The Grand Deception

Those who fear Russia are easily mocked. "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming," is on video. Watch it and laugh. Concern about communist subversion is also mocked. All you have to do is remember what a bad egg Joseph McCarthy was, if you remember at all. To allay any lingering doubt or fear, go to Russia and take the KGB tour. See all the rusting submarines and missile boats you want. You can even see rusty signs in front of Russia's ABM radar at Sofrino.

If you subscribed to "National Review" when it was still under the influence of Whittaker Chambers and James Burnham, you may remember a completely different magazine than exists today. It's funny how vigilance and a sense of danger can be turned into smug self-satisfaction over time.

Twenty years ago, a Russian KGB defector named Anatoliy Golitsyn went to see William F. Buckley, the editor of "National Review." Golitsyn needed help on writing a book with the title "New Lies for Old." It was about Russia's strategy of faking the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. As it happened, Buckley showed Golitsyn the door.

After the "patron saint of American conservatives" closed the door on the truth about communist strategy, few would have the courage to look back and say that Golitsyn was right. The changes in Eastern Europe have been deceptive, orchestrated and calculated from on high. The strategy has been to disarm the West and get communist bloc countries inside NATO – to subvert the alliance from within.

Consider the Czech Republic as an example. Having entered NATO, it is yet controlled by the old communists who are waiting for a signal from Moscow. That's all it will take for them to reverse the changes that have taken place since 1989. Yesterday, I received a letter from a politically active Czech citizen, Hana Catalanova. "I know how hard this is to make people see," she wrote. "You might think it is better over here ... no, it is not!"

The big lie of 1989, the grand deception, was cynically calculated to take advantage of modern apathy and ignorance: "... we are actually living our lives in such lies, and people don't care," wrote Catalanova. "What about the next generation, our kids?"

Hana worries about freedom and the truth. Explaining how the communists retained control after the Velvet Revolution of 1989, she noted, "The problem here is that too many people were involved and engaged in shady deals with the secret police and corruption ... betraying their friends, fellow workers, next door neighbors. And this is such a small country."

America has a different excuse for turning its back on freedom and the truth. As I once told a leading Russian military defector who asked about America's unpatriotic attitudes, "They're too busy shopping and having fun."

The Czechs have another problem. "In towns and villages everyone knows everyone," explained Catalanova, "They are hiding their past behind the silence. They stay deaf to everything that doesn't concern them, because if they speak up, somebody might tell who they were before. I can tell you, it is all very depressing."

Hana Catalanova has written an important essay on the imprisonment of Captain Vladimir Hucin, a Czech official who has uncovered the truth about secret communist structures controlling important public institutions. "The whole world must know that communism is not dead," wrote Catalanova. "It is very much alive and threatens to overthrow the world democracies."

People here in America look around and wonder why the environmentalists are so strong, why business is under assault and rural property rights are no longer secure. They wonder why so many are teaching Marxist propaganda in schools and universities. Some of us cannot understand why our political leaders keep insisting on further military cutbacks as they continue to do business with the gangsters in Beijing and Moscow.

The short answer is: We've been subverted, infiltrated, duped and manipulated by communists and leftists. We have been too busy shopping and having fun to notice their "long march" through our institutions. We have been too absorbed in our careers and personal satisfactions. And now our country has its own hidden (or not so hidden) communist structures. As Russia and China prepare new missiles against us, our own state system allows itself to be unthinkingly nudged toward self-dissolution.

The danger is real, despite all the ridicule that comes to mind about "communists under every bush." Have you talked to your daughter's social studies teacher? Have you any idea where all this political correctness ultimately comes from?

If I joined the present chorus writing about shark attacks, the response to my column would be huge. But since I write about the advance of communism, about evidence that our Cold War enemy has been playing a trick on us, I get hardly any response at all. Americans have lost their sense of self preservation, their sense of history.

Do you really think that an enemy of more than four decades simply ran up the white flag because he couldn't "pay the bills"?

Of course, that's what you want to believe to keep your peace of mind. But this peace of mind is for fools. Give it up and get with the facts and testimony. The superficial reports on Russia, Chechnya, Eastern Europe and the collapse of communism are laced with falsehood and distortion. Such reports do not convey a real understanding of events.

French journalist Anne Nivat's book on the Chechin war has recently been translated into English. It deserves to be widely read, though few will understand its importance. Nivat disguised herself as a Chechin refugee and watched events close up. Many of the Chechins she interviewed felt the war was a Kremlin puppet show. "I'm ashamed for Western Europe, where you live in a world of lies," an elderly Chechin told Navat. "We are all victims, manipulated by the politicians in Moscow."

The same could be said for America.

J.R. Nyquist, a WorldNetDaily contributing editor and a renowned expert in geopolitics and international relations, is the author of "Origins of the Fourth World War." Visit his news-analysis and opinion site, JRNyquist.com.

