 | 6,9 | 10,6 |
| 21 | Malta | 19,8 | 2,4 | 8,3 | 8,1 |
| 22 | Greece | 20,0 | 3,4 | 11,1 | 5,0 |
| 23 | Turkey | 20,8 | 4,3 | 6,5 | 3,1 |
| 24 | Estonia | 21,5 | 3,2 | 5,4 | 10,8 |
| 25 | Slovakia | 23,2 | 3,0 | 6,0 | 6,9 |
| 26 | Latvia | 23,3 | 2,9 | 5,4 | 8,1 |
| 27 | Poland | 25,1 | 2,5 | 4,9 | 6,6 |
| 28 | Hungary | 27,7 | 3,7 | 4,4 | 5,4 |
| 29 | Croatia | 28,2 | 2,9 | 2,9 | 5,5 |
| 30 | Montenegro | 29,7 | 3,7 | 4,0 | 3,3 |
| 31 | Russia | 29,7 | 3,0 | 3,5 | 8,4 |
| 32 | Lithuania | 31,5 | 4,0 | 3,6 | 6,4 |
| 33 | Romania | 32,5 | 8,2 | 2,1 | 4,2 |
| 34 | Serbia | 34,2 | 4,8 | 3,2 | 5,1 |
| 35 | Belorussia | 35,8 | 2,8 | 2,9 | 7,6 |
| 36 | Bulgaria | 36,2 | 5,1 | н/д | 6,4 |
| 37 | Northern Macedonia | 37,8 | 4,0 | 3,6 | 1,8 |
| 38 | Moldova | 40,6 | 1,8 | 2,6 | 2,8 |
| 39 | Ukraine | 47,9 | 3,7 | 3,1 | 2,0 |
| 40 | Kazakhstan | 49,4 | 2,4 | 2,9 | 1,7 |
Richard
There is such a sad video on YouTube. To make it clear, in all the former republics, Russians began to be called occupiers. The video talks about what kind of invaders we really are.
Irina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmmFL594iL0&list=PLJHLZ1_z4uxCwReNF-JBk5RlYQuKF6Rhe
117-“We killed Hitler’s dog.” How Uzbekistan lived 30 years after the collapse of the USSR
https://aif.ru/travel/my_sobaku_gitlera_ubili_kak_uzbekistan_prozhil_30_let_posle_raspada_sssr
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116-Consumer basket for 2021, composition, price per month
https://pfrf-kabinet.ru/grazhdanam/potrebitelskaya-korzina.html
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115-Why did Academician Sakharov need a “world government” and what “God’s scourge” was he afraid of?
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
The way I see it:
If an article ostensibly about world peace does not take into consideration the world situation as it is: IS IT NOT MISINFORMATION? Is it not designed to confuse?
First it says Andrey Dmitrievich Sakharov was born a genius. So then: must all that follows be the wisdom of a genius? If a genius says something that misses the point, or is dangerously stupid, doesn’t that make him an idiot?
He says something about the devastation of atomic weapons, and then says, “humanity divided into military and political blocs”. As if, atomic weapons caused the division of political blocs. But this division existed centuries before atomic power. Subterfuge number one.
Then he muses that “a solution could be found by combining all the best that exists in the socialist and capitalist systems.” Thus, having merged together, they would, firstly, cease to conflict, and, secondly, neither of the two “formations” would begin to plot to destroy the other. So what would be the “best of the capitalist system” that might combine with some other system?? Let’s take a look:
✓Capitalism as we know it in our world today, (I think always was), is a Mill that concentrates wealth. “Concentrates wealth” is a code word that means “concentrates poverty”. The way that this mill works is that something has to be thrown into the hopper, and out the other end comes concentrated wealth. It is kind of like a harvester machine. The grain goes into the wagon and the chaff is dropped onto the ground to become next year’s fertilizer.
OK, what goes into the hopper? Like in 1954 in Guatemala Colonel Jacobo Arbenz, with his Decree 900, a proposal by Arbenz to redistribute the undeveloped, privately owned land of the wealthy, to the 90% of Guatemalans who were farmers without any land. A year into his presidency, Arbenz expropriated 225,000 acres of land, paying the land owners for this land, and redistributing it to landless and rural farmers.
Thereafter he went into the hopper, and out came the increased wealth of the United Fruit Company, the UFCO. Soon The United Fruit Company built its empire across Central America; and Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica went into the hopper. The chaff was left to rot as usual.
So again, what is the best of Capitalism? It is that since the 50’s they have alway found something to throw into the hopper of their mill. A couple of things about this mill, (about so-called Capitalism as we know it). The mill has levers that can speed it up, as we see it is going faster and faster. But there are no controls to bring it slower or even to moderate it.
In fact, when the hopper goes empty the machine explodes. Especially nowadays that 99% of “wealth” is virtual, that is it is made of only paper derivatives. It amounts to a billion of $ Billion dollar fragile “bets” on any stupid thing, (how many angles dance on the head of a pin, or not much better).
But with the real economy; soon it will start eating its own arms and legs. It has to. So those that claim capitalists are driven by greed, (that is another blooper), they are in truth driven by survival and doing their duty to make sure the hopper never goes empty.
So Venezuela, Iran, Russia, China, all have to go into the mill and be harvested. Now put the “best of Capitalism, with the best of Socialism”, and see what a good menu could be created.
Anyone with half a brain will see immediately that, if any one of these giants go into the mill, next in line will be Europe and all the other so-called allies. The owner of the mill shares the wealth only to meet their objective, to catch the big fish. After that all of planet earth will be owned by one entity, with a big “FOR RENT” sign.
All of the statements below are slobbering idiocy, and they are all water on the mill of world imperialism.
a unified world of labor and capital requires a single governing body.
develop left-wing forces that would give rise to active international cooperation, from which the “world government,” dear to the academician’s heart, would eventually grow.
you can understand it – living in peace and creating medicines instead of bombs or building universities is much better than filling ammunition depots.
Sakharov was a typical idealistic dreamer. He thought that in life, as in physics, everything can be calculated and constructed. This made him into a blind man.
Richard
114-The mistake was not to send a limited contingent of Soviet troops to Afghanistan, but to withdraw them from there.
https://zen.yandex.ru/media/istorya_s_perchikom/oshibkoi-bylo-ne-vvedenie-ogranichennogo-kontingenta-sovetskih-voisk-v-afganistan-a-vyvedenie-ih-ottuda-60ec7da01b39f163f0237a03
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113-Dastardly tricks: the “Holodomor” in American and Ukrainian politics…
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112-the Real STALIN continuation, and Broken World Views
Dear Richard,
I would like to draw your attention to the work of Professor Katasonov again. These are Katasonov “Golden scam. The world economy as a financial pyramid”; John Perkins, Susan Lindauer, Valentin Katasonov “World Capitalism. Exposure. They Dared to Tell the Truth”; Valentin Katasonov “World bondage”. In them, in particular, the professor explains the mechanism of inflation and the inclusion of a machine for printing cash money through the flow of non-cash money into cash.
Irina
https://www.litmir.me/br/?b=221237&p=1
https://www.litmir.me/br/?b=599939&p=1
https://www.litmir.me/br/?b=188793&p=1
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111-We develop our understanding in an ideological framework
Hello Billy,
(Really, these new comments should go under another subject line, like: “we develop our understanding in an ideological framework”.)
You write a good overview of the world situation. I don’t find myself in gross disagreement with much of anything that you say. I can say a few words about it below, if it still seems relevant when I get down there. (It didn’t seem that relevant, not because anything you said was inadequate. But because it does not move out of so-called “real-politics”. – OK Last thing, there are two comments down there.)
First: I don’t have “any answers”, nor do I have an ideology. So the best I can do is come up with a few new questions. What are some of the beliefs that drive so many of today’s thinking individuals? You said it before: – “we develop our understanding in an ideological framework”, so then I said, (that framework is what we should be discussing). Or just call it a “worldview”.
(a) One such belief is that a balanced comprehension of past events is critical to move toward the future. Like repeating the Holocaust story will bring peace on earth. I can somewhat agree. It is not that damaging if it does not consume all of our attention. But then that balance has to be projected forward in time. I expressed it that we argue over story A and story B, but today humanity lives in reality C.
Then you said, if I get you correctly, that story A and story B are permanent, in that they are the class struggle. I don’t minimize the relevance of this struggle, but I don’t put all my weight on it either. For me, this is not the way out of the maze. That was proven on the ground, right? It didn’t liberate us. So keep doing what didn’t work, right?
Maybe it is permanent, if you interpret class as those in perpetual power and those in perpetual submission, rather than the struggle between workers and owners. (More of my thoughts that do correspond to your views are also on this thread, under what Patrice said.) But Let’s look further here.
(b) Another great belief is that ideology (thought) is more important than my actual life. So I am willing to give up my life, (better to give up someone else’s life), because my non-existential idea rules me. And with this, giving up someone’s life, mine or theirs, is essential and assured.
It’s the confusion between breathing and thinking. I use “breathing” as an analogy for the existential life that we are living today. Working, sleeping, eating, wives and husbands, children, home, school, community, and on and on. Thoughts about that life, rather than just the living of it, might take up most of our attention. They could be of satisfaction and appreciation, but the idealist judgements are always negative, rejection, complaining and blame. Otherwise, why would you need an ideology? And each of those negative thoughts generates a negative emotional content. I’m not saying these thoughts don’t have any component of truth, but I’m just noting how you handle them.
This thinking may be connected to our existential life, or it may be totally disconnected from it. If connected, it’s a life that you can work with, if not connected it’s an ideology that you must press onto others. We will all agree that communism has never been realized, it’s non existential as it’s defined. It is not in this life, in that you can’t modify it and see the feedback. It’s always in the head.
(c) Another firmly held belief is that we must look at the world as an opposition, and we must choose sides and insist on our view with all of our might. (Judaic/Christian good and evil.) So therefore dividing the sides and power, is the game we all must play. (You’re with us, or against us.) $ Trillions of (virtual) wealth is a power that we cannot fathom, nor know how to counter, so:
(d) So we have the belief that this division can only lead to (violent) revolution, and the destruction of everything that exists (as we know it). It’s our sworn ideology. Life has to collapse, and we will have to suffer along with everyone else, since that collapse will be world-wide. Clearly this ideology has the likely end-game to destroy the planet and everybody in it.
Again: I don’t have “the answers” that will resolve your doubts. So the best I can do is come up with some new questions.
(e) We also believe that we must go into the street and cause an upset, burn buildings, throw things at the police and try to break through their lines to ransack some of our public institutions. We honor that behavior. We must get into the world news feeds, so that we can enlist foreigners to join our crusade and to destroy our own (oppressive) government. Of course they are only too happy to oblige. But do it for us???? Get real. We are doing it for them, for their benefit. World Capitalism vitally needs our country to crash.
(I can still find a reporter’s story about the Portland riots. She tried to video the demonstrators taunting and attacking the police. But there was a team within the demonstrators that attacked all outside filming. (Ya’ Can’t Film Here!) Then when the police retaliated, the demonstrator cameramen were busy capturing it.)
Provocateurs abound, and hundreds of private interests can put in their licks, and create the greatest chaos possible. But still we firmly hold to our old belief, that out of this rubble a new and utopian world will emerge. God are we delusional!
Anyone who holds to beliefs (a) through (e) is certain to create a path of destruction, war and suffering. These beliefs are the basis for the saying that, human nature is aggressive by their DNA. They’re also the basis of most of the back and forth comments under the articles, on the websites we visit. But that statement is only the justification for these ideologs to continue their rampage!
(f) So Stalin did what he did, in the times in which he did them. How did he get there?? But he reacted as best he could in the middle of those circumstances. (Really it was the Russian people that did all that was good, and the Soviet leaders that did all that was negative.) Stalin’s expertise was that he didn’t hinder the people’s creativity that much, and he encouraged it in so many ways.
But now, will “Stalin II” come back and save us? Will there be a mobilized economy in the R.F. where people will dedicate every waking hour, for $500/mo, to the giant struggle to beat off the other enemy-class, (with this as my fundamental thought structure)? Will Marxism rise from the ashes of the USSR? (Remember, if there are really such war conditions to justify that mobilization, it might be over in 45 minutes, Max 48 hours. Hardly enough time to begin the rebuilding.)
(g) So I say that class struggle or no class struggle, conditions are so much different, that Stalin or no Stalin is irrelevant. Let’s get on with examining future scenarios.
The way it is now, you need money to make changes and to create. The way it is now, you need world trade and foreign direct investment to have money. You’re lucky (I think) to have sanctions, where autarky is stimulated. I don’t say this is sustainable or a known truth, but it’s the beginning of another kind of experiment. Personally, I am sure that you need your own money to best transact your own business (and development).
A single money always concentrates wealth. Concentrate wealth is a code word for, concentrate poverty. Surely internationally, or just look at America where the regional cities collapsed and became “boarded up” while money and business and job-seakers ran to the major cities. Within every city too, the ghetto crashed while the center thrived. Or the EU is another graphic example.
(h) Maybe it is worth revisiting the so-called two-loop monetary system which was functioning in the Stalin economy. The essence of it boiled down to cash rubles were used to service market relations (sales of final products), and non-cash rubles were used for the administrative and planned distribution of raw materials and intermediate products. The latter are not full-fledged money, but perform the functions of a certain accounting unit, necessary for the control and planning of production and distribution. They’re credits. There is no free flow of money from one circuit to the other.
Point being there must be credits to move forward. In a (single) world-wide monetary system those credits will have to come from the outside. (Well, the “big boys” over there make them up.) So why can’t we make them up too? It is never very clear to me what this “two-loop system” is. But I am thinking it is like quantitative easing, that it comes out of nowhere. Why even call it Rubles, (or dollars)? Call it “energy units”, or “Paper Joules”. (Joules are an engineering measure of energy.)
I think all nations should have their own paper joules, regions or states should have them, and even cities (and inner cities) should have paper joules. It is called “complementary currency”, not to replace the major denomination, but to be the 2nd loop, the crediting loop.
I’m on a roll and I want to go on, but really we need a new thread and a new topic. We have to shift focus off of “real-politic”, (the broken way that it is), and move to the way that it could be. Ways it could be, plural, – to consider more than one scenario.
Last thought: If you are firmly entrenched on beliefs (a) through (e), then the October 1917 revolution is honorable. If you are willing to question a) through e), well there is a lot to say about Marxism, and what it led to.
Other possibilities to talk about are the Russian potentials. Please comment on my post of Sep 4th “WHO IS THE REAL RUSSIAN MAN”. What is the temperament of the Russian personality that has the potential for the future?
And on the 7th, please comment on “What is the true situation in today’s Russia?” We travel with blinders, and only imagine what we want to hear.
I guess two other things you said do deserve comment.
- You say: “extremely dishonestattacks on Stalin”. It is Khrushchev that is the lead slanderer. Whether or not the west was saying the same thing, (they always said that about everyone). That is one of my main points. The Soviet leadership for the most part, sunk to the level of a mob of gangsters. Doesn’t that also taint communism? If there are any good leaders, (besides Stalin), please tell me.
- I don’t discount anything that was accomplished under Stalin.I only point out that there are the results, and there are the methods. Do the ends justify the means? Each person has to decide that for themselves. I say that for me, I don’t justify excess killing. And I think the same could have been accomplished without it, (or with much less of it).
In 1939 in the report to the 18th congress Stalin himself said, “It cannot be said that the purge was not accompanied by grave mistakes. There were unfortunately more mistakes than might have been expected.” That innocent people had been convicted and punished in the purge.
Certainly the “excess killing model” is not the way to move into the future. This must be acknowledged.
Richard
110-WHO IS THE REAL RUSSIAN MAN (and woman)?
This is the study of “Ethnogenesis”. It is a term coined to mean the characteristics (political focus and people’s energy, and their level of cohesiveness), in a population living in a certain territory. It is usually a nation, and/or an empire, and goes through phases of formation, building. plateauing, various phases of decline or collapse, anarchy, and the criminal chaos that might ensue. It might last 1000 or more years and has a life of its own. Once in a certain phase, it might be next to impossible to displace it to another era, or introduce an outside vector.
As the philosopher Berdyaev rightly noted: “The landscape of the Russian soul corresponds to the landscape of the Russian land, the same boundlessness … aspiration to infinity, and breadth”. The Russian man is a spontaneous man.
It is different in Europe; there everything is cramped, “everything is arranged and categorized”, everything is systematic and rational. And, let us add, there is control everywhere, they look after you everywhere, and if anything happens, there is nowhere to run to. They’ll catch you and punish you.
But we had somewhere to run – to the free Don, the Volga, then to Siberia. (This is to the question of a certain “indiscipline” of the Russian person.) Therefore for example, in the West there has never been such a spontaneous and anarchic concept of “Will”, which is so close to the Russian person; instead, they had the concept of “Freedom” (within the law). Therefore, paradoxically, our man, even under political despotism, was internally much more free (in everyday life, morals, social life) than a European, who was always pressed by the close authority, to the letter of the law and a rigid class – this is not allowed, that is not allowed – almost everything is not allowed – walk on the edge of the ruler, where the lines are drawn, and the signs show you. Otherwise, you’ll get pushed around and get in the way of others – because, really, it’s crowded. And, again, there’s private property all around. And this property is – “sacred”.
Berdyaev wrote: “The German and I will never agree on the concept of freedom. In the free air he feels the pressure of chaos, the German feels free only protected in the barracks.
The Russian man organically could not and did not want to live according to a given program, a boring pattern. For example, the German, even when going to drink beer, he knows how many pints he will drink (he has a program in his head for everything), the Russian does not. Therefore there is a well-known proverb: “What is good for the Russian, for the German is death”. It’s because there are neither endless steppes nor frosts in Germany. In this sense, our nearest neighbors in Northern Eurasia, the nomadic steppe-dwellers, were closer and clearer to us than these Europeans. And this despite centuries of wars, the yoke, and even racial differences.
Writer Sergei Kuniaev recalled how once a Slavic professor from the GDR came to visit Vadim Kozhin. During the feast, the German asked him to sing a Russian folk song: And we were just ripe to sing, “On the wild steppes of Transbaikalia, where they wash gold in the mountains” – a song about a vagabond. We sang it with heart and soul. And we looked at our guest, expecting, naturally, his approval. And he sat frowning. “What’s the matter with you, Dietrich? – Vadim asked. – Didn’t you like our performance”? Well, I’m sorry, of course, we sang into the woods and out into the woods!
Not only did we have a long time to explain to the German the meaning of the proverb, but when he understood it, then he completely shocked us: “It’s strange! Why did you admire the hero of the song so much? He comes to Baikal and “takes a fisherman’s boat”. But it’s someone else’s boat! What’s more, he’s escaped from prison and started stealing again. He’s a recidivist! Not only that! His own mother comes out to meet him and says that his brother “has been ringing in the irons” in Siberia “for a long time now” – after all, his whole family is criminal! What is there to admire”?
As they say, “no comment”.
Let us ask ourselves the question, why the Russians, for the most part, are not able to work as systematically and punctually as the Europeans? Why do we have so much love to rush? First of all, because Russia, unlike Europe, has an unfavorable climate: short summers and long, cold winters. The Russian peasant had to do the entire annual volume of agricultural work (“the stada”) within a short period of time. Therefore they had to work hastily. Risking to lose the harvest because of early frost, prolonged rain or drought (which does not happen as often in Europe). Hence our traditional: “Come on, come on! Hurry up, hurry up! – “The day feeds the year”… And then we’ll be lazy in the frost, on the stove.
But the Chinese and Japanese, for example, have all year to feed themselves. In their warmer, humid climate the peasant had to work the whole year, with almost no breaks between seasons. So he worked monotonously, like a machine. Plus the specific rice crop, which unlike cereals – sowed in spring, harvested in autumn – rice required constant daily care. This is the reason for the traditional meticulousness and scrupulousness that has been part of the Chinese mentality for thousands of years and that has been genetically fixed in the people of the Celestial Empire. (Just like the Koreans, Vietnamese, etc.) This is why the southeastern man is ideally suited to work in modern assembly line production – he is not bored with being a machine. But the Russian man is bored, even more so, disgusted and very nervous. He is by nature a more versatile, universal worker. After all the Russian peasant was engaged in agriculture only five-six months in a year and to make ends meet he had to do something else: a carpenter, make furniture, utensils, sew clothes, go hunting, be a trapper, be a trucker (we know that the best truck drivers are Russians), finally, make some things for sale.
A Russian person is much more interested in creative, piecemeal production, for example, “shoeing a flea”, ha. Or inventing something amazing. Or to work for a “big deal,” like making military aircraft in a factory. Because this is not a simple monotonous task, but a super-task – to defend the Motherland. (By Russians we mean here Great Russians, Belarusians, and Little Russians.)
If we recall the famous parable of the construction of the Cathedral of Rouen, we can say that, while a Russian person is organically incapable of simply “carrying these damned stones,” – he IS capable of “building the Cathedral of Rouen.” This is to the question of why we in Soviet times made excellent spacecraft and sophisticated military equipment “for the country” and could not cope with the simpler, conveyorized production of passenger cars “for the man in the street”. And, I should add, we won’t cope for a long time yet, and we won’t catch up with the Japanese or Germans in this business, despite capitalism and the market, “which itself should regulate everything”. The stereotype of behavior (let alone the archetype) is not regulated by order. It is a deep phenomenon of nature.
Another example. A small ethnic group is the Chechens. It is known that Chechens have long been engaged in robber raids on neighboring tribes, and sometimes on one another, even before the arrival of the Russians. In addition to booty, prisoners were seized and either sold into slavery or returned for a ransom. With time, raids turned into a national tradition and were considered an honorable occupation, in which the military spirit was tempered and the youth learned the art of war. Chechens and some other mountain peoples firmly retained this passion for permanent “small wars” in their stereotypes. From the point of view of peaceful farmers, the bearers of this stereotype of behavior were bandits and murderers. From the point of view of the highlanders themselves, they were young men of action, maybe heroes.
But the question arises: was it not possible to do without raids? After all, the constant risk of being killed … it turns out you cannot. The main reason is the same geographical factor. The fact that suitable land for arable farming in the foothills and especially in the mountains was very small. The development of cattle breeding was also limited by the few pastures, for which there was a constant struggle. Therefore, the highlanders often lacked food and the simplest things needed to survive. Raiding was, so to speak, a way of extracting the necessary and surplus product. And there was very little surplus at that. The main value for the highlander was a weapon and a warhorse. (A kind of “means of production”.) Otherwise, they were content with the bare minimum. Hence the famous expression: “A dzhigit may have a tattered Circassian coat and a leaky saklya, but his horse is a Meskhetian and his weapon is in silver. Let us recall Lermontov and the first Caucasian War. And let’s pay attention to such an important natural factor as the mountainous landscape, ideally suited for raiding and guerrilla warfare.
Over time, the material situation of the highlanders changed for the better, especially during the last decades of Soviet power. Chechnya’s territory expanded markedly at the expense of the fertile lands of the Terek Cossacks. All mountaineers had jobs, sturdy houses and large plots of homestead land. Their standard of living has risen, but the stereotype of behavior has hardly changed! Let’s remember the last Caucasian War. And not only that one, for example, the way in which the form of traditional Caucasian raids “on neighbors” has changed little in our time.
Now, let us return to the Chinese and ask ourselves a question: why do the Celestial Chinese have such a developed reverence for rank, hierarchy, the cult of the state (even more than the Russians), why are the Chinese organized and disciplined? The roots go back there to the natural and climatic factor, or more precisely, to the way they adapted to the unique Chinese landscape.
The first Chinese civilization was born in the III millennium BC, in the valley of the Huang He River. The Huang He is the Yellow River; it carries a lot of sediment, sand, and small stones from the mountains. For thousands of years it has washed up an entire dam and flows along the dam like a chute. From time to time this dam would burst at the river bends, and the water would fall down, flooding vast areas. Farming under such conditions was simply impossible. Eventually, however, a solution was found: a clever Chinese emperor who lived as early as the second millennium B.C. proposed repairing this natural dam by reinforcing the walls of the huge trough. And the Chinese began to do so. Since then, the Huang He River has been placed in a rigid framework – it is already an artificial river with an extensive system of irrigation. But in order to do such a grandiose work, it was necessary to organize and discipline huge masses of people, and this required a whole hierarchy, an army of overseers, officials, managers. That is, in the end, a strong state power headed by an absolute ruler. (An ant-colony of a state!) This was the way of survival in the natural environment, and it has imprinted itself on the Chinese stereotype of behavior.
Since then, the Chinese have become disciplined collectivist-statesmen. And they also began to actively breed and multiply. This was possible because in the warm and humid climate of the subtropics, “where even a stick grows if pushed into the ground,” there was always plenty of food to grow. And when it is warm and there is enough food with almost no outside threats – natural boundaries (mountains, deserts, ocean) on three sides – families always have a lot of children. Hence the cult of the large patriarchal family in China and the ancestor cult associated with it. This is also where Confucianism itself comes from, the essence of which is the strict observance of the established order, strict hierarchy, respect for elders and care for the younger ones.
It is necessary to say that not only Chinese, but also Russian communal collectivism, which, let us note, differs greatly from the Chinese, derives from the geographical factor. It was possible to survive in the unfavorable climatic conditions of Central Russia, with extremely low yields and risky farming, only by uniting in a rural community.
The European-type khutor, individual farming, was possible only in the south of Russia, but there was for a long time the danger of nomadic raids (“Wild Field”). That is why the ideas of equalizing socialism and collective farming found their breeding ground in Russia. (The concept of the “Soviet collective farm” is close to the concept of the “Russian peasant community.”) And so the Russian peasants, going to work, have long been united in artels, where everyone was responsible for everyone, and where the incentive to work was not so much the money, as the worker’s responsibility to the “community.” And we must say that the productivity of such artels was very high. So artels, for example, built the Trans-Siberian Railway, the pace of construction of which amazed contemporaries. In Soviet times the artel way of working manifested itself in the form of a brigade contract.
It is quite typical that Russian collectivism was reflected in the language. For example, the words “at us” (на нас) “in our village,” “at our factory,” “in our country”, are used very often in Russian, and Russians are usually surprised to learn that there is no corresponding equivalent in English.
Unstable climate is also connected with such peculiarity of our behavior stereotype as dislike to prognosis and dislike of wishful thinking, as well as hope on notorious Russian “avos”. For what the Russian man criticized and even scolded people with non-Russian stereotype of behavior, calling “nebsoska” and “avoska. As historian Kljuchevsky wrote: “Often deceiving in the most careful calculations, the Russian person undertook, sometimes, for the most hopeless business (“was – or was not!”), having opposed a whim of nature, with a whim of his own bravery” and, that is characteristic, – quite often he won. And in this he was helped by our magic wand – the Russian ingenuity – derived from extreme conditions of existence. In cases where Russian ingenuity clashed with German programming, for example, in wars, then Russian ingenuity often won. Because when the German “lost his program,” he simply did not know what to do, and he needed time to “reset”. But the Russian knew, all the more so, that he sometimes had no program at all, except the one he called: “act according to the situation”.
As already noted, the stereotype of behavior in addition to the climatic factor is always influenced by a geopolitical factor. In Russia it is a huge territory, for a long time unprotected by natural borders: seas, mountains, deserts. And consequently, the constant threat of attack from outside. Therefore, beginning with XIV – XV centuries the Russian man was formed not only and even not so much as a free Cossack, but also as a statesman. He understood that only a strong centralized state can protect him from numerous external enemies, and from his own robbers, too. (And to this day continues to illiberally believe that, “the state – must help!”). Therefore, our peasantry voluntarily submitted to the despotism of state power, and sometimes gave this power their last shirt, knowing that without a shirt you can live, but not without security. The same Crimean Tatars would raid, beat, burn, pick out the healthiest guys and beautiful girls, and steal them away to be sold as slaves.
This is why until the Moscow state turned into the Russian Empire and established a reliable defense of all borders (especially southern borders), the Russian people for centuries lived with caution, ready at any moment to throw everything and flee from the enemy – the good thing was where. This is to the question of our dislike of calculations and the unsettled Russian way of life. And also to the question: “Why Europe is so rich and beautiful, and we have everything through, it’s still a dull patch”.
In order to put everything in order – as it is in comparatively compact Western Europe, which is located on the edge of the continent and is protected from three sides by the sea – we need relative security. And also, recall, we need a surplus – a surplus product, which in our cold climate was very small. While in Europe, with its milder climate, this surplus product was much larger. Plus a very convenient geographical location for the development of trade, especially the most profitable – by the sea.
After all, where did the European bourgeois (Protestant) stereotype of behavior, with its unquenchable thirst for profit, come from? It began with the Catholic Italian merchant -speculative republics of Venice and Genoa, who profited from robbing the Byzantine Empire. Then this virus of greed carried over to Holland, and from Holland to England, which, occupying a very advantageous geographical position (an island at the crossroads of sea routes) began to actively develop large-scale wholesale maritime trade. The English peasants were driven from their land by their landlords, and then those of them who did not die of starvation and escaped the noose, turned into wage laborers. Eventually the whole economic life of England became based on trade.
Then other countries joined this activity, and gradually the Anglo-Saxon bourgeois stereotype of behavior began to spread throughout Europe. And then it moved to America. At the same time we should not forget the terrible robbery and murder of the colonies. And all this – by sea, by sea.
And before the British, the carriers of a similar stereotype of behavior were farmer-sailor merchants, the Frisians, who lived in relative safety on the peninsulas of the North Sea coast and they were the intermediaries in the trade between Rome and the Germanic tribes. And before them were maritime predators and speculators from Phoenicia, Carthage, and Ancient Greece. All these peoples lived in very combative places at the crossroads of land and sea routes.
And one more very important point. Comparing the “backward” Russia and the “civilized” Europe one more factor must be taken into account beside the geographical factor – the age of the ethnos. After all, for the accumulation of material values and the organization of life in a bourgeois, ordered way requires a long time, when the count goes on not for decades, but for many centuries.
Returning to the stereotype of behavior of the Russian man, we must emphasize that he, unlike the European, for many centuries lived by his own, anti-bourgeois formula: “If you have it, it’s good; if you don’t have it, to hell with it!” Even if he dreamed of wealth, it was the kind of wealth which falls suddenly, “at God’s will”, rather than accumulated over many generations, as in relatively stable and prosperous (since the 17th century) bourgeois Europe. Our people sincerely believed that “you will not get chambers of stone from righteous deeds”. And through sin? – no need.
Therefore, the main thing for the Russian person was not the law (“freedom”, parliament, capital), but the grace. Or according to the terminology of philosophers – Perfection. The main thing that there was harmony in the world. And that there was peace in the soul.
Everything changes over time, and as we said, so does the stereotype of behavior. Looking ahead a little bit, we note that the Russian man for the last, crisis – transition of 150 years has changed noticeably. He has become more bourgeois, and, accordingly, less spiritual; we have become more kulaks-accumulators, and we have fewer straightforward idealists-no-kindnesses. The new Russian individualist has greatly supplanted the old Russian collectivist. He has not yet won definitively, but he has already entered into “the operational space”.
Of course, the Russian individualist does not look like a Western burgher, he is still incomplete – with one foot in the communal past and the other in the “civilized” future, and with a Eurasian bent. But nevertheless, he is already an individualist. If to imagine mentally the thousand-year way, which the majority of ethnoses pass through, from not very comfortable but heroic and religious youth (high spirituality) to satisfied but completely vulgar and irreligious old age (no spirituality – just eating, drinking and fornication), then the present Russian man is somewhere in the middle. Therefore note, it is not necessary looking only into the past, to idealize the modern Russian man, as it is done today by some good and kind people – the preserved patriotic idealists. At the best half of what was left, and it is not a little, but it is not that.
There are two circumstances that are somewhat comforting. First, there is the fact that it could be much worse – for example, as in modern Europe or, God forbid, in America. Obviously, the fate of Babylon and Sodom awaits them simultaneously in the coming decades. Secondly, there is the fact that even with the mass “okulachization” and secularization of the Russian population, our Eurasian (spontaneous communal -imperial) psychology still continues to dominate over the home-grown bourgeois and artificially introduced liberal psychology. Especially in the provinces. For all the losses, there is still a healthy core among the people. So there is no need to give up on the modern Russian man, or to write him off.
And here it should be emphasized once again that mentality, that is the original psychological makeup of an ethnos, from which arises the worldview of a given people, is a more stable phenomenon than the “ethnic stereotype of behavior”. Mentality is a deep consolidating factor, both at the level of ethnicity and at the level of super-ethnos, especially when the super-ethnos has a variety of behavior sub-stereotypes. Thus the core of Russian super-ethnos – Russians, Little Russians, Belarusians – apart from a close psychology, has always been united by the Orthodox faith, which for many centuries was included in the flesh and blood of our people, and to a large extent preserved in it to this day.
Practice shows that mentality, unlike the stereotype of behavior that is transmitted from parents to children by signal heredity, mentality is stored in the deeper layers of the subconscious (unconscious), and it changes, (or it is destroyed) very slowly. This is already at the gene level.
Hence the conclusion is that in the modern Russian super-ethnos, despite serious losses, there is a mental resource for independent development. No matter how much they try to artificially impose alien values and stereotypes upon us.
LEV NIKOLAYEVICH GUMILEV: (1912 – 1992)
Richard
109-What is the true situation in today’s Russia?
We talk a lot about the Soviet Union, but how does this relate to modern Russia? I don’t know the answer, consider this as a question. (Socialism I suppose?)
- A) I posted here before the video of a 9 year visual on the transformation of Ivanovo. One hundred photos of before / after of the city development. Now I realize that video blogger, Студия Позитивчик, named “Studio Positive”, has made 8 of these before/after videos comparing the last 9 years of development in 8 Russian cities. The video links are on his home page:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqQfIypDWVn2-IjkFWJojBQ
Naberezhnye Chelny, 400 km east Moscow
Ivanovo, 254 km NE Moscow
Sochi, NE coast of Black Sea
Gelendzhik, NE coast Black Sea 150 km up from Sochi
Veliky Novgorad, 125 km south of St Petersburg on road to Moscow (about 450 km from Moscow)
Ryazan, 200 km SE Moscow
Saratov, On the Volga, about 850 km SE Moscow
Tyumen, East of Ural mountains, about 8-900 km east Moscow
Naberezhnye Chelny, in Tatarstan, about 600 km east of Moscow
What do you see when you scan through these video records? Well, you see modern Russian architecture, which is very interesting just for that. Eight cities are developing, growing, being renewed. I ask “How is this being done”? You can identify several different kinds of projects.
✓Renewed streets and landscaped parks and waterfronts. This is all local government financed obviously.
✓Commercial activity, strip malls, restaurants, shopping malls. I am thinking this is all private investment, it must be capitalism, for the wide variety of it.
✓Some large residential complexes? I don’t know, is there social ownership in living spaces? Or is it capitalism again?
✓Many old residential complexes (ragged looking in the 2011 before photos), are renewed with white walls and brightly colored balconies and the accent of architectural touches. Would a private owner put money into building aesthetics? Would they get any more rent out of it? Has it changed hands and the new owner is upgrading? Maybe it is old communal residences with community financing doing the work?
✓Also there are some stadiums and other large structures. What is the ownership status of these complexes and who are the investors?
These are questions that I don’t have the answers to. Who are the city planners, and how much do they have a say about city development?
- B) We try to get a better understanding of Russia’s future by going to some websites that are purported to have expertise on Russia, and run by Russian speakers. These are like the Saker, Dmitry Orlov, Andrei Martyanov, Charles Bausman, John Helmer, Vsevolod Pulya, Patrick Armstrong, Alexander Mercouris, Marko Marjanović, I think that there are others that I have left out.
What do they say? Lots are concerned with geo-politics and military science. Then we are led to believe that “Putin’s successes are anchored in a powerful energy sector, along with a vigorous science-technical and arms sector, which are also under direct state control”. Russia must be doing pretty good, right? Or are we getting a correct picture from these new “Hypersonic missiles”, gas pipelines, super weapons, and atomic Ice-breakers?
Plus now lately, we are told that Russia will build 5 new cities from scratch in Siberia, and the order is signed and the money is available. (Let them start with one.)
Will this happen? Is this a full and correct picture of modern day Russia? The 8 videos above show developmental progress in some important cities. If this is the general picture it should show up in all phases of Russian technical, scientific, educational, and commercial activity.
But lets’ try to take an honest look with a 2017 survey of Russia’s achievements.
✓In a listing of published scientific articles by country, Russia is number 12, with only 10% by numbers, of the articles published in the USA. I won’t discuss the quality of the articles, which some do. the 2021 figures are here:
https://www.scimagojr.com/countryrank.php
You can also divide the papers up by what Russia is good at, like mathematics and astronomy, but still the standing is very poor.
✓Russia has a very poor standing in studies of foreign countries. For example China has at least an order of magnitude more people studying about Russia than Russia has studying in the universities about China.
Russian salaries in 2012, $500/mo for a Research Fellow, $900 for a senior researcher at the Institute of the Far East RAS.
$1,000 for an Assistant Professor, $1,500 for a full Professor at Moscow State University’s (MSU) Institute of Asian and African Country Studies. (2012) The $ exchange rate has more than doubled since then, so do scholars survive on those same old ruble rates, or have they gotten a raise? (Admittedly their expenses are in rubles, not in dollars.) But if it was too low they may leave the country.
✓Salaries for R&D are some of the lowest in the top 50 countries. I could put up a chart, but Russia is at the bottom.
✓R&D equipment is missing, in 2017 Russia had 3 supercomputers, China had 202, US 143. Russia is 18th in the list.
✓It is hard to come up with the number of Russian “high throughput DNA sequencers” for biotechnology research. But I think it is minuscule compared to the rest of the world. Some (older) sources said only 8, but let’s give it 25. 2013-14. Back then there were 250 in China and over 900 in the USA. Europe is loaded too.
✓Russia is 6th in patent application in 2017, 30,000 compared to 1 million in China, 300,000 in US and 250,000 in Japan.
✓In 2016 Venture Capital funding in Russia was 300,000 Euros, about the level of (less than) Ireland, or Finland, and more than in Italy. All of Europe $14 billion, US $72 billion, China $49 billion, India $8 billion. Russia is 6% of China, Russia 4% of US.
✓Artificial Intelligence startups in 2017, Europe 409, US more than 1000, Russia only 12. Equal to Sweden, Finland or Switzerland each with 10% of Russia’s population.
✓Russia had an operational stock of around 1,771 multipurpose industrial robots as of 2012. America 200,000, China 100,000, Japan 300,000, ROC Korea 138,000, Germany 162,000. Poland 4,500.
