The Method of Cultural Cooperation and the Defeat of the USSR in the Cold War
Mikhail Gorbachev and member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, USSR Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze during a press conference in Washington, 1987
Method of cultural cooperation
In the context of the “cold” Third World War waged against the USSR, our enemies actively used the method of cultural cooperation (How the Soviet Union was broken). Western "partners" gently influenced the values of Soviet civilization, which had already been undermined by Khrushchev's rule and Brezhnev's "stagnation."
Foreign standards of behavior were being imposed, particularly through the adoption of consumer society standards. In the late USSR, the bourgeois mentality was already dominant, and images of the glamorous life under capitalism resonated well with it. The Soviet bureaucracy and intelligentsia believed in the images of "capitalism's showcase," despising the Soviet grayness and monotony.
There was a revision, a review historical Memory, the erosion of national identity through culture, art, history, school, and the media. Citizens, especially the intelligentsia and youth, developed a skeptical, negative attitude toward the Soviet Union, their own country, history, and culture.
"Human rights" and "expanding democracy" were destroying the Soviet system, the Soviet state, and civilization. A "fifth column" was rapidly proliferating, including new Banderites and Petliurites, Baltic and Caucasian nationalist separatists, and Turkestan Basmachi and Dushmans.
The Uniate Church, through which our Western "partners" were wresting Little Rus' (the Ukrainian SSR) from Greater Russia, was legalized. Various sects began to proliferate throughout the country, including those masquerading as Orthodox. A special "Ukrainian Church" reappeared, bringing its flock under the authority of the Vatican.
In the late USSR, Masonic lodges emerged under the banner of "human rights and freedoms," reporting to their foreign "elder brothers." Unlike many sects and organizations, they were not officially authorized, and they did not advertise themselves. They simply opened de facto and began their work, attracting officials, security officials, future bankers, and businessmen to their ranks.
In 1988–1989, B'nai B'rith lodges opened in Moscow and Leningrad. It is one of the oldest and most active Jewish organizations, founded on Masonic principles. The organization's official goal is to strengthen Israel's influence worldwide and establish a network among Jews. One of its methods is through education and schools.
Gorbachev was at the height of his international fame during this period. Mikhail Sergeyevich was showered with awards, titles, and "cookies." Of course, the "best German," Margaret Thatcher's best friend, was losing ground to the Soviet Union and its people.
All classic: "Rejoice! It was I, Bad Boy, who did all this... The bourgeoisie was delighted then, quickly enrolled Bad Boy into their bourgeoisie and gave him a whole barrel of jam and a whole basket of cookies. Bad Boy sits there, eats and rejoices." (Arkady Gaidar. "A Tale of a Military Secret, Malchish-Kibalchish and His Firm Word").
Westerners were happy to "befriend" Mikhail Sergeyevich. Seeking foreign loans and aid, he generously repaid them by surrendering international, strategic positions and actively working to dismantle the Union itself.
The cover of Time magazine, January 4, 1988. In the late 1980s, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Time magazine named Gorbachev Person of the Decade. Gorbachev said of it: "It's not about me. The scale of our project is global."Indeed, the project to destroy the Soviet (Russian) civilization and the USSR was global.
Collapse of the army
The "optimization" of the USSR Armed Forces began. Mikhail Sergeyevich announced a reduction in the army for economic reasons and out of a desire "for world peace." As part of the "new political thinking," at the end of 1988, the Armed Forces began to be reduced by 500 personnel and a significant portion of forces and assets withdrawn from Eastern European countries.
The Soviet leadership, represented by its leader Gorbachev and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze (whose "appanage" after the collapse of the USSR was Georgia), abandoned an active policy in Eastern Europe, formerly our sphere of influence. They paid lip service to the principles of collective security and respect for the sovereignty of countries. In reality, they abandoned the USSR's strategic line of defense in Eastern Europe, exposing Minsk, Leningrad, Moscow, and Kyiv to attack. They abandoned the pro-Soviet leaders of socialist states and their military leadership, which had been oriented toward the Warsaw Pact.
It was a unilateral capitulation, a surrender of all the strategic positions Moscow had won in May–August 1945 (the assault on Berlin and Prague, the Potsdam Conference). The sacrifices of millions of Soviet soldiers were "forgotten."
Plus the socioeconomic aspect of the Soviet Army's "flight" from Eastern Europe and Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands of people, officers, warrant officers, and military specialists, literally found themselves in the "open field." Without apartments, jobs, or any prospects in the nascent chaos of perestroika. Of course, some found their place in the "market." But the vast majority lost out, their lives ruined. Some drank themselves to death, some turned to crime, dying in gang wars and filling cemeteries, others became security guards, protecting the new masters of life (the new nobility), and so on.
At the same time, Soviet and then post-Perestroika media, literature, and cinema, fulfilling the mandate to "expand democracy" and protect "human rights and freedoms," unanimously began to denigrate and smear the army and its security forces. Humiliating and discrediting military service, the duty of an officer, and the warrior's path came to be considered a sign of "good manners," a sign of general "progressiveness and civility."