Alas, I seem to be labled as one of the sheeple because I Do Not See The Wheels Within Wheels That Will One Day Grind Us Up. Silly me. I guess the free wind cooling my head (unencumbered by a aluminum foil deflector beanie as it is) has made me blind to The Truth.

Ah well, I try to take a little time out of my day to mock the stupid and here I am running long.

NaW.
(Don't let the Builderburgers get you...)

Based on his KGB knowledge, Anatoliy Golitsyn predicted the 'fall' of communism before it happened. That fact in and of itself should give one pause. I just know a few things about communists, and rule number one is that you can trust them; (to be communists.) </font size> Most of them don't give up their wacked-out ideology very easily, and the ones who subject themselves to Party discipline will stop at nothing to get their way. The people I know from Eastern Europe all tell me that a lot of the old die-hard communists are still in charge, and they are still communists, just with new and improved political labels.

Cordially,

Based on his KGB knowledge, Anatoliy Golitsyn predicted the 'fall' of communism before it happened.

And didn't tell us about that prediction until AFTER the fact.

I knew you were going to say that! That means I'm either a psychic or an... INSIDER!

NaW.
(And we've been watching you. Every last stinkin' one of you...)

Do you really think that an enemy of more than four
decades simply ran up the white flag because he couldn't "pay the bills"?

Couldn't match Star Wars and eat.

My biggest worry is the contingent
of American loons intent on hating
the USSR back into existence.

I make no such claims here . Let me ask you something though . If you want to know something , why can you not seem to find the answers yourself ? Is there a reason why anyone should supply you with something that has no value to you ?

My biggest worry is the contingent
of American loons intent on hating

the USSR back into existence.

I'll second that.

I have a wonderful tool I learned to use when I was younger . It is called Initiative . When I wanted a result I simply applied my self to get it . I could care less if you or others agree with the post or not . That is not my interest . I dont believe I accused anyone here of anything cyber, but I'll double check just the same . As to how the world works , you have your mind set just as others do . good day , mam .

In deference to the fact that you probably do not understand the nature of reasoned debate, there's a simple rule: "He who asserts must prove his assertion." In short, telling others to go out and find these alleged facts is basically telling them to do your work for you. (I am willing to do other people's work for them. I just expect to be handsomely compensated for it.)

RE #6 Anne Nivat reported only half of the Chechen story. The half where Chechens are pummeled. She did not say why Chechen guerilla invaded Dagestan or kidnapping industry , Chechen brutality and general lawlessness a la Kosovo. By the way, she used to work for Soros's outfit. Her views are decidely anti-Russian even though she seems to be Russian because she has a Russian accent. She could not hide her contempt for Russian soldiers manning checkpoints in Chechenya. She was giggling while illustrating how "stupid" the soldiers were. The giggling went on for a while, for 10 minutes. She had similiar story to tell about Russian security personels. She had this undertone of her being so much smarter than those Russians. I know all this because I accidently watched her entire presentation in Book-TV. My impression is that she wanted to distance herself from Russia and hang out with Western Europeans. Her past is to be erased and washed off by doing the West's bidding, i.e., taking on Russia That is sad. But it happens.

>>>>>>...the greatest threat to Americans are American Socialists, whether in 'Democratic' or 'Republican' clothing.... All socialism is national socialism.<<<<<<<<<<<

20/20 view

>>>>She had this undertone of her being so much smarter than those Russians<<<<<<

the telltale sign for soros nomenklatura. They feel they are chosen one, superior to their subhuman peers.

their "therapy" is to mock, ridicule their own in hope they will prove their own worthuiness that way.

Authoritarian personality types, pillars of Nazism and communism.

Not at all , and I do understand your point . I have read much , and studied a good deal so i believe there is something afoot . It is my belief , nothing more than that . I dont expect to debate it poohbah . The simple reason is if something had a value to another they would persue it . I dont go on a crusade trying to sell something to people . If someone has an interest in anything , there is ample supplies of information out there . I know what you mean , as I dont work for food either .

Well, I have my opinion of Nyquist from some of his writings. We aren't supposed to be angry about the BATF and the FBI dynamic entry teams using the Second and Fourth Amendments for toilet paper--that's supporting the Commies. When I see such an anti-freedom attitude coupled with a doomsday mentality, it's because ol' JR Nyquist has an agenda that presumes a fair amount of domestic head-bashing to accomplish.

There's also the impossibility of the position he strives to put you into: i.e. prove the negative. Prove that the conspiracy does not exist. Can't find proof of it? Use your initiative ya' slacker!

I found the proof of it. All I had to do was look under the rosin figurine of the Eastern European castle on my desk. It said "Made In China". See? See? The Eastern Europeans and the Chinese are in it together. The bastards are even being open about it! I'll bet you don't even have the initiative, nay - the courage to examine your dog's chew toy to see that the Chinese are behind that as well. Those Of Us Who Have Not Mastered Capitalization Know The Real Truth And You Are So Blind That You Do Not See Nor Mix Your Metaphores.

NaW.
(There I go mocking again...)

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