The absurdly low levels of robotization in industry raise serious questions about Russia’s political economy and its economic future. Low wages preclude automation, and low automation preclude greater productivity and higher wages?
✓2014-2015 Russia is 17th in machine tool companies, 485 companies producing machine tools in Russia (Canada just ahead, Thailand just behind). China 22,000 companies, Japan 13,000, German 12,000. Italy 5000, ROC 4,600, USA 4,500.
The problems holding Russia back are severe, and possibly intractable. There are strong financial and ultimately institutional barriers to unlocking Russia’s scientific potential.
(Russia does consume around 2.7% of the world’s machine tools – it is, after all, the world’s eighth (or so) manufacturing power.)
A solid start would be to look at these statistics and acknowledge that a very big problem exists, which if unresolved, will continue to degrade Russia’s economic, industrial, and eventually military competitiveness. Where is the money and where is the resolve to tackle these problems? That is what I am asking, to anybody that might know.
Who are the true friends of Russia? Those that sound this alarm, or he who says “don’t say things that our western sworn enemies are always saying”? To me the answer is obvious.
Of course I have sources for all of this data. It comes from Karlin on Unz. He’s got all the charts and 5000 words of commentary. 2017. You can check them yourself. https://www.unz.com/akarlin/russias-technological-backwardness/ If there is a newer study, of course I would love to see it.
Richard
108-How the Soviet defeat of Germany prevented a Nazi Manhattan Project
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2021/09/03/how-the-soviet-defeat-of-germany-prevented-a-nazi-manhattan-project/
Comments from China Writers’ Group,
This is a very good and correct article. I am glad that there are people who talk and write about it.
Thank you, Patrice
Irina
This may make our Russian comrade Irina happy:
The real reason behind Japanese surrender is not because of the 2 atomic bombs. It is Russian 1.5 million troop entering the war in Northern China.
Below Google translate:
And we all know that on August 8, 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan. 1.5 million Soviet troops launched an offensive against the puppet Manchukuo from the north, east, and west directions. This completely shattered Japan’s conditional surrender. This is also true for Japan. Do you know the reason for the surrender?
https://3g.163.com/dy/article/G1C384M305498ACA.html?spss=adap_pc
Chua
Back in 1944, Churchill instructed his generals to work out Operation Unthinkable, involving an attack on the USSR on July 1, 1945. But the generals turned out to be more prudent than the British Prime Minister and clearly told him that even in this case, victory over the USSR was impossible. And it is better for the USSR to enter the war with Japan, since without the participation of the USSR, the Americans and the British will lose 1-1.5 million of their guys. They were very much afraid of large losses of their personnel during the landing on Japan from the air. After the USSR entered the war with Japan, a month later, Japan surrendered.
The nuclear explosions of the cities of Japan were not directed at Japan itself, it was simply used as a proving ground. It was an act of intimidating Stalin. However, this act only pushed Staln to speed up Soviet work in this area. Soviet intelligence worked well. Stalin knew that the United States had only 2 nuclear bombs, which they detonated in Japan. Mass production was not yet established. And in the USSR, work was also carried out on the creation of a nuclear bomb. In order not to waste time testing and finalizing bombs, Soviet intelligence brilliantly stole the missing documentation from the states. The Americans did not even know about it right away.
Irina
I researched and reported in detail about what happened in Europe, Russia, China and Japan,
Jeff
107-The Far East will blossom: Shoigu announced the construction of new megacities
https://www.dvnovosti.ru/khab/2021/08/06/132493/
(https://translate.yandex.com/translate)
106-Another brilliant essay by Soviet born and now US based writer, Andrei Martyanov.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2021/08/what-coincidence.html
Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Attempts to portray Joseph Stalin as the main villain of his era are part of an attack on our country’s past, on the results of World War II. This was stated on Monday by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a meeting with veterans of the Great Patriotic War in Volgograd. He stressed that outside attacks on Russia’s historical past are aimed not only at rewriting history, but also politically weakening the Russian Federation. “[You mentioned] Joseph Stalin, who <…> was supposed to lead all the processes. I absolutely agree that history should not be touched. By the way, attacks on Stalin as the main villain, lumping together everything he did in the pre-war period, during, after the war – this is also part of that very attack on our past, on the results of World War II, “the minister said.
Some days ago we had this post, (above by Eric) which is a comment on Lavrov’s speech, where he is defending the truth about Soviet war participation. Since Stalin ran the country during the war, it could easily be taken as a defense for Stalin. In fact, the “Russia Haters” are actually claiming that Stalin’s Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was the real cause of WWII! I know a bit about The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and what led up to it. But that is not the point of this post. The point that I am leading to is this:
DID LAVROV ENDORSE THE PERIOD OF STALIN’S RULE????
I say, absolutely not. Maybe someone like Andrei Martyanov writes a post that leaves this question dangling in the air. (Like; draw your own conclusions.) Is this because of his oversight, his incompleteness, or is this some hidden agenda? Maybe not to offend any apologists for Stalinist? I”ll leave that to YOUR own conclusions.
Let’s see what the Chinese have to say about it, in an article I have just read:
A sound political system should have been able to prevent the Cultural Revolution, (Read here the repressions of Stalin), which was launched, organized, and operated outside of the scope of the constitution and the law, but the political system in place at the time did not have this capacity. The political system established by the 1954 Chinese Constitution was destroyed with one blow by the Cultural Revolution, a fact which deserves careful study.
The Cultural Revolution did not happen by accident. In terms of ideas, we failed to shift the focus of the work to economic construction in a timely manner, and we continued to insist on the Outdated Marxist Ideological line of “taking class struggle as the key link,” (pure Russian politics), despite the fact that the exploiting class had been basically eliminated, and we adopted the ideological line of “creative destruction 破字当头.” In recent years, people have analyzed the Cultural Revolution from any number of perspectives, including thought, ideology, culture, and the economy, but not enough has been done from the perspective of the (inadequate) political system.
(I posted on the 24th, “What is an Ideology?”, where I claim that rigid Marxism was one of the seeds that surely destroyed the Soviet Union.)
Back to China:
First, the ruling party that constitutes the core leadership of our political life does not have a healthy internal democratic system.
When the Party leaders mistakenly decided to launch the Cultural Revolution, many cadres and Party members in our Party who disagreed were powerless to do anything about it. The inadequacy of the Party’s internal democratic system made it impossible for the Party to prevent this wrongful act. The national leaders such as the Chairman were sidelined, and some leaders were even persecuted and killed.
So Let’s move to the Soviet Union.
First, the Bolsheviks eliminated their “fraternal parties” one after the other: the Mensheviks, the Constitutional Democrats, the Socialist Revolutionary Party and the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party, and in 1921, Russia changed from a multi-party system to a one-party state, which was clearly a step backwards in history.
Second, the Russian regime after 1917 ran counter to the constitutional principle of the separation of powers and checks and balances, and subsequently went from its original stance of “all power to the Soviets,” to a narrower focus on “all power to the Bolsheviks,” and finally to the extreme situation of “all power to the Party General Secretary.” This created a highly centralized dictatorship.
Under the name of “bourgeoisie”, you robbed well-to-do people; then, under the name of “kulaks”, you turned to robbing richer and more diligent peasants, thus multiplying poverty, even though you must realize that, by ruining a great multitude of individual citizens, you destroy public wealth and lead the entire country into destitution. (I added this paragraph.)
Third, although the Soviet Constitution contained provisions for a system of universal and equal direct elections, in practice the candidates were chosen by the ruling party and voted on by the voters, and those who were not on the list of candidates had no chance at all. Elections became a farce year after year, decade after decade.
Fourth, the lack of freedom of the press in the former Soviet Union was known the world over, to the point that after the fall of Khrushchev, he had to listen to the Voice of America to keep up with the news, an ironic commentary on the denial of constitutional principles. (this written by a Chinese person)
Stalin, who destroyed checks and balances and concentrated the power of life and death in his own two hands, spent a great deal of time on the elimination of dissidents and the killing of innocent people. (Overkill, just to be sure.) The numbers are telling. Of the 24 members of the Party Central Committee who provided political leadership at the time of the October Revolution, 14 were killed by Stalin; of the 60 soldiers who led the military aspect of the October Revolution, 54 were killed by Stalin; of the 15 members of the First People’s Committee, 9 out of 13, not counting Lenin and Stalin, were executed in the name of the revolution; in addition, more than 1.2 million Communist Party members were arrested, many of whom were sentenced to death or to prison terms. Red Terror enveloped the whole country. (Then add the repression of writers and intellectuals, Kulaks, and other big groups, the numbers multiply.)
In fact, it is said that the only thing you can say about Stalin is that everybody before him and everybody after him, were worse, (for Russia). Stalin said that he was “a Russian, with a Georgian origin”. The other “buggers” hated Russia (the so-called great power chauvinism) with a passion, and ripped Russia from stem to stern without respite for 70 years.
In fact, if you know a Soviet leader with any merit towards Russia? Please let me know. I haven’t noticed them.
And it was all increasingly multiplied in perpetuity by a political system, rotten to the core.
Soviet Russia’s anti-constitutional practices endured for more than seventy years, but then had finally met with universal anger and resentment. It’s then that the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, led by former Soviet Vice President Gennady Yanayev (1937-2010) and other high-ranking officials, staged a coup d’état on August 19, 1991, in an attempt to save the critical situation. These were the only guys that really loved Russia and the USSR, and could have saved it. But western lapdog idiots claim that they were the main cause of the collapse.
And then, the people fearing a return to the horrors of one-party dictatorship, the scorn for human life, the rigged elections, and the stifling of press freedom, did not support the August 19 coup. It failed within three days. The results rained down on Russian heads for at least a decade, and it is still raining.
The masses of citizens and their representatives abandoned the anti-constitutional political system, to the extent that that the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, made up of a majority of communists, adopted a resolution at its emergency session on August 29, 1991 to stop all the activities of the Communist Party of the USSR on Russian soil. The resolution passed by an overwhelming majority of 283 votes in favor, 29 against and 52 abstentions. History finally declared that the return of the tricolor flag in Russia in 1991 was a progressive move, and in line with the worldwide trend of constitutionalism.
Who is this Chinese dissident who writes all this crap about Russia?
Well – – actually No: Wang Huning (b. 1955) is widely viewed as China’s most powerful intellectual. He has directly served the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee under three successive leaders: Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. He is currently the fifth-ranked member of the Party’s seven-man Politburo Standing Committee and directs the Central Secretariat, effectively making him Xi Jinping’s deputy in managing day-to-day Party affairs. He also serves on a range of central Party commissions that drive policymaking in areas such as political-legal affairs, cybersecurity, finance, Party-building, official appointments, and military-civil fusion. Given his depth of experience and proximity to Xi, it is possible that Wang will rise even higher within the Party hierarchy when the 20th Party Congress meets in October 2022. Wang became the the Central Policy Research Office (CPRO) director in 2002, a position he held until 2020, when he relinquished it to his protégé Jiang Jinquan 江金权 (b. 1959). During this time he joined the Party Secretariat in 2002; the Politburo in 2007; and the Politburo Standing Committee in 2017.
Wang is widely credited with having contributed to the major theories of each of the Party leaders that he has served: Jiang Zemin’s “Three Represents,” Hu Jintao’s “New Development Concept,” and Xi Jinping’s “China Dream of the Great Revival of the Chinese Nation, and “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.”
He wrote this document (that I quoted), in 1986. He revised it five times – the final time on the eve of Xi Jinping’s ascendance to the position of General Secretary. Unlike the original 1986 version, Wang’s 2012, last revision places the conclusion up front.
I say, If you want to know about Communism, about socialism, or especially about Marxism, you must study the Soviet Union. That is the “On-the-Ground” expression of all these theories.
Richard
This is an interesting perspective. I have always considered Xi a defender of Stalin and have thought myself in agreement with Xi on the issues you raise above. Here’s a few quotes I’ve seen floating around the interwebs which have convinced me Xi was an admirer of Stalin (and that those honest folks that disparage Stalin have been confused by capitalist inspired revisionism).
“In January 2013, months after taking the helm of China’s ruling party, Xi Jinping gathered the country’s top politicians and asked them why the Communist Party of the Soviet Union had collapsed.
Xi, of course, already had the answer.
“It completely denied Soviet history, the history of the Soviet Communist Party, denied Lenin, denied Stalin,” he said. “Party organizations at all levels had almost no effect, and the army was not there.”
In that same year (and maybe same speach) Xi said:
“”I believe that, for real communists, Stalin weighs no less than Lenin, and in a percentage of right decisions, he doesn’t even have an equal in world history”.- President Xi Jingping 2018″
These quotes contradict the capitalist inspired anti-Stalin mythology which permeates the thought of China’s “most powerful intellectual” Wang Huning, at least as put forth in the article above. There is an obvious contradiction here and I’m not sure how to reconcile these two competing narratives except to say that Huning’s thoughts on the topic are his own and are not shared by Xi.
““No theory in history can match Marxism in terms of rationale, truth, and spread, and no theory has exerted such a huge influence on the world as Marxism. This proves the truth and vigor in Marxism and its irreplaceable role in understanding, reshaping and advancing the world” – Xi Jinping”
Lastly I would recommend reading the following article regarding the Molotov Ribbentrop pact. It truly helps one to recognize and appreciate the genius, necessity, and success of this diplomatic triumph.
“The Hitler-Stalin Pact of August 23, 1939: Myth and Reality – The Greanville Post” https://www.greanvillepost.com/2021/05/10/the-hitler-stalin-pact-of-august-23-1939-myth-and-reality/
Any information that results in enlightenment is appreciated.
-Billy Bob
Hello Billy Bob,
1. Thanks for your input and thanks for the two great links. I will go to the last link first and say that: yes I did know about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact before, and I had arrived at the same conclusion as the author of this excellent article. I didn’t have quite that much detail though. But I am there.
I had mentioned the non-aggression pact because I believe that is what Lavrov was talking about. And the point of what I had written is, I don’t see him as endorsing Stalin’s rule. He is confirming the results of the war that was led under Stalin.
2. Here’s my understanding of Marx and Engles:
Marxist historians viewed history through the prism of the development of productive forces, as a successive change of socio-economic formations: primitive, slaveholding, then feudal, capitalist, communist. That is, as a linear and continuous process, going from the lowest to the highest. And this is actually in much of the world, (for now), if we keep technological progress in mind.
But if we consider the history of nations, i.e. the ethnic history of mankind, we will see that it is discontinuous, because they all had their “beginnings” and “ends”.
I think scientist have proved that the merger of the nations – which is the orthodox system that Marxists used to talk about, and today the globalists talk about – it is pure nonsense: “If all people merge, and become the same, then there will be no movement, no development, no culture, and just “a breathing” of life. There will be a slow decline, and it is good if it is slow. For according to the iron law of systems, only a complex system is viable. As long as all mankind is, as K. Leontiev said, “a blooming complexity” consisting of many ethnicities, cultures, languages and religions, (that tension that creates movement and invention), life will go on. If we comb everyone under one heading, that is, if we simplify the planetary system that much, of course they’ll have to do it ruthlessly, it will die quickly.
Today’s globalizers, who advocate the removal of all borders: state, national, cultural, religious, linguistic – are leading the world into an abyss. They think it is possible to rule a shrunken humanity from a single center. They think you can cheat the nature of human relationships!
In most cases, disassociation to preserve peace between peoples is much better than the merging and interpenetration of different ethnic groups. There was a force in the 50’s that wanted to release all of the Soviet Republics to their own devices. I will post it here some time in the future. But the way it was done in the 90’s, was by first totally destroying the economic system (surely on purpose in my view). I am already getting too far off topic to finish this thought! Later.
What we do know well, however, is the history that lies between the fall of Troy (11th century B.C.) and the surrender of Napoleon (1815). “Before that, it’s a total blur. After that – it’s all lies.”
3. You have included a couple of important quotes by Xi.
Let me spin a hypothetical example. You and I are in business together. In fact we are building our relationship and creating great plans. When I am asked about you by others, I applaud you for how quickly you built your factories, product lines, financial reserves and how your expertise shines as a beacon to the world. But I am not going to say, Yeah I know he is the biggest gangster, he has ruthlessly suppressed all competition, paid off the government to steal from the commonwealth. And when he couldn’t do that, his Mafia connections employed hit men to mysteriously disappear all of his enemies.
XI is not going to bash Russia, nor any latent connections to the Soviet Union. No matter what. It is counterproductive to his method. In fact he has tried for years not to bash the USA either. But finally he is forced into it.
4. Then you might be suggesting that the capitalist inspired anti-Stalin mythology is what permeates the thought of China’s “most powerful intellectual” Wang Huning. I don’t see it that way at all. He gives names and numbers of which early leaders were eradicated by Stalin. Are you saying these names are a western invention? They’re damn true numbers. I am going to equate the Cultural Revolution to Stalin’s years of repression. For China, the period was the same, but some years later. Wang Huning wrote about it in 1986 as a giant mistake, and carefully revised it 5 times. We can assume that IT IS NOW the position of the CCP, or it would have been erased ages ago.
We’ll see down below in the 2013 speech, that Xi does not bash the Cultural Revolution, but just calls it out for what it is, what seemed necessary (maybe mistakenly) at the time. Does that mean he holds it as a tool that may be useful in the future, just one more arrow in our quiver? We’ll have a good repression if we need it? Hardly I think you can be sure that Xi does not applaud Stalin’s methods in any way, and that Xi and Huning are on the same page, chapter and verse in their thoughts.
5. The one quote: “Stalin’s percentage of right decisions has no equal in the world.” That’s right, he did whatever it takes, to accomplish what was necessary. That’s a comment on what he did, not a comment on the method he used to do it.
The other quote: ““No theory in history can match Marxism in terms of rationale, truth, and spread, and no theory has exerted such a huge influence on the world as Marxism. This proves the truth and vigor in Marxism and its irreplaceable role in understanding, reshaping and advancing the world” – Xi Jinping”.
I would like to get that quote in it’s full context, in a speech or in his written paper.
Of course if you have no opposition, you can do miracles with any ideology. Marxism says build for the workers and the peasants. Circumstances were such that the world was in an emergency, which facilitated a mobilized economy. Capitalism also mobilized an economy, and took every advantage of the unfolding situation. Does that mean capitalism is better??? NO!
I have tried to dig into what Marxism is to Xi? For instance in his address to the 19th congress and other speeches. The only concrete foundation I could determine is when he said (paraphrasing):
“Marxism proves that the worker and the peasant are the masters, not the slaves.”
Full Stop! After that everything he says is that “Marxism with Chinese Characteristics” (for a new age) is in full flux. We are reinventing it every day, and we will reinvent it for many GENERATIONS in the future. Under the Chinese theorem that “Practice is the only Measure of Truth”. So what does Xi’s Marxism still have to do with Marx or Engles? I don’t know? And unlike Russia (Lenin), China did not say the landowners and the owners of the means of production are the slaves. They’re just people, like the rest, but no longer the masters.
- OK, let’s look at that speech from 2013.Ten paragraphs: http://www.qstheory.cn/zhuanqu/bkjx/2019-04/01/c_1124308570.htm
On January 5, 2013, a seminar for new members and alternate members of the Central Committee to study and implement the spirit of the 18th Party Congress began at the Central Party School. Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the opening ceremony. (His words in Black and blue, mine in red. )
1. Socialism with Chinese characteristics is socialism and not any other doctrine.
Socialism with Chinese characteristics is socialism and not some other doctrine, the basic principles of scientific socialism can not be lost, if lost, it is not socialism. Our Party has always emphasized that socialism with Chinese characteristics not only adheres to the basic principles of scientific socialism, but also gives it distinctive Chinese characteristics according to the conditions of the times. That is to say, socialism with Chinese characteristics is socialism, not some other doctrine. The key to what kind of doctrine a country implements depends on whether it (that doctrine) can solve the historical problems facing the country.
In #1 he talks about Socialism, not even using the word Communism. Whatever it is, it will have Chinese characteristics, and be an answer to the times.
2. The “China collapse theory” has never been interrupted, but China’s comprehensive national power is increasing day by day.
It was Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought that guided the Chinese people out of the long night and established a new China. Not to mention the earlier period, from the beginning of reform and opening up, especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dramatic changes in Eastern Europe, the international public opinion was incessantly negative about China, and various kinds of “China collapse theory” had never ceased. However, China has not collapsed, but its comprehensive national power is increasing day by day, people’s living standards are improving, and our scenery is “unique”.
#2 Marxist-Leninism and Mao led us out of a black-hole, and we will never forget it nor bash that period. (But we don’t do that now, in the same way, for we are renewed).
3. It is totally wrong to say that China is now engaged in “capital socialism”.
In recent years, some public opinions at home and abroad have raised the question of whether what China is doing is still socialism or not, it’s “bureaucratic capitalism”. These are all completely wrong. When we say that socialism with Chinese characteristics is socialism, it means that no matter how to reform or open up, we must always adhere to the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the socialist system with Chinese characteristics. The basic requirements of the 18th Party Congress is to win a new victory of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
#3 Forget about “bureaucratic capitalism”, or any other moniker that the west tries to stick on us: for WE call the shots here.
4. The practical and theoretical achievements made in the past cannot be a reason for complacency.
There is no one-size-fits-all development path or development model in the world, nor is there any unchanging development path or development model. The practical and theoretical achievements we have made in the past can help us better face and solve problems in the future, but they cannot be a reason for complacency, let alone (cannot) become a burden for us to continue to move forward. The more we move forward, the more we develop, the more new situations and new problems, the more risks and challenges we face, and the more unpredictable things we will face. We must enhance the sense of worry, to be prepared for danger in times of peace. Emancipation, seeking truth from facts and advancing with the times are the living soul of Marxism, the fundamental ideological weapon to adapt to new situations, understand new things and accomplish new tasks.
#4 There is no one-size-fits-all development path, which means there is no pre-existing Marxism that we are not currently inventing. The practical and theoretical achievements we have made in the past cannot become a burden for us in the future. Forever seeking truth is the living soul of “Marxism”. It’s his new definition of Marxism.
5. The two periods of history before and after the reform and opening up cannot deny each other.
The historical period before the reform and opening up should be correctly evaluated, and the historical period after the reform and opening up should not be used to negate the historical period before the reform and opening up, nor should the historical period before the reform and opening up be used to negate the historical period after the reform and opening up. The practical exploration of socialism before the reform and opening up accumulated the conditions for the practical exploration of socialism after the reform and opening up, and the practical exploration of socialism after the reform and opening up is the persistence, reform and development of the previous period.
I emphasize this issue because this major political issue will have serious political consequences if it is not handled properly.
#5 We’re in no way divisive. The present can’t be used to bash the past, and the past cannot be used to bash the present or the future. We have learned from all of our experiences, and they are our building blocks.
6. The collapse of the Soviet Union, a large socialist country, is a lesson from the past.
Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? Some important reasons are the fierce ideological struggle, the total denial of the history of the Soviet Union, denial of the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the denial of Lenin, the denial of Stalin, the historical nihilism, the ideological chaos, the party organizations at all levels almost no longer have any role, the army is no longer under the leadership of the party. Finally, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, a large party, was scattered, the Soviet Union, a large socialist country, was falling apart. This is a lesson from the past!
#6 The Soviet Union disintegrated because:
– a fierce ideological struggle, (belief in fixed Marxism)
– the historical nihilism, (denying the past and bashing it all, people, places, systems, as no good. They were what they were.)
– the party organizations at all levels almost no longer have any role, the political system broke down, (if it ever worked).
7. We still face many unclear issues and problems to be solved.
China’s socialism is still in the primary stage, we still face a lot of unclear issues and problems to be solved, the understanding and handling of many major issues are still in the process of deepening, this is not in doubt. The understanding of things requires a process, and socialism, something we have only been engaged in for decades, our understanding and grasp is still very limited, still needs to deepen and develop in practice.
#7, We’re still working on it, socialism is a process.
8. It is unrealistic to think that we can enter communism in one or two steps.
It is unrealistic to think of entering communism in one or two steps. Comrade Deng Xiaoping said that it would take a long period of history to consolidate and develop the socialist system, and it would take several generations, a dozen generations, or even dozens of generations of our people to persistently strive for it. Dozens of generations, how long is that! From the time of Confucius to the present, there are only some seventy generations. Seeing things this way fully illustrates the political sobriety of our Chinese Communists. It must be recognized that our present efforts and the continued efforts of many generations in the future are all directed toward the grand goal of the ultimate realization of communism.
#8 What about the entrance of Communism? Well it will take dozens of generations. (That’s at least 24 to make it plural, and that out of 70 generations from the time of Confucius.) What is the point of talking 500 years in advance, when we don’t know what will happen tomorrow? At least it means we sure don’t have to worry about it, and it is a nice amorphous goal that says our people are good and deserve the best.
9. We must Correctly understand the objective reality of the long-term dominance of developed Western capitalist countries.
We should have a deep understanding of the self-regulating ability of capitalist society, fully estimate the objective reality of the long-term dominance of the developed Western countries in economic, scientific and military aspects, and seriously prepare for the long-term cooperation and struggle between the two social systems in all aspects. For a long period of time, socialism at the primary stage will have to cooperate and struggle with capitalism, which is more developed in terms of productive forces, and will have to study and learn from the beneficial civilizational achievements created by capitalism.
#9 We have to see where we can eventually fit in with capitalism, and for now know their strengths, absorb their abilities, and counter their cunning ways.
10. Some people think that communism is unattainable, which involves the problem of their worldview.
Some people think that communism is unattainable, or even that it is unattainable, unseen, and illusory. This involves a materialistic or idealistic view of world history. Some of our comrades wonder why the ideal is slim, faith wavering, and why the fundamental and historical materialist point of view is not solid? To educate and guide the majority of the party members, and cadres, to practice the common ideals of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the firm unified communist ideals, and to be devout and persistent, to the letter, and to be deeply respectful, (is our challenge).
#10 For the immediate future let’s just keep telling our people that being in togetherness (call it communism) is good and let’s have consensus and unity about our nation, our path, our governance, and all of our beautiful and flowering ethnicities, working and living together. Let’s be creative together and guard against the anti-system, or people that want to deconstruct what we have built.
HEY, It’s a good speech.
Richard
Thanks Richard for your thoughtful reply. CWG is an eclectic mix of political perspectives and it is truly my honor to engage with other members and learn from them even if we don’t see eye to eye on every issue. As I formulate my response to the perspective you shared below, please forgive anything that comes across as pretentious or condescending. I’m used to conversing on Facebook where such presumptions are entirely warranted and I may have difficulty expressing my thoughts without resorting to such unfortunate tendencies.
First though, I want to thank you for providing greater context to the few quotes I shared in the previous response. The speech excerpts you shared have validated and re-affirmed my own perspective a perspective which seems irreconcilable with your own (at least in regards to Stalin, his legacy, and how he should be viewed by subsequent generations). In my humble opinion, it seems clear that you have adopted a certain understanding regarding Stalin and his “methods” and this is the lens with which you process the words of Xi. This fact, in and of itself is not an indictment and is indeed an inescapable aspect of human thought and the only possible way for us to develop our understanding and ideological framework. We use our current level of understanding to process new information and this in turn structures the framework with which we use to process further information. (As I have engaged in this process over my 45 years, it has become clear that there exists powerful forces that are interested in manipulating our understanding and our conceptual framework. This fact itself is very telling and has become a significant aspect of my own conceptual framework. But I digress…)
The question begged from the paragraph above is “what is the correct way to understand Stalin and his methods”. We are right to analyze and interpret Xi’s speech through the lens of historic truth but if we misunderstand or misperceive historic truth, our analysis and interpretation of further information will be less insightful and less correct than it otherwise could be.
So this is my basic assertion regarding what I perceive to be our fundamental disagreement over who Stalin was, why it matters, and what a more correct view of him looks like. So, now lets move to some of the specific facts that you have brought up which support your perspective:
“Stalin, who destroyed checks and balances and concentrated the power of life and death in his own to hands, spent a great deal of time on the elimination of dissidents and the killing of innocent people”.
The historic reality is far more nuanced, complex, and favorable to Stalin than the prose which precede and follow the quote above. In fact those paragraphs listing “Stalin’s crimes” are indistinguishable from every assessment of Stalin disseminated by the Western capitalist dictatorship and shoved down the naïve throats of Westerners everywhere (from cradle to grave) for the past 75 years. The reality is that what the CIA was telling themselves in private was far more correct than the dumbed down anti-Stalin propaganda which they have been proliferating for main-stream consumption.
Here’s what a declassified CIA document attests:
“Even in Stalin’s time there was collective leadership. The Western idea of a dictator within the communist setup is exaggerated. Misunderstandings on that subject are caused by a lack of comprehension of the real nature and organization of the communist power structure. Stalin, although holding wide powers, was merely the captain of a team and it seems obvious that Khrushchev will be the new captain. However, it does not appear that any of the present leaders will rise to the stature of Lenin and Stalin, so that it will be safer to assume that developments in Moscow will be along the lines of what is called collective leadership, unless Western policies force the Soviets to stream-line their power organization…”
In addition to the fallacy of exaggerating Stalin’s dictatorial power, cold war capitalist revisionism imputes malign motives and mal-intentions to Stalin when there are far less damning and far more rational explanations for his actions and decisions.
Let’s start with the Kulaks. Stalin inherited an agricultural system which was inadequate to meet the needs of the nation and which benefitted only a minority of land owners who were known to get “fat off famine”. According to the world’s foremost expert on Soviet agriculture, Mark Tauger:
“My research has shown that the [“Holodomor” or more precisely the 1931-33] famine resulted from drought, plant disease and pest infestations that caused two years of crop failures. I argue that this famine has to be understood in a broader context of earlier famines and Soviet agricultural sciences. I showed that the famines of the 1920’s not mentioned in previous studies, led Soviet leaders to resort to collectivization to restructure Soviet agriculture on the model of American mechanized farming, as an attempt to overcome its vulnerability to environmental disasters.”
The Kulaks of course opposed collectivization efforts and literally burned their crops, and killed their own livestock in order to resist. They did not want the inadequate agricultural system to end because they were the prime beneficiaries of that system. At first the CPSU (known in the West as “Stalin”) attempted to work with the Kulaks and integrate them into the new system by way of gradual reform. But when the Kulaks refused to cooperate and another famine resulted, it would have been irresponsible for any Soviet leadership to simply concede and submit to the inadequate and famine prone system demanded by the Kulaks. Expropriation was a final and necessary step which allowed for collectivization to take place and which ultimately resulted in tremendous improvement and modernization of the Soviet agricultural situation and in a vast improvement in quality of life for the average Russian. The CPSU was entirely correct and had no other choice but to expropriate the land of private farmers who preferred getting fat off famine to integration, industrialization, modernization, and collectivization.
This particular example ought to be seen as a microcosm of the general rule regarding the treatment of history and the explanatory narratives which compete for primacy within our minds. The capitalist class would have us believe in an all-powerful Stalin (today Putin) who’s motivations were irrational, paranoid, selfish, bloodthirsty, and who’s methods were craven, diabolical, underhanded, and intent on instilling fear in furtherance of his own political power, ego, and cult of personality. It ought to come as no surprise that I view any such assertion, insinuation, or implication as entirely spurious and promoted out of either ignorance or a conscious desire to deceive. There is not a single criticism of Stalin or the CPSU that can withstand critical scrutiny and which there does not exist an explanation which is far more comprehensive, compelling, and satisfactory when compared to the dumbed down tropes which have resulted in the Anti-Stalin conventional wisdom which exists today.
From the very beginning the Bolshevik Revolution was attacked by enemies from within and without. The fact that many within the original revolutionary coalition government eventually attempted to utilize agitation, propaganda, and terror to further their own narrow political views because they were unable to convince a majority of the party to see things their way, should not be misconstrued as some kind of an indictment against Stalin. In the adolescent worker’s state, treachery and opportunism abound. In such a nascent state, oversight and “checks and balances” are non-existent, not because of the moral or bureaucratic failings of the General Secretary but rather because of the undeveloped nature of the system and the powerful pull of opportunism which such a system invites.
The West calls them “Moscow Show Trials” but in reality they convicted men who were guilty of conspiracies against the CPSU. Here’s Walter Durant in 1944, providing the basic framework with which to understand what took place:
“It is now clear that the Kremlin-Opposition conflict falls into three chronological phases. The first period covers the years from 1923, when the Bolshevik leaders first realized that Lenin’s days were numbered, to January, 1928, when the Opposition, which by then had formed a somewhat disparate bloc under the leadership of Trotsky, was crushed and its adherents, great and small, were scattered in exile across Siberia and Central Asia. This may be called the phase of Open Controversy. There followed the phase of Reconciliation, from the latter part of 1928 to 1934, during which Trotsky’s supporters in Russia recanted their heresies and paid abject lip service to the Kremlin. Many of them were restored to posts of high importance, although they had already shown that their previous recantations of error and promises of amendment in the future were not to be relied upon. During these years Trotsky found harborage on the Isle of Prinkipo in the Bosphorus, where his activities were somewhat hampered by Turkish supervision and where he appears to have confined himself to the preparation of a new campaign against his opponents on Soviet soil by the formation of the so-called Fourth International and by writing in order to raise funds. He established and maintained contact with his friends in the USSR and elsewhere, and by the end of 1932, when he was able to leave Prinkipo for a less restricted and more congenial sojourn in France, he had laid the foundations for a renewed attack on the Kremlin. This preliminary work was continued and developed in 1933 and 1934, coincidentally with a great extension of German activity in the USSR. At the end of November, 1934, Kirov, one of Stalin’s closest henchmen, was assassinated in Leningrad. This marked the beginning of the third and present phase of Secret Conspiracy. This development was due: (a) to the character and ability of Trotsky himself, (b) to the international situation, with particular reference to German and Japan, and to circumstances inside Russia.”
The most remarkable aspect of all of the above and the thing most relevant to our discussion here is the way in which historic reality has been rewritten in order to malign Socialism in general and socialism’s most effective leaders like Stalin and Mao in particular. In evaluating what is true, it is important to understand all the opposing narratives and evaluate them within the fullest possible context. In my experience, those that explain Stalin’s behavior in terms of an irrational, blood thirsty, paranoid, drive to maintain and further his own power, are totally confused both about what Stalin actually did and why he actually did it. It is simply taken on faith that Stalin was evil incarnate and often such an indoctrination is too deep for folks to even question. Of course this is the power of propaganda and why the Western capitalist dictatorship has invested so heavily in creating the greatest propaganda apparatus the world has ever seen… (I digress yet again).
Richard, I can tell you like to read so I will not offer the usual apology for sharing this long article below. It is the introduction written by Bruce Franklin to his collection of Major Theoretical Writings of J. Stalin. It is by far the best and most comprehensive treatment of all the issues which the West has used to malign and attack Stalin. It is also a relatively long introduction but it is easy to read and you will not want to put it down. I would also recommend, if you have not already done so, reading Mao’s “On the Question of Stalin”. It is another superb analysis which I totally agree with.
http://marxism.halkcephesi.net/trotskyism/the%20essential%20Stalin.htm
https://www.marxists.org/subject/china/documents/polemic/qstalin.htm
So, now we get to the heart of the question. How do we assess Xi’s view of Stalin based on the quotes gleaned from his various speeches. In order to do this, it is important to remember that true Marxism and true Scientific Socialism, is not a blueprint for precisely how to advance the planet away from barbarism and towards peace through mutual prosperity. On the contrary, it is a method that can be applied but will look different depending on the circumstances, situation, and existing material conditions which exist when the method is applied. Stalin’s application of scientific socialism was correct for the material conditions which existed in Eastern Europe in the early 20th century just as Mao’s application of scientific socialism (aka Marxism/Leninism) was correct for the material conditions which existed in East Asia (i.e. Western economic embargo and Sino-Soviet split) after 1949. This is why the question of “doctrinal purity” incessantly advanced by “ultra-leftists” was characterized as a mental disorder by Lenin. There is no one size fits all dogmatic approach which must be adhered to in order to get the official Socialist stamp of approval. Such thinking is dumb, misguided, and dangerous and indeed contributed to some of the negative excesses of the cultural revolution.
These seem to be the two greatest misunderstandings and falsehoods which Xi is addressing in the relevant quotes. First he dismisses the idea of a one-size-fits-all approach to developing socialism and secondly he denounces the revisionists who have done their best to obfuscate historic reality and like Mao before him, he defends the legacy of Stalin and agrees that the dishonest sabotage of the historic reality, conducted for self-serving and politically opportunistic purposes, was a primary catalyst for the subsequent failure of the Soviet Union.
Anyway, I have written far too much already yet there are so many more points I would like to add. I think I will just leave it here however and please respond (or not) however you see fit.
Thanks again for motivating all the paragraphs above.
Billy Bob
Regarding R Miller critique of Marxist theory, a few quick points:
1. The injection of ethnic arguments in a discussion of Marxist dialectics is actually a distraction, like discussing identity politics, something extraneous to the central theses Marx and Engels, and later Lenin, Mao, etc., advanced, all grounded in the understanding of human technological advances, and the birth and evolution of classes, their eventual tensions and struggles, and the march of humanity across different stages determined at each point of the historical curve by the national, regional and global status of the class struggle.
2. As a lifetime “tankie”, I back Xi’s positions, and observe with interest how Russia’s leadership, frequently disparaging Marxism (which I regard as misguided) still manages a hybrid form of rulership, a modern version of what the French used to call in the 1960s, “l’economie mixte”. It is undeniable that Putin’s successes were anchored in his decisive anchoring of the new Russian economy in a powerful energy sector, along with a vigorous science-technical and arms sector, also under direct state control. In this confrontation, Putin fortunately had (and still does) the support of the nation’s security machinery, who remained largely patriotic even after attempts by Yeltsin and his gang to practically disband it. As well, Putin, largely an Eurasianist, has had to contend with a powerful, but gradually decreasing “Atlanticist” faction mostly comprised of US-oriented oligarchs and finance-oriented technocrats, and some of the usual upper middle class, Western-influenced sector. Indeed, as Michael Hudson has suggested, Putin’s great victory, so far, has been to maintain an “industrial capitalist path”, rejecting the magnetic pull of the Death Star, that is all-out financialization of Moscow’s economy, which might naturally quickly render Russia a de facto vassal state of the Great Hegemon.
3. Great challenges remain, of course. How Putin (and his successors) expect to stabilize the Russian economy for much longer with such a still strong component of oligarchs and the inevitable toxicity of capitalism—for which there is no known cure—is one of the great questions confronting humanity. On many occasions, perhaps as a feint to throw many of his enemies off, Putin has come out talking as if he thought capitalism can succeed in Russia. He has also fully vindicated the Orthodox Church, and praised publicly notorious reactionaries if not outright fascists like Solzhenitsyn. In any case, if Putin and his advisers have discovered a “cure” for capitalism, they should share it, so as to subject it to peer review. If not, they should put that horse to pasture and move to a sustainable future.
