“We are forever what we are destined to be in the world.
Drive nature through the door: it will fly in through the window.”
N.M. Karamzin
Drive nature through the door: it will fly in through the window.”
N.M. Karamzin
“The ideas of economists and political thinkers are
and when they are right and when they are wrong -
are much more important than is commonly thought.
In reality, they are the only ones who rule the world.”
John Maynard Keynes
and when they are right and when they are wrong -
are much more important than is commonly thought.
In reality, they are the only ones who rule the world.”
John Maynard Keynes
Why is the USSR the highest point of world civilization and the Russian world?
32 years ago, the greatest state of all times, countries and peoples was dismantled, a power whose existence for 70 long years was an absolute miracle, for everything in it was contrary to human lust and greed: and could exist only thanks to a higher providence.
The USSR had the highest rates of economic development in the world, was the second economy in the world (1990): US GDP - $5, USSR - $233. The USSR economy accounted for about 300,00% of world industrial production. The average growth rate of the economy of the Russian Federation within the USSR from 2–659 was 500,00% (!), and the average growth rate of the Russian economy from 20 to 1950 was less than 1990% (!).
While the entire Western world was suffocating in the grip of the Great Depression, the growth rate of the USSR was simply fantastic - 13–14%. The first five-year plans are the greatest in the world stories economic miracle.
At the same time, the population of Russia in the penultimate decades before the “reforms” (as part of the USSR) grew at a rate of about 8,79 million people every 10 years!
As Isaac Deutscher, a British historian, wrote in 1956:
“The essence of Stalin’s truly historical achievements is that he took Russia with a plow and left it with nuclear reactors. He raised Russia to the level of the second industrialized country in the world.”
The peaceful competition of socialism and capitalism ultimately led to the improvement of capitalism - in developed capitalist countries the state began to intervene in the economy, normal labor and pension legislation was adopted, income equalization was carried out, and a middle class appeared. The model of a socially oriented market economy in Germany, so attractive in comparison with the liberal model of the USA: it is a synthesis of both systems.
As the American researcher L. Kaplan believed: Stalin is the man who saved capitalism. The world sorely lacks multipolarity and the presence of an alternative ideology.
The main thing in the USSR is to build a fair society
In the USSR, money for people, paradoxically, was not the main goal - the main goal was the idea of building a fair society. Although the idea of communism as a kind of “earthly paradise” turned out to be a dead end, the main goal of the existence of the USSR was achieved.
As J.M. Keynes, who advised the Soviet government, wrote about the USSR:
“in... Russia... the career of a “money making” person is simply impossible... just like the career of a burglar or the desire to learn forgery and theft.”
Yes, people did not live richly. Now we have everything, but not everyone has enough money. Then it was the other way around - there was money, but there were not enough goods. In the USSR there was a shortage (largely artificially created) of good clothes and shoes, household appliances, furniture, and cars. And all this was expensive.
But that was not the main thing. There were significant advantages. Education, including higher education (!), housing, and medicine were free. There were discounted or free holiday packages from the trade union. Paid housing (HCS) was much more affordable compared to the current mortgage, and rates for rent and electricity were meager. All this was ensured for the simple reason that the bulk of consumed products were produced within the country, and all profits received in the economy were spent in the interests of the entire society: everything according to K. Marx.
Yes, there were mistakes and excesses: atheism, repression. But in the late USSR under Brezhnev, although there was a fight against dissent, everything was relatively quiet: there were no repressions, camps or sharashkas.
Why were there not enough goods?
They say that we fed half the world - it’s true, the assistance to developing countries and Eastern Europe was enormous, we inherited from the USSR the enormous debts of our “friends” - $140 billion in 1991, which are now being successfully “forgiven”.
So why couldn’t the USSR fill the store shelves?
During perestroika, it is clear that the deficit was created artificially in order to cause discontent among the people. And in the era of “stagnation”? There were good goods, but they were expensive: a color TV cost about 700 rubles with an average salary of 190 rubles, imported shoes cost 80–100 rubles.
