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Lev Navrozov
Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2002
Before 1991, Russia was the key geostrategic player. Both Russia and China (since 1986) were intensely developing the post-nuclear superweapons capable of destroying the West (and each other), including the enemy means of retaliation, to prevent mutual assured destruction. But Russia had the lead over China owing to Russia’s greater scientific potential at that time.
The year of 1991 saw the fall of the Russian dictator Gorbachev (adored in the West even today as a pro-Western liberal and a darling). In 1992 Yeltsin, elected in Russia’s first free elections since 1918, opened to international inspection the gigantic former Soviet project of biological superweapons development.
The Western politico-cultural establishment despised President Yeltsin, a possible savior of the West, and still adores the former dictator Gorbachev, a possible destroyer of the West. As for myself, I declared that President Yeltsin’s opening of the Soviet biological superweapons project to international inspection was a noble act with respect to the West. At any rate, a huge gathering on the square before the KGB building in Moscow toppled the statue of the founder of the KGB: The new era in Russia had begun.
Many Western watchers of Russia regarded the change as just another Soviet deception of the West. "But excuse me," I remonstrated with one of them, the editor of a "conservative Jewish magazine" that had been publishing my articles. "Since 1992 I have been publishing in the major periodicals of Russia, such as Izvestia (not in Pravda, since it has remained Stalinist). My wild tongue requires total freedom of the press, as you know. Is this all a deception?"
"Well," he said. "You write so well that they have been publishing you as an exception."
I laughed. "Thank you, it's very kind of you!" I said. "But I didn't notice that the New York Times or the Washington Post has been eager to publish me, as Izvestia has. In the United States, I have been published only by small 'conservative' periodicals like Commentary, Midstream, National Review or the New York City Tribune. When Soviet Russia still flourished, Bill West, a senior analyst at the CIA, sent a letter to the Washington Post to recommend me. They answered him very rudely. They didn’t want my malicious old-fashioned tales about the Soviet quest for world domination."
The new post-Soviet Russia was a reality, as I experienced it personally as an author. But a considerable segment of the former Soviet population wanted Russia to go back to Stalin and his successors. In the Dec. 17, 1995, election to the lower house of the Russian Parliament – that is, almost 40 years after Stalin’s successor Khrushchev, in his 1956 speech, had exposed Stalin as a monster, and after three years without dictatorship or any other form of absolutism – Zyuganov’s Communist Party, displaying the portraits of Lenin and Stalin, received 157 seats, while the next-largest number of seats garnered by a party was 55.
In 2000, Stalin received in a public poll the largest number of votes (19 percent) as the best Russian statesman of the 20th century; in comparison, Yeltsin received about one-fifth that number (4 percent).
In 1991, the Soviet population was dreaming the Soviet dream about the American dream. In vain had the Soviet correspondents in Washington and New York been buzzing in the Soviet newspapers about the costs of housing, medical care and university education in the United States. All that was dismissed as propaganda to compromise the American dream. Alas, the post-Soviet reality was no American dream and no Soviet dream about the American dream.
But there was something else. Stalin and his successors owned the country. It was their property, and they valued it and wanted to protect it and acquire the globe. Now, post-Soviet Russia, in a terrible financial predicament, began to sell the latest weapons, in particular to … China!
The "hordes of the Chinese" attacking Russia were mentioned by Chekhov’s character way back in the 19th century. In the late 1950s and in the 1960s, Russia and China quarreled openly and even came to blows at the border. A map, published in China, indicated Siberia as a Chinese territory. Well, Russia began to conquer Siberia late in the 16th century, while the Chinese influence had been felt in Siberia around 1000 B.C.
Some Russians believe that Russia’s sale of the latest weapons to China is suicidal – Stalin and his successors would never have done something so insane. The unofficial nickname of Stalin was Khozyain, that is, "Proprietor," and "proprietor-less" means "neglected, unmanaged, and hence going to rack and ruin."
Yeltsin terminated the Soviet biological superweapons project and opened it to international inspection. But China has never followed suit. So Yeltsin exposed Russia to Chinese post-nuclear weapons! Stalin and his successors, the proprietors of the country, would have never endangered their property so!