Xi, for his part, has seen the writing on the wall, and is apparently moving quickly to contain the capitalist cancer already sprouting all over the place, precisely as the Great Hegemon moves to concentrate all its forces against China. Xi’s reforms are in some regards a bit overdue, but China is thankfully implementing them with their usual decisiveness.
Fact is, no responsible leader can afford to disregard —in 2021—the great lessons about capitalist social morbidity and sheer socioeconomic unsustainability offered in eloquent terms by the collapsing US empire, as no one in the US, Japan or the EU has yet come up with a real solution to the classical problem of overproduction. Which, naturally, the digital revolution is exacerbating.
While in the short-term some placating of the inevitable may be possible by some astute or brute-force maneuvering, in the mid-term the disease will be obvious even to the most recalcitrant defenders of capitalism, not to mention the prospect for humanity in the longer term, when the ecological bomb fully detonates. By then, I hope the whole arc of anti-imperialist nations will have their house in good socialist order.
Since the leap toward autarkic industrialization and technical sufficiency is proceeding quickly in China, Russia, and Iran, this process accelerated by deeply misguided US harassment, China, for one, has far less reason to tolerate such a huge capitalist sector in its midst, nor does she depend on Western-controlled supply chains for her normal performance.
The great clash between a parasitic empire founded on war industries, and “wealth creation” through money manipulation, indefinite debt creation, etc., and sovereign nations like China, Russia, Iran, Korea, etc., who create wealth through concrete industrial operations (including service sectors that do not reflect negative or speculative functions in the GDP), has been decided. What’s more, Washington’s disgusting hubris, appalling governance, and inability to learn from history and reality, doom it to a downward spiral that will be sealed when dedollarization and vertical autarky are completed in key anti-imperialist nations in the next decade or perhaps even sooner.
Pat
Hello Billy Bob, I think that I “get you” well, and I appreciate all of your input. And about CWG, well, I’ve often wondered, that those that probably “know”, seem hesitant. Well, they do their own thing.
I’ll start at the bottom:
- “Thanks for motivating all these paragraphs”.Absolutely. My thoughts on it, – that by being forced to write, I become more knowledgeable, maybe even more intelligent.
- “I have written far too much already.”That’s me in spades. I will try to suggest how we can find a sharper focus. We have to open new threads on certain very broad topics. Otherwise nobody is going to follow the discussion, if it just goes everywhere. At least I will start to number, so you don’t have to re-quote statements, but can just say “on your number 3, I would consider the following. . . . “
- What is the world overview on the whole Soviet, Russian, Socialist, Communist discourses???
(a) private property is “sacred” to absentee owners, (aka billionaires).
(b) anyone who might say “you can’t own that” is their mortal enemy.
(c) “Communist” is a billionaire code-word for those we must kill.
(d) We must kill them in such a tortuous way, that no one will dare.
(e) Therefore the sides are drawn (by them) and I must choose sides.
(f) If I look at the events, or the methods, and try to tell the truth that I see? (I might wind up on the wrong side.)
(g) If I stick with Story A, or if I stick with Story B, do I really serve the people of the future, who live in reality C?
(h) Exaggerations in one way or the other, leave out important considerations. Omitting is a form of a lie.
(i) Do lies serve the present or the future? Are they the foundation for building a new life?
SO – – – People love symmetry. If there are too many people saying A, well, then I must say B, to balance it out? (Or if they say B too much, I must say A, we call it a troll.) That’s how I view the discussion of Stalin, of Communism and Socialism, and the discussions of the Soviet Union.
And to pile on to one side or the other of the argument is the perfect formula for divisiveness, exactly what we don’t need. Divisiveness will collapse all of the old-line civilizations.
We must create a new-line civilization.
- Guess What? I didn’t write anything in the original post. Just a few words here and there. It is all a direct quote from the white paper written by Wang Huning in 1986 and subsequently carefully revised 5 times until the 2012 version which I read. I even took out some of his words (because of our Story A – Story B confusions), that is, his numbers of the Stalin repressions are even higher than the Russian figures.
Wang is now the fifth-ranked member of the Party’s seven-man Politburo Standing Committee, (2021) and directs the Central Secretariat, effectively making him Xi Jinping’s deputy in managing day-to-day Party affairs.
To suggest that (highest level) Chinese leaders are clueless about Soviet history, and that they may have to consult with western “Experts” to know what the hell happened there, is beyond belief for me. I am sure they know more about it than you or I will ever know, and likely know way more about it than they will ever tell. (I just read your 2nd link, and Mao already has it down pat back in his lifetime. (Written September 13, 1963)
To suggest that there is a radical division at the very top of the Chinese Politburo, and that this “Wang rascal” is against Xi, and holds unconventional views, is also completely disrespectful, and “off-the-wall”. (In my view.) Neither do I have to accept his numbers, but what is clear to me is that China is not about a mobilized communist society, and not about condoning it, nor endorsing it, nor most probably, they don’t even want to discuss it.
- I have long said on this forum that the definitions we use are completely useless, capitalism, communism, socialism, Marxism, industrialism, financialism, it takes some thinking even to make the list.I can think of multiple examples of very differing systems, each one using the same one of these “broken words”. But there should be separate words for each use.
We burn our energy arguing over what amounts to loose slogans. We are sloganeering experts and can go no farther than to where??? To Nowhere as far as I am concerned.
I call them “verbal containers”, (these ones are leaky buckets) and you can’t make new thoughts in an old worldview. It’s a huge topic that can be discussed by the willing, in a serious contemplation. (Or in a book)
- About Stalin, I have not adopted any “certain perspective”.I only have investigated the undisputed events. (Well, some may want to dispute them), but the only way they can do it is by fogging the issues and adopting slogans. What happened, happened; and yes there are records of it. If there weren’t any, I’d have another opinion.
I think the words of Xi are clear as a ringing bell, they don’t need any of my processing. He works toward unity. History is a zigzag path, and you can either use those zigzags for divisiveness, or he chooses to find unity in them. He knows what builds the nation and what destroys it. He is a confirmed builder.
OK, I like what you said in one place:
– we develop our understanding in an ideological framework (so that framework is what we should be talking about)
– current level of understanding used to process new information
– there exists powerful forces that are interested in manipulating our understanding
And then you say – “correct way” to understand Stalin and his methods?
(By the way, the correct way, and it is the obvious way, to understand Stalin must be in the light of “what will give the current Russian Federation the most power to thrive and develop.” If you say Stalin, well, – – – he was actually the good guy – – – then those people are to think, Oh, Yeah, Right, . . . Maybe we could go back to those “glorious times”.)
Nothing could be further away from a useful vision of future expectations.
- “Even in Stalin’s time there was collective leadership.”
the fallacy of exaggerating Stalin’s dictatorial power
imputes malign motives and mal-intentions to Stalin
I totally agree, and I’ve prepared a post some time ago to that effect. When I finally post it I will call it “Team Stalin, uncovered in the 1950’s”. But to try to include it here is impossible. But “Team Stalin doesn’t mean the team didn’t use misguided methods. It means the whole team is implicated, caught up in the inertia, of a “steamroller to hell”.
- You bring up the Kulaks:Holy hell, that’s such an enormous subject. You say:
“Stalin inherited an agricultural system which was inadequate to meet the needs of the nation.” So what’s new about that?
Every nation that has ever made it into the modern stable of statehood (let’s say at least 150 of them), had that same universal initial problem.
(a) to industrialize you need workers (capital, resources and other stuff too)
(b) to industrialize on a shoestring, you need cheap labor.
(c) to have cheap labor you MUST have cheap food.
(d) to have cheap food you must drive traditional farming into the poorhouse. They must be less than subsistence.
(e) to get industrialized food you must drive farmers into bankruptcy and destitution, off of the farm and into the cities. What they had for free by their own labor now they have to buy, from the state no less.
Then if you want to do that very fast:
(f) if they still don’t leave the land you have to take the land by force.
(g) If they still object you have to shoot them (according to you-know-who)
It is as simple as reciting the alphabet. It can be no other way. They’re still doing it today in America, driving the family farm into bankruptcy.
To say someone “got fat-off-of-famine” is simply way off of the map. That excuse was the only way you could digress to point (g).
There was some slaughter of cattle in 1930 as a protest, and it was successful to soften government policies.
In other periods a new tax levied on each head of cows and a tax on each fruit tree were designed to drive farmers off of the land, to the point (d). They killed their cows and cut down their trees to survive financially, not because they were “enemies of the state or the people”. The government killed those cows, with their purposeful tax policy. And the people repeatedly went on the ration system because of it. You say they were the prime beneficiaries of that “outdated” system? Well, they were living.
I believe that famine happened from the government decrees radically interfering with a system that had worked up until that point, but they decreed the change before having successfully arranged an alternative system to supply that food. They had the idea, but it wasn’t in place yet. What was left was a void. I can back all that up with production figures and ratios of where all resources came from.
Kulaks are another vast subject that I have been preparing, but again it must wait.
- Now you’re going to some points that you can’t seem to shake.
– I view any such assertion, insinuation, or implication as entirely spurious, ignorance, and a desire to deceive.
– not a single criticism of Stalin or the CPSU that can withstand critical scrutiny
– where there does not exist an explanation which is far more comprehensive, compelling, and satisfactory
– The fact that many within the original revolutionary coalition government eventually attempted to utilize agitation, propaganda, and terror to further their own narrow political views, because they were unable to convince a majority of the party to see things their way,
– (WHO was that by the way?? The ones that came out on top, right? Is it the ones you’re defending?)
– treachery and opportunism abound.
– “checks and balances” are non-existent
– not because of the moral or bureaucratic failings
– (Here you say the failings of the General Secretary, but let’s leave him out of it completely.
– The bureaucratic failings are also rampant in everyone else.)
– The political structure was a free-for-all.
You said Walter Durant (Duranty). I read “The Kremlin and the People” 1941, last year, along with about 10 other books on the revolution. I found it again, but I don’t want to go back and scan through it just now.
I don’t relate to any of the above, because apart from those 10 books (half for and half against), I don’t read western propaganda nor western studies. All of my background in the USSR is Russian. All Russian authors, all written in Russian. The bulk of it is a 2 year history course at the Moscow State University, Under-grad junior and senior level, and what they are teaching Russian students right now. Now I am widening my search from there.
In the course I refer to, they open the archives of each series of events. Call it the facts. There is precious little commentary. From the facts you just draw your own conclusions. What happened seems to be very clear.
- Thanks for those two links.I read the shorter one, Mao, yesterday
https://www.marxists.org/subject/china/documents/polemic/qstalin.htm
Fantastic! Mao has it exactly how I see it, and how I think Xi has it. Back in 1963, when Khrushchev was still in power.
In defending Stalin, the Chinese Communist Party defends his correct side, defends the glorious history of struggle of the first state of the dictatorship of the proletariat, While defending Stalin, we do not defend his mistakes. Mao
In the work led by Stalin of suppressing the counter-revolution, many counter-revolutionaries deserving punishment were duly punished, but at the same time there were innocent people who were wrongly convicted; and in 1937 and 1938 there occurred the error of enlarging the scope of the suppression of counter-revolutionaries. Mao
The errors of Stalin, which were only secondary, are taken as historical lessons so that the Communists of the Soviet Union and other countries might take warning and avoid repeating those errors and commit fewer errors in the future. Mao
Really, the total Mao article is about Khrushchev, not much of Stalin.
Lenin said, “Abuse in politics often covers up the utter lack of ideological content, the helplessness and the impotence, the annoying impotence of the abuser.” Does this not apply to the LEADERS of the CPSU who, feeling constantly haunted by the specter of Stalin? (The word “Leaders” is plural, Mao said it. it’s the whole pack around Khrushchev.)
The “combat against the personality cult” launched by Khrushchev is a despicable political intrigue. “He is in his element as an intriguer, while he’s a nonentity as a theorist.” – Mao
Even in the last paragraph, Mao goes for unity, he doesn’t call Khrushchev hopeless when he says:
We would like to offer a word of sincere advice to Comrade Khrushchov. We hope you will become aware of your errors and return from your wrong path to the path of Marxism-Leninism. Mao
I’d love to talk about all of his points. It goes into a Khrushchev discussion. You could make a post on just this one article. I’ll read the Bruce Franklin introduction next, and see what I find.
- After giving the links, what you say; I have no argument, that’s all what I want to see too. I’ll add this, I love the Chinese saying:
Practice is the only measure of truth.
Therefore
Practice is also the only measure of Un-truth.
If you want to know anything about communism, socialism or Marxism, you must study the Soviet Union. It’s the on-the-ground experience of running communism. On the other side of the coin, China; It is “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, (for a new era)”. It’s something quite different, (and just as interesting of course).
- A) And what will you find in the USSR? Soviet Communism is 70 years of multiple disappointments, sometimes even shocking. The Soviet and Russian person’s personality must be steeped in overcoming disappointments.
Can you fix communism, or must you move on??? The other question I will also repeat:
- B) “What will give the current Russian Federation the most power to thrive and develop?” (And such that the Russian people are not led to disappointment again?)
Hey, Post anytime. I’ll surely be reading it.
Richard
Hello Pat,
- You speak of Marxist THEORY;”grounded in the understanding of human technological advances, and the birth and evolution of classes, their eventual tensions and struggles, and the march of humanity across different stages, determined at each point of the historical curve by the national, regional and global status of the class struggle”.
I kind of get your point, that even if various ethnicities and various time periods might prove this theory is not universal, why not stick with it, until some next phase disproves it more forcefully?
The Chinese have said that class struggle, as such, in China is not dominant. (I have leadership quotes.) So why should they keep talking about class struggle? Yes there are again rich people, but the economy-for-all, is not based on them, nor hindered by the money they filter out of the system.
And shouldn’t we still look beyond, when robotics and A.I. will make most of the “Proletariat” into the excess “Protoplasm”. Is there a notch in Marxism where that will fit into the theory?
- You give a certain praise to Putin for:
– decisive anchoring of the new Russian economy in a powerful energy sector
– a vigorous science-technical and arms sector (how vigorous I am wondering? With regard to arms of course.)
These actions are just gravity aren’t they. It’s just happening out of necessity, not because of special leadership qualities.
“Contending with the “Atlanticist” faction mostly consisting of US-oriented oligarchs and finance-oriented technocrats, and some of the usual upper middle class.”
This isn’t ideological, they have the money. (I posted the list here last month, a $ Trillion sequestered by Russian billionaires). “Change the laws so we can control and extract rent from all of you, just like they do in the west, or we will move our money over there”. They have already moved it haven’t they, and the hidden part of their wealth, we have no idea. Putin has to be seductive to get any part of this back into the country.
- A“cure”for capitalism? That means both, how to live with it, how to integrate a part of it, or how to evict it. None of which are clear alternatives, nor simple procedures.
– a solution to the classical problem of overproduction?
Of course there IS a centuries old solution to overproduction, which is WAR. All the wars in our age are capitalism at work. Capitalism needs a major war every 30 years at the current rhythm. And it is not just about the MIC and making money with that. All of Corporatocracy needs war. Building the MIC is their reassurance that it can happen again. (I’m not talking about you-and-me capitalism, trying to make a living. I’ll call that “enterprise-ism”).
After the big war I think that they were biding their time, waiting for the 30 year turnover. Then they were going to nuke the Soviets to smithereens. But Stalin wrecked it: when he blew off the atomic bomb in 1949 and then the Hydrogen bomb in 1953 just after his death.
All the harping about greed and morals and incessant profit totally misses the point. It’s not people’s morals, it’s the system. Capitalists don’t fight for greed, they fight for survival. The system cannot function without a periodic clean sweep of all the competition. The 30 years are up.
If ever they win, (that is, manage to deconstruct Russia etc.), will they still share the bounty with Europe, Japan, S.Korea, Australia? Will there be any “Partners” left over? Get-Real about that one! Only one group will put up the sign on planet earth, FOR RENT. Pay up or get out.
3a. OK, Autarky is important for nations under siege. But can an economy thrive, relying solely on the domestic market or it’s own internal consumption? I can’t answer that, but a solution has to be in the model. Perhaps you can raise the domestic quotient, but I don’t think there is any evidence to demonstrate it can thrive alone.
– either money manipulation vs. wealth through concrete industrial and service operations
– no negative or speculative functions in the GDP
– But you make 10 times more money, and 10 times faster with market manipulation, and
– virtual wealth is a 100 (100’s) times bigger than the real economy.
– How to equalize that? It won’t fit in.
– Sounds very violent to me?
What does this really mean? Nowadays the real economy is not as important as the virtual economy. (Of course not so, for you and me, the other way around). If the absentee owner has carved out a regional monopoly, fine and good, let’s milk it. But otherwise I see the real economy as a money laundering front. It is the way to get virtual money back into the spending economy. For this it serves well.
Only my opinions, of course.
Richard
Richard, I agree that we are a little bit all over the place and it will be difficult for others to follow. But I’m not motivated to address any issues except the one which I perceive to be central to our differences. Your framework appears to be that the reality of oppositional class interests within the capitalist mode of production is not the prime driver and force behind political events, laws, economic regulations, wars, and the entirety of history which communists perceive it to be. In contrast to communists, you would minimize the relevance of oppositional class interests and reject it as the singular most important reason for why things are as they are.
That’s cool. Of course many folks don’t think in these terms. Many are nationalists, racists, and most in the West are just too busy making ends meet and too subdued by their own political disenfranchisement to have any serious opinions at all (other than those passively absorbed through exposure to Western media).
But, as you alluded to elsewhere, it is not the opinions or (lack thereof) of the masses that determines what matters. What matters is determined by the ruling elite, the monied interests, the oligarchs, and their intelligentsia which is tasked with maintaing and increasing the obscene disproportion of wealth, power, and privilege, enjoyed by the very few (at the expense of the vast majority). Their motivation, actions, strategies, etc, are calculated and designed to further their interests which are naturally in opposition to the interests of the vast majority.
Now, a dictatorship of the proletariat can tolerate and indeed harness the benefits of capitalism (private ownership) while doing it’s best to minimize the negative externalities of inequality, political corruption, and disunity which naturally follow and this is of course China’s current course. Mostly however, where capitalism exists, the capitalists have taken over political power as well and the entire system is run by a capitalist dictatorship. This is the system that flourishes in the West and which hides itself with terms like “Democracy”, “checks and balances”, and “constitution”.
In reality if push comes to shove, the capitalist class will quickly reveal it’s dictatorial nature and things like “rights” are quickly thrown out the window.
Following WWII, the US found itself accounting for half the world’s economy but only 5% of the world’s population. They were in a very fortunate place indeed and used their disparity in wealth and power to subdue the developing world, ensure socialism was eradicated by any means necessary (without any moral restraint whatsoever including the creation and use of sadistic narco deathsquads, extreme and intolerant religious fanatics, and racist, nationalistic neo-nazi militias).
The Wester ruling class perceived the threat of successful socialism as an existential one because even a single successful socialist country, like Cuba for instance, would be an example that many others would certainly follow. The US has made clear though through the average of one “regime change” operation per year (not to mention 100’s of rigged foreign elections) that socialism is not a political approach that will be tolerated.
The developing world has to choose between being a second class Western colony where anything of value is exploited or extracted, or becoming the enemy of US led Western imperialism with all the subversion, sanctions, assassination, and hopelessness that entails.
I say all this too make it obvious and clear that within the era of capitalist development which our planet currently exists, it is class struggle and class war which is the defining feature of why things are as they are. Today’s struggle is not really between two different modes of production, private ownership vs. Public ownership, but rather today’s struggle is between which class holds the levers of political, economic, and military power. Is a given government a lackey or member of the dictatorship of capital that will acquiesce and work with the US led global empire which is interested solely in maintaining and projecting it’s unearned and obscene disproportion of wealth, power, and privilege? Or does it resists the empire and stand on the moral high-ground of sovereignty and a sincere desire to benefit their working class and all of humanity like Libya, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Russia, China, DPRK, etc, etc?
These countries are targeted for subversion because they do not prostrate themselves to the exploitative will of Western imperialism. Just as scores of countries have been targeted since 1945. But you must understand the class nature of imperialism to appreciate all of this. It’s the only way it truly makes any sense.
So on the question of whether or not oppositional class interests are the prime force directing world events I would emphatically say that they are and to perceive otherwise will result in a flawed analysis.
I will end with a few words about Stalin’s successes which you have glossed over by speaking of the SU as 70 years of multiple disappointments. While it’s true that a capitalist counter revolution eventually succeeded to take power, it seems obvious that this failure resulted from the initial and extremely dishonest (my opinion) attacks on Stalin which Mao makes expounds on in his 1963 article. This led to the Sino-Soviet split and also the end of the Western economic embargo against China.
What Stalin was able to accomplish during his time seems to me to be tremendous success after tremendous success. He managed to industrialized the country and bring electricity, education, and healthcare to all. He championed women’s rights and ended ethnic pogroms. He singlehandedly (for all intents and purposes) defeated the Nazi war machine. His leadership inspired the working class throughout the world and forced the Western capitalist dictatorships to provide far more largess to their working class than they otherwise would have and this resulted in what is widely understood to be the golden age of capitalism in the 1950’s where millionaires paid effective tax rates of 50% and the government financed huge public works and implemented things like social security etc. If the Western capitalist dictatorship was not in an ideological competition with Stalin, none of these things would have happened.
Richard, I am enjoying this back and forth. I hope you found some of the hasty words above useful or relevant. BTW, I see that you are also conversing with Patrice but I can’t read Patrice’s contribution. I know that Patrice and I are in very tight agreement and ideological solidarity and that his insight is very keen indeed. Maybe I should scour my emails closer to see if I can find what you were responding to below.
Anyway, thanks for the continued discussion.
Billy Bob
105-THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
https://w.histrf.ru/articles/article/show/kulturnaia_rievoliutsiia_n
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104-The Soviet elections of 1937 were alternative!
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103-Electoral system and elections in the RSFSR in 1918-1936
https://www.rcoit.ru/lib/history/1918-1990/17041/
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102-Stalin’s fierce struggle for power in the crucial 20s
https://topwar.ru/179532-ozhestochennaja-borba-stalina-s-soratnikami-za-vlast-v-perelomnye-20-e.html
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101-Two attempts at Stalin’s democratic reforms
https://newsland.com/community/129/content/dve-popytki-demokraticheskikh-reform-stalina/3644631
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100-THE TRUTH ABOUT THE RUSSIAN TRICOLOR FLAG
http://artyushenkooleg.ru/wp-oleg/archives/1097
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99-The 1991 coup : a desperate attempt to save a great country or a path to a bloody regime?
https://161.ru/text/world/2021/08/19/70086704/
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Today marks 30 years of events that turned the world
98-Mikhail Suslov: a man with the face of an aged student
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97-Russia raps West’s actions in Syria, says it openly used terrorists to overthrow Assad
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2021/08/30/665493/West-used-terrorists-Syria-overthrow-Assad-Russia
Lavrov is right. But everyone in the world needs to know that absolutely all parties involved in military conflicts, and the United States and Russia are no exception, use local conflicts to practice military skills and strategies, as well as to test their weapons. What is the point of making new weapons if in practice it turns out to be incapable of combat? This is my private opinion
Irina
96-China Writers’ Group comments about legalienate: Lesser Evil Politics Assure Greater Evil Economics, with reflections on Russia/USSR
✓What we are pretty good at is to lay out the world situation and point to all the things that are worsening the problems, and that look like they will end in certain catastrophe.
✓Also we have our theories (and certainties) of who, or what groups (what classes) are leading us toward this destruction.
✓Why do they do it? I’ve never really read much about WHY’s. I don’t know, just grab as much as you can while the grabbing is in vogue, and then in the collapse, your nest egg will be so big that it will solve any personal problem. To control of course!
✓Then the solution, as an end-game, we have that too. Mostly in the form of ideologies, such as an amorphous “global democratic communism”, whatever that might be, (hey, we all don’t know what that is). Something – – – like – – – well, what someone said or wrote. But of course never tried, or if tried, never achieved it.
Global: of course the only thing that could be global is global terror. A couple of clans of enforcers, fighting it out to impose their own brand of Global.
Democratic: Of course meaning printed green papers control who runs things, and you better not try to print any yourself.
Communism: god, who knows what, something with no money, no possessions, no distribution mechanism, just go get what you need. No enemies, no frustration, no more than a 5 hour check in at the factory. Hey, no factories nowadays, just robots. No need for much more than free time to sing and dance and learn all about???? Is there anything to learn about? Why bother?
Come’on Frank, I know you can lay it out better than that.
(I didn’t really get the connection with your subject line either?)
✓So the only thing missing is the step by step or how to get from here (from the hell that you painted), to there; some fuzzy ideas of a better life. When the step by step is too laborious, then just spout out about revolution, a discontinuous break, a collapse.
Revolutionaries are those who want to use my body(bag) to fulfill their pipe dreams. Use your own friggen body. Leave me out of it. (Maybe some of us might have fought in a war? It doesn’t much sound like it. I was in the army but never sent to the front.) Revolutionaries forget their role. 1)The billionaires are the killers; 2)you are the killed. Once the shooting starts, they will be more than happy to wipe you out. They’re actually waiting for that, and if you don’t start it soon, they’ll do their own false flag, and start without you.
Admitted, John proposes a Contract for American Renewal for politicians to get elected. I’m okay with that and would gladly vote for someone who has signed the contract. My proposal of a year or so ago is more like https://www.fiftybyfifty.org/ Which are worker owned companies performing in a capitalist environment. We also discussed this in Irina’s post lately about Mondragon. It is not a final solution, but a gradual change in mentality of workers taking care of themselves.
I also posted on Aug 8 “Capital Formation in Russia”, listing, and asking will the $1 trillion sequestered by Russian Billionaires and multimillionaires ever be used for development in Russia, or do you even need that money? So far, the model says you do need it. What’s the solution?
It is way worse in the US, as so-called capitalism is designed to drain the real economy, which it has done very well. Will a politician under a signed contract have anything to say about that?
(Is talking about the limitations of an ideology considered “Russia Bashing”? Aren’t there enough people faulting the Soviet Union to last a lifetime? But yet, some people actually do yearn for its return?)
President Putin can be masterful with words. His quote, “Anyone that isn’t nostalgic for Soviet times has no heart. Anyone that wants to return to it has no brain”.
Answer to the subject question:
If you’ll permit me: An ideology is a definition, pure and simple. It is a theory of how things could be, it’s a hypothetical construction based on some form of “logic”, a logic which comes from a philosophy that contains, or has developed that brand of logic.
And why do we have an ideology? Because that formation is nowhere existential. It has never existed, never has been proven, never has been tested nor modified as a result of any practical experience. If it was existential, we wouldn’t need an ideology, it would just have a name. But up until now it is a fantasy, devoid of any reality. The hope of the authors is that with this ideological blueprint we will now impose our ideas on some people, somewhere in the real world. And prove that we are right. (Impose, they say at first, and then later people will flock to it voluntarily.)
From Marx, the classic’s work was devoted mainly to justifying the exhaustion of capitalism’s possibilities and the inevitability of a new society – a socialist one. The contours of the new system were not so thoroughly defined, and Marx’s futuristic sketches were taken on faith by his supporters. It fell to the share of the Bolsheviks to become the first party of socialists, which received the opportunity to test in practice some of the Marxist ideas.
Just a bit more on ideology: It is said by ideologues that “we have the domination of socialist ideology, the inviolable basis of which is Marxism-Leninism. But we still have remnants of a bourgeois ideology, vestiges of private-proprietary psychology and morality”. But private property and the use of your own two hands to improve your own life are not an ideology. They are a reality of many 1000’s of years, (which maybe you can work with and perhaps modify in some behaviors), but they don’t depend on words and thoughts to exist. They already do exist.
Ideologies are then hollow beliefs that may someday be proven, or disproven. A good example is a communist belief that never worked out, and that actually was an important seed for the communist destruction (there were others):
“The national question (contradictions in relations between the ethnic peoples) was seen as secondary in comparison with inter-class contradictions. Its resolution was seen as directly dependent on the success of socialist construction. It was believed that with the transition to socialism and the elimination of class differences, national contradictions and differences would also be overcome.” The opposite is what finally happened.
Was the USSR good for Russia?
In the autumn of 1922 much deliberation and conflict went on in the Plenum about how to create the Soviet Union. The major problem was called “great power chauvinism”. In other words the “republics”, (ethnic peoples), lacked trust because of the historical domination of the Russian Empire.
Attention was drawn to Georgian chauvinism directed against Armenians, Ossetians, Adjarians and Abkhazians; Azerbaijani chauvinism against Armenians; Uzbek chauvinism (in Bukhara and Khorezm) against Turkmen and Kyrgyz. However, all these kinds of chauvinism were for some reason portrayed as a peculiar form of defense against “Great Russian chauvinism”. The bias toward local nationalism “is a reaction against the Great Russian chauvinism, which found its expression in a number of mistakes of the Russian comrades on the ground and the struggle against which, constitutes one of the most important ‘next tasks’ of the Party.” At the meeting there were calls to “cut the throat” of the behemoth of the great power (N. A. Skrypnik), “eradicate it completely, burn it with a hot iron” (G. E. Zinoviev), to prepare for a long struggle, because “great Russian chauvinism will exist as long as there is a peasantry” (A. I. Mikoyan).
The RSFSR accounted for 90% of the area and 72% of the population created by the Union. Giving the peripheral states the status of independents, but the Russian majority was not to be given that same status.
Thus a union of “equal republics” was to be formed with some nations being “more equal” than the others.
In discussing national problems at the Congress, Bukharin thought it necessary to acknowledge directly and openly the unequal position of the Russian people. “We,” he said, “as the former great power nation must put ourselves in an unequal position, in the sense of even greater concessions to national currents. Only when we have artificially placed ourselves in a position inferior to others, and only at this price can we buy ourselves the true confidence of formerly oppressed nations“.
Rakovsky directly stated that “the Union construction has gone the wrong way. It is necessary to take nine-tenths of the rights of the union commissariats away from Russia and transfer them to the national republics.” Frunze suggested “reconsidering the existing federal associations, turning a number of new republics into independent republics”.
The most radical were the proposals to replace the RSFSR and the ZSFSR with a number of independent national republics, including the Russian one, and unite them in a Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on an equal (equally powerless) footing.
P. Mdivani demanded “neither more nor less” than the immediate transition to the division of the RSFSR into its component parts and their transformation into independent republics.
So the project in 1922 was identical to the western neo-liberal project of the 1990’s to dismember Russia into all its ethic components, and to join that weakened structure in a union with all the external republics.
Stalin called on not to hurry with breaking the newly created federal structure: “We’ll see in a year or two how it will go and if the practice shows that we have to split RSFSR – we will do it, but there’s no need to rush ahead”. A. I. Mikoyan also rejected the idea of “splitting up the RSFSR” as “essentially reactionary” and could “lead to the undermining of Soviet power and endless conflicts between individual peoples in the outskirts”. So it didn’t happen that time.
Russian people are sacrificed again and again for ideology
The history of the formation and subsequent development of the USSR shows that the Russian national-state interests in fact were sacrificed to the Leninist-Trotskyist utopia – in the interests of the phantom World USSR, and the nationalism of “oppressed” peoples of the former Tsarist Russia. (Bolshevik propaganda about “Bloody Nikolashka” aside, only around 6,321 people were executed for all offenses (including purely criminal ones, like murder) in the Russian Empire from 1825-1917. The Red Terror that Lenin would unleash would claim many orders of magnitude more lives.) Plus the civil war and famine, we’re getting up to 10,000,000 lives lost in 4 years, justified against 6,000 in 90 some years of the Tsars.
Instead of a realistic analysis of the processes in the national sphere and corresponding reforms in the national-state structure of the USSR, the government once again got carried away with the ideological utopian project of the “final solution to the national question”, linking it with a forced breaking down of “national partitions”, with the erasure of national distinctions and the assimilation of the nations in Soviet society, in other words – with denationalization.
What characterizes the development in the USSR and by the beginning of the 1960s are hollow phrases repeated as dogma, as follows:
“Under the conditions of socialism, nations flourish, strengthening their sovereignty”. The development of the nations is not on the way to increasing national discord, national narrow-mindedness and egoism, as it happens under capitalism, but on the way to their rapprochement, fraternal mutual assistance and friendship. The emergence of new industrial centers, the discovery and development of natural wealth, the development of virgin lands, and the development of all kinds of transport increase the mobility of the population, contributing to the expansion of mutual communication between the peoples of the Soviet Union. People of many nationalities live and work together in the Soviet republics. The boundaries between the union republics within the USSR are no longer important, because all the nations are equal, their lives are built on a common socialist basis, the material and spiritual needs of each nation are equally satisfied, they are all united by their common vital interests in the Fatherland family, and are together moving toward a common goal – communism. The Soviet people of different nationalities have formed common features of spiritual character, born of a new type of social relations and embodied in themselves the best traditions of the peoples of the USSR. In sum, the “new man” has been born.
Sounds good, doesn’t it?
OF COURSE THIS WAS NEVER TRUE, BUT THE LEADERS CAME TO BELIEVE IN THEIR OWN PROPAGANDA. Thus so many problems were never confronted nor solved.
Leninist / Trotsky aims were much worse
L.D. Trotsky joined the discussion in November 1920. He and his supporters believed that the main goal of the Soviet power was to prepare for a “revolutionary war” and to push the world revolution in every possible way. They suggested turning the country into a military camp, to militarize it, drastically limit democracy, “keep in check” the multi-million peasantry, which, according to the theory of permanent revolution, is hostile to socialism. It was suggested that the trade unions should be “shaken up,” merged with the economic organs, and that paramilitary methods should be incorporated into the work practices of other social organizations.
The November 1920 Plenum of the RCP(b) rejected Trotsky’s proposals and called for abandoning military methods in the leadership of trade unions. However, this did not stop the Trotskyists. In the Central Committee of the United Trade Union of Railway and Water Transport Workers (headed by Trotsky since March 1920), work was still carried out by military methods. Union members were imprisoned for various misdemeanors and sent to forced labor.
The Leninist project gave Russia the role of brushwood, which was going to be thrown into the furnace of the world revolution. And the Russians – the role of cannon fodder, which will be sacrificed to the International Socialists, who dreamed of a landed republic with its capital in either Berlin or New York. People were expendable material like Saruman’s Orcs, to pelt Europe with their corpses for the interests of the “lords of the rings” of the world revolution. – Trotsky said not without reason that the real revolutionaries sit on Wall Street! Fin-intern-news, the bankers of the City of London and Wall Street, in their plans for revolutionary change of the world – the capitalist globalization, Russia and the Russians were given the unenviable share as the raw materials for creating this ideology.
This was Soviet Communism from the very beginning. Did it get any better after that period?
You can tell me if you know. Some say, where would humanity be today without Lenin, Stalin, et al? I can’t answer that question.
Richard
95-Independence fever: Ukraine chose sovereignty in exchange for gold
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94-“I am asked to show the truth”: What an American blogger from Donbass saw in the Russian Crimea
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93-Were the participants of the State Emergency Committee criminals?: facts that have been kept silent for 30 years
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92-“Fantastic mess”: military pilot Anatoly Kopyrkin – about the evacuation of Americans from the Kabul airport
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91-How London and Paris contributed to the conclusion of the treaty between the USSR and Hitler
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90-The Taliban began to guard the Russian Embassy in Kabul
89-Yevgeny Yevtushenko: It is not enough to know history, but you need to understand it. Lev Gumilyov’s Theory of passionarity on the laws of history
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88-Was Stalin great?
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87-If you can’t win fairly, then change the rules
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86-More on Federenko’s writings
1) I’ve been asking questions about what will bring about the development of Russia? In one post I calculated the power of Russia’s elite. With billionaires and various levels of millionaires, projected at 77,000 people with (about) $1.5 trillion at the end of next year. I showed less, but without counting offshore.
I wondered if they have much interest in investing in real assets, or like all elites they are speculators? I wondered if the government could reign them in, or if you even need their money?
In another post I showed the 9 year transformation of Ivanono, (a city of 440,000). How are they developing their city? It seems quick now, after a very long lag?
In a reply Irina mentioned taxing offshores at a different rate, or breaking the mutual tax treaties, will bring money back, which I had read about. Does that mean Russian growth depends on capitalism now? No more social investment, but mostly private ownership? It does look that way in Ivanovo. I don’t know, I am just asking.
The state owns oil and other resources, and so as long as oil prices hold high, they’ll have a budget. But where will they put that money?
2) Where I think I would find the answer is in a book by Nikolay P. Fedorenko. I’ve mentioned it before, and now I will tell you about it through a review. Who is he?
In 1946 he had carried out an original development related to economic calculations of combined productions. In 1949, he developed the methods for determination of costs and estimation of efficiency of products manufactured in combined chemical processes. In the early 1950s, on the basis of a series of calculations, he contributed to the practical implementation of the idea of cost accounting in chemistry-related industries. He is the author of monographs “The Economics of Synthetic Materials Industry” (1961), and “Issues of Economics of the Industry of Organic Synthesis” (1967). In 1970 he was awarded the State Award of the USSR for his contribution to the chemical industry of the country.
He was one of the theorists and organizers of research of the system of optimal functioning of socialist economy. In his works, he created the scientific basis of the comprehensive system for the development of future national economic plans, which combined program-targeted, sectoral, and territorial planning. He wanted to connect all industry sectors with computers, way before the internet.
If I had this book, I would translate it into English. (Pdf that I could copy/paste of course.) A paper book I could do nothing with. This, above and below, I had found in Russian, so these are all translations.
3) Here is Doctor of Economics O. Inishkov’s review.
Fedorenko N. P. Russia at the turn of the century.
М. ZAO Izdatel’stvo “Ekonomika” [Economics Publisher]. , 2003. – 727 с.
The problem of wealth – traditionally central to economic science – attracts particular attention in transitional epochs and at the turns of history. It was then that works on the essence and sources, types and measures of wealth of peoples and countries emerged. These include the works of W. Peggy and I. Pososhkov, A. Smith and A. Storch, A. Butowsky and C. Gini, R. Goldsmith and Alb. Weinstein, M. Gilbert, and others. Much has been done to measure the wealth of humanity, but apparently more remains to be done. That is why a fundamental advance in this direction of modern economic science is so significant. The new book by Academician N.P. Fedorenko is not the patriarch of economic science “Bygoye i dumy” (“Bygone and Thought”). Tirelessly reflecting on the “eternal paradoxes” that at all times did not give rest to domestic economists. But this scientist is focused on the future.