Tanks and guns - of course, sacred. But it was possible to reduce the number of research institutes and build more factories for the production of clothes and equipment, which is where the new China began its reforms? It could be. There are three explanations: the country was strong, the people were stoic, not accustomed to a beautiful life. The second is the leadership mentality. Third, even then things were heading towards collapse. But the USSR was only (!) 10–15 years short of the time when China flooded the whole world with these goods at affordable prices.
USSR culture
The USSR was the only state in the world with a Christian culture, but, alas, with an atheistic filling. Beautiful and pure music, cinema, the best education in the world. The people were healthier, the majority started families, gave birth to children... When you listen and see all this, you think, is this another planet? But we lived there and remember everything.
Now: music and cinema, shows, concerts, in which the main thing is human passions. However, Russian cinema is being revived, including in the wake of nostalgia for the USSR: these are the films “Legend-17”, “Gagarin - the first in space”, “T-34”, “Upward Movement”, “Champion”, “White Snow” and etc.
Socialism elevated man, while capitalism tries to turn him into an unthinking consumer, playing on his base sides. When we opened the country to Western influences in 1985, we at the same time let in a lot of evil spirits, which have done their job during all this time.
If you were brought up on films about the Civil War, the Great Patriotic War, you have a different morality and life position. That is why, after the announcement of mobilization, about 1 million young people left for the Northern Military District. Someone did a great job!
Nostalgia for the USSR
But everything is learned by comparison. Like Eastern Europe, our people eventually became disillusioned with the free market according to American patterns. Stalin's ratings are growing, including among young people, and in 2017 he topped the list of the greatest people of our time.
According to opinion polls (September 2022), almost two-thirds of Russians (62%) sympathize with socialism, and this is the maximum in the entire history of the survey. According to information received by VTsIOM at the end of 2022: almost 50% of Russians want the restoration of the USSR, and 58% of citizens regret its collapse.
According to monitoring data from the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences: about 80% of the population of the Russian Federation give a negative assessment to the scenario of “inertial” economic development, which, in their opinion, leads the country to a dead end. Despite the well-known attitude of the Church towards the USSR, “Soviet cinema” is shown on church channels. And this is also a sign.
Now 60% of East Germans are nostalgic for socialism, and 40% of young people also think extremely positively about the GDR. 54% of Czechs and 70% of Slovaks were also disillusioned with “light” capitalism.
Dismantling the USSR: the plan of the elites
The elites of the USSR during its heyday were simply puritans compared to those of today. A personal car, rations and dachas, modest even in modern times - how is this possible? And Stalin, who led the most modest lifestyle? Low bow to these people for their non-acquisitiveness.
But during perestroika everything changed. The elites of that time, observing the beauty and luxury of the foreign elites, gained a new consciousness - and tired of being simply servants of the people, they decided to restore the patrimonial model of government. The plans of the elites and the West coincided - and the track was brilliantly implemented.
Caring American political strategists have implanted their idea into the minds of every nation. Khokhlam - to become France, Russia - to live like in the West. Reformatting the consciousness of an entire people is not an easy task, but it can be done.
The emerging bourgeois elite of the USSR set the goal of privatizing the country as their personal property, getting rid of the bulk of social obligations and entering the world market with the hope of making a profit from trade. The USSR was dismantled, its geopolitical space was destroyed, the country went bankrupt, industry and science were liquidated, the military machine was shrinking, while, perhaps, commitments were made to not annex new territories and focus on importing finished products.
On the part of the West, there were verbal agreements not to expand NATO to the east, which were immediately violated. The elites needed nightclubs, restaurants, entertainment, and luxury. Events 1985–1999 - bourgeois revenge of 1917, which clearly showed what would have happened to the country if the Provisional Government had remained in power then.
Colossal inequality has appeared in Russia, gentlemen, commoners and poor people have re-emerged. And new images of the times - the unemployed, the homeless, single men and childless families.
Why did the USA destroy the USSR?
The United States wanted to remove its main strategic competitor, break it into pieces, and, in defiance of the USSR, turn China into an industrial workshop, and us into a raw materials mine: these goals were achieved.