Similarly, many Russians believe that the Proprietor of the country is indispensable for successful war against Islamic suicidal terrorism on behalf of Moslem Chechnya. Russia borders on Islamic countries, and large regions within Russia such as Tatarstan are Moslem.
Many of those Russians who voted for Putin, a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB, voted for the Proprietor, for the new Stalin, for the KGB, for the quest for world domination instead of the suicidal sale of the latest weapons to China and the termination of the biological superweapons program.
What about the once totally free press? I had been writing a weekly column for Moscow Pravda (has nothing to do with Pravda). On March 10, 2000, Putin gave to the Russian newspaper Kommersant Daily an interview in which he praised the domestic activity of his KGB before 1992. I wrote my next regular weekly column about this staggering interview.
Moscow Pravda did not print this column of mine, but was afraid to tell me. Nay, in a panic, the newspaper stopped printing my columns altogether, yet again was afraid to tell me and continued to receive my weekly columns without publishing them.
On Sept. 17, 2002, it was reported from Moscow (by the New York Times, for example) that they planned to restore the statue of the founder of the KGB that had been toppled in 1991 to symbolize the end of the dictatorship. Now dictatorship has been creeping back since 2000.
If the Proprietor re-emerges in Russia, this time in the person of Putin, the development of post-nuclear superweapons in quest for world domination will be resumed. But now Russia will be in severe competition with China as to which of the two will destroy the other, and not only the West. Those who bet may safely bet on China, with its manpower exceeding that of Russia many times over and its excellent relations with the West, which has stopped seeing anything negative about the biggest dictatorship in recorded history.
On the other hand, the development of post-nuclear weapons capable of destroying the other side’s means of retaliation is a gamble, and the Proprietor of Russia will take a chance.
It is not impossible that China and Russia will first destroy the West in collusion (recall the Stalin-Hitler pact) and then have it out between themselves. Or one of them will suddenly attack its ally (as Hitler attacked Russia).
Nor is it impossible that during their alliance the Russian and Chinese dictatorship will support Islamic suicidal terrorism by equipping it with sophisticated weapons.
Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2002
Before 1991, Russia was the key geostrategic player. Both Russia and China (since 1986) were intensely developing the post-nuclear superweapons capable of destroying the West (and each other), including the enemy means of retaliation, to prevent mutual assured destruction. But Russia had the lead over China owing to Russia’s greater scientific potential at that time.
The year of 1991 saw the fall of the Russian dictator Gorbachev (adored in the West even today as a pro-Western liberal and a darling). In 1992 Yeltsin, elected in Russia’s first free elections since 1918, opened to international inspection the gigantic former Soviet project of biological superweapons development.
The Western politico-cultural establishment despised President Yeltsin, a possible savior of the West, and still adores the former dictator Gorbachev, a possible destroyer of the West. As for myself, I declared that President Yeltsin’s opening of the Soviet biological superweapons project to international inspection was a noble act with respect to the West. At any rate, a huge gathering on the square before the KGB building in Moscow toppled the statue of the founder of the KGB: The new era in Russia had begun.
Many Western watchers of Russia regarded the change as just another Soviet deception of the West. "But excuse me," I remonstrated with one of them, the editor of a "conservative Jewish magazine" that had been publishing my articles. "Since 1992 I have been publishing in the major periodicals of Russia, such as Izvestia (not in Pravda, since it has remained Stalinist). My wild tongue requires total freedom of the press, as you know. Is this all a deception?"
"Well," he said. "You write so well that they have been publishing you as an exception."
I laughed. "Thank you, it's very kind of you!" I said. "But I didn't notice that the New York Times or the Washington Post has been eager to publish me, as Izvestia has. In the United States, I have been published only by small 'conservative' periodicals like Commentary, Midstream, National Review or the New York City Tribune. When Soviet Russia still flourished, Bill West, a senior analyst at the CIA, sent a letter to the Washington Post to recommend me. They answered him very rudely. They didn’t want my malicious old-fashioned tales about the Soviet quest for world domination."