✓”Why does complete poverty arise in the face of immeasurable wealth?”;
✓”Is Russia objectively condemned to such a deplorable state of affairs? And if so, why?” (pp. 21-22) –
The very posing of such questions gives this study the character of an actual “answer” of economic science to the “challenge” of strategic modernization of the economic system, and the multifaceted composition of the monograph allows us to consider this “answer” systematically and comprehensively justified.
The large-scale and complex task of assessing the dynamics and evolution of Russia’s national wealth and its proportions in the XX century, the first results of the solution of which N. Fedorenko already described as the first results of his previous work
“Russia: Lessons of the Past and Faces of the Future” [1], and now he is again presenting us from the different angles:
– methodological and theoretical,
– methodological and statistical,
– political and ideological,
– moral and humanistic.
In a new multidimensional study the author conducts objective historical comparisons of the levels of economic development of the country, providing a basis for assessing its prospects in the XXI century.
✓They are connected, first of all, with the creation of mechanisms of overcoming poverty,
✓improvement of the standard of living and quality of life,
✓effective use of resources and factors of productive activity,
✓formation of optimal reproduction proportions,
✓passing to future generations of “good economy” (p. 18) .
To study the age-old dynamics of Russia’s national wealth, it was necessary to analytically identify its components, the synergistic interaction of which in living labor and real production is the basis for the creation, accumulation, transformation and distribution in the economic space of all the diversity of goods.
To such components, which in the modern world take special forms of capital, N. Fedorenko refers to human (including intellectual), and natural-resources, scientific-technical, and institutional-organizational factors of economic development. He also takes into account the influence of the accumulated wealth in society embodied labor, which appears in the forms of capital and property. “Labor potential, natural resources, accumulated capital and accumulated property, intellectual power and the art of management, their forms, scale and power, are the main components and driving forces of national wealth, specific generic forms of its embodiment, and its existence” (p. 21) .
The above provision shows that among methodological tasks of economic theory, the structural and functional differentiation of categories of potential and capital, property and wealth, resources and factors, is brought to the forefront. Without this, many methodological solutions in the field of measuring and comparing the wealth of nations are impossible. The relevance of theoretical discussions about the actual composition of the basic arguments of the production function and the need for their further clarification and harmonization are obvious. Only on the basis of a consensus on this fundamental issue is it realistic to make further progress in the long-term empirical generalizations and knowledge of the patterns of dynamics and evolution of Russia’s economy.
- Fedorenko’s fundamental position on the need to separate categories of national wealth remains unchanged. If under the first one we understand “everything, without exception, that the country has at its disposal”. The notion of national wealth includes “everything that the people of this country have accumulated and have at their disposal at this moment ( – O.I.)” (p. 34). If a country’s wealth does not belong to the people, then whose wealth does it belong to? Unwittingly, questions arise about the stratification of social forces, about the confrontation between society and the state, about the need to resolve the contradictions between them. The development of an economic mechanism for the establishment and consolidation of civil society in Russia becomes an urgent task.
At each stage of the historical development of any country there is a different understanding of people’s wealth and national wealth. “And the greater the contrasts and, consequently, contradictions between different ways of life and labor, as well as modes of production, the greater these differences will be (between countries. – O.I.), of course” (p. 34). In the context of globalization, it is time for new approaches to the assessment and comparison of national wealth of different countries, for the completeness and reliability of which a unified international methodological framework should be created.
It is necessary to develop a methodological basis for the study of the role and significance of the fictitious part of national wealth, the nature and extent of its interrelation with the real component. “What is the price of the paper part of the national wealth of modern Russia, how can this wealth double overnight or melt away in the same amount, what is its relation to the real wealth of the country, how does it affect the real wealth of Russia and how is it depreciated under the pressure of financial speculators?” (с. 71) . It is extremely difficult to make this comparison because natural indicators of national wealth are widely used along with the value indicators to exclude the influence of fluctuations in the stock markets.
Therefore, there is a problem of forming a comprehensive mechanism of assessment in monetary terms of the rates and proportions of reproduction of various elements of national wealth – fixed capital of enterprises and property of households, intellectual capital, minerals developed and put into circulation, information, connections and statuses. Still little-studied elements of wealth should include the “goodwiII” (reputation) of enterprises, individual property rights and competencies, other intangible assets. Their valuation can be based on the value of agreements and contracts, patents and licenses, standards and norms, rituals and procedures, statuses and reputations rooted in a particular economy.
But in order to give the required objectivity to the process of assessing national wealth, it is advisable to conduct a general inventory (p. 673), in the course of which its hidden part – the “shadow” component – should be identified. It is no secret that most enterprises underreport their activities within the framework of official reporting. And if, in the “crooked mirrors” of domestic statistics, about the problems of which N. Fedorenko writes about in detail, Russian economic space looks like a lifeless desert, in fact, the “fog” of shadow relations only covers the real metamorphosis of conditions, resources, factors and products, in the process of reproduction of national wealth. A significant step in this direction was made in the regional study led by A. Tatarkin and V. Yakovlev [2].
The costs of the all-Russian inventory seem to be enormous, because influential groups of oligarchs, directors of enterprises, financial magnates, hidden owners will be interested in its blocking and distortion of the results obtained. Therefore, it requires a combination of the political will of the head of state and an independent scientific expertise on the part of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The fundamental issue of any transformation is a change in the proportions of objects and subjects of various forms of ownership, which determines the transformation and modernization of the entire economic mechanism of society. It is no coincidence that N. Fedorenko draws special attention to the results and effects, expectations and prospects of redistribution of property rights in the course of privatization of the 1990s. He bitterly writes about the social cost of liberal reforms: “… Ordinary shareholders are removed from the management of the enterprise, and a narrow circle of owners seizes large blocks of shares… The process of secondary redistribution of property is carried out under the banner of deepening monopolization, strengthening the oligarchic nature of the economy and has nothing to do with the search for an effective owner” (pp. 438-439) . As a result, we have an unprecedented social stratification on scale and intensity. The conclusion is logical: “… Privatization has not contributed to the strengthening of social security and the development of social infrastructure, but rather has led to their destruction” (p. 439) .
The author actualizes the search for an optimal balance between sectors of the economy (state, private, cooperative, etc.), the balance of property functions (use, ownership and disposal), including a review of the results of privatization. Tools of this harmonization should be evaluated from the perspective of not commercial, and public effectiveness, so that “de-privatization, nationalization and confiscation are, from the perspective of the interests of the national economy and the population of Russia. They’re not antagonists and not “poor cousins” of privatization, and its equal partners, if not “sisters in arms” “. (с. 441) . It should not be forgotten that privatization and de-privatization unduly and continuously replace each other in the course of economic evolution.
The reproduction mechanism in contemporary Russia generates a set of internal contradictions, multiplies the costs of transformation and modernization for society, contributes to the emasculation of the real content of the status of the worker, fixes the inversion of social groups on “place and role” in economic processes, status and income. In many respects, the reason for this is ignoring the indisputable fact that “national wealth is created for PEOPLE, is created by PEOPLE (their living and materialized labor) and is the property of the people, i.e. the aggregate PEOPLE” (84). The processes of total de-ideologization and de-naturalization of the economic space are in full swing.
That brings us to social alienation, atomization and growing fragmentation instead of tendencies to strengthen civil society. Narrow political groups and factions become more isolated, people become farther apart from each other, and there is an escape from reality into alcoholism, drug addiction, and sectarianism. There is an irreversible erosion of generally accepted norms, with a parallel increase in the homogeneity of institutional space due to globalization [3]. “The “elite” is increasingly opposed to the “masses”.
The poverty of the majority of the population “triggers” the mechanism of degradation of the country’s human potential, because it is doomed to “narrowed reproduction”. This is due to the receipt of income sufficient only to achieve a minimum level of life, which sharply narrows the range of monetary and natural provision of a significant part of people’s physical and spiritual needs. N. Fedorenko is deeply convinced that “the cost of upbringing children, education, sports, health care and all other “investments in man” should be considered not as non-productive consumption, but as investments that give a direct economic effect and ultimately provide an increase in national wealth” (p. 86) . After all, the expanded reproduction of human capital is a prerequisite for the effective growth and development of the economy. Social humanism should really become the methodological and ideological “core” of Russia’s development economy [4].
Enriched with new ideas, N. Fedorenko’s work includes a number of chapters covering the logic and features of the centuries-old development of certain spheres and sectors of the economic system. These are industrial production and agriculture, construction and energy, trade and transport. Includes unparalleled in Russian science a continuous statistical series showing annual changes in basic economic and branch indicators of Russian economy throughout the XXth century (Chapters 3-7). Of undoubted interest, in particular, are arguments of the author about the nature and consequences of rapid pace of development of agriculture in modern Russia. In his opinion it is necessary to form interrelated dynamics of branches of AIC (grain production, cattle breeding etc.) on the basis of synchronization and scientific forecasting of demand in their production and production potential (p. 201-202).
The formation of scientific foundations for the modernization of the economy and the transition to a sustainable economic growth trajectory, the determination of individual directions and guidelines, priorities and imperatives within the framework of Russia’s development strategy are inextricably linked to the creation of a methodology for managing the evolution of the economic system, taking into account changes in indicators of its condition. According to N. Fedorenko, economic development “in general” in the current conditions is unacceptable for Russia, so a set of industries capable of becoming “donors” of the economy in the medium term should be identified, and a strategy for their factor and resource support should be developed. (oil, gas, minerals?)
The coordinated implementation of comprehensive target programs for the development of individual spheres and industries, regions and macro-regions should lead in the future to multiprogram dynamics of the entire multi-branch economy of Russia, becoming the basis of its sustainability. Although “theoretically any industry can be regarded as a point of potential growth” (p. 670), the scientist names three spheres, which should become a priority for investment and all forms of state support. These are the export-oriented sectors of raw materials, science and education, and small and medium business (Ch. 14). The seemingly paradoxical conclusion on increasing emphasis on the development of exports of FEC products is combined with the justification of the need for a gradual transition to a resource-saving type of development mechanism and multi-channel monitoring of demand for natural resource products, state and dynamics of reserves, reserves and resources, as well as geological exploration to control the exploitation and development of Russia’s natural wealth.
- Fedorenko’s position seems much more objective and patriotic compared to the loud statements of the adherents of the rapid construction into a post-industrial and even “post-economic” society in Russia, which is shrinking like a shagreen leather. His book has considerable heuristic potential, (learn by discovery) guiding the search for new generations of scholars, encouraging them to make bold advances in their methodology and methodology of measuring wealth.
The enormous amount of work done and the century-long scale of economic generalizations in the book by N. Fedorenko allow us to say after the ancient Romans: Faciant mcliara potcnt. cs – let him do better who can. The book gives us hope that the time is coming soon when “the higher moral principle of careful, prudent and very efficient use of the national wealth of Russia” will prevail (p. 22-23).
Doctor of Economics O. Inishkov
1 Fedorenko N.P. Russia: Lessons of the Past and Faces of the Future. М. ZAO Izdatel’stvo “Ekonomika” [Economics Publisher]. , 2000.
2 See: Shadow Economy of the Region: Diagnostics and Measures of Neutralization. Under the editorship of A.I. Tatarkin, V.F. Yakovlev. Institute of Economics of UrB RAS. М. ZAO Izdatel’stvo “Ekonomika” [Economics Publisher]. , 2004.
3 See: Castells M. The information age: economy, society and culture. М. State University – Higher School of Economics, 2000, p. 508.
4 See : Lvov D.S. Economics of Development. М. Examen, 2002, pp. 126-150.
Richard
Richard, I found for you an online version of Katasonov’s book “The Economics of Stalin”. Here’s the link
http://samlib.ru/g/gpebenchenko_j_i/210.shtml
I cannot find Fedorenko’s books yet, but I will continue to search.
Regarding the budgets of different levels in Russia and where budget funds are directed, I found the textbook “The Budgetary System of Russia”.
Here is the link
https://kpfu.ru/docs/F527917524/1_KursL.pdf
I myself do not have information regarding the Ivanovo budget and social spending
This is a link to the municipal finance of the city of Ivanovo
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Book: Fedorenko. Optimal functioning of the economy
Федоренко_Н.П._-_Вопросы_оптимального_функционирования_экономики.PDF
Irina
Hello Irina, Many thanks.
Wow, those are really good things to find.
The file that you had attached (Fedorenko. Optimal functioning of the economy), seems to be damaged, and I can’t open with Preview, Word or text edit. Could you please try something? Open it on your computer and copy the text into another program, like Microsoft Word, or some other text file that you have. Please save that and send it to me, to see if my computer recognizes it. For instance, it might be fonts. Word had to download 3 additional fonts before I could paste the Katasonov book.
I had wanted to read Katasonov’s book on Stalin’s Economics, since when you directed me to a free chapter. Now I captured the Russian text and dumped it into Microsoft Word, from which I will organize the translation. It is 88,000 Russian words.
The textbook on Russian Budgetary system is a pdf, and downloads easily. About 300 pages.
The Ivanovo Budget is a series of links, pdf’s and Excel files. Maybe I will look into them later:
Latest Ivanovo documents http://ivbudget.ru/
July 30, 2021, Friday
Order of Finance-Treasury Department of 30.07.2021 №69 “On amendments to the plan of control measures of Finance-Treasury Department of Ivanovo City Administration for 2021”.
Text of the document (.pdf, 299,34 Kb)
July 26, 2021, Monday
Directive of the Administration of the City of Ivanovo dated July 26, 2021, No. 209-r “On Approval of the Report on Execution of the Budget of the City of Ivanovo for the First Half of 2021” (209-р)
Text of the document (.pdf, 131.99 Kb)
Report on the execution of the budget of the city of Ivanovo for the first half of 2021 (.xls, 841 Kb)
July 22, 2021, Thursday
Summary report on accounts payable of municipal budgetary institutions in the city of Ivanovo as of July 1, 2021
Text of the document (.pdf, 156,01 Kb)
July 8, 2021, Thursday
Performance of the municipal programs as of 01.07.2021
Document text (.xls, 67 Kb)
Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Summary of information on debt obligations of the city of Ivanovo as of 01.07.2021
Text of the document (.doc, 34 Kb)
I’ll keep up good hope for the Fedorenko file.
Thanks again.
Richard
85-“It’s all the same to go to bed later” Why an American is surprised how a Russian woman makes the bed (says an American)
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This post is not about history, not about politics. It’s about habits that speak volumes.
Irina
84-The whole world is shocked by how successful Russia performed at the Tokyo Olympics. No one expected this from the Russians
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83-Post-war period: how the country recovered so quickly. Asian “tigers” never dreamed of such a pace
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82-The COVID-19 mystery, the Clinton “mission” and the new Lysenkoism. Column by Gennady Onishchenko
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81-77 years of the Warsaw Uprising: why Russians and Poles will never come to an agreement?
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77 years ago, a desperate uprising broke out in Warsaw against the Nazi invaders, which led to the complete destruction of this beautiful European city and the death of hundreds of thousands of people. Already after the “velvet revolution” in Poland, this event was expected to become a pivotal event for the Poles, and, as a result, extremely mythologized. And the most important myth of the uprising still poisons relations between the Russian and Polish peoples…
80-Polish press about the Warsaw Uprising
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79-My post on a Russian Village simulator
Everyone. I am overjoyed to have participants in the forum that know Russia. I admire them and I read their writings like they are worth gold. I wrote a post in my website about a simulator that allows you to walk about in a deserted Russian village. I have been told that it is accurate, but I would like to ask if any of the knowledgeable experts here if this is indeed the case. I would seriously and sincerely appreciate your feed back.
https://metallicman.com/russian-villiage-simulator/
Robert
Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Robert,
Interesting concept. I traveled in Russia in 1984. Andropov was Premier. So much has changed since then.
I’m copying Irina, David and Eric, who have much better and more recent experiences there.
Jeff
My wife says that this is very authentic. There are many abandoned villages in Russia. The young people leave because there is no work and the old people died off. I find Russia Beyond to be a great website. It is sponsored by the Russian government.
Here is a very heartwarming story, of a young woman who is reviving a Russian village in Siberia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AMd6X5qaiA&t=87s
David
It was a little exaggerated and a little funny. If someone needs a Russian simulator, then in my opinion this is the best one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HZ4DnVfWYQ
Irina
Irina,
I love Russian humor.
David
When there is little you can change, only humor remains.
Irina
Here is another video I can relate to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtP3tqLdz3k
David
What about this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn7kbmZpdPU
78-Capital Formation in Russia
I think every Russian has a right to ask:
– Are the Russian people doomed to eternal poverty?
– Why do nations with scarce resources live better than we do?
– How do we use, and how should we use our national wealth?
– Will we be able to leave our descendants with a good economy?
So where is the search for answers? We read about Putin, about military strategy and new weapons, and we might think Russia is a powerful modern country. But really, looking deeper, it is a developing nation that is horribly behind in many important technologies. That’s another story that I’m not writing about here.
So let’s say that what is lacking is investment capital to bring Russian industry, and Russian living into the modern age. So what is the nature of Russian capital formation? I don’t know if the state can come up with capital investment, or on what limited basis? So far, not much shows up. Then if capital formation is in private hands, what is the prognostication?
Russian capital formation is very new, not centuries old like British and European wealth clans, not like 200 year old American family dynasties. It dates only from 1993 and thereafter when Yeltsin was able to offload $200 Billion of Russian Industry for $7 Billion, to whomever could grab it. Americans designed the breakup, but American industrialists didn’t take the plunge, because they thought it was too unstable, and might revert to Communism.
So puny Russians with $10 or so millions found themselves as owners of giant industries with 10,000 or more employees. They couldn’t even afford to turn on the lights, much less pay 10,000 salaries. But after much tragedy the situation has stabilized to this:
From 2017 on Ron Unz:
There are about 100 Billionaires in Russia. 23 of them ranked in the Bloomberg top 500 billionaires last month, and 77 of them have less than the $5.8 Billion, that’s the bottom of the list.
(in 2017) There are about 2,620 (250 more in CIS) Ultra High Net Worth Individuals, with over $50B each (up to? unknown $500B)?
Taking the ratio of UHNWI in the world and in Russia and projecting it to the $5 plus millionaire range:
There are 51,205 individuals with over $5m and less than $50m.
Sticking with the minimum of each range in 2017 we have:
$366 B with 23 big billionaires (this June)
$192 B with 77 little billionaires
$143 B with 2,620 UHNWI, (way more because I used only $50B)
$256 B with 51,206 $5 millionaires (again way more)
$1T 54,000 people, really way over a $trillion, (especially with off-shore and hidden wealth)
Now there is projected growth of 43% for 2022. Give that growth to all the figures:
$523 B with 33 super B’s
$274 B with 110 little B’s
$204 B with 3,740 UHNWI’s
$365 B with 73,000 $5 millionaires
$1.37 T and 77,000 people, a growth of 23,000 people by next year
OKay, we can get to the point:
1) Are these rich Russians going to invest in the country and bring it out of the doldrums? Of the super B’s and UHNWI’s, 60% have dual passports and 45% say that they want to emigrate. Doesn’t look promising there.
2) It is claimed that Putin is corrupt and allows these guys to steal. Isn’t that the reverse? Like in the rest of the world, these 77,000 plutocrats run Russia, and Putin is just their symbol of respectability, regardless of his desires, his range of action is limited to a tiny window.
3) A real he-man anti corruption champion, like Alexei Navalny, will take those billionaires to task. Are you kidding? A puppy dog like that will be in a canvas sack with a brick, and at the bottom of the lake within a week.
So what is the answer for capital formation in Russia? He – he – he, that’s a good one.
I’m asking the questions, I am not supplying any answers. Write one of these dudes and ask for a venture capital loan.
| rank | 23 Russian Billionaires | $ Billions | last change | $ YTD change |
| 42 | Vladimir Potanin | 33.5 | plus 480k | plus 3.47B |
| 45 | Leonid Mikhelson | 31.1 | plus 250m | plus 6.38B |
| 50 | Vladimir Lisin | 29.2 | plus 253m | plus 5.61 B |
| 51 | Alexey Mordashov | 29.2 | plus 137m | plus 6.17 B |
| 86 | Vagit Alekperov | 21.4 | plus 205m | plus 4.11 B |
| 87 | Gennady Timchenko | 21.3 | plus 232m | plus 4.61 B |
| 94 | Alisher Usmanov | 20.8 | minus 352m | minus 288m |
| 111 | Roman Abramovich | 18.7 | plus 57.4m | plus 318m |
| 115 | Viktor Vekselberg | 18.01 | minus 30.2m | plus 1.85 B |
| 120 | Andrey Melnichenko | 17.01 | minus 245m | minus 1.14 B |
| 154 | Victor Rashnikov | 14.01 | plus 19m | plus 2.83 B |
| 159 | Mikhail Prokhorov | 13.7 | minus 20.8m | plus 906m |
| 171 | Mikhail Fridman | 13.3 | minus 352m | minus 1.09 B |
| 219 | Dmitry Rybolovlev | 11.01 | minus 20.5m | plus 606m |
| 227 | Suleiman Kerimov | 10.8 | minus 58.1m | plus 882m |
| 287 | German Khan | 9.1 | plus 19.9m | minus 683m |
| 295 | Alexander Abramov | 8.98 | minus 24.7m | plus 591m |
| 299 | Iskandar Makhmudov | 8.94 | minus 271m | plus 1.09 B |
| 322 | Leonid Fedun | 8.37 | plus 86m | plus 1.71 B |
| 328 | Tatyana Bakalchuk | 8.25 | minus 30.6m | minus 832m |
| 402 | Alexey Kuzmichev | 6.86 | plus 9.53m | minus 560m |
| 414 | Andrey Guryev | 6.78 | minus 28.3m | plus 1.66 B |
| 478 | Petr Aven | 6.05 | plus 13.8m | minus 71.4m |
| 366.37 |
Richard
Your questions are very tough, Richard.
Firstly, since I am not an expert in this field, it is difficult for me to answer your questions competently and reasonably. To begin with, let me ask you, in which capitalist (you are accustomed to the term them democratic, so be it) country, the people prosper at the expense of natural resources, and is this so? Perhaps there is something similar in Arab or Scandinavian countries. But there is nothing more there than income from natural resources, their economy is, in a sense, rather primitive.
Second, you are very much mistaken about the fact that the people of Russia live in poverty. This is the mistake of the majority – those who hated Russia and those who are loyal to it. We could consider separately the budgets of the Russian and American families for comparison. I assure you, you will get almost the same balance of income and expenses. I know it
Third, the question of leaving a good economy should be of concern not only to Russians, but to a greater extent to Americans, don’t you think? As for Putin’s actions. It is obvious to me that before starting changes inside the country, it is necessary to create conditions so that no one can interfere from the outside, and even more so no one starts a new aggression against us. The first thing that is needed in this regard is an army and reliable defense against intrusions. Unfortunately, it took 20 yyas to create this protection.
Only now have we switched to the development of the domestic economy. I admit that Putin is far from Stalin, who managed to create both a strong economy and an army for 20-30 years before the war, and after the war in less than 10 years to restore what was destroyed during the war. But Putin also has to work in different conditions, when foreign interference in all processes was started under Yeltsin, is deeply rooted, and opposes what is being done in the economy. Yes, Putin is not Stalin. He will not massively arrest and send to the GULAG the fifth column, traitors in a simple way. Times have changed
Irina
Hello Irina and thanks for thinking about my questions. Actually those are not my questions.
They were asked by Nikolai Prokofievich Fedorenko. He was a chemist, mathematician and economist who lived from April 1917 to April 2006 (88 years). Most of his works were about Soviet state planning of industry, cost accounting in the Chemical industry etc. He wanted to connect all industries with a computer network, way before the internet.
Fedorenko also had the honor to be denounced for borrowing notions from bourgeois theories, I have the total quote of the Soviet thought police (horrendous), and it was a miracle that he wasn’t purged. (I really want to quote it, but I am already so long.)
I think those 4 questions came out of his book:
Remembering the Past, Looking into the Future. – Moscow: Nauka, 1999. – 479 с. – ISBN 5-02-013699-9
Also interesting to be would be this one:
Fedorenko N. P. Russia at the turn of the century.
М. ZAO Izdatel’stvo “Ekonomika” [Economics Publisher]. , 2003. –
I have searched for these books, not found any excerpts for free, don’t want to translate 700 pages anyway, but I do have some reviews of one of them.
1. You don’t have to be an expert to consider a future that would benefit your nation, and then shift the focus away from ruminating (accusing or justifying) About the past. What’s the use in it?
I admit, when rabid critics so overly exaggerate the past to make your forbearers into arch villains there’s the overwhelming desire to correct the record. I am just now devoting some days to internet discussions (very knowledgeable), but almost all about who’s right and whose wrong in the past. And these guys are posting at least once a day for 6 or more years. They live on this stuff. But I am thinking these questions that were asked 20 years ago, have had very little concentrated thought put into them. At least I have not found these answers.
What if you don’t listen to them, but just know among your friends that certain things did happen, and maybe they were tragedies that you don’t want to repeat?
As far as yearning to return to the past, one thing is really certain. It can never happen. That system failed, and was always propped up by hidden, denied and counter productive methods anyway. (I won’t even add any of the adjectives that it most justly deserves). That society built by the global anti-Capitalist uprising of the early 1900s has become a thing of the past. Destruction of private property and socialization of the means of production proved to be a rather dubious road to Socialism. In practice, they only led to the creation of a new class – the nomenklatura, a decline in individual initiative if it was not forced, logistic and planning errors leading to shortages, and even famines. And, in the long run, they failed to prevent the restoration of Capitalism in its most savage incarnation in the 1990’s. Why make excuses about it?
2. Some form of Neo-Socialism will be the natural response of a society that enshrines equality, to the emergence of our new growing inequality. How will it be different from classic Socialism? Most analysts say it will be strongly different. A few ideas of what it might look like.
The ideal of a normal human, as it turns out, is to have his own house, not to live in an army barracks, or a kommunalka. Collectivism has invariably led to the tyranny of mediocrity, and dooms the societies that adopt it to backwardness in scientific-technical development. You can say that parts of the Soviet system were very advanced. But what was the fire that was underneath that progress? I would say that it wasn’t pure docile collectivism, but some kind of forced transfer of wealth, (like Prodrazvyorstka which was a Soviet policy of forceful grain confiscation, formally reimbursed with a nominal fee much lower than the market price, leading to mass pauperization of peasants and famine), and even forced labor. Was that progress outside of the proposed system, and in spite of it?
Under modern conditions, Neo-Socialism presupposes, above all, the socialization of income and prohibitive measures on capital concentration. The world of future Socialism is a world where all offshores are annihilated (I think rightly) and each and every fat-cat is subjected to high income and property taxes, with inheritance laws hampering the transfer of super-wealth. This nullifies the magnetic effect of large capital, and most of income is redistributed as wages in the context of free labor and a free market. From an instrument of optimizing income, the market turns into an instrument of optimizing expenditure. So what is the end effect of this, as good as it may sound?
There will be a dearth (scarcity) of those interested in starting a new business “to beat all competitors and make a nice buck”. And, needless to say, an “inventor or innovator” certificate or plaque on your wall is a feeble substitute for super-incomes.
The only remedy to the entrepreneurial crisis within Neo-Socialism could be a change in business philosophy: Stop chasing big money and instead take pride in the individuality of your business, its attractiveness and its social relevance. Yet in a wide society, someone else is also making your product, performing your service. If you are lulled into complacency, your business might close shop. Furthermore, is this plan only domestic, or are you going to operate on the ruthless world market? A society that guarantees a relative equality of income would be doomed to low economic growth. However, this is precisely the form of economic growth stabilization – especially within the core of even the Capitalist system – envisioned by Neo-Socialist economists, like Piketty above all.
And this only works for small and middle-sized businesses, while bigger enterprises require huge investments (including non-returnable ones) and risks so enormous that a small-time businessman can only dream of it if he is aiming for a super-income. An alternative is a planned, state-run innovation policy, a “Communism of ideas” that will be of dubious long-term efficacy, and of dubious effect in globalism.
And now we re-encounter a fundamental contradiction within the Socialist dream. It is inspired by a global historical trend towards equality and social justice, but the justice in question turns out to be a tyranny of mediocrity, the erasure of extremes of arrogant wealth and abject poverty. But how is the value of this justice comparable with the imperative of development that presupposes those certain extremes? To move forward, one must desire to be the best, which is impossible without a certain, sufficiently wide “score chart”, (income potential) – even if it comes at the expense of others. If you think it will work differently, then let’s hear about it.
Combining the values of justice and equality with the values of development, is a task yet unsolved by New Socialism.
2. You also asked about capitalist countries that may base their income on nothing more there than exploiting natural resources. I have my ideas about how capitalism functions.
The so-called Socialist country was most concerned with productivity, a willful, determined achievement of an industrial breakthrough, and not with wealth redistribution.
Social Democracy, Christian Socialism, Swedish Socialism, Social Reformism all followed another model, without abolishing private property as such, without creating a dictatorship of Leftist parties, by limiting themselves to a selective nationalization, they achieved more economic equality by fostering a system of high wages and a well-developed social sphere, and ushering in the welfare state. (I don’t think that they can afford it anymore.) Essentially, it was a huge Ponzi scheme organized according to Keynesian precepts. It created a rising middle class, the 40% that follow the 10%-strong wealthy strata; this middle class laid claim to 30-40% of national wealth as opposed to just the 5% they had before World War I. Then the 50% of the poor were stuck with the same 5% as before. No gain.
Lower inequality levels, broad opportunities, intensive social lifts, high levels of welfare, a wide availability of consumer goods thanks to a developed and flexible market. All of it seemed like a brilliant alternative to Socialist experiments: Socializing not wealth, not industry, but revenue, redistributing it so that everyone could decide where to spend it within a wide spectrum of options.
But capital “magnetizes” and draws income. The owner of capital tends toward rent-oriented, and not work-orientated, behavior. This “capitalist” wants to gain interest and rent, to make his capital inheritable, to pay the lowest taxes he can, Nowadays all the giant profits come from speculation and market manipulation. So the last thing capital wants is to invest in factories, jobs or the real economy.
This is what I was referring to with my chart of the billionaires. Nothing there for building the economy.
There was a massive uprising of capital that wanted back its right to extract revenue and spend it on itself without sharing with society. Capitalism at the end of the century was most pronounced and most socially destructive in Russia. A savage, dog-eat-dog oligarchic Capitalism that took sway in the country, and freed itself from practically all burdens of social responsibility. It was a tyranny of wealth limited only by the hands of thugs, be they mafia racketeers or bureaucrat raiders. Nobody wants to improve real economic indices, nobody wants to make money by producing value, (for the population), everybody wants to live as a rentier.
That’s the small stuff up above.
The real “success of democracy” was based on the one limitation of capitalism. That is over-production. At first, this is all new and everybody wants some of it. Then there is more and more production and it is getting cheaper, until finally, there is no demand and capitalism crashes. The preferred solution is to have a war. Big or little, but big is best. So the US Corporatocracy designed two world wars, 25 years apart, (sure, they had help in this creation. Others are good at it too.) First they stay out of it and sell arms to both sides. That’s to soften them all up, let them massacre each other, and we’ll come in when the plumb is ready to drop.
So democracy has a resounding success by bombing all competing “overproducers” into the flatlands. Afterwards, hey, now it is time to rebuild all you poor violent devils, and our corporations are the only ones left standing. (Did it twice mind you. Hurray for democracy.)
Then Stalin screwed the works when he blew off the A-Bomb in 1949, and the H-Bomb in 1953, shortly after his death. By the 70’s capitalism was in desperate need of another big war, but they had to settle for little Vietnam, because now their preferred victims were now out of bounds. Then they got the idea that lots of little wars might come close to a big one, the war on terror. And 20 years later you know the result.
Anyone demonstrating in the square for more democracy will need to figure out who to go to war with, in order to make their dreams come true.
Why did Europe and Japan have success with democracy? If you will please rent your country to be the future atomic battlefield, we will put our atomic missiles where your bullseyes are supposed to be located. Then when we win, of course you will no longer be needed, and we can begin with your de-industrialization, and your tax and interest payments to us. Don’t worry, we can sell you everything that you’ll need. That will keep capitalism and “democracy” going for another short stay, at least on our side of the fence.
OK, about your section 2 and 3 questions, I’ll put them into the next chapter. I think I can answer them, at least from my opinion.
Dear Richard, to be honest, I felt a certain straightforwardness and harshness in your questions, and was somewhat surprised, because earlier these features were not peculiar to you. I have met such features only among Russians. Therefore, I am not surprised that in fact you simply conveyed the questions of a Russian person and a scientist. Your knowledge and well-read Russian primary sources amaze me frankly, I can admit it. But I cannot agree with some of your conclusions.
First of all, I want to explain why we Russians study our past. Our great scientist Mikhail Lomonosov once said – A people who do not know their past has no future. We study our past, mistakes that were made in the past, so as not to post them in the future. Therefore, I am personally interested in delving into the Soviet past. In the past are the causes of our problems today, I think so. And I am also interested to understand whether our Soviet past was really as flawed as so many claim today?
According to my subjective feelings, socialism was not flawed at all. In this regard, the following question arises. How and what should be done to revive socialism? You assert that socialism is gone forever and cannot be returned. I cannot agree with you. The previous stage of human development – capitalism – also took a long time to firmly take its positions. Somewhere it could not resist and society returned to a lower stage of development – feudolism. After that, capitalism again and again was forced to seek its leadership. But in the history of mankind it is normal when the lower stage of development is replaced by the higher one. Someday capitalism will be replaced by socialism. The USSR was only the first experience of mankind and far from unsuccessful.
I disagree with your statement about the backwardness of scientific thought under socialism in the USSR. In fact, the Soviet scientific school was one of the best in the world. And the peculiar competition of scientific thought between the USSR and the USA guaranteed unprecedented progress in science and technology.
You mentioned the food appropriation system in the 30s in the USSR and people’s opposition to collective farming. In fact, the food appropriation was not the goal of socializing the peasants. This was a forced measure in response to various reasons, including the need to pay for the purchase of equipment with grain. In addition, the drought and poor harvest in those years gave rise to a shortage of food throughout the world, not only in Russia. This is how external circumstances developed that no one planned and did not intend to introduce under other conditions. In the Soviet school, we were taught not only to study historical facts, but also the reasons that gave rise to these facts. Was it possible to do otherwise or not.
Regarding whether the Soviet public consciousness contradicts the Russian people, I will say no, it does not contradict. Russian society, as we say, from the depths of the centuries, for millennia, has had a tendency to live in communities, which under socialism took the form of collective management. Therefore, it was in our society that socialism was born. But it did not completely die, in some aspects of our life it still exists. And there is also a great demand from society to preserve it and bring it into other spheres of life, where the returned capitalism has settled.
There is no cure for capitalism itself, capitalism is not being cured, not changed, not improved, because the essence of capitalism is to obtain maximum profit primarily through the exploitation of the working person by his master. If you change something in this design, then it will no longer be capitazim, but something else. And today, industrial capitalism has been replaced by financial capitalism, where financiers suck their excess profits not only from their own workers, but also from their borrowers, many of whom also belong to the capitalist class.
I only spoke out on the first half of your message. The essence of socialism needs to be talked more long and deeply
Irina
In my post on “Capital formation in Russia”, I asked “How will Russia Develop?” I noted that the elite had sequestered over a $Trillion, and would that capital be available for investment? Let’s look at an example:
Ivanovo, population 408,000 (2010), maybe down .5% to 406,00 (2018)
Ivanovo gained a reputation as the textile capital of Russia during the nineteenth century. The development of the textile industry involved the importation of textile machinery from England often accompanied by supervisory staff particularly from Lancashire.[16] Most textile workers are women, so Ivanovo has also been known as the “city of brides”.
By the early 20th century (under the Tzar), Ivanovo was one of the primary textile production centers of Europe (number one or two). The workers’ living conditions were appalling, the strikes were frequent. One of these strikes (May 14-July 22, 1905) may have led to the first Russian revolution. Ivanovo was bombed in World War 2 and fought over, briefly in the Russian Civil War.
It was said by someone who’s family came from there that in 1985 it was a dull, dead and grey place. By 1995 it was much worse.
Since the beginning of the 21st century there has been declining production in Ivanovo. In the first decade of the century, a large number of enterprises were closed. The weaving factories BIM, BAT melange Plant and other smaller companies in the textile industry ceased to exist.
In 2008 former Mayor Alexander Fomin: said Over the past 20 years, the number of vehicles in the city has increased by more than 10 times, while traffic is 5–7 times higher than that for which the roads were designed. The period from 1914 to 1934 became the “golden age” of architecture in Ivanovo.[18] The center of the city boasts buildings of the period of constructionism built there under socialism in the 1920s – early 1930s
From 2011 to 2020 a lot of things happened in Russia: the sanctions against Russia, the fall of the ruble, crises, import substitution, the creation of its own payment system, massive construction of roads, housing, infrastructure and other things, the return of the Crimea and much more. Let’s compare what Ivanovo was like in 2011 and what it has become in 2020 and in the intervening years. Here are 101 addresses, street scenes where you can compare the difference from before and after 9 years, Let’s go! 🙂
Ivanovo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2pfSbBqM2g
So again, my question, How did they do it? Is this socialist investment? Are these all private owners? Are these medium businesses? Is this big-capital? I read that billionaires don’t invest in real estate in Russia, that they would rather buy apartments in London.
What is the future for the Russian economic system?
Richard
The government is well aware that money should be in the country and work for its economy. Thank God that people who think about the country have finally appeared. The fact that the richest people in the country make money in Russia, but keep it abroad, is unconditional harm to the economy. The first measures have been taken this year. Several offshore zones were offered either to introduce a 15% tax on capital exported from Russia, or agreements on the avoidance of double taxation have been broken with them. Civil servants are prohibited from having not only dual citizenship, but also bank accounts and property abroad. An increased rate of personal excess income tax has been introduced. The introduction of a differentiated income scale for the rich is discussed. The so-called amnesty for capitals returning to Russia is being carried out. These are just the first steps. We have to gradually accustom a rich society so as not to immediately scare and not cause an outflow of capital.
Irina
77-How did the Americans avenge their soldiers on the Germans?
(https://translate.yandex.com/translate)
The Second World War is something that has not been fully understood to this day. Not only ignorance of what is already known about that war, but also lack of knowledge serves to distort those events.
Irina
76-Hello Irina, Oh Wow, I thought it was such a terrible misleading bogus article about Gorbachev and the breakup. I hope my posts stick. I had to break it up into about 8 posts because of the length limit. Here’s the RT link:
Here’s what I wrote: I cleaned it up here and there so it wouldn’t get cancelled.