Z. Brzezinski:
“We destroyed the Soviet Union, we will destroy Russia too. You have no chance."
“If the Russians are so stupid that they demand the restoration of their empire, they will run into such conflicts that Chechnya and Afghanistan will seem like a picnic to them.”
Russia brings to the world alternative cultural, religious (Catholicism and Protestantism, from the point of view of Orthodoxy, have fallen into heresy) and economic values (a powerful state, collectivism and solidarity). Although in the 90s we adopted Western liberal ideology (in the American version), many remnants of the past exist in our country as part of our national culture and traditions. And against the backdrop of the Northern Military District, we again switched to anti-Western rhetoric.
Russia is the largest state in the world by territory, the richest in all types of material resources. Our country has historically helped various countries that suffered from aggression, in particular from Turkey and Germany, and after 1945 it provided enormous assistance and, in fact, non-profit activities for the development of third world countries.
And most importantly, Russia is the main bearer of the Orthodox faith and, therefore, the main opponent of the measures of the world government, which aims to carry out an anti-Christian revolution, destroying and destroying Christianity in Europe and the USA, planting all kinds of perverted cults of “minorities” and “same-sex” marriages. And in the future, this leadership role of Russia will only strengthen as our state revives.
On this topic, excerpts from a letter from the famous Catholic Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano to Donald Trump (2020):
“...the fate of the entire world is threatened by a global conspiracy against God and humanity... Every day we feel an increase in attacks from those who want to destroy the very foundations of society: the natural family, respect for human life, love of country, freedom of education and business. We see how heads of nations and religious leaders condone this suicide of Western culture and its Christian soul...
A global plan called the “Great Reset” is being implemented. Its architect is the global elite, which wants to subjugate all of humanity..."
A global plan called the “Great Reset” is being implemented. Its architect is the global elite, which wants to subjugate all of humanity..."
Spiritually, the conflict with the West goes back to the conflict between Byzantium and the Western Roman Empire (Moscow - Third Rome), and then between Catholicism (Protestantism) and Orthodoxy, but in reality it has broader boundaries.
The end of history and the “messianic” role of the United States
The economic philosophy of the West is global dominance. But that's not all. The West also has a specific spiritual – messianic goal: “the chosen nation – the world leader – the master of the planet.”
The famous philosopher Francis Fukuyama, in his book “The End of History and the Last Man” (1992), argued after the dismantling of the USSR the final victory of the concept of liberal democracy and capitalism:
“This triumph of the West, the triumph of the Western idea, is manifested primarily in the complete depletion of once viable alternatives to Western liberalism...
What we are seeing now is... not just the end of the Cold War... but the end of history as such... it is the final point of the ideological evolution of humanity and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of government in human society.”
What we are seeing now is... not just the end of the Cold War... but the end of history as such... it is the final point of the ideological evolution of humanity and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of government in human society.”
The end of history means that all countries will enter the world system controlled by the West, i.e. that very “world government” may actually arise. At the same time, the events of the Russian Spring of 2014 show that the author of this statement was clearly in a hurry. The historical process is continuous.
Here are a few quotes from the book by A. M. Shlesinger (adviser to E. Kennedy) “Cycles of American History”:
“The newfound independence gave new status to the theory of America as a “chosen nation” (Berkovich) or a “redeemer nation” (E. L. Tuveson), entrusted by the Almighty with the task of bringing His light to a sin-ridden world.”
“We Americans,” wrote young Herman Melville, “are a special, chosen people, we are the Israel of our time; we are bringing the ark of freedom to the world...
God has ordained and humanity expects us to accomplish something great; and we feel this greatness in our souls. The rest of the nations must soon be behind us..."
God has ordained and humanity expects us to accomplish something great; and we feel this greatness in our souls. The rest of the nations must soon be behind us..."
Amazing immodesty (!), especially against the backdrop of numerous US war crimes: Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine.
But Ivan the Terrible believed that Russia was not only the Third Rome, but spiritually the New Israel. From a theological point of view, this statement is based on the correct premise that the New Israel is the entire Christian civilization, and since Catholicism and Protestantism are heresies, it means that Russia, as the custodian of the true faith, is the basis of the New Israel.
