The Grand Deception

Worldnet Daily ^ | 6 SEP 01 | J.R. Nyquist

[tomakaze]

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.

[Poohbah]

And I'm saying that that theory is BS. The evidence offered to support the theory was incredibly weak. Nyquist has his agenda, and it's apparently one that requires an everlasting external threat to justify internal repression. Sorry to see you have bought into it.

[tomakaze]

Whatever.

[Alexandre]

Good point with one exception:
...the greatest threat to Russians were the Russian Communists

Replace Russian by Soviet in both positions. Communism was not and is not an ethnic concept. The Russian Communists term is a very convinient for those why ally with Georgian, Azeri, Albanian and even Belorussian communists - once it helps the agenda.

About the posted piece - crap. In early eighties majority of the communist party was comprised of people who carried zero ideology but needed a 'membership' for career pursuit. Once this happened - communist movement in the USSR was doomed to fade.

[Alexandre]

Why are Social Studies teachers so leftist?

Do you realy think that they are all expatriots from the USSR?

Actually, most of Russian immigrants are more conservative then Americans.

[Stavka2]

Well obvious to everyone but the CIA (surprise, surprise).

[Stavka2]

Got news for you, Russia is taking her rightful place as to what she should have been if the Tsar had survived the communists lost. Soon it will be to her bossom that freedom lovers and capitalists will flock, maybe as the last bastion against the NWO crowd.

[Economist_MA]

Actually, most of Russian immigrants are more conservative then Americans.

Needs repeating. Hard to find more aggressive anti-commies than people who actually had to live in the USSR and left.

[Stavka2]

Umm, bud, you probably haven't been to Russia in quite a while. Last year agricultural production sored 100% and the legislature coming through now will create the ability to buy land, which will only further push competition and increase yield. Since Putin took power growth rates have been: 5% '99, 8% '00, 6% '01. Russia has a 13% flat tax rate and 24% corporate tax rate (all much lower then US). State employees are getting paid on time and pensioners get their (albait measly since inflation of Yeltsin era) checks. Inflation is low and keeping steady. Industrial output is up and growing. A Russian oil company Lukoil now owns 1300 US gas stations and plans on building a refinery in the US, and buying a large chunk of Helenistic Oil. Boeing and several Russian airframe makers are now making airbuses for Europe. Russian Space agencies/companies have commercialized space (some one finally had to) and Ann Rand is taught in schools on economics. Stores are full and variety is there.

[Stavka2]

By the way, tax revenue was up X3 last year and X5 this year and 1/2 the IMF loans are paid off ($9 billion).

[Economist_MA]

I have been in Moscow in March, and my sister is running a few companies in Bulgaria and keeping me updated.

Russia is in better shape now than it was four years ago, which was almost inevitable after hitting rock bottom and defaulting on their government bonds. They simply couldn't go much lower without imploding.

The (measly) growth rates you post may well be correct, don't have time to check right now. Taking these into account, industrial output in Russia is now how much of 1990 levels? 30%? 50%? You tell me. And the Russian tax system is almost irrelevant since tax collection is still a mess.

Have they started feeding their conscripts by now? What's the situation like outside of Moscow?

Bottom line: Russia managed to pull itself back from the brink three year ago, and may now be on the right track to slowly creep back from 3rd world status. Declaring it the mastermind of a grand conspiracy to scare little children still makes me wonder about your agenda.

[tomakaze]

and it's apparently one that requires an everlasting external threat to justify internal repression. Sorry to see you have bought into it.

Your evidently getting something out of this that flew right under my radar.
But then again, I like the John Birch Society - although I find their "support the police they can do no wrong" stuff to be completely whacked.

I take it the folks who've found this offensive are of the "Joe McCarthy was a nut" camp, and probably thought there was actually more than a pesos worth of difference between Bush The Younger and Algore.
Whatever.

Here's something else that'll be sure to piss some people off/make them laugh/or whatever... ( entirely my opinion based on the way these people (commie types) historicly have done things.)
The Chechnya thing was basicly a training exercise for the Red Army. They now have battle hardened veterans, as to our... uh... what we got. They may not be much, and training standards have gone to hell (notable exeption being the marine corps), but they're coed and, boy they sure as hell are chock full of self esteem, what with their newly minted, chinese made, un-earned black berets and all...
Naw I suppose that's just inconceivable, I mean surely nobody could be that cold and calculating - even people who refer to routine mass murder as "liquidations".

[tomakaze]

Do you realy think that they are all expatriots from the USSR?
I doubt that's what he meant.

Actually, most of Russian immigrants are more conservative then Americans.
Yes, they are (the folks I know personally anyway).

[tomakaze]

Got news for you, Russia is taking her rightful place as to what she should have been if the Tsar had survived the communists lost. Soon it will be to her bossom that freedom lovers and capitalists will flock, maybe as the last bastion against the NWO crowd.

I sure as hell wish I could believe that. I think Neil Smith had something to that effect in one of his books. (either "Pallas" or "the Forge" books)

[Stavka2]

I'm not declaring any conspiracy, if you read anything I posted you'd be the wiser of that. Industrial output is down, true, but to compare it to the Soviet Union is ludicrous. 1st Russia is smaller, minus Ukraine and Belaruss. Secondly, Soviet output was mostly on paper, as each level of the bureacracy inflated the numbers to make themselves look better. Measly growth rates of 8%? You're an economist? The US during its super decade of growth in the '90s barely reached 5% on a good year. 8% growth in an economy is amazing, anything much higher and you are also facing run away inflation as a possibility, otherwise known as hyper inflation. Lastly, if the West hadn't raped Russia, under the blind eye of Yeltsin, there wouldn't be half this problem.

Like it or not, but tax collection is becoming efficient. That happens when money starts flowing in and the collectors and police start getting paid. Bulgaria is an IMF basket case while Russia has told the IMF to bite the bullet and get the hell out.

If things are soooo bad, then why is Moscow (and every other city) suffering (for the 1st time) grid lock auto traffic and having to rebuild/widen all the major roads?

[exmarine]

Got news for you, Russia is taking her rightful place as to what she should have been if the Tsar had survived the communists lost. Soon it will be to her bossom that freedom lovers and capitalists will flock, maybe as the last bastion against the NWO crowd.

Pipedream. Russia is for all extent and purposes, a virtueless society run by a corrupt elite. Why would anyone flock there?

[Aerial]

Making sport of these kinds of posts is the only weak argument some have. And most immature.

[Stavka2]

And those people would be whom? The Stalinists that are all dead...well with the exception of the two close American allies in Georgia and Abzerbazahn. If anything, it is the US that acts like the world bully. I'm wasting breath on you, you are like the religious fanatics, forever waiting for the end that doesn't come. Waste your life on this stupidity if you want. I've better things to do.

[tomakaze]

Why would anyone flock there?

a self destructive preference for pleasant fantasy over harsh reality?

[Stavka2]

Yup, all those souless atheists that are packing the churchs every Sunday, Saints day and any other day there is service. You know homosexuality has never been legal in Russia....but in the "I'm gay and proud of it USA" though... As for taxes 13% flat federal and 24% corporate...sure does make an inviting change from 30% and about 50% respectively.

[Stavka2]

Bump