Dear Professor Robinson, I had hoped to learn something from a professor of Soviet history. When you quote Gorbachev’s reasoning, you have to comment on why he said it. When he said the country was in stagnation in 1985, what did Gorbachev have to do with that? Why didn’t you tell what Brezhnev did or didn’t do?
And even you said when he took power in 1985. “The Soviet model had reached the limits of its potential”. “Central state planning was incapable of responding effectively to the demands of a modern, high-tech economy”. Well, that is a standard western belief, but I contend that there is no such natural limit, as I will try to indicate below.
Actually what I think you call reforms, and not reforming fast enough are merely the dismantling of state planning, which Khrushchev started with a vengeance back in the early 50’s.
From Khrushchev’’s decree of Aug 5 1955, “Previously, the industrial plan was drawn up from above, by the State Planning Committee and ministries, now attention is paid to the preparation of the plan at the enterprise.” This is a blow to the planning hierarchy. In 1956, the first results of changes in violations of the strategic approach in planning appeared – the plan for coal mining, cement production, and metal production were not being implemented. Failure to meet the plan for these positions leads to a disruption of the construction and capital investment plan, and this already means a drop in the economic growth rate. A nod to the local authorities-we trust you, we give you the opportunity to make your own decisions, and you, in return, support our central (Khrushchev) leadership.
The State Planning Committee ended the function of state strategic goal-setting, which determines to a decisive extent the organization, coherence and integrity of the economic system. Now Gosplan has turned from a “strategist” to an “accountant”. – This led to the abandonment of big goals. As a result of such “bogus planning”, the growth rate of the economy begins to seriously slow down, in fact – to fall. And, as a result, (in the 50’s) the country began to lag behind in its economic development more and more.
And The State Planning Committee of the USSR itself from 1953 to 1962 changed 8 managers and underwent 4 reorganizations. This indicated that the continuity of work on the organization of the economy was disrupted, the integrity of management was destroyed, the system was being fragmented by Khrushchev, and this already led to disorganization. “…reduce the number of administrative and managerial personnel by at least 450,000 people… 46 ministries and departments, 200 main directorates, directorates and independent departments, 147 trusts, 93 local directorates, and 898 supply organizations should be ABOLISHED…”.
The number and quality of plan indicators is drastically reduced. In 1954, the number of planning indicators was reduced by 33.5% – from 9,940 to 6,308. In 1955 – to 3,081 indicators. In 1958 – down to 1,780 positions. According to this characteristic, only 18.7% of the State Planning system that existed in 1953 remains by 1958! And what replaced it? A big fat Zero. That is your reforms, a certain destruction. The slowdown in economic development is beginning to affect the socio-economic situation in the country – the standard of living of the population is falling, the commodity deficit is increasing, and inflation is increasing. The quality of our products is falling.
In 1965, these ideas became the basis of a reform called the Lieberman-Kosygin reform. Under this reform, the priority of monetary indicators of the plan over natural indicators is finally fixed. But this is a different tragedy, a different time, after Khrushchev.
The government could barely finance itself. The tax on alcohol was what kept it going. So the government was wedded to alcoholism. Then you include this idiotic remark by Alexander Yakovlev. “It seemed to me that it was enough to remove the machinery of repression … and all would be well.” Wow?? What the hell do you think the repressions were there for, if not to keep the system from exploding??
Then a couple of slogans that the western reader will be attracted to. “Give enterprises more freedom from central planning authorities.” “What sank the union was the August 1991 coup.” What! It was a 2 day coup that wasn’t a coup.
As a summation, what do you offer? Well . . . A little of this, a little of that, and why not throw in all the rest, when you say everything, you say nothing. Then when everybody is anesthetized from saying so much about nothing, you slip in your beautiful assertion. THE COMMUNIST MODEL WAS FATALLY FLAWED FROM THE START. Would you care to tell how it was flawed, or is that for the next chapter?
With regard to the dissolution treaty: The legal assessment of the final draft of the Treaty was made by a group of 15 experts before August 19, 1991. They questioned the legal significance of the document and found it to be internally inconsistent, illogical and having no significance as a legal successor. The experts stated that “by recognizing a federation, the treaty in fact creates not even a confederation, but simply a club of states. It leads directly to the destruction of the USSR; it has laid all the foundations for tomorrow’s blowup of currencies, armies, customs, etc.”.
By drawing this line secretly, implicitly, it is doubly dangerous, because it blurs all the concepts to such an extent that a state monster is created. As J.M. Baturin, a witness to the Novogarev discussions, noted, “the choice between legal quality and political expediency was made in favor of the latter.”
Further work on it was carried out in secrecy, which caused various rumors and stirred up the members of the government, deputies and public organizations. The final document was not published until August 16, 1991, three days before it was supposed to be signed (on Friday in fact). This made it practically impossible to discuss it in detail and make any corrections. The outcome of the “Novogarev process” even before August 19 was a document that meant the end of the existence of the USSR as a single state.
About the so-called coup:
The top leadership of the USSR was vehemently opposed to the August 20 signing of the text of the Union Treaty. Unsuccessful in their attempts to persuade Gorbachev to make necessary changes to the text, they decided to act on their own. In the absence of the USSR President (he was on vacation in the Crimea), the State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP) was created on August 18 at one of the KGB “facilities” in Moscow.
The composition of the committee was intended to demonstrate the unity of the highest authorities and the main social groups in their concern for the fate of the Union. On the same day, A. I. Lukyanov, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, interrupted his vacation and returned to Moscow, but was not included in the GKChP.
In an ”Appeal to the Soviet People”, which for the first time stated at such a high level that “the policy of reforms initiated by Gorbachev had reached a dead end” and analyzed the reasons that caused “disbelief, apathy and despair”, loss of confidence in the government and ungovernability of the country. Among the main reasons was “the rise of extremist forces bent on the liquidation of the Soviet Union and seizing power at any price”, (that’s Yeltsin). For the first time in Soviet history, the document did not call for protection of socialism, not even the adjectives “communist” and “socialist”. The appeal to patriotic feelings was designed to emphasize the criticality of the moment, to consolidate all state-oriented citizens of the USSR, regardless of their political sympathies.
Analysis of the events of August 19-21, 1991 shows that their outcome was influenced not so much by force or the legal validity of the parties’ positions, as by their sense of the political situation, the ability to gather their supporters at the right moment and in the right place, and put the enemy in such conditions in which even numerical or force superiority would not bring them victory.
On the night of August 20 to 21, an incident occurred, which was to have a significant impact on the political situation. In strange circumstances, three young men among the “defenders” of the White House were killed. Later investigation of these events showed that the incident was not an accident, but rather the result of a premeditated provocation. A False Flag designed to justify repression. Nevertheless, the bloodshed of “civilians” by the GKChP-controlled military (fake, it wasn’t the military) was the final straw that ended the hesitation of the Committee’s already unstable supporters, allowing the Russian leadership to launch an all-out political offensive against its opponents and achieve a complete and unconditional victory.
On December 8, 1991, the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Belarus, S. S. Shushkevich, the President of the RSFSR, B. N. Yeltsin, and the President of Ukraine, L. M. Kravchuk, in Belaya Vezha, near Minsk, signed an “Agreement on the Creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States”, the preamble to which stated that “the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a subject of international law and a geopolitical reality CEASES TO EXIST”.
I have to note: You put a picture of the White House Parliament building burning on the morning of Oct 4 1993 after Yeltsin shelled it and murdered 145 Parliamentarians, and jailed a bunch of others. This is in an article about the dissolution of the USSR dated December 8th 1991. And unbelievably you superimpose Gorbachev’s picture on Yeltsin’s burning building. I think none of us understand this.
Richard
Hello, Richard
I totally agree with your arguments regarding Professor Robinson’s article.
On my own behalf, I can add that at present, attempts are being made to bring Gorbachev to justice for the collapse of the USSR. And naturally, Gorbachev is taking steps to defend himself. It is now known that Gorbachev did not destroy the country alone and not without the help of the United States and Britain. For which he received a corresponding payment, made by the West to a specially created Gorbachev fund. His ideological assistant Alexander Yakovlev was once recruited by the American special services.
In my opinion, such one-sided articles indirectly confirm the participation of the West in the collapse of the USSR and are a preventive measure in order to justify Gorbachev’s actions and remove responsibility from him, shifting it onto Yeltsin, Shushkevich and Kuchma, and leaving in the shadows the participation of Western countries in the coup.
I would also like to clarify that 9 republics firmly wanted to remain in the USSR, but 2 more – Moldavia and Armenia – hesitated and tended to say yes rather than no. Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Georgia announced their unshakable decision to secede from the USSR.
To our great regret, for many decades Western Sovietology has been politically ordered to conceal and even distort Soviet history, manipulating events in such a way as to draw the necessary political conclusions. Distortion of history leads to distortion in modern relationships between Russia and the US and Europe. Therefore, I find your comments not only fair, but also very helpful. It will be interesting to know what Professor Robinson will answer to them.
Irina
Thanks, Richard for your excellent detailed analysis! I have only seen Robinson once on Regis Tremblay’s Youtube channel and felt he is a sophist prevaricator. Pretends to be pro Russian when he’s the opposite.
The main problem of the USSR was its many opportunist internal enemies. Helped along by Western oligarchic and imperial influence.
What really disturbs me is that even Putin has legitimated Solzhenitsyn and delegitimated Lenin. They won’t even call it ‘Lenin’s Tomb’ but merely ‘the Mausoleum” as if to even utter the word LENIN is bad.
People like Robinson perpetuate the ongoing war against both Russia and the USSR.
Eric
Yes I read that article. Pure historical revisionism.
Thanks, Maitreya
75-Lessons from Hiroshima: why the US does not admit its guilt for the atomic bombing of Japan
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
This article points out that the atomic attacks were not necessary. However, there was another reason for the attacks besides military objectives in Japan.
Truman wanted to intimidate Stalin and the USSR, to ‘show who’s gonna be the boss’.
And of course there were plans to nuke many Soviet cities and destroy the USSR in plan such as Operation Dropshot, where over 200 atom bombs would have been dropped.
We are finally seeing both Russia and China calling out the US for its massive hypocrisy in blaming them for things that didn’t happen while refusing to apologize for the US’s own obvious unnecessary slaughters, case in point Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Eric
74-Gorbachev accelerated the degradation that had been growing since the 1960s. Says the historian and analyst A. Fursov
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73-The processes of the collapse of the USSR started in the mid-60s. Says the historian and analyst A. Fursov
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72-Dastardly tricks: the “Holodomor” in American and Ukrainian politics…
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71-Replacing Peter 1 with an impostor. How has life changed in Russia?
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I think that few people in the West have heard about this, but in Russian society there is a reasoned version of the substitution of Tsar Peter the Great after his return from Holland.
Irina
Peter the impostor made such a transformation with Russia that we still get a hoot.
The author D. S. Merezhkovsky in his work “Antichrist” noted a complete change in the appearance, character and psyche of Tsar Peter I after his return from the “German lands”, where he went for two weeks, and returned two years later. The Russian embassy accompanying the tsar consisted of 20 people, and was headed by A.D. Menshikov. After returning to Russia, this embassy consisted of only the Dutch (including the notorious Lefort), the only one from the old composition was only Menshikov.
This “embassy” brought a completely different tsar, who spoke poor Russian, did not recognize his friends and relatives, which immediately gave away the substitution: This prompted Tsarina Sophia, the sister of the real Tsar Peter I, to raise the Streltsy against the impostor.
As you know, the Streltsy riot was brutally suppressed
He began to act like a normal conqueror:
— defeated the Russian government — “Zemstvo” and replaced it with the bureaucracy of foreigners, which was brought to Russia stealing, debauchery and drunkenness and hard it here planted;
— gave peasants the property of the nobles, than turned them into slaves (for whitening the image of the pretender this “event” dumped Ivan IV);
— defeated merchants and began to impose Industrialists that led to the destruction of the former universality people;
— defeated the clergy — carriers of Russian culture and destroy Christianity, bringing it closer to Catholicism, which inevitably gave rise to atheism;
— introduced Smoking, drinking alcohol and coffee;
— destroyed the old Russian calendar, omololu our civilization 5503 year;
— ordered all Russian Chronicles dumped in St. Petersburg, and then as Filaret, ordered them to burn. He called on German “professors” to write a completely different Russian history;
– under the guise of fighting the old faith, he destroyed all the elders who lived for more than three hundred years;
– forbade the cultivation of amaranth and the consumption of amaranth bread, which was the main food of the Russian people, which destroyed the longevity on Earth, which was still in Russia at that time;
– abolished natural measures: fathom, finger, elbow, tip, which were present in clothing, utensils and architecture, making them fixed in the Western manner. This led to the destruction of ancient Russian architecture and art, to the disappearance of the beauty of everyday life. As a result, people ceased to be beautiful, as divine and vital proportions disappeared in their structure.;
– he replaced the Russian title system with the European one, which turned the peasants into a class. Although “peasant” is a title higher than the king, about which there is more than one evidence;
– destroyed the Russian script, which consisted of 151 characters, and introduced 43 characters of Cyril and Methodius writing.;
– disarmed the Russian army, exterminating the Streltsy as a caste with their miraculous abilities and magical weapons, and introduced primitive firearms and stabbing weapons in the European manner, dressing the army first in French and then in German uniforms, although the Russian military uniform was itself a weapon. In the people, the new regiments were called “funny”.
But his main crime is the destruction of Russian education (image + sculpture), the essence of which was to create three subtle bodies in a person that he does not receive from birth, and if they are not formed, then consciousness will not have a connection with the consciousnesses of past lives. If in Russian educational institutions, a person was made into a generalist who could do everything himself, starting from bast shoes and ending with a spaceship, then Peter introduced specialization, which made him dependent on others.
Before Peter the impostor in Russia did not know what wine is, he ordered to roll out barrels of wine on the square and give it for free to citizens.
Irina
70-It is high time to learn that socialism does not make everyone equal. Socialism gives everyone equal opportunities!
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69-Without inflation, capitalism doesn’t work! And how did the economy of lower prices work then?
“The nation that is the first to recognize the crucial fact that the goal of our economic system should not be money, but production, will have, all other things being equal, the dominant influence on civilization… It is interesting that in the end, the greatest success will go to the industrialist who forgets about profit and focuses on producing at the lowest price a useful item needed by millions of people.” Jerome Davis “Capitalism and its culture“.
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68-“A bullet for being too ostentatious”- war crimes committed by US soldiers who went unpunished
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67-Why did Churchill call Poland the “hyena of Europe”, and why is it not a victim of the Second World War ?
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66-The myth that socialism is worth living. An example of a successful modern socialist society. Note to the apologists of capitalism.
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Thanks for this article. Mondragon is one of my favorite topics.
I introduced it in this group last year as part of a solution to world problems. Back then I mentioned this website that works to initiate more worker owned companies. https://www.fiftybyfifty.org/ The point is that if a certain percentage of companies were worker owned, there would be a model for worker rights. It is not about whether every company should be worker owned. There are different structures, joint stock, co-ops and what-not. It was said that Huawei is worker owned, but that is different. Huawei is way too big for the workers to have any input on how to run the company. Maybe they get a profit sharing??
About 5 years ago I studied Mondragon intensively. If I ever went back to Europe (I’m not going to go) I would go to Mondragon University and see what’s the latest. It would be nice to have an update, but I will comment here from memory.
Mondragon is a huge multi-billion dollar enterprise, yes, but that is the umbrella organization. The actual working units are no bigger than 250-300 persons. That is the maximum they have determined that they can get to know each other and trust each other. In anthropology there is a similar number, I believe called the Dunbar number, less than 200. (Professor Dunbar came up with it.) That was the maximum size of a hunter gatherer tribe, before they had to split the tribe. Bigger than that they couldn’t keep the organization, or that amount of land wouldn’t feed them? (That was 10,000 years ago.)
So in Mondragon there are 350 plus of these smaller 250 people enterprises, most often in differentiated businesses. They don’t all make one series of products like Huawei.
These 250-300 workers in Mondragon companies don’t run the day by day operation by referendum, but only do their own job. They act kind of like a board of directors, and they hire a professional CEO who makes decisions, and all the professional staff. They are a capitalist company, just like any other.
They know damn well that if those 300 people don’t perform well and make up-to-date decisions, capitalist competition from all quarters will take their business. So there is no slacking, no nepotism, no weakening or dilution of their company. The umbrella Mondragon will try to help in a crisis, but nobody is going to bail them out. For instance in the big Spanish housing crisis the company that made white goods (refrigerators and ovens) went without sales and closed. About 60 people retired (from memory), and most of the others were finally absorbed in other Mondragon ventures.
So let me get to my point.
Many people say that human consciousness is expanding. There are many theories, from the advancing of astrological ages, to brain capacity or human experience is putting together wiser alternatives. But it is supposed to be happening.
There’s another proposal that in human collectives, the determined rules of each society allow consciousness to rise only to the level of that society. It is kind of the problem of the chicken or the egg. How does society get to a high level without a high consciousness somewhere? In a smaller cohesive society getting along might have been just natural, especially if food was plentiful. The opposite proof is easy to spot. When the US destroys another Middle Eastern government, many people sink into barbarism.
It’s the same with economics, within productive enterprises, “the way it works” (rules) gives incentive only for certain behavior, and that will be the “level of consciousness”. It will never become more idealistic, nor go beyond those behavior norms, (without a breakdown or some catastrophe). OK some examples:
✓A Soviet production unit has 20,000 workers. At some point it is too big to fail. What that means is you take advantage of it in whatever way you can, but the unit will always be bailed out. I have read examples in Soviet industrialization where they were installing Dutch equipment. They had 1200 workers running it. The Dutch guidelines said 250 people were all that were needed. Or take the failure of the Venezuelan Oil companies. Eternally ripped off.
✓Take a capitalist company of large size. There’s a limited market with over production. It is extremely difficult to out compete all the competition coming in from all sides. It is vital to suppress that competition by any means or dirty tricks, and to out-cheat them in every way possible. Buy them up and close them. We must sanction China.
(Not as important in the age of financialization and market manipulation, where the real profit is made.)
✓Take a small capitalist absentee owned company in your town. Their goal is to give less and less to that community. Let the employees pay all the services for the privilege of remaining open. Best is in an acquisition, because then the factory is old and obsolete anyway and they want to close it. Tax free for 20 years or we move out, where we will get 25 years in the other town.
✓Take the case of the local owner in your town. Not much different from the above. Every dollar paid to the community is a dollar less of profit.
✓Or finally take the case of the worker owned company. They live in the community, kids go to school there, law and order, parks and recreation, culture, libraries, museums, fix the streets, water, sewer, power, internet. The company must remain profitable, but the community thrives as a partner.
That’s Mondragon. I wouldn’t call it in any way socialist.
They have cooperative ideals only because it serves them directly. And that’s a great formula for consciousness rising.
Richard
And one more question: a socialist society is a society in which the means of production are socialized. If the means of production belong to the community, and not to someone personally, but this is already a socialist society. What do you think about this?
Irina
Hello Irina, and thanks for these questions.
I am not a very good expert at Marxist / Leninist philosophy either. I read about Marx multiple times in my life, but nothing ever stuck. I attributed that to it didn’t really strike me as a truth. I may be wrong. I think there are some here in this group as avowed Marxists and members of the Communist Party. Maybe they can weigh-in and explain some things.
A. What I think for now:
1. Marxist History is viewed as an hierarchical economic class struggle, winner takes all.
Is that true? It underestimates the problem in that hierarchical struggles came way before capitalism. Isn’t it a primary conflict in the natural world? Do any hierarchies have a positive end?
2. It is only a binary class struggle, no multiple identities. All evil on one side, all good on the other. Is that an over-simplification?
3. A benevolent dictatorship of the proletariat calls for violent revolution. With what criteria do you assume benevolence? What is benevolent about this call to violence?
4. Nothing that capitalists do has productive value as labor. So business organization happens by itself?? A couple of workers come off the production line for an hour and settle all the plans?
5. There is criticism of profit. I hope that doesn’t mean surplus, because without surplus how can you grow and renew? Profit is a constraint on wasted labor. There are now forms of stupidity that you can no longer engage in.
6. Centralization will become magically productive. When there are enough goods for all, then people will all become creatively productive. Has that ever been true in any socialist practice?
7. The worst tragedy might have been how Russia was ripped-off again and again in support of the so-called “World Revolution”. That is clear as a ringing bell.
B. I read Xi Jinping’s speech to the 19th congress. He expresses his total commitment to Marxism. But what is his meaning of the word Marxism? (with Chinese characteristics)? Reading that speech, everything about socialism is up for reinterpretation, it is all being renewed, “for a new era”. It is beyond me why he sticks with the old word Marxism. The only one thing that I could find that Xi likes, is that Marx said “the workers and the peasants are the masters, not the slaves”. Full stop. I may have missed something, and I could seek help on that point.
So what is Marxism? I could go into my opinion, and it’s based on the detailed history of the USSR that I am now studying. But I’ll save that one for later.
C. Above in this post I was proposing that higher consciousness is able to flower within an enlightened governance. “Enlightened Governance” definitely needs to be defined, but let’s say that it doesn’t kill the people nor submit them to starvation, and tries to solve some of their problems in an equitable way. You could also say that this good governance makes rules that create only the incentives to be in a higher mind-set, and it abolishes those rules that create incentives to be exploitative. Rules have both rewards and punishments, but as per a couple sentences above, they’re not killing people nor suppressing them. And equitable means, for-everyone.
Then we have to admit, How do you get an enlightened governance before there is a higher consciousness? The answer is simple, same with the being/consciousness conundrum.
They are not two separate things. They arise together. Even “together” is wrong, because they-are-not-two-separate-things. Let’s say they are two windows, looking through one window you see enlightened-governance. Looking through the other window you see expanding-consciousness.
If you are a believer in “Things” as primary, and not processes, you probably cannot get this, nor ever will accept it.
D. You ask for my opinion, “if production belongs to the community, is that socialism”? “Community” is a collective noun that has no existence without its parts, the individual humans, those that participate, and those that run it. The problem arises with, who are those who run it, and do they run it transparently? Maybe they do? If it is really big, there are some holes that they may overlook.
The way I describe (and my understanding), of Mondragon, is that they have created incentives that continually promote a higher consciousness. And it works. Why couldn’t it work in the larger society?
There seems to be certain necessary parameters, and basic small size may be one of them. Exactly how they have gone beyond that smallness and scaled up, I have not investigated. It is an umbrella organization with hundreds of productive units.
E. Now I’ll ask you a question:
Were the Soviet Leaders of a higher consciousness?
Did they create positive incentives that promoted a continuously higher egalitarian behavior?
Were any of their repressive measures justified?
And under what criteria are those justifications made?
Thanks for this discussion.
Richard
Hello, Richard,
Thank you for your answer. Of course, this philosophical question about the primacy of matter (being) or consciousness is eternal. And we will probably never find an answer to it. The materialists, to whom the Soviet communists belonged, believed that being was primary. That is, the better a person lives, the higher his consciousness becomes. Their goal (in any case, the first of them) was to build a state where people were supposed to live better and better in material terms. And they were ready to achieve this goal at any cost, even at the cost of violence with those who disagree. I believe that this was also the reason for their atheism and denial of the teachings of the Lord, whose first commandment was Thou shalt not kill. And in this regard, their consciousness was not high at all. Who knows, maybe in their development they did not manage to reach the highest form of consciousness in such a short period of time. Or maybe, over time, for many top leaders, the idea of their own material well-being has become more important than the idea of reaching higher consciousness through well-being. Most likely, for this they did not have enough intelligence and education (like Khrushchev)
Irina, and thanks again
65-V. Katasonov on E. Macron, J. Attali and, finally, what the Jewish financiers of the Rothschilds want
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64-V. Katasonov that covid-19 hysteria is a multi-purpose operation
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63-About the “historical truth”. Continuation.
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62-About the “historical truth”. Continuation.
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61-Capitalism is the ability to turn power into capital and vice versa. Under socialism, all this is a crime.
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60-V. Katasonov about 7 billion extra people and that capitalism will be replaced by a new “slavery” according to the scenario of the world backstage
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59-“It’s easier, there is hope”: 30 years ago, Gorbachev tried to save the USSR in Novo-Ogaryovo
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58-In response to Irina’s articles by Andrey Fursov
was finishing another project so I did not read them for a couple of days. Do they say too much? Are they dismissed as a conspiracy theory? Let me describe the layers of world events using the analogy of CoVid.
- The outer layer might be the woman on the street, “Oh, you are not wearing a mask, you’re endangering the health of us all.Please obey the rules or we will have to call the authorities.”
- Second layer, “is this an epidemic?”Let’s look at all of the reports. Where are the exaggerations? Who is dying, and is it more than last year? How many doctors say yes, how many say no, how many say maybe so? It’s fascinating to inspect the object that we find. But this is only a tool for something.
- OK, that’s the tool, but who is using (or abusing) the tool?What are their objectives, what can they get out of it? Everyday politicians are not going to become billionaires. They can’t join the club.
- So then who is behind those who are using it.The deep state, (or the deep NO-STATE.). Those who want to destroy all sovereignty. They’re purposely mixing up everything, preparing people for What?
- Then why are they destroying so much of their own economies?What is the sense of it? For 100’s of years they were destroying someone else’s society. Is financial capitalism so much more lucrative, that industrial capitalism can just be blown away?
- Oh . . . Capitalism no longer can function in today’s world, (but why), so somebody moves it aside and fights for who will control “post-capitalism”.What will it look like? You and I will definitely be crushed.
Fursov may be discussing #5 and 6. We seem to be stuck on #2 and 3. What are we missing?
Capitalism can be defined as a complex social system that ensures the constant accumulation of capital (development over time) and its expansion, which allows maintaining and increasing the rate of profit (its spatial characteristics), and which at the same time limits capital in its integral and long-term interests. Without this limitation and its means in the form of the state, civil society and its structures, political parties, formally representing various strata, systems of mass education, etc. – without all this, capital left to itself, it would gobble itself up, along with society, and along with the biosphere.
The age-old dynamics of capitalism was such that it always needed non-capitalist zones. Every time the world rate of profit dropped, capitalism tore off a part of the non-capitalist zone and turned it into a capitalist periphery – a zone of cheap labor and a source of cheap raw materials and a market to buy our cheap goods. The world rate of profit was restored, and then increased altogether. The non-capitalist zones have practically been abolished, all used up, now capitalism has nowhere else to dump its contradictions.
Large Capital must resolve these contradictions, and go beyond them: the realization of its interests, as a rule, requires constant violation of the borders (and often – the laws) of their country and other countries. Best remedy for falling profits in the past was to start a big war. Sell bullets, destroy everything, and then restore profits for the next 20 years while rebuilding.
In the age of nuclear weapons, that won’t work. And most of the non-nuclear powers have already been wrung out.
All over the world, political parties have long turned into administrative-show-business structures of the ruling stratum. Turns out capitalism is not a pair of “capital – state”, but a triangle “capital – state – supranational structures, (of world coordination and management).”
China is not an alternative development option to capitalism, it is built into it, and therefore its goal is only to expand its zone of control, and wait for the maximum weakening of the United States.
What are the steps to transform to the next (?) system?
a). “To stamp out cultural optimism of the sixties” That was the cultural and psychological background of the counteroffensive of financial capital against industrial capital. It’s an internal battle – in an excess of democracy in the West itself. It is proposed to introduce a certain dose of social apathy into the masses and to explain that along with democracy, experience and “high status” (which can also be translated as “seniority”) are of foremost importance. And democracy itself is not so much of a value as a political technology.
b). The powerful weapon is the – ethnic. They applied it in 2015 in the form of a “migration crisis”. The racial crisis of Black Lives Matter was also introduced into Europe, but it couldn’t take off.
c). Of course you can make various attacks on the basis of human rights, and gifting “democracy”. That’s getting old I think?
d). In real politics there can be no friends. There are only allies and interests. It is necessary to comprehensively study the modern world: first, ourselves; secondly, our enemies; thirdly, our neighbors. We are entering the period of the terminal crisis of capitalism without truly adequate science either about it, or about Russia, or about the West, or about the East, or about the world as a whole!
e). To understand the modern world and to respond to its challenges, it is necessary to develop a new theory, fundamentally new knowledge. We are still mainly rewriting (commenting on) second-rate Western economic, political science and sociological theories and continue to destroy our own higher education. Basic science in the field of social science has already been destroyed. It turns out to be a kind of “roadside picnic” with the obvious prospect of becoming a “picnic in the trash heap”, into a game on the “field of miracles” in the Land of the Fools.
Globalization started as the criminalization of the world economy, and its operators became, in the words of O. Markeev, “globalists before globalization”. Now there are completely different forces, a much more serious conflict is unfolding. We are talking about a fight within the top of the world capitalist class, about a fight for a post-capitalist future. The struggle of ultra- globalists with their installation on the stateless financial and corporate electronic-digital world aka “the concentration camp”, and the globalists with their course of preserving the state (hence their struggle for sovereignty, but with what ends)?
Today the Russian Federation is in a failure and in a dead end (a failed dead end). Are there any forces visible that can bring her out of this impasse? No. Any Institutions? No. The situation is similar to that of the 1560s and 1920s. Soviet legacy will be almost completely consumed: industry, agriculture, housing and communal services, communications. Everything will fall into disrepair, since in recent decades nothing new has been created, and the old has been eaten away. Present-day Russia is the exposed layers of defects of several epochs of Russian history all at once. The Russian Federation is a futuro-archaic society. The armored train of the next Russian revolution rams the borders of the twenty-first century with its forehead, and the tail cars are still dangling at the junctions of the nineteenth century.
Even the Russian Federation of oligarchs are not something single. Rather, it is a set of clan structures of a corporate and regional type, which have different interests and which are guided by the outside world, and not so much by states, but by individual corporations, clans, family unions, or even individual families. Putin is only a symbol of this contorted system, and can only move within its prescribed bounds. Who will be the main source of “accumulation” for movement into the future – the population, or the corrupt officials and “businessmen”? The time for palliatives is over.
In the context of the struggle for the future, only cohesive societies can survive, let alone win. those in which a relatively low level of social inequality and in which, no less important, the top and bottom share the same values and goals. You need to be strong in unity, which is achieved on the basis of social justice and a single value system.
Nuclear weapons alone are not enough for success in the 21st century. You need a powerful organizational weapon, and a no less powerful cognitive weapon.
The sufficient condition is an imperious will, which does not allow you to sit on the defensive forever and make excuses, but forces you to attack! We need a real picture of the world because it is the most powerful weapon in psychohistorical warfare.
I consolidated 8 Fursov articles in a pdf for your review, here it is attached.
Richard
57-Ukrainian school team named after Hitler
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56-Population of Russia by year in one table
The Russian Empire and the Russian Federation are two incomparable things. After the revolution of 1917, the Russian Federation no longer included Poland, Finland, Central Asia and other parts of the Empire.
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These are statistics on the population of the Russian Federation (in imperial times, part of the Russian Empire)
The table contains information about the population sizeRussian Federation ( RSFSR), information for each year, mainly as of January 1. The information is collected from open sources.
| Year | Population size |
| 1897 | 67 473 000 |
| 1926 | 100 891 244 |
| 1928 | 103 185 200 |
| 1937 | 104 932 000 |
| 1939 | 108 377 000 |
| 1940 | 110 098 000 |
| 1941 | 110 988 000 |
| 1946 | 97 547 000 |
| 1947 | 98 509 000 |
| 1948 | 99 159 000 |
| 1949 | 100 252 000 |
| 1950 | 102 067 000 |
| 1951 | 102 945 000 |
| 1952 | 104 587 000 |
| 1953 | 106 715 000 |
| 1954 | 108 430 000 |
| 1955 | 110 537 000 |
| 1956 | 112 266 000 |
| 1957 | 114 017 000 |
| 1958 | 115 665 000 |
| 1959 | 117 534 315 |
| 1960 | 119 045 800 |
| 1961 | 120 765 599 |
| 1962 | 122 406 795 |
| 1963 | 123 848 406 |
| 1964 | 125 179 206 |
| 1965 | 126 309 100 |
| 1966 | 127 189 098 |
| 1967 | 128 026 196 |
| 1968 | 128 695 994 |
| 1969 | 129 378 809 |
| 1970 | 130 079 210 |
| 1971 | 130 563 363 |
| 1972 | 131 304 497 |
| 1973 | 132 069 024 |
| 1974 | 132 799 355 |
| 1975 | 133 633 900 |
| 1976 | 134 549 101 |
| 1977 | 135 503 754 |
| 1978 | 136 455 076 |
| 1979 | 137 550 949 |
| 1980 | 138 126 600 |
| 1981 | 138 839 197 |
| 1982 | 139 603 792 |
| 1983 | 140 529 786 |
| 1984 | 141 582 615 |
| 1985 | 142 539 000 |
| 1986 | 143 527 861 |
| 1987 | 144 783 723 |
| 1988 | 145 988 334 |
| 1989 | 147 400 537 |
| 1990 | 147 665 081 |
| 1991 | 148 273 746 |
| 1992 | 148 514 692 |
| 1993 | 148 561 694 |
| 1994 | 148 355 867 |
| 1995 | 148 459 937 |
| 1996 | 148 291 638 |
| 1997 | 148 028 613 |
| 1998 | 147 802 133 |
| 1999 | 147 539 426 |
| 2000 | 146 890 128 |
| 2001 | 146 303 611 |
| 2002 | 145 166 731 |
| 2003 | 144 963 650 |
| 2004 | 144 168 205 |
| 2005 | 143 474 219 |
| 2006 | 142 753 551 |
| 2007 | 142 220 968 |
| 2008 | 142 008 838 |
| 2009 | 141 903 979 |
| 2010 | 142 856 536 |
| 2011 | 142 865 433 |
| 2012 | 143 056 383 |
| 2013 | 143 347 059 |
| 2014 | 143 666 931 |
| 2015 | 146 267 288 |
| 2016 | 146 544 710 |
| 2017 | 146 804 372 |
| 2018 | 146 880 432 |
| 2019 | 146 780 720 |
| 2020 | 146 748 590 |
| 2021 | 146 171 015 |
55-The struggle of global elites for a post-capitalist future
The year 2020 has turned into a lot of troubles for the world. A new type of coronavirus epidemic has swept across all continents, causing the largest economic crisis since the Great Depression, and the main world power-the United States-is mired in unrest. Andrey Fursov, director of the Institute of System and Strategic Analysis (ISAN), academician of the International Academy of Science (Innsbruck, Austria), told his opinion about how the international system of relations is changing under the influence of current events and what place Russia can take in the new world in an interview with the Institute of Russian Strategies
The struggle of global elites for a post-capitalist future, image #1
RUSSTRAT: Andrey Ilyich, speaking about the international situation, it is reasonable to start with the most burning topic – the coronavirus epidemic. Observers interpret what is happening in different ways. In your opinion, is the response of states justified by the epidemiological situation? What role does the political factor play here? Or are these deliberate manipulations, attempts by the “deep state” to experience certain types of influence?
– As Comrade Stalin taught, if a certain accident has serious political consequences, then you need to take a very serious look at it.
The fact that there is a certain epidemic with deaths is obvious. The fact that all this does not pull on a pandemic, even in purely quantitative terms, is even more obvious. Most of the measures to combat the alleged pandemic are clearly redundant. WHO, which declared a pandemic, is an organization with a bad reputation for corrupt officials and crooks. A few years ago, she already tried to intimidate and blackmail the world, promising millions of deaths from swine flu.
At that time, it was not possible to concoct a pandemic; there was an investigation; several WHO leaders were expelled in disgrace, but the job was done: corporations associated with WHO earned $ 18 billion. In 2020, as in 2013, there were hysterical forecasts of millions of deaths, but this time almost all states joined the WHO as if on command, signing up for the “new dress of the king” and sacrificing sovereignty or what was left of it.
Moreover, Johnson and Merkel began to sow panic themselves, shouting about the inevitable millions of victims. A statesman does not have the right to behave in this way, he must instill confidence in his fellow citizens. By the way, the Russian Federation “signed up for a pandemic” when there were only two dozen cases in the country.
In 2020, everything in the world turned out more organized than with the “swine flu”, because they had made solid preparations in advance: in October 2019, “exercises” were officially held to combat the global coronavirus pandemic.
It seems that we are dealing with a global scam that is unfolding in the form of an induced mental epidemic and pursues both economic (profit: medical equipment, masks, gloves, vaccine) and, to an even greater extent, socio-political goals, which should be discussed in more detail.
The crisis of 2008 drew a line under the “fat years” of the world economy. They were associated with the looting of the former socialist camp and allowed us to postpone the terminal phase of the systemic crisis of capitalism for a decade and a half, which was predicted in the early 1980s in the United States by groups led by A. Gellman, R. Collins and B. Boehner, and in the USSR by P. Kuznetsov and V. Krylov. The crisis of 2008 was flooded with money, which by that time had already ceased to perform the five main functions of money, i.e. ceased to be money.
The crisis did not go away-the boiler was simply covered with a lid, which over time began to be thrown up more and more, and in 2018-2019 the situation became more and more critical. Usually in the history of the capsystem, such situations were resolved through world wars, but in the current world-industrial and stuffed with weapons of mass destruction of various kinds – this is extremely dangerous. The only zone where you can try to “frolic” in this way is Africa, but this does not solve the problems of the capsystem.
And then, like a joker from the sleeve of a cheater, turned up (turned up?) coronavirus. In a number of respects, it played the role of an ersatz war: a number of measures were taken around the world that were so unprecedented (both in scale and in the degree of excessive inconsistency with medical reality) that they can be compared with wartime measures. This:
– the closure of state borders, the termination of international, and in some cases interregional transport links;
– the introduction of house arrests and temporary detention under the guise of so-called “self-isolation”, i.e., in fact, the suspension of the constitutional rights of citizens with a special defeat in the rights of the elderly under the guise of caring for their health (at the same time, those who had previously optimized/destroyed the health system, which primarily affected the elderly, suddenly took care of;
– stopping the work of entire sectors of the economy with an obvious probability of their destruction;
– the establishment of strict measures of social and spatial control over the population (QR codes, video surveillance and other “charms” of what is called surveillance capitalism – “surveillance/control capitalism”: almost according to Foucault: to supervise and punish);
– formation of the contours of a new stratification in accordance with the freedom of movement and independence from spatial and video monitoring;
– teaching the population to strict control by the authorities, to submission (wearing masks and gloves, despite their meaninglessness; I’m not talking about who makes what money on masks and gloves; the same applies to the future vaccine); in fact, social training;
– the implementation “under the sauce” of the “pandemic” of a number of projects that are fundamentally important for digital globalists, which have encountered resistance; first of all, this is distance education, which kills education as such (“Gref’s dream”).