The clash between Russia and the West: war of civilizations – religious war
And as Archpriest Andrei Tkachev writes:
“We are the New Israel, called to a special historical mission and, like ancient times, full inside of disoriented commoners and corrupted leaders. And against us are the modern descendants of Babylon, Egypt and Rome, with their idols, sacrifices and debauchery; maddened by stolen wealth and pride, plus confident in their impunity. This is a religious war, if anyone else is so stupid that they didn’t understand this.”
So Russia is the most powerful obstacle to the world domination of the Anglo-Saxon nation (and the “shadow government”), including its claims to a messianic position, and it is Russia that does not allow the Anglo-Saxons to fully feel their superiority.
Both Europe and the USA are actually gradually destroying Christianity. Churches in the EU are emptying and are being given over to other needs. The USA is a hotbed of global totalitarian sectarianism. A world where the main thing is minorities, same-sex marriages and other perversions is a world of degeneration; it is barren in the literal and spiritual sense. Europe is degenerating, it is being filled by residents of the south.
But the signs of the times - SVO, sanctions, the approach of a new world war - indicate that fate has decided to restore the status quo necessary for the balance of the world, for the end of Russia is the end of all humanity (according to Fukuyama - the end of history).
The current war in Ukraine and the possibility of direct conflict with the West is a religious war, a war of “civilizations.” A war that has been going on for 2000 years between the formations of the “Old” and “New Testaments”. That is why in Ukraine they are destroying the Orthodox Church, destroying the Lavra and, wherever possible, punishing Russians and persecuting them for the Russian language, erasing traces and hating the USSR, even getting rid of the Russian font.
And in Ukraine, stupefied Ukrainians are driven to banal slaughter. The world government is destroying Russians in Russia economically, in Ukraine – physically. Then it will try to assimilate and destroy the Orthodox Church. And this is the ultimate goal of this entire campaign, to connect the world into a single whole and do whatever you want with it.
As Fox News host Tucker Carlson said about the causes of the war in response to Congressman Raskin:
“Russia is an Orthodox country professing traditional values. That is why it must be destroyed, no matter what price the United States pays for it.
NATO expansion has no end: Finland, Sweden, now Armenia? When will we finally push through? Yes, Donbass and other new territories: the process has begun.
During the Great Patriotic War, as now, the whole of Europe also fought against us - because this is a civilizational conflict. The Fuhrer, an adherent of the “new paganism,” wanted to destroy communism and put everything conquered under total control, as would be done in the last, apocalyptic times. That is why the United States actively helped Hitler before the war, and after it sheltered some of the former fascists in America. And now, Europe, having forgotten that Russia is its benefactor, which saved the world from yet another global dictator, is again, like 80 years ago, fighting on the side of world evil.
Nothing has changed: since the time of Alexander Nevsky, the West has been fighting with Russia - as the center of another religion and alternative values (civilizational conflict), and this war will not end until the end of time. No compromises, no negotiations with the West are possible and will have no result.
The only possibility is fear of our power and fear of retribution. And if not for the collapse of the USSR, the current war between Russians and Ukrainians would have been impossible.
Liberal Russia: crisis of the civilizational matrix
We have achievements - the development of the road network, large cities, active construction of housing, development of resorts, Crimea, and agriculture. The nuclear industry and the military-industrial complex, the main heirs of the USSR, show the highest degree of international competitiveness of our country.
We could easily produce electronics, cars and household appliances, chips and processors. But in the model that the West imposed on us in the 90s and which our elites chose, we are focused on the supply of raw materials and consume a huge amount of imports. In accordance with Gaidar’s specific plan: “Who needs your machines?! And if you need it, we will buy everything abroad!”
That’s why the bulk of our planes and cars were imported, and now we bite ourselves, but continue to buy everything from China. And therefore, according to the latest calculations by Moscow State University specialists (and not only them), in Russia there are actually about 60% of the poor population (for comparison, Rosstat data is 13,5%). Our economy does not produce enough surplus value.
