This story is akin to an enemy chopping off his hands right before your eyes and saying, "See? I mean you no harm." And then chopping off his feet to further convince you. "Not convinced yet?" Gouges out own eyes.... Etc.
Posted on 11/25/2007 9:23:45 AM PST by Fennie
In 1984 a book was published with the title New Lies For Old. It was written by Soviet KGB defector Anatoly Golitsyn. The book claimed that the Soviet Union had a secret long-term strategy to disarm and defeat the United States through a controlled collapse of the Soviet empire that would take place in the last decade of the twentieth century. In the book's most remarkable chapter, titled "The Final Phase," Golitsyn accurately described the future of the Soviet bloc. Communism would give up its monopoly of power in Russia, he explained, as apparent freedom and democracy would be introduced. The communist Warsaw Pact alliance would be dissolved. The Berlin Wall might be taken down and Germany united as "the key to progress toward a neutral, socialist Europe"...
This story is akin to an enemy chopping off his hands right before your eyes and saying, "See? I mean you no harm." And then chopping off his feet to further convince you. "Not convinced yet?" Gouges out own eyes.... Etc.
The Rockies used the same strategy against the Red Sox.
And the unsuspecting Red Sox fell right into their trap...
Rove!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Most would laugh at this, but 60+ years ago, there was an address before the politburo from a Russian General who stated that this was indeed their plan. I remember getting a briefing on this one in a training class in the USAF back in the 80’s.
He went so far as to state that they would in fact use capitalism to obtain the materials needed in order to defeat us — effectively they would use our rope to hang us.
I never thought twice about that, until Putin woke the bear from hibernation.
I never heard of the book but at the time of the collapse it appeared to me that it was a carefully calculated strategic move on their part for reasons that were obvious — and to think, we gave Ronald Reagan all the credit.
Oh my God! Was he in on it too!?!
did they predict/ direct the demographic implosion of mother Russia and its resettlement by Moslems?
Who knows?
And Rove! Don’t forget Karl Rove!
This is Nyquist. Wasn’t Nyquist banned for life from FR?
Anyway, my neighbor and I came to this conclusion in 1984: the collapse of the USSR was strategic.
Narf!!!
Tinfoil anyone?
varly inturestink
Me thinks thee confuses sarcasm with the TRUTH — in all due respect.
Yup, just like the towers, it’s all part of the “master plan”.
I don’t think the collapse was staged. They would never have given up their empire if they could have helped it. But I think that when they saw that it was inevitable, the Nomenklatura did what they could to preserve their power.
The NKVD/KGB/YouNameIt is still in charge of the country. And it’s clear that Putin still has imperial ambitions.
It has morphed from a Communist system of complete control to a Russian Mafia system for complete control.
They might conceivably go back to Communism at some point, because although it seemed to be discredited there are still a LOT of Communist theorists around, and it still has appeal to a lot of people. Or maybe they’ll invent some other kind of veneer to cover up what Communism was always about, anyway—power for the Nomenklatura and opium for the masses.
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