This list can go on, but the essence is clear. However, it seems that something went wrong for global planners at the very beginning of May. The processes affected the interests of a certain part of the ruling strata in various countries, and the “emergency workers” faced resistance from “normalizers”, if I may say so, “chemists”, who strongly disliked “emergency alchemy”.
Even then, in an interview, I said that we should expect the second move of the “alchemists from the emergency”, namely, the creation of a certain movement in the wake of the psychic epidemic, which should expand and deepen the effect of coronapsychosis. I thought that it would be some kind of ecological (or with an ecological lining) movement in the spirit of Thunbergobesy.
I was right with the movement, but I was wrong with the “besie”: the movement arose, but not on an ecological, but on a racially-social basis, “floydobesiya” – Black Lives Matter (BLM); the whole country – the United States-was covered by chaos, with an eye to spreading the BLM movement to Europe, at least to the West. The result is chaos in the United States.
RUSSTRAT: How does the picture of increasing control combine with this chaos that is happening now in the United States? Many view the riots in the context of a head-on clash between Democrats and Republicans. But at the same time, both are often considered as two factions of the same global governance club. Do you assume that American events are inspired from a third center, for example, from London or from somewhere else?
– The world is much more complicated to be managed from one center, whether it is London, New York or (conditionally) Shanghai. In addition, we need to forget about the Democrats and Republicans as party structures. The party form of political organization has outlived its time, as has politics itself.
All over the world, parties have long turned into administrative-show-business structures of the ruling stratum. Where politics in the strict sense of the word did not exist, as, for example, in Russia and China, “parties”, whether it is the CPSU, the CPC or what replaced the CPSU in the Russian Federation, are not parties, this is something else. Moreover, in the Russian Federation, even this something else is agonizing with the fading of the post-Soviet era.
This is especially evident in the attempts to create new “post-Soviet parties” instead of the old ones. They are initially destined for the fate of” (under)powerful disabled children”, whose bargaining position in relation to the authorities will be much weaker than that of the Communist Party or even the LDPR, most often performing the function of”Nanai boys” for the authorities.
In the United States, under the guise of “Republicans” and “Democrats”, there is a struggle of completely different forces, a completely different, much more serious conflict is unfolding. We are talking about a struggle within the top of the world capitalist class, a struggle for the post-capitalist future, for who will cut off whom from this future and in it.
Simplifying the situation somewhat, this conflict can be defined as the struggle of the ultra-globalists with their attitude to a stateless financial and corporate electronic-digital world, aka a concentration camp, and the globalists with their course to preserve the state (hence the struggle for sovereignty), modernized industry, and consequently – ensuring certain positions of the partially declining working and middle strata; at the same time, the state is subordinate to both the IMF and the World Bank, but, most importantly, continues to exist.
There is no state in the world of ultra-globalists – it is a world of powerful corporations like the East India Company or territories – enclaves-neo-Venice; a world inhabited by people, and in fact-biorobots without national, racial, religious and even sexual differences. Both Obama and Clinton are ultra – globalists; today the face of ultra – globalism is Hillary Clinton, who was aptly dubbed Bastinda in LJ (the evil sorceress from the Purple land of winkies in The Wizard of the Emerald City).
During the four years of his presidency, Trump managed to break a lot of what the ultra-globalists were building: the transatlantic partnership, the trans-Pacific Partnership, America’s financing of WHO, etc.
There is no need for illusions: Trump fulfills, and inconsistently and indistinctly, the will of a certain segment of the world, primarily the American capitalist class. Objectively, the ally of this segment is a part of the Western European elites with right-wing attitudes – Steve Bannon is working on them now.
The anti-state aspirations of ultra-globalists until recently had a strict restriction: before dismantling the same USA, it was first necessary to dismantle the Russian Federation and the PRC; the USA is not just a state (the last US president as a state was Nixon), but partly a state, partly a cluster of TNCs, the iron fist of all globalists-both moderate and ultra.
However, with the so-called digitalization, it has become possible to reset or, at least, significantly weaken at the same time the entire “big three” states that are still somehow, albeit inconsistently, in the “one step forward, two steps back” mode opposing ultra-globalism.
RUSSTRAT: In what way?
– Now there is a lot of talk about e-government, about a “digital state” that primarily controls social networks. Even such a term appeared-netocracy (net – “network”).
The “digital state” (quotation marks, because in the strict sense of the word it is not a state, it is a different form of power) exists partly next to the usual, institutional-hierarchical, partly (and for the most part) it is built into it – formally in order to increase efficiency, optimize processes. Essentially-for its destruction. Since networks are essentially supranational in nature, “digital statehood” is a global power.
As Z. Bauman noted, the capital (and, I will add, everything else) that has turned into an electronic signal does not depend on the state from which it is sent, on the states whose borders it crosses, and on the state to which it comes. Global digital power is being built over the state of the Modern era in the same way as the latter (it was for him that Machiavelli coined the term lo stato) was built over traditional local and regional power structures in the XVI–XVII centuries, zeroing them in the organizational and power relation.
In the conditions of the triumph of the Figure, if it takes place, the old state of Modernity, in principle, can not be destroyed until the end – it will remain a shell on which you can write off flaws, or even something like a trained bear in a circus.
Global “digital power” is almost an ideal form for the so-called “deep state”. Here you just need to clarify. Firstly, it is not a “deep state”, but a “deep power”, since the state is a formalized thing, and the so – called “deep state” is not. Secondly, we need to talk about “deep states”, they exist in all the largest countries of the world, that is, about the structures (exactly, in the plural) of deep power (SGV).
The process of registration of the SGV is the 1960s-1980s. It is connected with the appearance of offshore companies, the financialization of capitalism, the development of transnational corporations, to which part of the special services and part of the state apparatus were largely reoriented – while formally both remained in the civil service.
The control over drug trafficking and the illegal part of the trade in weapons, gold and precious metals, raw materials, in other words, the criminal global economy, became an autonomous source of SGV. Globalization started as a criminalization of the world economy, and its operators became, in the words of O. Markeev, “globalists before globalization”.
Apparently, the SGV was also formed in the Soviet Union (a triad: segments of the KGB/then GRU, party nomenclature and the shadow economy supervised by them, primarily in Georgia, Armenia, the Baltic States, in the south of the RSFSR and in Ukraine).
As a matter of fact, perestroika as the legalization of shadow capital and the transformation of power into property is mainly her handiwork, a process carried out by her in cooperation with both the CCS of the largest states and closed supranational structures of the capsystem (and not such as the notorious Bilderberg Club, but with much more serious ones – Cercle/”Circle”, Siècle/”Century”, etc.), and with these states themselves.
To what extent the “Soviet SGV” has been preserved as an independent player, and to what extent it has integrated into the political and economic structures of the modern world is an open and not the most interesting question: completely different forces play a decisive role in the struggle for the post – capitalist world future, and these are certainly not “Republicans” or “Democrats”. They are at best shadows of real players.
RUSSTRAT: Is it worth waiting for a conflict similar to the American one in the European Union? Many predict the continuation of centrifugal trends. Is it worth waiting for the collapse?
– We saw performances in France, the Netherlands, partly in the UK and Germany in support of the BLM, but the process did not go ahead. The BLM did not turn out to be a global movement, so perhaps the coronabesie and floydobesie will be followed by the third move of the ultra-globalists, if not for the demolition, then for the dismantling of the old world. We’ll wait and see.
As for the European Union, it was an artificial entity from the very beginning-and this is despite the fact that after the destruction of the Roman Empire, constant attempts were made to restore a united Europe. The first attempt of this kind was the empire of Charlemagne, which de jure collapsed in 843. After that, attempts to unite Europe developed along two lines – the Guelph and the Ghibelline.
At the end of the XI century, a conflict developed between the Holy Roman emperors of the German people (the Hohenstaufen dynasty) and the popes of Rome. The Guelphs were those who supported the popes, representing mainly the aristocratic families of Northern Italy and Southern Germany; the Ghibellines supported the emperors, representing mainly the popular middle (burgher) and grassroots strata.
After the defeat of the Hohenstaufen, the projects of European unification can be conditionally divided into “Guelph” (mainly “aristocratic”) and “Ghibelline” (mainly “democratic”). The European unions that Napoleon and Hitler tried to build were Ghibelline with a small aristocratic “bitterness”. The current European Union is a Guelph project implemented under the American-Masonic “all-seeing eye” and to a large extent thanks to the destruction of the USSR.
Once F. I. Tyutchev noticed that with the advent of Peter’s empire, the empire of Charles in Europe is impossible. And indeed, it was the “flank state” (L. Dehiyo) that historical Russia (although in alliance with another “flank state” – Great Britain) broke all attempts to recreate the Carolingian “central” empire, whether by Napoleon, Wilhelm II or Hitler.
It is significant and symbolic that the European Union took shape simultaneously with the destruction of the USSR – the “avatars” of the empire of Peter I. At the same time, however, Western Europe has swallowed something alien to it, something that it is unable to digest, and we know what happens as a result of indigestion. Eastern Europe in its current state, on the one hand, and the problems of Western European integrators (“the greed of the fraer ruined”), on the other, are the results of this indigestion.
It is absolutely clear that there is a European Union for those who, as one Gogol’s hero would say ,are “cleaner, sir” – this is the Carolingian core, and for those who “went out for a walk”. The Carolingian core is a serious danger for both ultra-globalists and moderate globalists in the United States.
They are trying to weaken it as much as possible with the help, on the one hand, of the pro – Atlantic part of the Western European elites, whose interests are served by the stupid and self-satisfied Brussels bureaucracy; on the other hand, of the so-called “young Europe”, in which the Polish leadership is most servile.
However, against the Carolingian core, the ultra-globalists and the United States (here their interests coincide, although not completely, but according to the principle of “Euler circles”) have a more powerful weapon – ethnic. They applied it in 2015 in the form of a” migration crisis”, formally provoked by the Atlanticist servants of Globozapad and Globamerica, who are intensively turning Europe into a post-West.
For some reason, there were many young healthy men among the “unfortunate” migrants, and the “rapid flow” itself gave the impression of being well managed by hidden leaders. The most important thing for the planner is to prevent the bloc of China, Russia and Europe with a German core from becoming something like a continental bloc “à la Haushofer”, only with China instead of Japan.
RUSSTRAT: What should Russia do in such circumstances? You have repeatedly pointed out that no one will accept representatives of Russia into the world elite either. What should those who make decisions in Russia do in such conditions, how to ensure security and sovereignty, strengthen Russia’s status as a world power and expand its zones of influence?
– Practice shows that those whom Disraeli called “the masters of history”, i.e. the world elite, consisting of British, American, Western European and Jewish elites, will never put Russians at the same table with them on equal terms, whether it is autocratic Russia, the USSR, and even more so the Russian Federation. Rather, there will be Arabs, Indians, Chinese or Japanese.
At the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, the stupid Soviet leadership fell for the Western bait-a deception in the form of detente (detente) and connection to global projects through the Club of Rome. They naively believed that if the USSR was a superpower with nuclear weapons and the second economy of the world, its rulers would be allowed into the world kalashnikov row, the leaders of the USSR zealously joined the projects of the main enemy:
– by creating the eurodollar (the Moscow People’s Bank as one of the main banks of the City of London in the 1960s), they participated with the Rothschilds: directly – in creating an unregulated global financial market, indirectly-in creating an invisible British Empire, which would later destroy the USSR together with China;
– by playing “in oil” – with the Rockefellers.
These tactical successes laid the foundation for the loss of strategic historical initiative in relations with the West and, ultimately, the destruction of the USSR.
Thus, the first thing that representatives of the ruling elite of the Russian Federation need to remember, especially the part of it that is ready to make peace with the West on any conditions, i.e. to capitulate, surrendering anything and anyone, is the fate of Ostap Bender on the Romanian border. From the recent past – the fate of Boris Berezovsky.
The second “memorization” is as follows. In the conditions of the struggle for the future, only cohesive societies will be able to survive, not to mention win, that is, those in which there is a relatively low level of social inequality and in which, no less importantly, the upper and lower classes share the same values and goals.
A house divided in itself will not stand. A classic example is the rotten late-Russian empire, so beloved because of the class proximity of the current “ilitka” of the Russian Federation. One push was enough, and the wall collapsed, as the young Ulyanov-Lenin warned the tsarist gendarme at the time.
Ergo: oligarchic regimes are doomed. If the population in them is the “food resource” of the top that is unable to ensure development, then they themselves and this top are the “food resource” for the “big fish” of the capsystem. Here is such a food chain, according to Zabolotsky: “A beetle ate grass, a bird pecked a beetle, / A ferret drank the brain from a bird’s head, / And distorted faces with fear / Night creatures were watched from the grass.”
In order not to become a terrified nocturnal creature of the modern world and throw the post-WEST in the face of Ilyamuromets “you will choke, Idolishche”, you need to be strong in unity, which is achieved on the basis of social justice and a single value system.
When you ask what to do in the current circumstances of Russia, I have a counter-question: which Russia – the Russia of oligarchs or the Russia of hard workers? These are different countries.
Moreover, even the Russian Federation of oligarchs is not something unified (it is enough to carefully read the recent interview of O. Deripaska). Rather, it is a set of clan structures of corporate and regional type, which have different interests and which are oriented to the outside world, and not so much to the states, but to individual corporations, clans, unions of families or even individual families (for example, someone-to the Windsor family).
This once again puts the power-social unity at the forefront as a factor not so much of victory as of survival in the struggle for the future (perhaps victory in these conditions is to fall last, crushing the enemy to death), and the unity of both the ruling stratum with the people and within the ruling stratum.
Nuclear weapons alone are not enough – for success in the XXI century, a powerful organizational weapon and an equally powerful cognitive weapon are needed – a real picture of the world based on new knowledge about the world and man. In this regard, there is no need to be “shy” – we need to take its best practices from the West, if, of course, it is necessary. The West was ready to learn from the Russians.
In the early 1950s, US President Truman held a meeting with consultants of the newly created RAND Corporation, among whom were, in particular, John von Neumann and Edward Teller – they need no introduction. So, von Neumann, a recognized leader of the intellectual community of the United States, said that the secret of the strength of the Russians is not in nuclear and chemical weapons, but in the presence of absolute organizational weapons created by Lenin – this is a “new type of party”.
After the meeting, the task was set: to study the phenomenon of the” party of professional revolutionaries “and to prepare a secret report” Organizational weapons ” (declassified in 2005). This weapon was directed against the USSR. In the West, the bourgeoisie generally assimilate Marxism quite well. Gramsci threatened the top: “We will take your children”, i.e. reformat them. It didn’t work out. And the CIA in the 1960s reformatted young people, directing them as the new left against the left.
George Foster Dulles, Arnold Toynbee, Jacques Attali were admirers of Marx: in their opinion, he formulated the idea of a world government, but, as Attali noted, the bourgeoisie, not the proletariat, will implement it. And how do the stagnant and vulgar-dogmatic “Marxist-Leninist doctrine” of the Suslov bottling look against this background, on the one hand, and anti-Marxism and anti-Sovietism (the latent ideology of the influential part of the upper ranks of the Russian Federation) of our current “Palestinians”, on the other?
In the West, the elite studies Marx, Marxism, Lenin, Bolshevism-and, above all, from a practical point of view. “RF-ilitka” turns up its nose at all this, defiantly ignoring the 100th anniversary of October, the 150th anniversary of Lenin, the 200th anniversary of Marx. And, of course, Marxism, unlike the elite institutions of the post-West, is no longer studied here. It is logical: peripheral natives are not supposed to have knowledge with secret potential.
Over the past half century, a lot of socio-political changes have taken place, new types of organizational weapons have been invented, the Cold War has ended, the experience of which, like the experience of the USSR phenomenon, is not conceptually or theoretically meaningful either here or in the West. It is necessary to create a new organizational weapon on the basis of new theoretical knowledge, today Stalin’s “Without a theory, we are dead, death, death!”sounds superactual.
RUSSTRAT: In general, in your opinion, what will the political landscape look like in the conditions of the end of the post-Yalta world and the formation of a new paradigm of international relations?
– Today, the world is changing so quickly that only trends can be predicted for a relatively long time. As Allen Dulles, a big fan of Kipling’s “Kim”, said (in a free translation), a person can be confused by facts, but if he understands the trends, he can not be deceived.
The future is being formed before our eyes. Time is now so condensed that the past instantly flows into the future, compressing the present almost into a “singularity point”. At the same time, however, there is a deception of the historical point of view: since the line between the future and the past is almost erased, the past-future continuum is perceived as a continuing present. As a result, the same reality, as in the scrolling of a kaleidoscope, turns out to be either a long-lasting present, or a world of the past and the future without the present!
This is a very difficult and difficult situation to predict. Taking into account this complexity, I would venture to say that in my opinion, the future has already come in two zones of the modern world. This is, firstly, China with its system of social rating and electronic control, which organically falls on the three-thousand-year history of China and, as it were, completes it, completes it.
Secondly, this is Africa – the world of postcolonial neo-archaism, extending beyond the enclaves belonging to TNCs. This is also a complete world in its own way, in it the dreams that the Czechoslovak travelers (and, I think, scouts) I. Ganzelka and M. Zikmund wrote about at the end of the 1940s have disappeared and reality has triumphed, which will be more terrible than the” Heart of Darkness ” by J. Conrad: This is rather a picture depicted in “Lontano” and “Congo Requiem” by J.-K. Grange.
As for Latin America, the United States, the European Union, Russia and the Muslim world, the future has not yet been determined here; here is an extended present, Present Continuous, which, however, at any moment can shrink into a point that shoots the future.
Much for the United States and for the world as a whole will depend on the American elections. The collective Bastinda, through the mouth of the Clintonian, has already called for the forceful removal of Trump if he does not recognize Biden’s victory, i.e. for Bastinda, the senile Biden has already won and she has nowhere to retreat. In case of victory, Bastinda will launch an all-out offensive on many fronts, including the intra-American one. One of the main directions will be Russia, and then the “sleepers” will wake up.
We almost certainly cannot influence the American elections, but it is not only possible, but also necessary to correct the situation in the country. To meet the danger, having the “fifth column” behind them, they will be worse than Mamai, their own-it is unacceptable. However, if the “fifth column” is a part of the power itself, its shadow, then such power is doomed: sooner or later the shadow will cease to know its place.
Source — https://russtrat.ru/analytics/27-iyulya-2020-0010-1357
Irina
54-Capitalism, anti-capitalism and the fate of the world by Andrey Fursov
The life and death of the most mysterious system in the history of mankind and its antipode. Article two
To better understand how the world came to the current state of degradation and destruction, it is necessary to at least briefly highlight the main stages of the history of the capitalist system, their differences from each other.
The genesis (not to be confused with the early stage — as Hegel said, when a thing begins, it does not exist yet) of capitalism falls in the middle of the XV — middle of the XVII centuries, conditionally 1453-1648, i.e. for most of the third “dark ages” of Europe. Genesis is the time when a new historical subject forms a system and with its help forms himself; as soon as he gives up the palm of demiurgy to the system, the genesis is over, the early stage begins. Such capitalism lasts from the 1650s to the 1780s. This is pre-industrial capitalism, and the main operators of the world and domestic markets are not only and not so much the bourgeois as landowners, monarch-aristocratic families, etc., outwardly seeming to be “remnants of feudalism”; in fact, these are phenomena of the post-feudal era of the mid-XV-mid-XVII centuries.
In the last quarter of the XVIII century, three revolutions — industrial in England, political in France and spiritual (philosophical) in Germany-started the mature phase of the capsystem, which lasted until the 1910s (conditionally “to taste” – 1914 or 1919). During this time, having survived the structural crisis (“watershed”) of 1789-1818 and having reached the operational historical expanse, capital (ism) acquired not only an adequate industrial production base, but also formed its “immaterial” entourage: power, ideological, national and other forms. Through the Masonic bourgeois revolutions (they were illuminati in their ideological essence), the bourgeoisie of the West turned into the main operator of the world market and became a Capitalist with a capital letter, the Main Bourgeois, either pushing aside the masters of the early capitalist era, or, more often, compromising with them. The ” Masonic revolutions “were bourgeois in results and goals, but their striking force was not at all the bourgeoisie and not the proletariat, but hired workers of the pre — capitalist type, small merchants and artisans-just those strata over whose heads the waves of bourgeois progress were supposed to close, the revolution was their”death roar”.
The victory of the tricolor revolutions meant the nationalization of Freemasonry and the completion of the ascending line of its development. In the “long fifties” (1848-1867), which began with the social revolution in the Far West of Eurasia and the” Manifesto of the Communist Party “of Marx and Engels and ended with the coup in the Eurasian Far East (the “Meiji Restoration” in Japan) and the first volume of Marx’s “Capital”, the European world-system dropped the hyphen and really turned into a world system — the only one, with Great Britain as the hegemon and the Anglo-French West as the core. If there can be several world-systems, then the capitalist world system can be only one. It is no accident that two other world systems, besides the European one-the Russian and the Chinese — almost simultaneously became objects of Anglo-French aggression and, through the Crimean and the Second “opium” wars, were turned into the semi-periphery and periphery of this system, respectively. It was at the second stage of its development that capitalism gained maturity, its system — integrity, or, as a Marxist would say, it turned from a mode of production into a formation. The” long fifties ” are marked by a sharp spatial expansion of the world of capital — Europe seems to be experiencing its XVI century for the second time, Marx and Engels wrote about this.
The “August Cannons” (B. Tuchman) of 1914 heralded the end of the second, mature, stage of the development of capitalism. Having survived the structural crisis of the 1890s-1910s, capitalism has entered a late stage of its development, which is coming to an end before our eyes, and it is difficult to say how many decades — one or two — it (and capitalism with it) has left. The late stage of the capsystem, like the late stages of most systems, is marked by wars, a brief moment of “blooming complexity of secondary simplification” (K. Leontiev), mass movements of the lower classes (“uprising of the masses”) with their temporary success, the counterattack of the elites (“the uprising of the elites”), which gradually develops into the dismantling of the system.
Since the mid-1970s, late capitalism has been entering a period of crisis. For him, this is a structural crisis, for capitalism as a whole — a systemic one. The destruction of the USSR and the socialist camp with their subsequent looting allowed us to postpone the crisis for a decade and a half, but in 2008 it appeared, and in 2017-2018 the terminal stage became apparent. The year 2020, with its coronation and the “official” announcement by the world elite of the zeroing of the former history and — de facto-the former, i.e. capitalist, system, only fixed this with a bold line. A systemic crisis, especially one at the terminal stage, is at the same time the beginning of the genesis of a new system, some features of which are already discernible, others cast a shadow, and others are amenable to calculation — but this is a separate topic.
Despite the fact that at all stages of the development of capitalism, its systemic political and economic laws play a decisive role, the ratio, combination and subordination of their economic and political components were different at different historical stages. The difference between the early and mature stages, on the one hand, and the late one, on the other, is especially obvious. In the first two, economic laws famously governed political ones, only occasionally adapting to them. It turned out differently with late capitalism.
First, by the end of the XIX century, the world was divided, the last chord of the division was the “scramble for Africa” (scramble for Africa). Further expansion in space, without which the normal development of capitalism is impossible, no longer required wars of the” core “of the capsystem with the” weaklings “of the periphery (they were almost all “bent over” anyway), but a clarification of relations within the “core” itself (the British Empire and republican France, aka the colonial Empire, against the German Empire) and the “core” — with the semi-empire represented by the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires. This was an inevitable scenario for capitalism, which had entered the stage of imperialism.
The World War of 1914-1918 recorded that from now on the military-political factor will be the engine of the development of the capsystem, and the mechanism of development itself will be as follows: the war destroys, erases part of the military-industrial complex of the “core” and semi-periphery, and their post-war recovery becomes the engine of the development of the world economy for two decades, i.e. almost for the lifetime of an entire generation. In the 1920s and especially in the 1930s, it was the restoration of the Soviet and German economies, their breakthrough with the help of American and, to a lesser extent, British capital, that not only pulled the world economy out of the crisis (and allowed many to prepare for a new war), but also became the basis for its development. Similarly, the restoration of the Soviet, German, Italian and Japanese economies destroyed by the war in 1945-1965/1975 gave rise to four post-war “economic miracles”, respectively, and led to unprecedented economic growth during the period that the French, with the light hand of Jean Fourastier, called “the glorious thirty years” (les trentes glorieuses).
Secondly, the political factor worked in a different way: the very existence of almost the entire twentieth century of systemic anti-capitalism in the form of the USSR, and since the turn of the 1940s-1950s-the socialist camp, forced the bourgeoisie to “bend” the economic laws of capitalism by state-political methods, giving it an uncharacteristic social appearance.
Thirdly, the twentieth century was the time of the” uprising of the masses”, the 1920s-1960s/70s are the worldwide” era of the common people”, characteristic of most of the later stages in the history of all systems. In late capitalism, this general rule was influenced by the pressure of industrial capital on financial capital at the core of the capsystem, the logic of the struggle of Western plutocracies against Nazism and fascism, which required the mobilization of the democratic potential of bourgeois societies, and, of course, the existence of the socialist camp and the presence of a historical initiative in its hands until the mid-1970s.
It is significant and symptomatic that by the mid-1970s, the “economic miracles” ended simultaneously, the “uprising of the masses” was exhausted and the “uprising of the elites” began (K. Lash), well, the USSR lost its historical initiative, having entered a structural crisis. It was at this time that the world elite seriously thought about dismantling the capsystem. Her actions developed in three directions. Within the framework of the first, two main tasks were solved.
First. The world elite tried to slow down industrial growth and scientific and technological progress. In this case, financial capital again came to the fore, the economic positions of the working class of the core, the part of the middle layer connected with the state sector were undermined, and the state itself was weakened in the face of banks and transnational corporations. The” thought factory ” that justified the processes of gradual deindustrialization of the core was the Club of Rome (1968), created on the initiative of the Rockefellers. Already in the first report to the Club of Rome with the characteristic title ” Limits of growth “(1972), the concept of” zero growth ” was put forward, i.e., the inhibition of economic growth by political means in the name of the struggle for the preservation of the natural environment. The essentially neo-Malthusian report also set goals for reducing the world’s population and consumption.
To implement the Neo-Malthusian program of the Club of Rome, it was necessary to solve two tasks. The first is the creation of an alarmingly pessimistic background and mood instead of the almost unrestrained optimism of the 1960s. In this regard, the Tavistock Institute, located in the south of England in the gloomy Dartmoor marshes, where the drama of Conan Doyle’s “The Hounds of the Baskervilles” was played, was given the task of “cleaning out the cultural optimism of the 1960s” (to stamp out cultural optimism of the sixties); in the same direction, the change of science fiction to fantasy worked. This was the cultural and psychological background of the counteroffensive of financial capital against industrial capital. The results were not slow to affect: already in the 1980s, financial capital took revenge on industrial capital. In the same Great Britain, as the author of the bestseller “The Establishment” O. Jones, who is often called “the new Orwell”, noted, the Thatcher establishment personified the victory of financial capital over industrial capital. Moreover, Thatcher herself constantly showed disdain for industry and industrialists by her behavior. If she always tried to attend the conferences of City bankers held several times a year, then she either ignored the congresses of the Conference of British Industrialists or pointedly remained silent at them. The oaky “Maggie” generally had little control over negative emotions, whether it was in relation to industrialists, ordinary people or Queen Elizabeth. It was the relationship with the latter, or rather a faux pas (a false step) with Anthony Blunt( the revealed fifth of the Cambridge “five”), a relative of the queen, that drew a line under the political career of a” philistine”, as Kim Philby and not only him called her.
The introduction of e-commerce has further strengthened the position of financialism, encouraging its rampage. Similar processes, although somewhat differently, went on in the Reagan USA. However, even there, the industry, as the same Jones noted, began to rot, the growth rate of labor productivity in industry decreased, the number of breakthrough inventions and innovations decreased, especially compared to the flurry of such in the first half of the twentieth century. A mobile phone, the Internet and a personal computer are, in fact, all that the era of the “elite uprising”can boast of.
The second task of the first direction was more difficult: the neutralization of the USSR and, if possible, the involvement of the Soviet elite in the global projects of the Club of Rome, the implementation of which objectively deprived the Soviet Union of historical initiative, and then of prospects. The Soviet elite took a bite, and it ended after a decade and a half with Gorbachev’s rule.
The second direction of the main blows in the unfolding counteroffensive of the world elite was the growing pressure on the working class and the middle layer of the core. Thatcherism in the UK and Reaganomics in the US became concrete forms: “planners” used these “strategies” to worsen the economic and political positions of target groups. The middle layers of the semi-periphery fared even worse: in the 1980s, the West demolished the middle layer of Latin America and the most developed countries of Africa, such as South Africa and Nigeria, focused on the public sector.
As well as the inhibition of industrial and scientific-technical development, the “uprising of the elites” had an ideological justification. It was provided by a new structure created in 1973 (again under the auspices of mainly the Rockefellers) — the Trilateral Commission. At her request, in 1975, three authors representing and symbolizing the United States (S. Huntington), Europe (M. Crozier) and Japan (D. Watanuki) prepared a report “The Crisis of Democracy”. It argued that the main danger to the political system of the West (read: to preserve the power and privileges of the North Atlantic elite) is not the Soviet Union, not an external factor, but an internal one — an excess of democracy in the West itself. In this regard, it was proposed to start introducing a certain dose of social apathy to the masses and explain that along with democracy, experience and “high status” (seniority — can also be translated as “seniority”) are also important, and democracy itself is not so much a value as a political technology. The class meaning and content of the document are obvious: it was an ideological artillery preparation for the counteroffensive of the elites, for their revenge on the common people, social revenge for half a century of his success.
The third direction was connected with the world stronghold of the common people — with the USSR. Without its neutralization, the implementation of the first two directions with all their tasks was extremely difficult, if at all possible. The world elite offered the Soviet Union several “attractors” (in fact, traps):
1) cooperation in the field of ecology at the planetary level;
2) joint implementation of global process management (global governance);
3) organization of the rise in oil prices through the conflict (Arab-Israeli) in the Middle East;
4) “lunar deal — – recognition by the Soviet leadership of the success of the first American “lunar landing” in exchange for a number of financial and economic preferences;
5) the policy of “detente” (detente, détente) is a respite, necessary primarily for the United States, which found itself at the turn of the 1960s — 1970s in an extremely difficult economic and political situation.
As the Russian economist A. Salomatin convincingly showed, in 1968 the United States ceased to be an economically self-supporting complex (this also allowed financial capital to go on the offensive against industrial capital-the correlate of the elites ‘ offensive against the masses). In other words, the United States lost the economic race to the Soviet Union, hence the initiatives of the Club of Rome and the “detente”. I emphasize: it was not the USSR that won, but the United States that lost. However, the Soviet leadership did not realize this fact, and the part of the nomenclature that was interested in integrating into the capsystem and the agents of Western influence that always acted as its ally did everything to obscure it. As Salomatin wrote, at that time there was no brilliant accountant like Stalin in the Soviet leadership. However, just an experienced accountant would have been enough, but there was no such thing in the Brezhnev leadership. But the Chinese leadership found it.
The Chinese appreciated their chance immediately. By the end of the 1960s, the British had already made good progress in creating an invisible financial empire via Singapore and southern China. One one hand, however, the Chinese have not forgotten the humiliation of the “opium” wars and treaty ports, on the other hand, they are not fans of putting all their eggs in one basket. Taking advantage of the ahoy situation of the Americans, they extended their hand to them: “You do not have enough labor resources, and we have a lot of them; so give us advanced technologies — we will do everything!” To earn the trust of the United States, China had to arrange a provocation at Damansky (1969), and ten years later (the Americans were “swinging” for a long time) to play the play of the three-month war with Vietnam. For the United States, the PRC was important not only economically, but also politically-as a “card” that can be played against the USSR. The result: the United States is investing in China, where Deng Xiaoping’s reforms are starting as a means to” magnetize ” American capital.
It was clear to any attentive observer: over time, the United States will get out of the predicament and go on a counteroffensive (as A. E. Vandam (Edrikhin) wrote:” Only friendship with the Anglo-Saxon can be worse than enmity with him”), so we had to, if not “drop” them, then constantly lose our breath. However, the Soviet leadership believed that nuclear weapons and oil were such weighty factors that they would ensure a respectful attitude towards it from the North Atlantic elites, and they would let the Soviet nomenclature at the world table on an equal footing. This was a colossal mistake. However, behind this mistake were the well-fed short-sightedness of that part of the Soviet elite, which sought stability (“stagnation”) not only in the country, but also in the world, and the conscious course of those who wanted to “enter the West”.
The basis of this desire of the first and second, which led to the fact that the Soviet leadership answered the bourgeoisie to their proposals “yes”, were serious social, power and ideological (“ideological”) changes in Soviet society, primarily in its system — forming element-the upper and middle segments of the party nomenclature and the KGB.
The essence is as follows. Being the negation of capitalism in the line of production relations, the USSR, “real socialism”, as a production basis had the typologically same system of productive forces as capitalism — industrial, only less qualitative, despite all the achievements. In order to transform from systemic anti — capitalism into post-capitalism (what the official ideology called “communism”, and the Strugatskys called “The World of Noon”), three tasks had to be solved:
1) to create a fundamentally new management system as a necessary condition for creating a new production system that surpasses the industrial-capitalist one in its productivity;
2) to create a fundamentally new, more powerful and at the same time cheaper than the gas-oil energy system;
3) to ensure a high level of military-technical protection against an external enemy (“imperialist environment”) in the process of implementing the first and second tasks.
Did the USSR in the mid-1960s have the possibility of successfully solving the three tasks mentioned above and making a breakthrough into a post-capitalist future? Had.
In the first half of the 1960s, under the leadership of Academician V. M. Glushkov, a Nationwide Automated System (OGAS) was created. It converted the entire document flow into an electronic form (“information society”) and brought the old-style Soviet planning, which was faced with an insurmountable complexity of the economy, onto cybernetic rails. OGAS opened the way to a breakthrough in post-industrial development.
At the same time, a group of scientists under the leadership of I. S. Filimonenko completed work on the creation of a hydrolysis plant that carried out cold thermonuclear fusion (CTES). The implementation of this project allowed us to switch to cheap energy, which “closed” the oil industry as expensive and unnecessary (goodbye, Rockefellers, Rothschilds and everything-everything-everything).
Finally, in the mid-1960s, under the leadership of the Soviet aircraft and space designer V. N. Chelomey, such a breakthrough in military technology was made, which, when implemented, left the United States “offside” for many decades, if not forever. We are talking about the PAACRK system (underwater autonomous automated container missile systems); the offensive and defensive system “Sunset” (meaning the sunset of the United States), it is also “Shoe” (an allusion to the famous Khrushchev speech at the UN); the Space-252 maneuverable interceptor satellites, the Almaz manned reconnaissance and combat platforms, and much more.
However, one of these projects, promising a leap into the future and the victory of socialism on a global scale, turning from anti-capitalism into post-capitalism, was not implemented. It was blocked in its interests by the nomenklatura as a quasi-class group formed in the 1930s-1950s on the basis of industrial anti-capitalism and its place in the international division of labor (i.e., the place of anti — capitalism as a system in the capitalist system, in its world market) and striving to preserve its position — i.e., power and privileges-which the transition to post-capitalism would undoubtedly change. However, about everything in order.
As for the OGAS, the higher nomenclature realized with a quasi-class skin gut: if this system is implemented, it will have to move, “technocrats” will appear next to the “party democrats”, and many levers of power may be in their hands. In other words, in the case of the implementation of the OGAS, what Stalin wanted to achieve by political means in 1952 could happen on a scientific, technical, industrial basis — to move the party apparatus away from the management of society, leaving it with ideology, propaganda and recruitment, and move the “center of power” to the Council of Ministers.
The Western, primarily American, elite was no less frightened of the Soviet elite. Russian Russians predicted that if they fully introduced the OGAS before 1970, they would leave the United States behind forever, the administration of President Johnson created the SRC group (to stop Russian/Red code—. The defamation of Glushkov and OGAS began both in the West and in the USSR. It was constantly said that the OGAS is too expensive, and therefore it is not worth putting such a burden on our economy. Echoes of this argument are still found today. Glushkov did not deny that OGAS is a very expensive project. However, if we take into account that about 30-40% of the USSR budget, to put it mildly, was “lost”, and the OGAS made the administrative and economic system transparent (this in itself scared the economic nomenclature — you can’t cheat), then the savings of these funds would more than cover all the costs of the OGAS. But, alas, the quasi-class interest turned out to be stronger, and by 1970 the OGAS was put on the brakes. The Americans could breathe a sigh of relief.
At the beginning of 1967, the commission of the Central Committee of the CPSU recognized the results of the work of Filimonenko’s group as an outstanding achievement in the field of physics, medicine and biology, and six months later, a new commission of the Central Committee closed the research, banned Filimonenko’s work on the XTYAS and seized technical and economic documentation. The project was not just put on the brakes, but hacked. The part of the nomenclature that was already involved in the international oil trade worked, lived with a premonition of the prospects of future profits and managed to denigrate the idea of the KHTYAS in the eyes of the Brezhnev leadership as impossible. Special services from different countries, acting under the guise of scientists within the so-called Pugwash movement, also played their role. It is a paradox, but de facto secret carriers from the kaplager and the socialist camp gathered annually for an open discussion of the problems of nuclear energy, and Filimonenko with his KHTYAS turned out to be a bone in the throat of this “international”. Until now, there are publications of either idiots, or, on the contrary, interested persons who understand the essence of the matter, who are trying to expose Filimonenko as someone between a crank and a charlatan. He firmly touched some structures, disturbed their “rookery”.
The developments of V. N. Chelomey were also not implemented. For personal reasons, as well as interdepartmental competition, they were ruined by the narrow-minded D. F. Ustinov, who was actively helped by Yu.V. Andropov. Opponents of Chelomey (well, the agents of Western influence, of course) took advantage of the” detente ” to block the introduction of breakthrough Chelomey military equipment. The arguments were simple: why do we need all this if we are negotiating with the United States on arms limitation? In 1969-1972, work on almost all of Chelomey’s projects was suspended, technical documentation was transferred to other design bureaus and partially lost.