The new post-Soviet Russia was a reality, as I experienced it personally as an author. But a considerable segment of the former Soviet population wanted Russia to go back to Stalin and his successors. In the Dec. 17, 1995, election to the lower house of the Russian Parliament – that is, almost 40 years after Stalin’s successor Khrushchev, in his 1956 speech, had exposed Stalin as a monster, and after three years without dictatorship or any other form of absolutism – Zyuganov’s Communist Party, displaying the portraits of Lenin and Stalin, received 157 seats, while the next-largest number of seats garnered by a party was 55.
In 2000, Stalin received in a public poll the largest number of votes (19 percent) as the best Russian statesman of the 20th century; in comparison, Yeltsin received about one-fifth that number (4 percent).
In 1991, the Soviet population was dreaming the Soviet dream about the American dream. In vain had the Soviet correspondents in Washington and New York been buzzing in the Soviet newspapers about the costs of housing, medical care and university education in the United States. All that was dismissed as propaganda to compromise the American dream. Alas, the post-Soviet reality was no American dream and no Soviet dream about the American dream.
But there was something else. Stalin and his successors owned the country. It was their property, and they valued it and wanted to protect it and acquire the globe. Now, post-Soviet Russia, in a terrible financial predicament, began to sell the latest weapons, in particular to … China!
The "hordes of the Chinese" attacking Russia were mentioned by Chekhov’s character way back in the 19th century. In the late 1950s and in the 1960s, Russia and China quarreled openly and even came to blows at the border. A map, published in China, indicated Siberia as a Chinese territory. Well, Russia began to conquer Siberia late in the 16th century, while the Chinese influence had been felt in Siberia around 1000 B.C.
Some Russians believe that Russia’s sale of the latest weapons to China is suicidal – Stalin and his successors would never have done something so insane. The unofficial nickname of Stalin was Khozyain, that is, "Proprietor," and "proprietor-less" means "neglected, unmanaged, and hence going to rack and ruin."
Yeltsin terminated the Soviet biological superweapons project and opened it to international inspection. But China has never followed suit. So Yeltsin exposed Russia to Chinese post-nuclear weapons! Stalin and his successors, the proprietors of the country, would have never endangered their property so!
Similarly, many Russians believe that the Proprietor of the country is indispensable for successful war against Islamic suicidal terrorism on behalf of Moslem Chechnya. Russia borders on Islamic countries, and large regions within Russia such as Tatarstan are Moslem.
Many of those Russians who voted for Putin, a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB, voted for the Proprietor, for the new Stalin, for the KGB, for the quest for world domination instead of the suicidal sale of the latest weapons to China and the termination of the biological superweapons program.
What about the once totally free press? I had been writing a weekly column for Moscow Pravda (has nothing to do with Pravda). On March 10, 2000, Putin gave to the Russian newspaper Kommersant Daily an interview in which he praised the domestic activity of his KGB before 1992. I wrote my next regular weekly column about this staggering interview.
Moscow Pravda did not print this column of mine, but was afraid to tell me. Nay, in a panic, the newspaper stopped printing my columns altogether, yet again was afraid to tell me and continued to receive my weekly columns without publishing them.
On Sept. 17, 2002, it was reported from Moscow (by the New York Times, for example) that they planned to restore the statue of the founder of the KGB that had been toppled in 1991 to symbolize the end of the dictatorship. Now dictatorship has been creeping back since 2000.
If the Proprietor re-emerges in Russia, this time in the person of Putin, the development of post-nuclear superweapons in quest for world domination will be resumed. But now Russia will be in severe competition with China as to which of the two will destroy the other, and not only the West. Those who bet may safely bet on China, with its manpower exceeding that of Russia many times over and its excellent relations with the West, which has stopped seeing anything negative about the biggest dictatorship in recorded history.
On the other hand, the development of post-nuclear weapons capable of destroying the other side’s means of retaliation is a gamble, and the Proprietor of Russia will take a chance.
It is not impossible that China and Russia will first destroy the West in collusion (recall the Stalin-Hitler pact) and then have it out between themselves. Or one of them will suddenly attack its ally (as Hitler attacked Russia).
Nor is it impossible that during their alliance the Russian and Chinese dictatorship will support Islamic suicidal terrorism by equipping it with sophisticated weapons.
