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MIKHAIL GORBACHEV: From the Presidium to the Presidio
kenraggio.com ^ | Ken Raggio

Posted on 05/30/2002 3:25:15 PM PDT by Ivan the Terrible

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To: Stavka2
Will you not respond to post number 35? Is what I wrote there uncomfortable to contemplate?
41 posted on 06/17/2002 8:35:47 AM PDT by GOP_1900AD
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To: lavaroise
This is my last reply to you. You are ignorant, convoluted and absurd. You have no real knowledge of what you speak off. You go off some delusional theories that are about as true as the moon being made of green cheese. You call me a hypocrit? When have you ever been to Russia? When have you ever studied in an unbiased way anything dealing with Russia modern or historic, without coloring everything with your racist conspiracy delusions? Since sensible conversation with you is impossible, since anyone who disagrees with your omnipitant world view is instantly labeled a communist or the boogy man or some other such....bugger off and leave me the hell alone. I prefer to waste my time picking my arse then talking to you.
42 posted on 06/18/2002 8:39:49 AM PDT by Stavka2
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To: Stavka2
You're the one prosecuting the poster instead of seeing the reality. But go ahead, consume obsenely all you want. Ultimately ravenous all animals will meet their challenging predator. Obviously I am not one of them, so rejoice for now.
43 posted on 06/18/2002 8:49:39 AM PDT by lavaroise
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To: Stavka2
Lavaroise is flying the flag of Germany these days.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black...

Having been to both countries, I'd put my trust in Russia quickly as opposed to Germany - nation of skinheads rising. And remember Germany is where many of our islamic terrorists made themselves right at home.

There is no soul in a German, Stavka. The emptiness of it is what drives them to hate others so.

44 posted on 06/18/2002 9:22:03 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: MarMema
It is also the Reighstag that is now calling for War Crimes Tribunerals against the US for Afghanistan. Lets not forget that.
45 posted on 06/18/2002 10:37:19 AM PDT by Stavka2
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Malachi Martin states, "It is my opinion, for instance, that the USSR didn’t disintegrate naturally but was ordered to collapse. Gorbachev was told to vacate his power base, and also to inform other leaders of the Soviet bloc nations to do likewise. Those orders came from the Capstone."

(39)Editor's Note:
Furthermore, there is a crucial dialectical difference between Russia and China, connected with the strategists' ruse of fabricating a 'Break with the Past'. In his book Soviet Propaganda as a Foreign Policy Tool [Freedom House, New York, 1991], M. Leighton observed [page 14] that

... the Communist Party of the Soviet Union [CPSU] must posit the existence of an external enemy in order to justify its monopoly of power. If the United States didn't exist as the arch foe, the Kremlin would have to invent it.

This was the standard perception, the accuracy of which was taken for granted for generations - until the 'abolition of the enemy' was formalised in Paris on 19th November 1990 with the signing of the 'Declaration of Twenty-Two States' and the 'Charter of Paris'. Point One of the Declaration asserts that 'the signatories solemnly declare that, in the new era of European relations which is beginning, they are no longer adversaries, will build new relationships and extend to each other the hand of friendship'.

But NATO and the West had failed to notice, let alone understand, the meticulous Leninist use of language concerning the 'abolition' of the enemy by the Communist apparatus. For instance, Academician Georgiy Arbatov, one of Gorbachev's closest advisers, had referred in the June 1988 issue of 'Kommunist' to the forthcoming 'erosion of the image of the enemy' [see Note 16, page 32].

If he had meant that the enemy itself was to be erased, he would have said as much; but he did not. Thus the West mistook the image for the reality- just as this leading strategist had anticipated. If the Communist Party needed, as Leighton says, 'to posit the existence of an external enemy to justify its monopoly of power', it followed that the 'abolition of the image of the enemy' would need logically to be accompanied by the 'disappearance' of the Communist Party itself.

Hence the 'August coup' and its aftermath, which represented a 'Break with the Past', opening the way for 'convergence' as intended by the strategists. By contrast, since the West had not, since Nixon's detente with China, regarded China as 'the enemy', the reverse of this logic required no 'vanishing act' by the Chinese Communist Party.

The Specifics of Perestroika In China

46 posted on 07/22/2002 8:33:09 PM PDT by Askel5
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