The chance of a breakthrough in the post-capitalist future, in the victory over capitalism, was not just missed, the highest nomenclature deliberately rejected it, preferring integration into the world market, i.e. into the capitalist system. In this regard, the part of the nomenclature that was already functionally involved in the capsystem along such lines as the trade in oil, gas, and diamonds acted as the backers. It should be noted that the part of the nomenclature included in the capsystem through trade, albeit indirectly and functionally, but acted as a transfer link in the exploitation by Western capital of that part of the workers of the USSR who worked in areas that create a product primarily for foreign trade. Thus, certain segments of the Soviet nomenclature and the KGB segments serving it turned into a functional element of the Western (world, supranational) corporatocracy and were interested in expanding contacts with the West, i.e. in integrating the USSR into the capitalist system. These segments were quantitatively small, however, firstly, as Einstein said, the world is not a quantitative concept, but a qualitative one; secondly, although the trade in raw materials did not play such a role in the export of the USSR as in the Russian Federation, and it is not worth exaggerating its economic significance, its political role and significance were great, and those who carried it out and provided it along the special services line, sharply increased their power potencies and opportunities in the system. Is it necessary to say that these people wanted to “live like in the West”?
The contradiction of the Soviet segment of colleagues-co-exploiters of Western capital was as follows. Functionally, they partially acted as an element of the capitalist corporatocracy, while substantively, in terms of social content, they were the nomenclature (the dominant group) of the anti-capitalist system. This contradiction had to be resolved, and as part of the higher nomenclature and the USSR were integrated into the capsystem and the nomenclature turned into a quasi-class (these are two sides of one process) the probability of an anti-socialist solution to this contradiction increased both objectively and systematically, and subjectively, i.e. the subject of the implementation of this option was strengthened and the anti-capitalist subject itself was weakened in the face of the West. And the West felt it. It is no coincidence that in the second half of the 1970s, politicians of a fundamentally new type were promoted to the first roles in the Western states: Giscard d’Estaing, a protege of the Trilateral Commission, Jimmy Carter, and others, focused not so much on dialogue as on pressure against the USSR. Well, Thatcher and Reagan were already in the queue. The USSR continued to tread on the spot. In foreign policy, this trampling plus excessive senile pacifism led to the interception of the historical initiative from the USSR by the West in the mid-1970s.
It is a paradox, but the moment of interception was the formal victory of the USSR — the Helsinki Conference of 1975, when the West, in fact, officially, albeit with some “exceptions”, recognized the Yalta system. The Trojan horse of the Helsinki Agreements was their “third basket”. It assumed the free exchange of ideas, people and goods as the cornerstone of guarantees of basic human freedoms. Therefore, since the mid-1970s, the West has received the legal right to officially put pressure on the Soviet Union that signed this “basket” for non-compliance with certain points. Brezhnev’s hopes that the recognition of the Yalta peace would outweigh “all this nonsense” of the “third basket” turned out to be the country in a decade and a half.
There are three types of attractors: upward movement — progress, horizontal movement-stagnation, downward movement-regression. The Soviet nomenclature of the 1970s chose horizontal (planar) the attractor that dominated primarily in the frames. The main problem of horizontal attractors is their fragility, since the movement always looks for a” ladder ” either up or — more often-down. The so-called perestroika became a grassroots attractor for the USSR, for the Soviet nomenclature, which turned into the destruction of systemic anti-capitalism, the socialist camp and the USSR. In its place in the 1990s, a clan-oligarchic system appeared-then you can add “to taste”: comprador, criminal, corruption — system, abbreviated — coKe (the big “K” reflects the “three in one” listed above), which today is clearly experiencing severe arthrosis, but this is a separate topic, we go back to the 1960s — 1980s and ask ourselves: why not only the USSR was destroyed, but the whole world changed the upward dynamics to a degradation-destructive one, the first “berries” of which we are trying it today in the form of a coronabesium–and whether it will still be. The answers to these questions are largely related to the dynamics and dialectics of the relations between capitalism and anti-capitalism in the world system, the West and the USSR.
The October Revolution, unlike the February Revolution, occurred contrary to British-French interests. Theoretically, the West was supposed to strangle the USSR in the 1920s, but in practice, weakened by the war and torn by contradictions, it could not do this. In addition, the intensity of the class struggle at home did not allow the bourgeoisie to “raise their shoulder” about the USSR. In the 1930s, the systemically anti-capitalist USSR had already become necessary for both the Americans and even for Russia’s constant existential enemy, the British. Both of them were forced to invest in the USSR by the world crisis of 1929-1933. At the same time, the Americans had an additional reason. In 1929, the director of the Bank of England, Montague Norman, closed the British Empire (25% of the world market) from the outside world (i.e. from the United States), and this desire of British capital, primarily the Rothschilds, to strangle the main beneficiary of the First World War became one of the main causes of the global crisis. After that, the main task of the United States was the destruction of the British Empire. The Third Reich was chosen for the role of the terminator, which was then to be crushed by the Stalinist USSR. And after the war, the United States was going to dictate its will to all the weakened parties.
Trade with the capitalist West, which the USSR actively joined in the 1930s, by definition could not be equivalent, since it sold raw materials to the USSR. Non-equivalent trade means the exploitation of the population of the country that is located on the raw material “site”. Consequently, the part of the Soviet population that created an export product turned out to be indirectly exploited by Western capital, and the nomenclature acted as a transfer link. However, firstly, unlike tsarist Russia, the funds received by the country did not go into the pockets of grand dukes, capitalists, landowners and priests, but worked for the benefit of the Soviet people as a whole, to strengthen the country’s defense capability (therefore, the USSR won the Great Patriotic War, and tsarist Russia lost the First World War). Secondly, as soon as in 1937 the USSR achieved military-industrial autarky from the capitalist world, the raw material component of exports, and with it indirect external exploitation, decreased and systemic anti-capitalism sharply narrowed the zone of indirect capitalist exploitation.
In 1938, the Munich agreement, which should date the beginning of the Second World War (paradoxically, this is confirmed by W. Churchill), was an attempt to create a protoNATO for the destruction of the USSR by German forces. However, Stalin outplayed the British first of all with the Soviet-German treaty, which they (and the West as a whole) still cannot forgive him, and the war went on a different “course”.
During the war, the USSR was needed by the allies. The situation changed after 1945, when the United States, having an atomic bomb, planned to “bomb” the USSR into the stone age, but soon the Soviet atomic and then hydrogen bombs (there is information that the first test of a hydrogen bomb was planned for March 5, 1953, but Stalin’s death postponed it for almost six months) cooled their ardor. In this regard, at the very end of the 1940s, a course was taken for an indefinite struggle to destroy the USSR (the Liote plan), the first results were supposed to be summed up in 50 years — in 1999, but they were managed 10 years earlier.
The course towards the liquidation of the USSR was a strategic and long-term task of the West, but in the medium term, the zone of systemic anti-capitalism, i.e. the non-capitalist zone, was necessary for the functioning of capitalism, primarily industrial, both for political and, most importantly, for systemic and economic reasons. By negotiating with the Soviet Union, the West could solve some of its problems in the Third World, especially since the USSR clearly gave preference to its specific state interests over the interests of, for example, the national liberation movement in the Third World (the classic case is the story of the Tricontinental structure that did not materialize in the mid-1960s). Yes, and about the communist and workers ‘ parties in the West, the bourgeoisie could conduct a dialogue with the USSR.
In system-economic terms, the presence of a non-capitalist zone, even an industrial one, was, although with reservations, tactically beneficial to industrial capitalism, more precisely, industrial capital. Moreover, since the Stalinist times, the Soviet leadership has objectively acted as an ally of industrial capital in its opposition to financial capital. This “idyll”, however, came to an end in the mid — second half of the 1960s. First, the post-war “economic miracles” of industrial recovery have ended, and, just as before the First and Second World Wars, the problem of the need to expand the zones of domination of industrial and economic complexes has arisen. Only now, unlike in 1914 and 1938/41, there were not several, but two, and, firstly, they were fundamentally different social systems with fundamentally different ideologies and world projects; secondly, both had nuclear weapons. Therefore, the military option, especially after the experience of the Caribbean crisis, was almost impossible.
The problem of expanding the industrial zone was much more acute for the industrial capital of the West than for the USSR. The further development of industrial capitalism in the West, with the ever-increasing threat of overproduction of goods, required the deindustrialization of the rest of the world, primarily the socialist camp, especially the USSR and the GDR, but it was impossible to start with the socialist camp. Therefore, under the guise of fighting for the environment, the West proposed an economic program to actually slow down industrial growth “in the interests of humanity” to the whole world and, above all, to the USSR. This was done through the line of the Club of Rome; the proposal was enthusiastically accepted, especially by the part of the Soviet elite that sought to “enter the West”. Of course, the West was not going to immediately, in the short term, destroy the USSR as an industrial and economic (military-industrial) complex, it was impossible. But in the long-term project of the future global world, industrial socialism (or even more so post-industrial) should not have existed at all — it should have been absorbed and dissolved in the global world dominated by the West; the program of the Club of Rome preserved a highly developed core only in the West.
If for the industrial capital of the West, systemic anti-capitalism was tactically acceptable in the short term, although this acceptability became increasingly tense in the 1970s, then for (increasing as industrial capital weakened) financial capital, on the one hand, and for the growing strength of the corporatocracy, on the other, for their world — global in its essence — systemic anti — capitalism was not needed at all, it should not exist, and if not in the short term, then at least in the medium term (10-15, at most 20 years).
In other words, as a result of the changes in the capitalist system that took place in the 1970s (plus or minus 2-3 years), systemic anti-capitalism-from the point of view of these changes and the forces that embodied them — lost its right to exist. And this happened just when the Soviet nomenklatura refused to make a breakthrough into post-capitalism. First, it began to preserve anti-capitalism, which, despite the status of a superpower and excellent economic indicators of the 1970s, has systematically and historically worked its way not only in the country, but also in the world; a new era was beginning, and only the transformation into post-capitalism not only allowed the USSR to survive, made it adequate to it, but turned it into a pioneer and master of the future. Secondly, the top of the nomenclature strengthened the integration of the USSR into the capsystem: the global-ecological bait was followed by a political bait, and the Soviet nomenclature also swallowed it.
In 1982, an apparently insignificant event occurred in the United States, but, as often happens in history, a very important event with far-reaching consequences. After being elected president of the United States, R. Reagan decided to check how accurate the CIA’s forecasts regarding the prospects for the development of the USSR were. They argued that the economy of the USSR, despite all the difficulties, is developing on an upward trend and by the end of the 1990s will reach very high economic indicators. Similar forecasts were given by Israeli intelligence. Reagan ordered the creation of three analytical and predictive groups under the leadership of physicist M. Gell-Mann, founder of the Santa Fe Institute (SFI); sociologist Randall Collins, associated with the Bush family; B. Bonner. The groups that worked independently of each other, after a few months, gave almost the same results. They predicted a powerful crisis that was supposed to shake the capsystem, coming in two waves. The first — in 1987-1988, the second, much more powerful, with tangible political consequences throughout the Western world – in 1993-1994.
According to forecasts, the economy of the socialist camp had to come out of the crisis with less losses than the capitalist one: in the first case, production was reduced by 10-12%, in the second — by 20%. Analysts predicted that in the wake of the crisis, communists (by themselves or in alliance with the “left”) would very likely come to power in Italy and France, left — wing Laborists in the UK; powerful Black riots were predicted in the largest cities of the United States. Of course, we should not forget that the communists of Italy, France and Spain were still communists-masoned “Eurocommunists” (it is symbolic that the general secretary of the Italian Communist Party, Enrico Berlinguer, was the son of one of the most prominent Freemasons in Italy); however, Reagan and the company were frightened by the coming to power of even such forces against the background of the United States experiencing not the best days.
Since receiving the forecasts of the three groups ,the “final solution of the Soviet question” has become the No. 1 task of the Reagan administration, a wide range of its allies and those forces that stood behind it. But this final solution could not be achieved by military means from the outside, the USSR could only be weakened from within-economically, politically, culturally and psychologically. This could be done only by changing the socio-economic system of the USSR, and already on this and only on this basis turning it into what the Russian Empire was at the end of the XIX — beginning of the XX century — into an underdeveloped country, a raw material appendage of the core of the capsystem (the West), dependent on it technologically, financially, ideologically and culturally. Already in the second year of Reagan’s presidency, the NSDD-75 “US relations with the USSR”directive was prepared in a top-secret mode in the amount of 30 copies. It clearly stated the goal: not the destruction of the USSR, but the change of the socio-economic system. In particular, it was said that the main means of changing the Soviet system should be to facilitate the economic operations of the party nomenclature and the KGB on the world market and provide technological assistance to the Soviet economy.
The calculation here is clear: foreign economic operations carried out by a certain segment of the party and GB nomenclature increasingly integrated the top of the USSR into the capsystem and thus undermined the Soviet system from within; technological “assistance” was carried out primarily to those segments of the Soviet economy that were in close contact with the West and whose development blocked the real development of the USSR; well, the super task was the strengthening of crisis trends in the Soviet economy. Thus, in 1983, the West and the United States switched from the policy of external influence on the USSR (“containment”, “local conflicts”) to the strategy of internal system decomposition of the enemy, i.e. they transferred military actions to its territory, only military actions were of an organizational nature. At the same time, it was not about the geopolitical destruction of the USSR, at best — about reconfiguration: to begin with, “the USSR minus the Baltic States and something else”. It turned out differently, and this is due, on the one hand, to the fact that other forces in the West actively intervened in the process, on the other — and this is the main thing — the Soviet factor played a role, the actions of those forces inside the USSR that had no intention of destroying the country, but set the task to change the system (and it turned out “they wanted the best, but it turned out as always”). Thus, their task and the task of the Americans formally coincided-formally, since the Soviet “segment” was not going to turn the USSR into an underdeveloped country dependent on the West. However, it happened differently: the “Westerners” turned out to be smarter, stronger, more sophisticated. And, of course, “chance, God is the inventor”, whose role increases dramatically during systemic and structural crises, chance is in a certain sense their regularity. The problem of the coincidence of the tasks of forces on different sides of the system barricades will be covered in the next article, and now it makes sense to note the fact that pessimistic forecasts for capitalism were made at the same time and on the other side of the ocean, in the Soviet Union.
Their authors were Vladimir Krylov and Pobisk Kuznetsov. Now we can only guess whether these forecasts were prepared directly for Yu. V. Andropov and how familiar he was with their texts. Krylov saw a vector in the imminent increase in US pressure on the USSR. Kuznetsov clearly pointed out that the economic mechanism of capitalism in 1993-1995 would lead to the fact that the number of dollars in the world economy relative to one kilowatt of electricity would reach the boundary limits, which would generate hyperinflation. This meant that by the end of the twentieth century, the capsystem would be in ruins. The ruins did appear, but they were the ruins of the social system. By the way, as far as I know, P. Kuznetsov considered the only chance of the West (capitalism) to be saved by the economic seizure of the COMECON countries (first of all, of course, the USSR) as markets for selling products and pumping out cheap raw materials. However, the economic seizure, I will add, required the political (systemic) surrender of the USSR and the establishment, in fact, of external control; the Yeltsin regime became the way to solve this problem.
Fig. Vasily Prokhanov “Emanation No. 7”.
Source — zavtra.ru/blogs/zhizn_i_smert_kapitalizma_fursov
Irina
53-About the benefits of knowledge of statistics and history
From 1922 to 1953, 4,060,306 people were convicted under political articles, of which 799,455 people were sentenced to the highest penalty.
This is not the “impressionism” of the “GULAG Archipelago”, but documentary data obtained and verified by researchers of the Russian Federation and the United States.
Thus, we are talking about less than 2% of the population. Is it a lot or a little? For me, 0.002 is a lot. But these are emotions. An objective scientific approach requires comparison, and then the situation becomes clearer. For example, compare the number of peasants who died during the famine of 1931-1932 in the poor USSR, and the number of Americans who died-now, 80 years later, the United States is forced to admit-from hunger during the Great Depression of the early 1930s in rich America. This is 4-5 million. In addition, political articles were often “sewn” in the USSR in cases when the authorities did not want to admit the facts of major theft of their representatives (the people’s power cannot steal from the people) and other non-political crimes of its representatives that compromise it. But the main thing is not even in this, but in another.
The de-Stalinizers write down during the years of “Stalin’s repressions” and the period when Stalin was not the number 1 person in the country. So, in 1921-1922, the power in the RSFSR was in the hands of Lenin and Trotsky, in 1923-1925, No. 1 was Zinoviev, in 1926-1928 — Bukharin. Yes, Stalin’s position was constantly strengthened in the 1920s, during the period of the alliance with Bukharin, he was stronger than during the triumvirate with Zinoviev and Kamenev, and yet he formally became No. 1 only in 1929, defeating Bukharin’s team. But only formally, because even in 1932, as the Ryutin case showed, Stalin could not single-handedly decide how and whom to repress, even if these “whom” were planning his overthrow. The situation changed only in 1935-1936, i.e. from the 32 years of “Stalin’s repressions” it is necessary to immediately subtract 14 years, most of which were carried out by the internationalsocialists, the guards of the cardinals of the world revolution Lenin and Trotsky, pushing them, Stalin created a power. A communist, but a power, and not a zemsharny republic, he built a country, and did not create a world revolution.
About the benefits of knowledge of statistics and history, image #1
But even with the Stalinist period, not everything is so simple. The historian Yu. N. Zhukov, on the basis of extensive historical material, convincingly showed all the ambiguity of the essence of the so-called “Stalinist repressions”. During the work on the new constitution, Stalin proposed to introduce a provision on alternative elections into it. This was sharply opposed by the ” regional barons “(Khrushchev, Eikhe and others) and “heroes of the civil war”, who were afraid that the people would choose a “counter” – representatives of the intelligentsia, priests, former White Guards, etc. Stalin’s proposal was passed by the” Stalinist “Politburo, but in order to fully insure themselves, the “barons” and “heroes” decided to launch a preemptive strike against those segments of the population that caused them the greatest fears. The main “slaughterers” were Khrushchev, who later, in retirement, admits that his hands are up to the elbows in blood, and Eikhe. Faced with the consolidated resistance of the elite, which he could not overcome, Stalin reacted in two ways:
1) passively-where he could, he reduced the planned scale of repression;
2) actively-launched repressions against the elite, who began mass terror (“go, poisoned steel, according to the destination”, you wanted terror — you will get it).
Thus, in the so-called “Stalinist repressions” of 1937-1938. (since the end of 1938, the repressions have been on the decline, the “Beriev thaw” begins — about 20 % of the repressed are returned from prisons and camps) there is not one Stalinist “layer” (no one denies this, but the historical truth is much more complicated), but several: the anti-Stalinist mass, behind which the nomenklatura stood, defending its group positions, and Stalin’s own as a reaction to it. In addition, within the framework of both “layers”, a significant part of the repressions is associated with clarifying the relations of various enkavedesh clans with each other (this issue is well covered by L. Naumov and others). Russian Russians, who tried to turn Russians into firewood for a land fire, who told the Cossacks and poisoned Russian peasants with gas, and this further narrows the scope of the Stalinist “part” of the repressions, the victims of which were many of those who began these repressions in 1936-1937, those who raped the country in the 1920s, who sought to turn Russians into firewood for a land fire, who told the Cossacks and poisoned Russian peasants with gas.
“De-Stalinizers-2011” wail: repressions have fallen on the best. Who are the best? The Zinovievs, the Karus people? Eikhe, Postyshevs, Tukhachevskys, Yakirs? Repression fell on those who woke up the Russian famously. As N. Korzhavin noted in the poem “Naivety”, “and the year thirty-seventh came to them simply as a bribe, not as a punishment.” The Russian sovereign Soviet-patriotic (for the first time they started talking about Soviet patriotism in 1936; in the same year they stopped celebrating November 7 as the First Day of the World Revolution), the answer to the internationalists came twenty years after the revolution of 1917. and ten years after Stalin’s turn from the world revolution to the Soviet power.
The de-Stalinizers say the main thing: the best for them are the heroes of the 1920s, the heroes of the Lenin guard (read: the oligarchy) and the team of Trotsky, under whose influence Lenin was in the last two years of his life. It is precisely in the era of the rule of the cosmopolitan-Bolshevik oligarchy, the zemsharniks, the world revolutionaries with their NEP that today’s “liberals”-the heirs of the Trotskyists and Zemsharniks — would like to return. Yes, today’s “liberals” are the right-wing heirs of the left internationalists/globalists and their objective allies from the Finintern — the right-wing globalists, so to speak, the right-Trotskyist bloc, stretched out in time.
The link between today’s cosmopolitan ” liberals “and left — wing internationalists is the sixties, who dreamed of returning to the times of” Leninist norms “and” commissars in dusty helmets ” — the very ones who destroyed the Russian people and to whom this people adequately responded in the 1930s. The Sixties are a reactionary utopia of Soviet society, the ideological formalization of a partial return to power under Khrushchev of those whom Stalin purged from this power; we are talking not so much about specific people, but about ideological heirs focused on the “internationalization” of Russia, on “universal” (read: Western) values, who admired the West in principle, no matter whether it was revolutionary or counter-revolutionary. Significant, though different figures are Yevtushenko and Julian Semenov. It is also significant that both, according to knowledgeable people, had Andropov’s personal phone number, whose coming to power was prepared by “liberal internationalists” (in this regard, the ideological shifts in Soviet culture in the second half of the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s are very indicative, which in many ways loosened the ground for the beginning of the preparation of the dismantling brigade of Soviet society from the mid-1970s).
It is significant that the “all-men”, whether they are world-revolutionaries-zemsharniki or today’s ultra-liberal de-Stalinizers, do not like Russians. Russian Russians do not want to be the raw material for their progress (well, they do not want to climb into the oven themselves — their consciousness is not modernized), and for the fact that Stalin leaned mainly on the Russians, ousting the international Socialists from power and driving them to zero. Of course, Stalin was never a Russian nationalist, as some zealots try to portray him, so to speak, out of an excess of feelings, sir. Russian Russian nationalism, whether it was Ukrainian, Georgian, Jewish or Russian (it is significant: the main event of the late 1940s was not the later inflated “struggle against cosmopolitans”, but the “Leningrad affair”, whose defendants were suspected of intending to create a Russian Communist Party in the RSFSR, i.e., in Russian nationalism).He was an imperial sovereign who saw danger in any nationalism, whether it was Ukrainian, Georgian, Jewish or Russian (it is significant: the main event of the late 1940s was not at all the “struggle against cosmopolitans”, but the “Leningrad affair”, whose defendants were suspected of intending to create a Russian Communist Party in the RSFSR, i.e. in Russian nationalism). A lot more was planted on the “Leningradka” and put to the wall than for “kowtowing to the West”.
At the same time, being an imperial socialist, Stalin understood that the project of a Red World system, an alternative to capitalism, with its own world market, with the complete displacement of the backstage from the Soviet leadership, could be implemented only with the active support of the power-forming people, i.e. the Russians. Hence, the course towards the “nationalization” of communism and its integration into Russian history, which has been quite obvious since the mid-1930s;
an even more decisive step was taken during the war. During the time of the ex-Trotskyist Khrushchev, there was a noticeable rollback-revenge, however, firstly, not to the end — after all, a decade and a half of real Stalin’s rule, despite a number of mistakes, inconsistencies and forced compromise actions of the leader, could not pass without a trace. Secondly, the Brezhnev team slowed down this process in its own interests — the official “internationalization” /cosmopolitanization of Soviet communism was slowed down (but as subsequent events showed, it was not stopped).
The emphasis, especially after the Czechoslovak events, was placed on the state-patriotic aspects of the development of the USSR — but it was made indistinctly and inconsistently, which, among other things, made it easier to formalize Gorbachev. Nevertheless, it was precisely this state-patriotic turn that the sixties, dissidents and a certain part of the nomenclature, including the pro-Western-commercialized segment of the KGB, whose agents, “blind” or “sighted”, they were (“Andropov line”), could not forgive Brezhnev. The Brezhnevites also did not allow the USSR to be modified in a quasi — capitalist way-this process remained limited to the shadow part of society, however, it captured an increasing part of it and pushed the situation in the direction of changing the places of the owner and his shadow. This process was especially accelerated by the “Kosygin” reforms, “detente” and a sharp jump in oil prices.
And this restriction of the “liberalization of the economy” by the shadow zone could not forgive Brezhnev either ,the “perestroika” who had already come to power with the idea of changing the system: first ,the “NEP”, and then the capitalization of the USSR. So, historically, Stalin and Brezhnev, despite all the differences and incompatibility of these figures, were in the league of “bad”, and Lenin, Khrushchev and, of course, Gorbachev — in the league of “good” heroes (heroes-shadowy, thieves, traitors and bourgeois). It is not by chance that I am talking about the difference between Stalin and Brezhnev and their models of” real socialism”, since the Brezhnev model is a negation of the Stalinist one, and its triumph means the almost complete de-Stalinization of Soviet society that occurred in the late 60s,” proud and pot-bellied”, as accurately and succinctly sung in the song”Lube”.
From the book by A. I. Fursov — ” Forward to victory! Russian success in retrospect and perspective. Fourth edition, expanded”.
Irina
52-Chinese roller coasters. About the ups and downs of the Middle Kingdom
https://zavtra.ru/blogs/kitajskie_gorki
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51-Why the USSR? Why Stalin?
https://zavtra.ru/blogs/pochemu_sssr_pochemu_stalin
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Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Thank you Irina for posting this. I think about this issue a lot. And I’m glad that you are making Andre Fursov’s work available in English.
Personally, I find it shocking and disgusting that people in the Russian Federation at the highest levels disparage Lenin and Stalin, make outrageous claims such as Lenin was not a statesman, or that he weakened Russia, and even call Lenin’s Tomb “the Mausoleum”…As if the very name Lenin should not be spoken! They’re too ashamed to even show Lenin’s tomb on Victory Day!
As we’ve noted elsewhere, Soviet culture as seen in its movies has greater depth than current Russian movies. And don’t even talk about current Western movies!
Well, thanks again for posting this thought provoking article, and look forward to more.
Eric
Stalin said one visionary phrase. “I know that when I am gone, more than one tub of mud will be poured on my head, but I am sure that the wind of history will dispel it all.” It is obvious to me that Russian society is at the final stage of pouring mud on Stalin’s name. And this phase is close to the end. More and more people, even those who were born already in modern Russia, are turning their view to the times of Stalin and would like to return them back. 30 years of wild capitalism in Russia exposed people who is who and what is what. Unfortunately, we also have a saying. We do not store what we have, when we lose it then we cry
Irina
50-Andrey Fursov: “The battle of global elites for a post-capitalist future has begun”
https://www.business-gazeta.ru/article/476364
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The anti-globalists have already disappeared from the scene; the struggle is between globalists and ultra-globalists
49-Notes on the Famine of 1932-1933. Part two. Harvest
https://lost-kritik.livejournal.com/45900.html
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In disputes about the famine of 1932-1933, one often has to face the fact that the overwhelming majority of “debaters” are not even aware of elementary figures. Although, it would seem, here is the great Yandex and here is a mountain of reference books with official data. So we will do their work for these people, and we will bring these data together in one small table.
| Year | Gross yield (million tons) | Yield (c / ha) | Workpieces (million tons) | Export(million tons) | Gross minus of the billet |
| 1930 | 83,5 | 8,5 | 22,1 | 4,765 | 61,4 |
| 1931 | 69,5 | 6,7 | 22,8 | 5,057 | 46,7 |
| 1932 | 69,9 | 7,0 | 18,8* | 1,728 | 51,1 |
| 1933 | 68,4 / 89,8** | 6,7 / 8,8** | 23,3 | 1,686 | 45,1 / 66,6 |
* Including 0.26 million tons of purchases.
** The first figure is data published in statistical reference books after 1956. The second is data published before 1940.For more information on this topic, see here.
Sources: National Economy of the USSR for 70 years (Jubilee Statistical Yearbook). Finance and Statistics, M. 1988, pp. 208, 210; Socialist Construction of the USSR (Statistical Yearbook), TsUNKhU Gosplan of the USSR, M. 1936, pp. 280, 336, 342-343; Agriculture of the USSR, 1935. Yearbook, Moscow, “Selkhozgiz” 1936 p. 215; Foreign trade of the USSR for 20 years 1918-1937. Statistical collection. I / O International Book. Moscow, 1939 P. 35 .
48-Famine of the early 30s in the USA and the USSR
https://maxpark.com/community/1920/content/715629
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47-7 sanctions in history that the United States applied against Russia and the USSR
https://4tololo.ru/content/4947
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46-Western sanctions against the USSR. The dossier
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From the economic blockade by the Entente countries of Soviet Russia to the sanctions imposed against the USSR by the Ronald Reagan administration
Irina
45-The United States refused to accept gold from the USSR. This is the cause of the holodomor.
They just demanded grain, which was not there, from the starving country instead of gold, which was abundant. That’s the whole trick
Irina
https://energa.livejournal.com/1461359.html
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To understand what is happening now in Venezuela, read about what the Anglo-Saxons did in the USSR in the 30s of the last century.
The Golden Blockade
Famine in the USSR in the 30s was organized by the United States
Let’s look at the chronology of events. 1929, the civil war has just ended in Russia, and the first five-year plan (i.e., the restoration of industry and economy) begins.
The West is still preparing to strangle Soviet Russia economically, without military intervention. The first step to this was taken in advance – this is the refusal to accept gold from the USSR. This makes Russia extremely sensitive to the supply of its raw materials abroad, which is now the only source of currency entering the country.
After the expulsion of Trotsky from the USSR, the West strikes again: An embargo is imposed on the import of Soviet goods to the West. In fact, the export of timber and petroleum products, that is, everything that pays for the supply of Western cars for the destroyed Soviet economy, is prohibited.
We look at the dates: the first five-year plan begins in 1929, the United States imposed an embargo in 1930-1931, and a similar decree was issued in France in 1930. On April 17, 1933, the British Government declares an embargo. That is, first the West refused to accept gold as payment from the USSR, then everything else … except grain!
This behavior of the West looks illogical. At this time, the Great Depression is raging there (it began just in 1929). In the United States, there is an overproduction of products (including and especially grain), the government destroys grain in huge quantities, and immediately accepts grain from Russia as payment for its machines – instead of gold, oil and other raw materials much more needed by the United States.
Even more stupid are the British-in those years, the USSR was the main customer of British machine tool builders in 1932, 80% of machine tool exports from England went to the Soviet Union – and the British leadership did everything possible to make these deliveries impossible, refusing to accept not only gold as payment for machine tools, but also wood, ore, coal and oil that England so much needed. Everything-except grain, which the British could buy much cheaper in the United States. [ But it was more important to stage a famine in Russia in order to blame the Soviet authorities for this ]
Thus, the Stalinist leadership of the USSR is faced with a choice: either refusal to restore industry, that is, capitulation to the West, or continuation of industrialization, leading to a terrible internal crisis. If the Bolsheviks take grain from the peasants – there is a very high probability of starvation, which, in turn, can lead to an internal explosion and a shift of power. No matter what Stalin chooses, the West still wins.
Joseph Vissarionovich and his entourage decide to go ahead.
In the summer of 1929, the collectivization of agriculture began. The state collects grain and sends it to the West, but not at all in order to starve part of the country’s population, but because there is no other option for paying for equipment supplies. Stalin’s only hope is for a new harvest. It turns out to be small – there was a drought in the country. The USSR cannot buy food either for gold (the gold blockade) or for foreign currency (because of the embargo it is not available).
Attempts are being made to urgently import grain from Persia, where they agree to accept gold. But the authorities do not have time – a catastrophe happens. The one that is now called “Holodomor”in Ukraine.
In 1932-1933, a lot of people died, and only after that (!) the West was once again ready to accept oil, timber, and precious metals from the Bolsheviks. Naturally, in 1934, grain exports from the USSR completely stopped.
The famine of 1932-33, carefully organized by the West, did not produce the desired result: the Bolsheviks retained power. They continued to industrialize. Economic measures did not work – Stalin restored the country at any cost.
Military measures remained. And, surprisingly , it was in 1933 that Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, openly writing about his aggressive goals in the boundless Russian plains.
From these historical data, it becomes clear that the famine in the USSR in the 1930s was organized by the West, and mainly by the United States, in order to overthrow the existing power in the USSR.
They succeeded in killing millions of people, but they did not overthrow Stalin. I had to raise Hitler to try to crush the Russians at the hands of the Germans. But that’s another story.
Irina
Comments from China Writers’ Group,
This is an extraordinarily valuable and surprising historical fact I had not encountered. Thank you, Irina
Matt
Where are the figures which would make this story more credible. Are there copies of the embargo documents? It should be easy enough to know what the total Russian harvests were in those years. Neither do I have these total harvest figures, but I do have these numbers:
The state’s procurements of grain rose from
10.8 million tons in 1928 and
16.1 million tons in 1929 to
23.3 million tons in 1933.
I don’t have numbers for 1930, ’31, ’32. These procurements were mainly to feed the cities, and for export too. The difference in figures meant that there was less and less bread for domestic consumption in the village. If I guess at procurement like this:
30 – 18 million tons then exports 27%
31 – 20 million tons then exports 25.5%
32 – 22 million tons then exports 8%
That’s of procurements, not of total harvest.
Here it is again: During the first five-year plan 12 million tons of grain was exported;
in 1930 – 4.8 million tons exported;
in 1931 – 5.1 million; in the unprofitable year
in 1932 – 1.8 million tons were exported.
in 1934 – 1 million tons
(By comparison, tsarist Russia exported 9-10 million tons of grain per year before the war.)
Without total harvest I can’t determine what percentage was exported for these years. My data for the years don’t match up with procurement either. So I can’t get a full perspective, although I made a guess above.
In 1933-1935, the authorities were able to achieve the fulfillment of the grain supply both in the whole country and in each republic, krai and oblast. After the famine of 1932-1933, grain exports were reduced, and from 1934 they did not exceed 1 million tons per year. At that time they began to resort to additional state purchases of agricultural products at procurement prices, which were 25-30% higher than the planned. This additional volume of grain procurements increased
from 4.1 million tons in 1933
up to 13.6 million tons- in 1934.
Until the end of the second five-year plan, these purchases amounted to 15-16% of all grain supply of the collective farms.
The turning point in the countryside and the improvement of the food supply of the urban population was mainly determined by the expansion of the supply of machinery to agriculture. Before the revolution almost half of the land in the country was cultivated by the plough (horse). By 1928 the plough was replaced by the iron plough (10% of the arable land was tilled by the plough), there were 25 thousand ploughs in the country.
With tractors only 1% of the arable land was cultivated. By the end of the first five-year plan 22% of the arable land was cultivated with tractors, by the end of the second five year plan – up to 60%. The supply of the village with machinery was carried out through machine-tractor columns (the first was formed in September 1928 in the Azov district of the Don from 18 tractors to serve two collective farms and one land society) and mainly through MTS (Machine Tractor Stations).
By the summer of 1930 158 state and 479 cooperative MTS’s were organized. During the first five-year plan 154 thousand tractors, including 94 thousands of domestic made tractors were supplied to agriculture (in 1923-1924 only 13 tractors were made in the USSR). At the end of 1934, agriculture had 281 thousand tractors, 31 thousand combines, 34 thousand trucks, and many other complex agricultural machines.
I repeat, I don’t have the important figures on grain export percentages, but I would like to see them.
Richard
44-With more data does the relationship between Western embargoes and the Holodomor become clear?
- We’re told in the article that the west (USA) would only buy grain from the USSR during the period.And that this extra grain depletion caused the famine. This is all the extra data given to us after my request.
USA
In July 1930, the United States accused the USSR of dumping (deliberately lowering the prices of its goods) in the supply of matches, coal, asbestos, manganese and other goods to the United States and introduced protectionist measures (import duties, etc.). presumably on matches, coal, asbestos, manganese?
Due to Dumping
In 1931. The United States has banned the import of Soviet lumber from four areas of the European part of the USSR – the Kola Peninsula, the Karelian Autonomous Republic, the Northern Region, and the Zyryanskaya Autonomous Region – due to the fact that forced labor of prisoners was used in these regions. (not all lumber.)
Due to Forced Labor
As a result of anti-dumping measures, the total turnover (buy and sell) of Soviet foreign trade fell from 1.6 billion rubles in 1930 to 1.5 billion in 1931. The embargo against the United States was lifted after the official establishment of Soviet-American diplomatic relations on November 16, 1933. Soviet exports during this period also decreased from 812.7 million rubles to 636.1 million rubles. (Not sure of the period, maybe in 3 years?)
FRANCE
On October 3, 1930, France accused the USSR of interfering in its internal affairs, in particular of financing the subversive activities of the Communist Party. As sanctions measures, a system of licensing Soviet goods was introduced, which led to their rise in price and loss of competitiveness. In the same year, similar measures against Soviet products were introduced by Yugoslavia, Hungary, Belgium and Romania. Restrictions on trade with France were lifted in 1931 due to the denunciation by the French Parliament of the decree of October 3, 1930. I Don’t know about the purchases from Yugoslavia, Hungary, Belgium and Romania.
So the French tariffs didn’t really affect the famine, they were before.
UK
In March 1933, the Soviet authorities arrested several British engineers working on the construction of power plants in the USSR, on charges of espionage and sabotage. In response, on April 26, 1933, Great Britain imposed an embargo on the import of various types of grain, cotton, timber and petroleum products from the Soviet Union until the release of its citizens. On July 1, 1933, British citizens were released and sent home, mutual sanctions were lifted.
They wouldn’t buy grain as part of the embargo, so that didn’t really affect the famine either. Kind of on the tail end of the famine.
SO FAR IT IS NOT SO CLEAR THAT THESE EMBARGOES CAUSED FAMINE?
- What about the harvest?There are two ways to calculate it.
- First you sample different agricultural zones and determine a yield per hectare. (Running 6 – 8 tons per hectare). Then you determine the number of planted hectares. Even that may be unsure.
- The other way is called “barn harvest”. It is totally accurate, but comes a year or more later. The differences are the losses.
“losses of grain from the moment of ripening of the loaves to the end of harvesting and threshing, such as: crumbled grain, grain in the ear left during harvesting on stubble, grain left in straw and chaff during threshing and screening, grain losses during mating, hoeing, skirding and transportation of grain from the field to the current before weighing, as well as for losses as a result of human actions: mowing grain in the field for horse feed, unaccounted for feeding it on currents, cattle and poultry, spending it on public catering and theft. Theft is like selling to hoarders and speculators.
