How the Soviet Union was broken
USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev during a meeting with the heads of the Union republics on the draft treaty on the creation of the Union of Sovereign States, Novo-Ogaryovo, 1991
The "Marked One" team against the USSR
When Gorbachev took over the USSR, the US masters, with the help of the Saudis, launched a powerful economic attack – oil prices fell sharply (“Oil War"). The flow of petrodollars, the currency on which supplies of imported equipment and food depended, plummeted. The USSR's economic modernization programs were under threat. The need to support allies, particularly Poland, also ate into the USSR's reserves.
At the same time, Gorbachev's team destroyed the country's domestic source of revenue—the wine monopoly. The anti-alcohol campaign, which outwardly appeared noble and sensible, actually hit the USSR's finances.
It was also a psychological blow to the population of the Red Empire. People who had long been hooked on alcohol and tobacco found themselves in a situation of drug shortages. Naturally, when the Soviet Union began to openly collapse, demoralized crowds in a state of withdrawal (withdrawal is a severe physical and mental condition that occurs in people with addictions when they suddenly stop drinking alcohol, drugs, etc.) became easily swayed by the promises of various liberal democrats, Westernizers, "perestroika" supporters, and nationalist separatists.
The economy, finances, social and military programs were undermined. Ostensibly to overcome the crisis, a campaign of "perestroika and acceleration" was launched. But "acceleration" was quickly forgotten, and "perestroika" somehow quickly degenerated first into socioeconomic and political chaos, and then into the open collapse of the Union.
At the same time, the population was being indoctrinated. They once again recalled Stalin's "exposures," the hundreds of millions of victims of Stalin's terror, the "covered with corpses," and a host of other myths. But now it was all deeper and more vivid. Many generations of people who knew the truth had already passed away or become old, unable to resist this wave of vilification. Bukharin was made a hero, while Zinoviev, Kamenev, and other ardent revolutionaries were rehabilitated.
Only Trotsky had not yet been officially rehabilitated; he was too odious a figure. But unofficially, he too was acquitted, called a victim of Stalinism.
The information warfare methods used were purely Trotskyist and Hitlerite, but without attribution to the real authors. Why invent something new if everything works so well!? After all, the new generations don't know the truth and fall for the same old tricks.
In particular, Gorbachev used Trotsky's methods to suppress his political opponents. They were suppressed under the slogan of "fighting bureaucracy," a return to genuine Leninism, and revolution. Mikhail Sergeyevich, in contrast to the "bureaucrats," considered himself a "revolutionary." He even published a pamphlet: "October and Perestroika: The Revolution Continues. 1917–1985."
The new "fiery revolutionaries," who had once been stopped by Stalin and his team, were now, in the form of Gorbachevites, "perestroika" supporters, democrats, and national democrats, enthusiastically destroying Great Russia (the USSR).
Lenin's Path
Essentially anti-Soviet literature was dumped on the shelves. It was a cunning move. The Soviet people, the most widely read in the world, greedily began devouring literature previously inaccessible to them. Literature that had previously accumulated in the drawers of authors and editors. A body of literature that Russian and Soviet émigrés had created abroad.
In particular, Stalin was branded "Lenin's last will and testament." They said Stalin distorted the USSR's development by suppressing Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP). Gorbachev's team, however, returned the country to the "Leninist path" of development. "Perestroika" is the new economic policy.
Cooperative propaganda was rampant. It was declared a panacea for all ills. A murky patchwork of cooperatives filled the country. These were, for the most part, speculative, huckstering, and semi-criminal enterprises, which allowed the shadow economy that had already developed in the USSR to be legalized. The new NEPmen, the profiteers, began siphoning goods and profits from the state sector through their structures.
Behind the outward glamour and abundance lay the simple plunder of the country and its people, the "primitive accumulation of capital" of the future masters of the post-Soviet republics. Strategic resources and goods, the "party gold," were being siphoned out of the Union.
The collapse of the USSR's economy and treasury required foreign "aid." Gorbachev's team, despite the Union's vast domestic potential and reserves, drove the great power into debt.
During Mikhail Sergeyevich's reign, the external government debt increased, according to various estimates, three- to fourfold, from approximately $25-31 billion (according to various estimates) to over $100 billion. Bankers in West Germany, England, France, and Italy actively opened credit lines for Moscow.
Having fallen into debt bondage—one of the most important instruments of enslavement, the new colonialism of the Western capitalist metropolis against its periphery—Moscow began to cede its global positions one after another. Under the pretext of loans and supplies, "aid," and simply for its kind treatment of Gorbachev, the "best German" himself.
Troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Mongolia, from Eastern European countries. Hastily, urgently, as if facing total defeat and capitulation. They abandoned military bases, airfields, strategic warehouses, residential areas, and the entire infrastructure they had built, worth billions of rubles in gold.
They abandoned our most loyal allies, particularly the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In 1989, they allowed the Berlin Wall to fall, and in 1990, they allowed the FRG to swallow up the GDR. They allowed the entire socialist system in Eastern Europe, which had been built at the cost of millions of Soviet soldiers during the Great War, to crumble. A witch hunt began in Eastern Europe: communists and "pro-Soviet elements" were persecuted, imprisoned, and killed.
Thus, the Red Empire lost all military-strategic and economic positions in the western strategic direction, which we had gained after victory in World War II. NATO troops, preparing for a new "crusade" against the Russians, comfortably settled into yesterday's Soviet bases.
"Human rights" and "expanding democracy"
During the information and ideological war against the USSR, they actively used points about “human rights” and “expanding democracy,” which for some reason always went against the strategic and national interests of Great Russia (USSR) and the super-ethnos of Rus-Russians.
The Westerners played on "human rights," rubbing them in the Kremlin's face. Naturally, only in their own interests, with double standards. Gorbachev made concessions again. This was the terrible disease of the Kremlin at that time: a lack of will and determination. A constant readiness to "negotiate," to compromise, a "flexible policy" that expressed itself in the surrender of national and strategic interests.A Deficit of Will in the Kremlin and the Collapse of the USSR).
In 1989, a decree was issued abolishing punishment for anti-Soviet propaganda (Article 70 of the Criminal Code). "Political prisoners" imprisoned under this article were released. The United States directly pressured the USSR to repeal this article. Political prisoners, dissidents, nationalists, activists of the People's Labor Union (NTS), and other anti-Soviet organizations were released. In fact, this was the formation of a “fifth column”, the social base of the future anti-Soviet counterrevolution.
"Expansion of Democracy" also lifted the ban on the penetration of cultural and artistic works from abroad into the USSR. This was the destruction of Soviet civilization by methods of cultural cooperation.
This is where the Russian and Soviet émigrés came in handy for the Westerners. Contact with them was now welcomed by Soviet "revolutionaries." They said that finally, "the two Russias had met," that the "Russia abroad," having preserved "authentic Russian culture," had bided its time and could transfer its hoarded and accumulated wealth back to the Motherland.
In reality, the USSR was flooded with a murky, defamatory stream, like Solzhenitsyn's lies about hundreds of millions of people repressed, about "Soviet slaves-sovok," about a "totalitarian empire of evil," and so on. The lies of Kerensky, Trotsky, former Vlasovites and Banderites, and so on.
Along the way, they began to construct the myth of “lost Russia,” “the crunch of French bread,” “balls, beauties, lackeys, cadets...”Supposedly, there was a beautiful and rich Russia, which was destroyed by the damned Bolshevik commissars and the Red "ghouls." They tore Russia away from its Western partners (the Entente), European civilization, and the main path of development for all of humanity. This was the foundation of the ideology of the future nobility of the new "democratic" Russia.
The Soviet press and cinema, during Perestroika, rapidly restructured themselves, "transformed," and began to "enlighten" and "liberate" Soviet citizens. People were bombarded with all sorts of filth, UFOs, psychics, ghosts, and erotica bordering on pornography.
The press was filled with "progressive" materials that helped destroy the "mossy Soviet Union" and build a "new world" modeled on the "advanced West." A multitude of satirical humorists proliferated, unanimously ridiculing Russian stupidity, drunkenness, laziness, backwardness, and inability to adapt to "civilization." Patriotism was suppressed to the point that "patriotism became the last refuge of scoundrels." Patriotism was equated with communism and reaction.
Under the pretext of "human rights," the Uniate Church, a stronghold of local national separatism and the Petliura-Bandera movement, was restored in Ukraine. Catholic and Uniate emissaries, along with Jesuits, longtime enemies of Russian civilization and the people, came from abroad. In the Ukrainian SSR, the restoration of nationalist structures based on the misanthropic ideology of Bandera-Shukhevych and the OUN-UPA was in full swing. Once again, the united Soviet (Russian) people were being divided, paving the way for future fratricidal slaughter.
Let me remind you that the Western masters are strong in long-term strategy, in the Great Game, which will last for centuries. While our "Slavic brothers" in the 1990s and 2000s thought that a war between Ukrainians (Little Russians) and Russians (Great Russians) was fundamentally impossible, the Westerners carried out informational, ideological, organizational, material, and financial preparations. The result: revolution, unrest, and the split of the former Ukrainian SSR, civil war, and war between the two Russian powers. The extinction of Little Russia—Ukraine—and its transformation into a new "Wild Field."
To be continued ...
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