The problem of today's Russia is that a huge part of the profits received is appropriated by the oligarchy, sucked out of the economy by banks and monopolies and ultimately taken out of the country, leaving no trace in it. The population is clearly not starving, although for the bulk, life is survival; but consumption is minimal, as is investment in the country. Better than in Tsarist Russia, but the model is the same: oligarchic capitalism. This is a model of the economy where everyone tries to devour the other, and in the end the economy itself, like a snake, devours itself by the tail.
But if in 1997 there were only 6 dollar billionaires in the Russian Federation, then, according to data for 2022, there are already 110 of them, including 22 more over the past year.
At the end of 2022, the excess of Russia's GDP level over the 1991 figure was only 30%! The average annual dynamics of Russia's GDP growth during the liberal period was less than 1% - this is an extremely low rate of development. Over the same period, China's GDP grew 14,5 times (!), and world GDP - 2,5 times.
The population of the RSFSR in 1992 was 148,51 million people; as of January 01.01.2023, 146,44, the population of the Russian Federation was 31 million people. In total, over 2,067 years of reforms, the country’s population has not grown, even despite the annexation of Crimea, the total decline is 1990 million people. Since 23, we have lost XNUMX thousand settlements. There is no point in providing any other data.
There is a civilizational crisis: the current system of liberal capitalism contradicts not only the interests of development, but also the very existence of our country.
After the Northern Military District there are changes - import substitution has begun, foreign companies have partially left, the economy is growing. But this is again within the framework of the “invisible hand of the market” policy. But even now we are producing Chinese cars using the revived Moskvich and are trying to solve the problems through “parallel imports”. Instead of European foreign cars, the market is flooded with Chinese cars.
We no longer need the hand of the market and the fifth column: Russia needs the strong hand of the Russian national state.
Russia as the beginning of a new USSR
Why is this so? We are the main successors and the heart of the USSR. Russia together with Crimea is 76,5% of the territory of the Soviet Union. And in 2022, we again annexed the territories of the former USSR, violating the unspoken pact of the liberal doctrine.
The USSR is alive in our minds and in our hearts - according to sociologists (March 2020), 75% of Russians believe that the Secular Era was the best time in the country's history.
But we are the USSR! Our anthem is written to the music of the USSR anthem, and this is not at all accidental. This is Soviet music and Soviet cinema, which is still with us.
The creators of managed democracy received their first crushing defeat: all their massive propaganda was a crushing fiasco.
The place where the USSR still exists is the VDNKh exhibition, where many pavilions have been preserved, including the USSR, RSFSR, Belarus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and the iconic monument to the Worker and the Collective Farm Woman.
We are still accompanied by the remnants of social benefits, which will never exist in America (!) and the elimination of which many liberals dream of - free medical care, free kindergartens, partially higher education (the so-called “budget”) - all this is very expensive in the USA - and even renovation programs in which people are given free new housing in exchange for their old one. Maternity capital and new payments for children are also essentially measures of the socialist plan.
And even now there are still red stars on the Kremlin towers, and calls to change them to double-headed eagles are not supported by the country’s leadership. This is the story of the Great Victory of 1945, this is Stalin, Zhukov, Rokossovsky, Korolev, Kurchatov, Tupolev and Gagarin. These are street names.
This is the most powerful nuclear, space and military industry in the world. These are Mig-29 and Su-27 aircraft, T-90, Grad, Buki tanks, TU-160 bombers - as before, our formidable weapon; a nuclear shield, without which we would be instantly crushed, they protect us in the Soviet way. This is one of the best education systems and scientific schools in the world, which has survived despite its deliberate destruction in the 90s.
But these are also problems - millions of migrants from the former USSR republics working in Russia.
Why do liberals hate and fear the USSR?
The USSR is hated by liberal circles - the fifth column, big capital, they are afraid of another matrix - an alternative to the market without brakes, which gives them unlimited power. They are afraid of our victory in the Northern Military District, delaying military action, because the annexation of new lands is a step on the way to the USSR. Hence the endless cries and lamentations of both the West and Ukraine about returning to the 1991 borders.