Roughly speaking, the barn harvest is only that part of the crop that was brought to the storage site. As a rule, sabotage, theft, weather conditions, and the machinations of the West have to be considered. These are the % of exports using the Barn Harvest.
| Year | Gross yield (million tons) | |||
| Yield | Export (million tons) | Export % | ||
| (c / ha) | of harvest | |||
| 1930 | 83.5 | 8,5 | 4.765 | 5.71% |
| 1931 | 69.5 | 6,7 | 5.057 | 7.28% |
| 1932 | 50.1 / 69,9 | 7,0 | 1.728 | 3.45% |
| 1933 | 68,4 / 89,8 | 6,7 / 8,8 | 1.686 | 2.46% |
The famine was between 1932 and 1933, so the ’32 exports were 3.45% of the harvest. The 1933 export would have been after the fact, but further reduced to stop the famine.
- We’re lucky to have data on total exports.I have both tons and Rubles for the first year and only tons thereafter. But I used the 1930 prices just so I can compare the value of “apples and oranges”, the different sectors.
| 1930 | thou ruble | 1930 price | 1931 | sales at 1930 | 1932 | sales at 1930 | 1933 | sales at 1930 | 1934 | sales at 1930 | |
| thou tons | 1930 | per thou ton | thou tons | price/1000t | thou tons | price/1000t | thou tons | price/1000t | thou tons | price/1000t | |
| R x 1000 | |||||||||||
| Grain | 4,760 | 882,404 | 185 | 5,050 | 936,164 | 1,730 | 320,706 | 1,680 | 311,437 | 770 | 142,742 |
| cow oil thou | 10.5 | 46,047 | 4,385 | 30.9 | 135,510 | 30.9 | 135,510 | 37.2 | 163,138 | 37.5 | 164,454 |
| sunflower oil | 2.7 | 3,149 | 1,166 | 22.2 | 25,892 | 35 | 40,820 | 13.4 | 15,628 | 21.7 | 25,309 |
| can fish/crab | 40.4 | 117,095 | 2,898 | 26.9 | 77,967 | 17.4 | 50,432 | 22 | 63,765 | 11.4 | 33,042 |
| timber | 7,400 | 743,461 | 100 | 2,760 | 277,291 | 5,680 | 570,657 | 6,280 | 630,937 | 6,480 | 651,031 |
| furs | 3.16 | 336,559 | 106,675 | 2.96 | 316,184 | 3.11 | 331,439 | 3.50 | 373,362 | 3.278 | 349,680 |
| petrolium | 4,700 | 687,888 | 146 | 5,200 | 761,068 | 6,100 | 892,791 | 4,800 | 702,524 | 4,300 | 629,344 |
| coal | 1043 | 31,050 | 30 | 1000 | 29,770 | 920 | 27,388 | 1,011 | 30,097 | 1,169 | 34,801 |
| manganese | 769 | 57,851 | 75 | 742 | 55,820 | 416 | 31,295 | 655 | 49,275 | 737 | 55,444 |
| iron ore | 452 | 16,657 | 37 | 1119 | 41,237 | 342 | 12,603 | 509 | 18,758 | 342 | 12,603 |
| flax | 78.4 | 133,609 | 1,704 | 79.8 | 135,995 | 82.5 | 140,596 | 88 | 149,969 | 96 | 164,114 |
| x thousand | x thousand | x thousand | x thousand | x thousand | |||||||
| Total exports | 3 billion | 3,055,770 | export rubles | 2,792,896 | 2,554,237 | 2,508,890 | 2,262,563 | ||||
| % exports | from grain | 28.88% | 33.52% | 12.56% | 12.41% | 6.31% | |||||
| 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 |
Here were see 1930 – 1931 exports 3 billion and 2,8 billion (Rubles). The US Dumping and forced labor embargoes were already in effect. Grain sales are 29% and 33% of gross.
1932 total exports were down to 2.5 billion, but that was totally due to reduced grain sales, not from more embargoes. Grain sales were 12.56 % of gross. That grain sale was 3.45% of the harvest. Doesn’t seem excessive, but it must have been in the face of the shortages.
1933 exports held steady, no decrease from embargo and same reduced % grain export. By now they were pulling out of the famine.
1934 exports again reduced, but also due to reduced grain sales. Other items reduced some (petroleum), a few increased as you can see.
- Conclusion:It’s not clear that embargoes caused famine. I don’t see that in the data. It is said that the west wouldn’t sell grain for gold? Iran would, but by the time they figured that out it was all over. The US embargo was lifted in November 1933, but the 1934 exports don’t show any rebound.
This is the “extra data’ that we were kindly offered. See what you make out of it.
Do I want to double think about every article? NO. But I hope to find articles already grounded in solid figures.
I’ll add a screen shot chart just in case the above gets dis-aligned.
Richard
But here I see one, in my opinion, a significant moment. The West (USA) did not buy grain from the USSR. They accepted only grain as payment for their mechanisms, equipment, engineering staff, etc. Grain was payment, although it could and should have been gold.
And most likely, since payment in grain for goods was actually barter, and payment for grain was not received in foreign currency, these transactions were not reflected in the list of imported goods.
But these are my conclusions, I am only an economist, I know little about foreign trade operations
Irina
43-Grain exports and imports to the USSR in 1931-1933
Import and export of grain to the USSR in 1931-1933 (Monthly)(tons)
Export
| Month | Wheat | Rye | Barley | Oats | Total |
| 1931 | |||||
| January | 90 894 | 23 545 | 96 711 | 89 603 | 300 753 |
| february | 202 897 | 36 024 | 92 150 | 39 459 | 370 530 |
| March | 194 135 | 21 001 | 51 823 | 18 395 | 285 354 |
| april | 67 468 | 82 457 | 14 639 | 8 559 | 173 123 |
| May | 102 953 | 71 557 | 10 129 | 21 830 | 206 469 |
| June | 30 048 | 36 791 | 1 814 | 13 933 | 82 586 |
| July | 113 017 | 24 855 | 10 579 | 18 496 | 166 947 |
| august | 561 155 | 63 936 | 94 393 | 57 206 | 776 690 |
| september | 482 416 | 135 782 | 220 303 | 58 589 | 897 090 |
| october | 377 211 | 183 654 | 199 185 | 33 561 | 793 611 |
| November | 163 638 | 220 602 | 75 948 | 14 840 | 475 028 |
| december | 113 125 | 208 621 | 96 205 | 12 583 | 430 534 |
| 1932 | |||||
| January | 60 432 | 65 402 | 56 317 | 13 535 | 195 686 |
| february | 21 232 | 63 703 | 35 837 | 1 938 | 122 710 |
| March | 2 779 | 90 737 | 20 638 | 273 | 114 427 |
| april | 6 184 | 30 646 | 7 769 | 1 174 | 45 773 |
| May | 17 | 6 690 | 0 | 5 | 6 672 |
| June | 0 | 2 774 | 264 | 0 | 3 038 |
| July | 0 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 20 |
| august | 26 271 | 0 | 10 837 | 200 | 37 308 |
| september | 138 679 | 61 030 | 107 995 | 101 | 307 805 |
| october | 87 497 | 26 767 | 60 447 | 1 | 174 712 |
| November | 128 234 | 28 024 | 57 314 | 0 | 213 572 |
| december | 66 169 | 41 636 | 51 968 | 0,3 | 159 773,3 |
| 1933 | |||||
| January | 31 726 | 12 209 | 32 374 | 182 | 76 491 |
| february | 6 804 | 20 151 | 11 418 | 14 | 38 387 |
| March | 6 184 | 27 644 | 13 720 | 16 090 | 63 638 |
| april | 1 010 | 4 657 | 1 669 | 7 390 | 14 726 |
| May | 84 | 13 726 | 0 | 26 | 13 836 |
| June | 0 | 2 381 | 0 | 226 | 2 607 |
| July | 30 | 997 | 0 | 0 | 1 027 |
| august | 54 389 | 6 337 | 45 466 | 40 | 106 232 |
| september | 167 010 | 24 595 | 99 974 | 0 | 291 579 |
| october | 150 261 | 4 839 | 188 187 | 14 681 | 357 968 |
| November | 159 635 | 15 911 | 102 520 | 12 503 | 290 569 |
| december | 184 541 | 27 404 | 84 461 | 32 436 | 328 842 |
“Foreign trade Up Reference on changes in the share of aircraft deliveries to the USSR from the United States and England in 1941-1944 March 26, 1945 “
Irina
42-Review of exports of the USSR during the famine of 1930-1934.
https://historical-fact.livejournal.com/150468.html
According to statistics on Soviet exports in 1930, the volume of grain exports Grain became the main export item, accounting for about 30% of the total volume, and amounted to 4.76 million tons in the amount of 882,404 thousand rubles. Further: cow oil – 10.5 thousand tons in the amount of 46047 thousand rubles; sunflower oil – 2.7 thousand tons in the amount of 3149 thousand rubles; canned fish/crab – 40.4 thousand tons in the amount of 117095 thousand rubles; timber – 7.4 million tons in the amount of 743461 thousand rubles; furs – 3155 tons in the amount of 336559 thousand rubles; petroleum products – 4.7 million tons in the amount of 687888 thousand rubles, coal – 1043 thousand tons in the amount of 31050 thousand rubles; manganese ore – 769 thousand tons. 57851 thousand rubles; iron ore – 452 thousand tons. in the amount of 16,657 thousand rubles, flax – 78.4 thousand tons in the amount of 133,609 thousand rubles, etc.
1931: grain – 5.05 million tons; cow oil-30.9 thousand tons; sunflower oil-22.2 thousand tons; canned fish/crab-26.9 thousand tons; timber-2.76 million tons; furs-2964 tons; petroleum products-5.2 million tons, coal-1000 thousand tons, manganese ore-742 thousand tons, iron ore-1119 thousand tons, flax-79.8 thousand tons, etc.
1932: grain-1.73 million tons, cow oil-30.9 thousand tons; sunflower oil-35 thousand tons; canned fish/crab-17.4 thousand tons; timber-5.68 million tons, furs-3107 tons, petroleum products-6.1 million tons, coal-920 thousand tons, manganese ore-416 thousand tons, iron ore-342 thousand tons, flax-82.5 thousand tons, etc.
1933: grain-1.68 million tons; cow oil-37.2 thousand tons; sunflower oil-13.4 thousand tons; canned fish/crab-22.0 thousand tons; timber-6.28 million tons; furs-3500 tons; petroleum products-4.8 million tons, coal-1011 thousand tons, manganese ore-655 thousand tons, iron ore-509 thousand tons, flax-88.0 thousand tons, etc.
1934: grain-0.77 million tons; cow oil-37.9 thousand tons; sunflower oil-21.7 thousand tons; canned fish/crab-11.4 thousand tons; timber-6.48 million tons, furs-3278 tons; petroleum products-4.3 million tons, coal-1169 thousand tons, manganese ore-737 thousand tons, iron ore-342 thousand tons, flax-96.3 thousand tons, etc.
It is worth recalling that the peak of mass mortality occurred in the winter of 1932-33. Most professional historians estimate the total number of famine victims in the early 1930s at at least 7 million. The fall in the gross grain harvest with the beginning of collectivization and dekulakization was 40%. In 1930, 83.5 million tons of grain were harvested, in 1931 – 69.5, and in the following 1932 – 50.1 million tons. Livestock also fell by about 30-40%, and in Kazakhstan by all 95%.
Irina
41-The League of Nations was created with the money of Tsar Nicholas II – Why was Nicholas II destroyed
https://историиземли.рф/pochemu-unichtozhili-nikolaya-ii.html
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A little bit about everything Why was Nicholas II destroyed 07.05.2014 Konstantin 15 comments/ 39991 What happened in Russia during the October Revolution. Who and why destroyed the Russian monarch Nicholas II. Two versions that exclude each other. In one part of the history of the League of Nations and the gold of Russia, in the other-the oil market. The US Federal Reserve system is almost entirely owned by Russia in the person of Nicholas II The looting of Russia began during the reign of Tsar Alexander II of Russia. In 1876, the Rothschild billionaires entered into an agreement with the Russian Tsar to store Russian gold in Spain. Gold was laid in the mountains of Spain in the amount of 47,800 tons. 19 people were identified as the custodians of this gold in Spain by the Tsar of Russia. One of theThe Rothschilds, became a financial manager in the tsarist treasury. The Rothschild clan keeps all the documents for this gold in the state of California in the USA and is actually the owner of this gold until now. Nicholas IIIn 1904, the Group of representatives of 48 states (G-48) at a secret meeting in Paris approved the Procedure for creating the International Financial System (IFS) and the World Source of Money Supply. The Russian TsarNicholas II, in agreement with the leaders of other states, decided to create the League of Nations (now called the UN). To improve trade relations between the two countries, it was decided to create a single global Financial Center with its own currency on the basis of the League of Nations. To create the “gold pool” of the League of Nations, Russia, through the banker of the House of Romanov Edward Rothschild, contributed to the “authorized capital” of the World Financial System (IFS). 48,600 tons of gold were delivered to the United States, which was sent to the Fort Knox storage facility. With this delivery of gold to the United States in 1904-1912, Russia acquired the rights to assets in the Gold Pool in the amount of $ 52 billion in gold. But the Rothschilds deceived Nicholas II, the Emperor of Russia. After he took out gold to support the new world currency, the Rothschilds forced US President Woodrow Wilson, who financed his election campaign, to transfer their private ownership of the Federal Reserve System (FRS) along with the gold of the “Gold Pool”. Who will now be surprised by the dishonesty of the United States! League of Nations “left with a nose” In 1912, HSBC Bank issued 12 Liberty Bond certificates, transferred to the President of the United States, which in 1913 were deposited in US FED system banks. / The Federal Reserve Act was signed 2 days before Christmas 1913. President of the United States Woodrow Wilson in exchange for funding his election campaign, with the Rothschilds and thereby deprived the United States of political independence. The FED was created — a private Rothschild enterprise created back in 1910, during a secret conference on Jekyll Island, which included all the main US banks and banks of other states. A huge share (88.8%) of participation in the Federal Reserve System (FRS) and in the share of the World’s Source of Money Supply belongs to Russia. And only 11.2% — 43 international Beneficiaries. Receipts in the amount of 88.8%, which have the Security Code 1226, correspond to the International Code of the Geneva Register of the Permanent Representative Organization 14646 ACS HQ / PRO 14646 ACS HQ/, the Supreme International Committee of the League of Nations / later-the UN / are under the control of the Rothschilds and were transferred to the family of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II, in 6 copies. The annual return / Interes/ on these deposits was fixed at 4%, included the “LIBOR rate”, and denoted the annual interest rate for using the Gold Deposit. What could Russia get The LIBOR rate was to be transferred annually to the state and the representative who pledged the gold. But this was not done by order of the Rothschilds, who unleashed the First World War because of this. This rate, instead of being transferred to Russia, was deposited annually in the World Bank’s X-1786 account on 300,000 accounts in 72 International banks accounted for in the World Bank’s operations. For each invoice, 3 signatures were identified, of which only one was correct. The accounts are registered by 8 committees: AK-1, AK-2,…, AK-8. The resources listed in these accounts are the property of the IFS /G48 / holders and have separate accounting from the dollars in circulation. Those authorized to execute the Issue are determined by the United Nation International High Committee of the Financial System. These institutions are the FED (provider of financial instruments) and the Treasury Department Washington D.C. (Collector of financial instruments based on the resources of the World Bank’s X-1786 account). The family of Tsar Nicholas II feels the danger All these documents confirming the 48,600 tons of gold pledged to the Federal Reserve from Russia were deposited by Tsar Nicholas II’s mother, Maria Feodorovna Romanova, in one of the Swiss banks. But only the heirs have access to it and are controlled by the Rothschild clan. Initially, all the gold certificates belonging to Russia, Emperor Nicholas II, left for the storage of the vmch. Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin, as the most Spiritual Orthodox person at that time-hieromonk. The Rothschilds gathered a whole Masonic conference at which it was decided to physically destroy Grigory Efimovich and steal his gold certificates. This operation was led by Samuel Hoare, a resident of British intelligence in Russia and part-time representative of the British General Staff at the Russian General Staff. Rasputin was lured to Yusufov’s house. At this moment, the apartment of Grigory Efimovich on GorokhovoNicholas II and the Federal Reservey 20 was thoroughly searched, turning everything upside down. But the certificates were no longer there, because, vmch. Gregory, anticipating his demise, handed them over to the Tsar. And he, in turn, left them in the custody of his Godson Pyotr Nikolaevich Dolgorukov. Then, copies of the gold certificates were distributed by the Royal Family among the family members and hidden in different places. But in fact, their access to the reserves of the League of Nations was no longer possible, no one would allow it. The Rothschild clan managed the capital of the former Russian Royal Family for 99 years, while the treaty on the creation and formation of the Federal Reserve was in effect and the world currency was the US dollar. This clan also managed the capitals of the USSR and the Russian Federation. They were also in Federal Reserve accounts that were taken out of Russia in the early 20th century under the leadership of the Rothschilds. Second version: Nicholas II began to interfere strongly with the Rothschilds, for which he was destroyed History of relations betweenRussia and the Rothschilds began in the late 18th century. Russian Empress Catherine II refused to send the British King George III a punitive expeditionary force (20 thousand Cossacks) to suppress the uprising in the colonies. This request was answered by Prince William I of Saxony, who provided mercenaries for 8 million pounds paid in treasury papers. Its manager, A. M. Rothschild, accepted the securities at a discount, which he appropriated. Thus began the rise of the Rothschild family to the heights of financial power. The Rothschilds early 20th century The main task of the Rothschilds in Russia in the 19th century was to establish control over the oil fields in Baku. And this result was achieved, which was facilitated by the results of the Russo-Turkish war-Russia received Batum. However, this was preceded by a very serious behind-the-scenes struggle, to which our country, paradoxically, had almost nothing to do. In fact, initially England was categorically against it. Peter Shuvalov, who on behalf of Alexander II conducted secret negotiations with the British government, reported to the emperor about the existence of a secret Anglo-Turkish treaty. “If Batum, Ardagan, Kars, or any of these places are held by Russia,” the document read, ” England undertakes to help the Sultan defend Turkey’s Asian possessions by force of arms. Batum remained with Russia In fact, the Russian autocrat was quite ready to agree to leave Batum to Turkey. But suddenly, contrary to all expectations, the British still agreed to transfer it to Russia. It wasn’t until many years later that it became clear that there really were two powerful forces behind the scenes of these diplomatic maneuvers. These are the Rothschild banking house in Paris and Rockefeller’s American oil company Standard Oil. The Rothschilds needed to ensure that Batum, in any form, would fall under Russian jurisdiction, while Rockefeller tried to prevent the Rothschilds from entering the Caucasus. But it ended with the fact that on August 25, 1878, the Russian army under the leadership of Prince Svyatopolk-Mirsky entered Batum. And so, since 1886, the French banking house “Rothschild Brothers”, which bought shares of the Caspian-Black Sea Oil Industry and Trade Society, began to take an active part in the development of the oil industry in the Caucasus. But first, he had to face serious competition, since the Nobel Brothers ‘ Oil Production Partnership was registered in Baku back in 1879. However, the rivalry was not very long. Taking advantage of the fact that lending in Russia was carried out at the rate of 6 percent per annum, the Rothschilds issued loans at 2 to 3 percent. Thus, by 1888, this family had already acquired almost half of all the cars of the Transcaucasian Railway. A significant number of small and medium-sized enterprises were made dependent on themselves, and large quantities of Baku oil products were concentrated in their hands. From that moment on, the Rothschilds began to establish full control over the transportation of petroleum products for export. The usual pattern, from century to century Events unfolded according to a proven scenario. The Rothschilds have traditionally lent “cheap” money to small Russian oil producers in exchange for guarantees to buy the oil they produced at favorable prices, enough to make the business of the Nobels who built the Baku-Batum pipeline unprofitable. By the way, it was eventually built (including thanks to the dynamite invented by Alfred Nobel) and even put into operation in 1889, but this did not help to win the fight against the Rothschilds, who had huge financial resources. As a result, Baku oil almost completely fell under the control of the Rothschilds, and Russia became the largest oil supplier in the world after the United States. In 1900, Baku’s oil fields in Russia produced more crude oil than in the entire United States, and in 1902, Russia accounted for more than half of the world’s oil production. 1918 The Rothschilds ordered the Bolsheviks under their control to kill Tsar Nicholas II and his family. It was important for them to show that the murder of the entire family, including women and children, is something that will happen to anyone who tries to cross the road of the Rothschilds.
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40-How the USSR saved American engineers during the Great Depression
https://russian7.ru/post/kak-sssr-spas-amerikanskikh-inzhenerov/
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In the first decade of Soviet power, our country was firmly caught in the grip of an economic, scientific and technical blockade by Western countries that tried to strangle the young republic. At the same time, the Great Depression was gaining strength in the United States, putting the entire population of the country, including engineering and scientific-technical personnel, on the verge of survival and starvation. In this situation, the real salvation, both for Soviet Russia and for the engineering staff of the United States, was the beginning of the NEP, in which a huge number of American engineers were invited to the USSR. In the grip of an economic blockade In order to attract educated labor from abroad, the Soviet government allowed the creation of joint-stock companies with the participation of foreigners. By the end of 1924, there were 40 state-owned joint-stock companies and 47 private ones in the country, twelve of which were attended by foreign finance. In terms of cooperation and economic assistance to Soviet Russia, the United States, Germany, and Britain stood out. At the same time, it is interesting to note that communication between the USSR and Western countries was not limited to a narrow economic sphere – highly qualified, technically competent specialists poured into the Soviet republic in a rapid stream, who provided invaluable assistance in restoring and modernizing the industry destroyed during the Revolution and Civil War. A trip to Soviet Russia, which paid well for foreign specialists, turned out to be for American engineers the very straw that a drowning man grabs. To save qualified engineers and workers from starvation, the US government decided to send them to work in the USSR, including to create the foundations of the Soviet military-industrial complex. First of all, these were tank and aircraft factories. Moreover, many American industrial companies moved their production to Soviet Russia. The benefits to both sides were unmistakable. The Soviet Union acquired the latest military technologies with a unique opportunity to train its own specialists from American engineers and mechanics, and specialists from the United States retained their qualifications and received decent wages. Foreign concessions Many of the foreign companies purchased concessions, supplied new equipment, and hosted Soviet trainee engineers. Statistics show that by 1929, 40 American firms were operating in the USSR, while the United States officially recognized the USSR only in 1933! Moreover, historians estimate that in the 1920s up to 95% of Soviet industrial enterprises received foreign technical assistance, thanks to which Soviet Russia was able not only to restore the national economy after the First World War and the Civil War in the shortest possible time, but also to enter the leading industrialized countries of the world. In particular, manganese mining flourished under the “Chiatura manganese concession” with the American group of A. Harriman. During the NEP from 1921 to 1928, the government received more than 2,400 concession offers from the United States, Germany, England and other countries. Saving Russia It is no exaggeration to say that Moscow became a safe haven for many emigrants from the United States during the Great Depression that raged there. More than a hundred skilled workers from the Ford plant in 1921-1922 established, and in fact created, a new production facility at the Moscow Automobile Plant. American trade unions helped establish the central office of the Russian-American Industrial Corporation, RAIC, in Moscow, which took over four of the largest textile factories in Moscow and six in Leningrad. In total, more than 10,000 Americans arrived in Soviet Russia in the first year of NEP alone. One of the first US businessmen to set up their own production facilities in Soviet Russia was the Hamer family: father Yuli and son Armand. Moreover, Armand Hamer had already visited Soviet Russia a year before the introduction of NEP, meeting with V. I. Lenin. According to the historical chronicles, they became friends. Subsequently, throughout his life, Armand Hamer served as a mediator in many negotiations between the leadership of the USSR and the United States, always defending the interests of the socialist state. During the NEP, Hammer was the first American to open the famous pencil factory in Soviet Russia, about which Mayakovsky wrote ” … Hammer’s pencils are good.” With the help of American specialists, the Goujon metallurgical plant was restored in the shortest possible time, which became world-famous under a new name – “Hammer and Sickle”. Real heroism was shown by the international staff of the Red Proletarian factory for the production of metalworking machines, which was restored in cold buildings during the harsh winter of 1921/1922. Thanks to foreign workers and engineers, the country literally rose from the ruins before our eyes. If in 1920 the famous American science fiction writer and passionate admirer of Soviet Russia, H. G. Wells, argued that the country could not rise without outside help, then just a few years later foreign heads of state visited an industrial exhibition in the USSR and were amazed by the possibilities of Soviet industry and science. Moreover, having risen from the ruins of domestic enterprises, in a short time, capturing up to 30% of the total world turnover of machine tools and machines, they themselves began to place large orders at US enterprises. According to statistics, up to two-thirds of the industrial production of the United States and Canada in the thirties of the twentieth century was loaded with orders from the USSR, which largely smoothed out the consequences of the Great Depression that engulfed all of North America.
On my own behalf, I will add that many American specialists did not want to return to the United States, especially, excuse me, black and colored people. Their descendants still live in Russia and feel themselves Russian.
Irina
Comments from China Writers’ Group,
I’d have to look it up, but somewhere I researched and wrote that there was in fact widespread starvation during Depression USA and hundreds of thousands, if not millions died, especially in poor, rural areas.
It is ferociously censored, refuted and denied in the Big Lie Propaganda Machine.
Jeff
Jeff: I have read some where that during the GD the death rate in New York reached ten percent, probably in New York timees in recent years.
Dongping
39-STRATEGIC MISCALCULATIONS OF STALIN I. V. AND VKPB, WHICH LED TO THE COLLAPSE OF THE USSR.
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There is still no consensus in Russian society and there are disputes about the reasons for the collapse of the USSR. We are trying to answer the age-old Russian question – who is to blame and what to do? Here is one of the opinions. One can disagree with some things, although basically the role of the leaders of the USSR, starting with Khrushchev, reflects the opinion of the majority.
38-The woman called to ask Putin when all the Russians will return home – there are many of us in Ukraine and we are all waiting
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Why does no one stand up to defend the Russians living in Ukraine? Voices in their defense are nowhere to be heard.
Irina
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Please, colleagues, as for the allegation “The collapse of the USSR … was a consequence, and the reasons lie in the strategic mistakes of Stalin and the Bolshevik Party”, please do begin with the beginning and read “A Brief History of the Commuhist Party of the UdSSR” and then watch out for Grover Furr’s work (Montclair University) and Kurt Gossweilers publications (former Academy member of the GDR, a lonely voice but base on factual studies from first hand on “Revisionism”). Gossweiler, born 1917 was a soldier, forced into Hitler’s army, an economist by training. He took the first occasion of running over to Soviet side, got himself prisoner of war. Lived in a Soviet camp, became witness of treason from all side even among war prisoners. Eventually he was allowed to teach there within a re-education program. When released, he decided to go to the GDR, although his home town was Stuttgart in the FRG (WEST Germany). He eventually habilitated in history on a comprehensive piece on the German Bank and published a lot on fascism …
With warm regards
Irene
“A Brief History of the Communist Party of the USSR” had several editions and was edited during the carved periods of the existence of the USSR.
The first version of the History of the All-Union Communist Party of the Bolsheviks (VKPb) came out in 1938. It was the Stalinist version. Then, in the 1960s, it underwent editing from the point of view of Khreshchev’s ideology to condemn Stalin’s personality cult at the 20th party congress. In the 1980s, the History of the CPSU was published in a new Brezhnev edition, which somewhat softened the ideology of Khrushchev, who by that time was also repeatedly criticized.
For a deeper understanding of the criticism with which Khrushchev tried to overthrow Stalin’s authority, one should study his report at the 20th Congress of the CPSU, which proclaimed the personality cult of Stalin. I will not dwell on the reasons that prompted Khrushchev to dispel the alleged cult of Stalin’s personality. I will only note that these were, among other things, Khrushchev’s own crimes, which he blamed on Stalin, which Furr Grover perfectly revealed in his book “Anti-Stalin meanness”
Irina
37-American oligarchs came after the Cuban Communists
https://ria.ru/20210715/oligarkhi-1741273073.html
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36-Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 400 of July 2, 2021 ” On the National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation”
https://www.garant.ru/products/ipo/prime/doc/401325792/
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35-The destruction of the USSR began in 1953
Once again about Khrushchev and one more link to the historical channel.
Irina
34-Elimination of planning under Khrushchev, 1955-1964. Supplement to the article “Economy of the USSR 1929-1955
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The beginning of the dismantling of the Stalin’s socialist economy in the USSR. If someone is interested in this topic, then I will send 2 more parts
Irina
33-The level of crimes is clear even without declassified archives
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Dear Jeff:
That’s a good article! I’m glad that SOMEBODY else is doing this work!
Warm regards,
Grover Furr
32-Vladimir Putin’s article ” On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians”
http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181
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31-Why was Khrushchev’s wife considered a Bandera
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Nikita Khrushchev’s wife Nina Petrovna was remembered by the people as a modest woman with an ordinary appearance. The Soviet “first lady” looked particularly unprofitable next to the elegant Jacqueline Kennedy. However, few people know that this Ukrainian peasant woman was not at all as simple as it seemed at first glance. Some researchers believe that it was on her initiative that Khrushchev released the Bandera nationalists from the camps in 1955. Is it true? Nina from Zakerzonye Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk was born in 1900 in the village of Wasiliv, now located on the territory of Poland, in the Lublin Voivodeship. This East Slavic region called Kholmshchyna was included by Ukrainian nationalists in the so – called Zakerzonya-the extreme western part of the Ukrainian ethnic area. Being a peasant by birth, Nina Kukharchuk received a good education and knew several languages (Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, French, English). After the Soviet-Polish war, she briefly held an important position in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Eastern Galicia. In 1922, Nina Petrovna went to study in the USSR, where she met the young communist Nikita Khrushchev. Soon the girl became his life partner (although the marriage of the Khrushchevs was officially registered only in 1965). Eyewitnesses claimed that in everyday life Nikita Sergeevich could even be called “henpecked”. Nina Khrushcheva herself, in The Widow’s Diary (published in Sergei Khrushchev’s book “A Pensioner of Union Significance”), admitted that before the war she “knew about all the plans and experiences” of her husband. It is likely that its influence on Khrushchev’s political activities remained significant in the following years. Khrushchev and the Nationalists First of all, historians see the” hand ” of Nina Petrovna in those issues that concerned her fellow countrymen from Western Ukraine. In the lines of Khrushchev’s memoirs dedicated to Bandera, one feels respect for them: “The OUN * did not stop at self-destruction in the name of achieving their goals… We fought our enemies not only with arrests and trials, but also by explaining the harmfulness of such a path. At that time, the Carpathian Mountains were practically inaccessible to Communists. Behind every rock, behind every bush, you could expect terrorists.” Khrushchev’s rise to power coincided with the early release of Ukrainian collaborators who had been sentenced to 25 years in prison under Stalin. We are talking about the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet issued in 1955 “On the amnesty of Soviet citizens who collaborated with the invaders during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”. Thanks to this amnesty, 20 thousand active Bandera members returned to their homeland, of which about half settled in Lviv. “It is quite possible that this idea itself came to N. S. Khrushchev through his second wife Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk, “says historian Yevgeny Spitsyn (quoted by Literaturnaya Gazeta). The researcher refers to the fact that from the very beginning of married life, Nina Petrovna “began to sculpt Nikita Sergeyevich “schyrigo ukraintsya”: from that time on, he began to drink gorilka and go in vyshyvanka. Counterarguments Yet the extent of Khrushchev’s “Ukrainization” seems somewhat exaggerated. The 1955 amnesty could have been dictated not by sympathy for Bandera, but primarily by pragmatic considerations of the Soviet leadership. After the Great Patriotic War, the GULAG was regularly “stormed” — not least because of the Ukrainian nationalists who were the instigators of the camp uprisings. As for Nina Khrushcheva, the notes that she kept after her husband’s death refute the version that she could sympathize with the nationalists. Yes, Nina Petrovna liked to watch the performances of the Ukrainian ensemble Slavutich on TV. However, she closely followed the achievements of culture and other peoples of the USSR, for example, rejoiced at the success of dancers from the republics of Central Asia. Nina Khrushcheva had a wide reading range, and Ukrainian writers are hardly mentioned in her notes. Instead, she quoted Shota Rustaveli, Sergei Yesenin, and Samuil Marshak – a very uncharacteristic circle of authors for the secret nationalist. * — the organization is banned in Russia Timur Sagdiev
Irina
30-Stalin and the “fifth column”. Part 1. Bribe takers, embezzlers, corrupt officials.
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I did not correct all the inaccuracies of the automatic translation, there are too many of them. For a fundamental understanding, in the Russian language the word “bread” is called both the bread itself and the grain of wheat and rye, since they go to the production of bread
In this text, the word “bread” means grain
Irina
29-From a CRRS fan (with lots of comments from Irina and the CWG),
Today I read the interview you did with Grover Furr again.
You asked Grover for example the question:
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Maybe we can say that the beginning of the end of the USSR started when Stalin died and Mr. K became premier.
- How was this allowed to happen?
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I think it was possible because there were still too many traitors, infiltrators, in the Soviet Union at that moment and the Soviet Government gave these people too much freedom I would say and in one way or another, the CIA was able to infiltrate in the SU, perhaps you already read these documents.
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-01065A000300040063-2.pdf
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-01065A000300040034-4.pdf
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80R01731R003400020001-6.pdf
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP86T00268R000700010015-0.pdf
It wouldn’t surprise me if mr. K was a CIA agent… In one of the documents the CIA wrote:
”It seeks to devise a plan of psychological operation as one part of a comprehensive program for the exploitation of Stalin’s death and the transfer of power to new hands in order to make real progress toward our national objectives.”
Unfortunately the CIA succeeded but… with Putin now Russia is going in the good direction I would perhaps call it: socialism with Russian characteristics.
That’s just something I wanted to share with you.
Comments from China Writers’ Group,
Yes, Martin,
Mao smelled a turncoat rat in Mr. K. He was an excellent judge of people.
I had not seen these CIA docs before and am sharing them with my China Writers’ Group, which has a strong interest in the USSR and Russia.
Thanks, Jeff
We in Russia believe that it was Mr. K who started the collapse of the Union. And it seems that he understood the long-term consequences of his actions when he decided, albeit illegally according to the laws of the USSR, to annex Crimea to Ukraine.
Brezhnev after Mr. K tried to restore what was destroyed by Mr. K. But, unfortunately, Brezhnev was not Stalin. He stabilized the destruction for a while, but was unable to stop it or fix it. All subsequent rulers were some too old, and some young and zealous liberals like Gorby. And Judas, who sold his Motherland for 30 pieces of silver.
And we must also pay attention to the wife of Mr. K Nina. In old age, during a trip to the states, she gave the impression of an old grandmother. But in her youth she was more active than Mr. K, and more educated, spoke foreign languages. And it seems that she was a Ukrainian nationalist. With her submission, Khrushchev pardoned the Bandera murderers in Ukraine, who were caught and convicted under Stalin. Now their descendants are spreading nationalism in Ukraine. One of these descendants is the former President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk, who was a member of the youth organization OUN UPA.
Irina
There was a lot of intrigue that brought Khrushchev to power. But I wouldn’t think that you will find it in any purported CIA document.
From the very first days after Stalin’s death a struggle for political leadership began. The main rivals in it were L. P. Beria, G. M. Malenkov and N. S. Khrushchev, who were in Stalin’s inner circle and were involved in unfounded repressions. Beria relied on the security agencies, Malenkov’s base was the national government, and Khrushchev’s was the party apparatus.
The power was not in Krushchev’s favor as judged by the salaries of state security commissioners at the district level were four times higher than those of the secretaries of the district party committees. The best dachas in the elite village of Uspenskoye near Moscow belonged to ministers, not Central Committee secretaries.
Khrushchev said to Bulganin immediately after Stalin’s death: “If Beria gets the state security, it will be the beginning of our end”. Despite the fact that Malenkov was considered the number one figure in the country’s leadership immediately after Stalin’s death, Beria actually began to play the leading role. He proceeded from the assumption that the main link in the post-Stalin society should remain the security services, and he began to nominate his proteges to head them. On March 19, 1953, Beria proposed to replace the heads of the Interior Ministry in all republics of the Soviet Union, 12 autonomous regions, six territories and 49 regions of Russia. The new executives in their turn replaced the personnel at the middle management level. The security services had a decisive say in any promotion or transfer of party, state or economic cadres. Such activity could not help but arouse the wariness of Beria’s colleagues in the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Party.
It was pointed out that there were 2,526,402 prisoners in penitentiaries, prisons and colonies, of whom 221,435 only (8.8%) were especially dangerous state criminals (spies, saboteurs, terrorists, Trotskyites, social revolutionaries, nationalists, etc.). It was proposed to release from prison convicts sentenced for up to 5 years for official, economic, and some military crimes, regardless of their length of imprisonment. The Supreme Soviet issued a decree “On Amnesty,” under which more than a third of the prisoners were released. In reality, more than a million people were released and around 400,000 cases were halted.
The investigations testified to Beria’s intentions to find the perpetrators of all the falsifications in these mass imprisonments. Investigating the background to all of these cases would have posed a great danger to Malenkov. The idea of “collective leadership” threatened to collapse with new purges along the lines of the 1930s. On June 17, 1953, unrest began in East Berlin, and Beria was fully absorbed in restoring order there. This facilitated the organization of a united front against Beria.
With many other trumped up charges, including that he did actually collect incriminating documents on the other leaders, they couldn’t let him live.
Well to cut it short he was arrested, finally tried and then shot on December 23, 1953. So his attempted purge was foiled in a very dangerous way for him.
Khrushchev’s positions strengthened. On August 8, 1953, G. M. Malenkov made a speech at the session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, expressing his views “on the urgent tasks in the field of industry and agriculture and measures for further improvement of the material well-being of the people”. He proposed a drastic increase in the production of food and consumer goods by increasing capital investment in the light and food industry, as well as by increasing the procurement prices from farms for meat, milk, chaff, potatoes and vegetables, reducing taxes (by half) and compulsory supplies from the collective farmers’ subsistence farms.
The speech had a huge resonance, and the name of the chairman of the Council of Ministers became very popular. It seemed that “no one would be able to threaten Malenkov’s dominant position in the near future. This was also the forecast of the U.S. intelligence services. However, the stumps were wrong. Conservatives in the Central Committee found Malenkov’s promises excessive (simply put, “demagoguery”). They saw no way to fulfill them. Sympathies turned out to be on the side of N.S. Khrushchev – the more moderate course he proposed seemed to be preferable.
On September 3, 1953, the Plenum of the Central Committee established the post of the First Secretary of the Central Committee, to which Khrushchev was elected. In November, at a meeting on personnel matters, he managed to win the favor of numerous and influential members of the party apparatus. G. M. Malenkov, speaking at this meeting, began to lament the rebirth and impossibility of renewing the country without renewing the Party apparatus. Khrushchev interceded, reminding that “the apparatus is our backbone.” The response to these encouraging words was a long round of applause.
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