As Zbigniew Brzezinski correctly believed:
“Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but not both at the same time...
Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine... Russia automatically turns into an empire.”
Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine... Russia automatically turns into an empire.”
(in his 1994 article “Premature Partnership”).
Here is the opinion of former Prime Minister of England Johnson:
“If Russia wins militarily in Ukraine and achieves political success in terms of Vladimir Putin’s expectations, it will be a real disaster for the entire West in general and for the American leadership in particular.”
The Russian Spring of 2014 is an attempt to restore the Russian world, and the Minsk agreements are essentially an analogue of the Belovezh agreements.
For liberals, new territories are a final break with the West for several decades, and perhaps forever, a farewell to dreams of lifting sanctions. And this is the beginning of the end of their power, because sooner or later nationalization and new industrialization, a technical revolution will come, which will throw the resource elites and the oligarchy to the sidelines of history.
The restoration of the Russian Empire is inevitable
History repeats itself. The path from Alexander's reforms to 1917, about 60 years long, is almost a complete analogue of the reforms begun in 1985, which is now 38 years old. The first round of capitalist modernization ended with an aggravation of the socio-economic, cultural and religious situation in the country, leading to a social explosion and the revolution of 1917.
There was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. The empire collapsed. But history laughed at the plans of the West - after Stalin’s modernization, a powerful anti-Western project emerged. Stalin recreated the empire, the USSR many times surpassed Tsarist Russia in military power and was able to destroy fascist Germany, raised with the participation of the United States. This was a historical mission of the USSR; for Tsarist Russia it would have been impossible. This was also one of the underlying reasons for the events of 1917.
The second stage began with the collapse of the USSR (empire) and ended with the beginning of the Northern Military District, which is the prologue to the restoration of the empire, but the liberal structure still leads the country to extinction.
In the context of a growing conflict with the West, Russia needs to secure its borders as much as possible and attract additional resources. The only way is the consolidation of the lands of the Russian world. SVO, sanctions, approaching war with the West: all these are signs of the times, indicating the need to restore the empire.
Fate itself decided to return Russia to its historical, messianic role as a Western counterweight. The verdict on the liberal system has been pronounced, and its execution is underway.
What can be used from the legacy of the USSR?
The planned system, social guarantees, free housing for all families with children, the financial system of the USSR, in which there was no link to the dollar and the issue was carried out for the needs of planned investments, strict currency control and the suppression of any methods of cashing out and exporting capital, the planned system, five-year plans, the best education system in the world, the experience of Soviet science, culture, the industrial and technical revolution, continuous progress and creation. Spirituality, morality, patriotism.
A return to the past is pointless, but according to the laws of dialectics (the negation of the negation), the most advanced economy in the world will be built in Russia, combining the features of socialism and a market economy, something close to the social market economy of Germany.
We are too far behind during the time when we “bought everything imported.” We need, like the USSR in the first five-year plans, a new big leap, and it will definitely come - there is no other way. And no one and nothing will stop us.
Finale
The weakening of Russia during the liberal period is temporary. Soon, having cleared itself of it, Russia will rise up, and its spiritual and national revival will begin. And this process has already been going on since 2014 (100 years since the beginning of the First World War). Already now we could collect even more of our lands, but we are not doing this because of our dependence on the West.
After the collapse of the USSR, the Russian question arose: millions of our compatriots found themselves in conditions of persecution of Russian culture (the Baltic states, Ukraine, Central Asia).
We have no other way to solve the problem of the Northern Military District, except for the annexation of Ukraine, perhaps, except for its westernmost edge. We could very well unite with Belarus, joining Transnistria and Ossetia. The people of Moldova are tired of the pro-Western government.
The core of the revived Union will be the ancestral lands of the Russian World. Even though it seems very unlikely right now, consolidation will happen. We have excellent relations with Uzbekistan. In Europe, things are quite positive with Serbia and Hungary.
To gather lands and consolidate the Russian world, we need economic and moral advantage. Russia will have to build a new, powerful economy, and then all our former friends will want to be friends with us again.