We saw all of this in all its vileness and despicableness during the war in Chechnya. When the press glorified "freedom-loving" bandits and terrorists, rapists, looters, and murderers. And Russian soldiers, just torn away from their mothers and school, were declared murderers and occupiers, even though they fought and died to preserve at least part of their homeland.
On the morning of October 15, 1990, Mikhail Sergeyevich received the Norwegian Ambassador to the USSR, D. Stenseth, in the Kremlin, who announced that M. S. Gorbachev had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. "for his leading role in the peace process, which today characterizes an important component of the life of the international community"The photograph shows Gorbachev's Nobel lecture, delivered in Oslo on June 5, 1991.
"The main thing is to start, and then expand and deepen"
Having driven the Union into debt bondage (according to various estimates, the USSR's debt under Gorbachev grew from $25-31 billion to $96-100 billion), the Kremlin was unable to skillfully manage the funds it received. For example, during the Stalin and Brezhnev eras, Moscow skillfully used Western loans to purchase machine tools, technology, and build factories, all for the development of domestic production.
Under Gorbachev, there was also talk of modernizing the national economy. Meanwhile, huge quantities of condoms and disposable syringes were purchased to protect against AIDS and promote "safe sex." The main equipment purchased was not machine tools (they were purchased, but they were no longer used in factories), but VCRs, so that they could watch images of the Western "beautiful life."
They also bought provisions, often rotten and past their sell-by dates, which enriched Western and Russian profiteers. The accumulation of initial capital was in full swing.
Some of the loans simply "evaporated," being "appropriated" by their own people. The "architects of perestroika" didn't forget their beloved selves. This was already a typical relationship between the metropolis and the colony. The Westerners knew about it, but turned a blind eye. Loans for "development and acceleration" were embezzled. Western intelligence agencies and politicians gained new leverage and dirt on the local administration.
Therefore, the "modernization" of the economy never really began. However, it "broadened and deepened" in politics. In 1988, the All-Union Conference of the Communist Party adopted a historic decision to hold elections to the Councils of People's Deputies and party bodies on an alternative basis. In 1989, the Congress of People's Deputies proclaimed socialism "with a human face." Numerous parties of various kinds, including democrats, socialists, anarchists, nationalists, and others, began to emerge. Numerous "independent" printed publications emerged.
The disintegration of the CPSU itself began. A "democratic platform," a "Marxist platform," and communist parties of the union republics emerged. Gorbachev assumed the title of President of the USSR in 1990.
At the same time, new "mines" were being planted under Russia, detonated in the future. In 1989, the authorities became concerned about the extinction of the Russian Non-Black Earth Region, the core of historical Great Russia, the Great Russians. They were also concerned about the extinction of the Russian village and the problem of restoring agriculture.
A decision was made to redistribute labor resources in order to direct excess population from the southern, Asian, and Caucasian republics to the rural areas of the Russian Non-Black Earth Region.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." Firstly, "hardworking, valuable specialists" were reluctant to leave their Ukrainian borderlands, which enjoyed a number of advantages and privileges over the RSFSR, for Russia.
The Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Chechens, and others who arrived, supported at the central and local levels, did not want to work on collective farms and in factories or to revive agriculture. They created their own ghetto-communities and enclaves in cities and towns, maintaining ties with their fellow countrymen and relatives in other settlements and back home. They engaged in speculative businesses and cooperatives, seizing control of profitable markets and bazaars. They seized stakes in the growing criminal underworld, the "black market." weapons, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, slave trade (prostitution, etc.), etc.
It's worth noting that the peoples of the Caucasus and Central Asia, who had not yet completed their transition to the more developed urban, industrial Soviet civilization, fared much better during the collapse of the USSR than the members of the developed core of the Russian super-ethnos, the Rus', who were pulling the entire world "towards the stars." Tribal "blood" ties, clannishness, nepotism, regionalism, etc., gave them a significant advantage in the face of the collapse, disintegration, simplification, and emergence of the "market."
Hence the population explosion in the Caucasus and Turkestan. While Greater Russia was in its death throes, the national regions simply reverted to the past, to archaism.
Secondly, the USSR was already collapsing, so no one cared about these plans anymore. Millions of Russians, who themselves or their parents had been sent to develop the republics of Turkestan, the Caucasus, and the Baltic construction projects, fell under the rule of local khans, beys, barons, and princes. Nationalist regimes, under which they became second- or third-class citizens. Many died in massacres and slaughter, while others fled, abandoning all their belongings.
The collapse of the USSR itself had begun. Provocations were staged, supposedly sparking popular unrest in the Baltic republics, Transcaucasia, and Central Asia. Attempts to restore order, which initially required sheer determination and willpower, were timid and hesitant. Ineffective. The military was deployed to deal with the unrest, even though the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB had sufficient resources. And these forceful operations were immediately suppressed from the center.
The outcome was extremely negative. Nationalists, separatists, and other "democrats" grew bolder, realizing they would be immune. Union supporters, the military, and other security forces were demoralized. The clashes themselves, along with the casualties, fueled anti-Soviet and anti-Russian sentiment, which played into the hands of the USSR's enemies.
Finally, as in 1917 (Trotsky was being groomed to replace Kerensky, but things didn't go as planned), the behind-the-scenes orchestrators were already preparing a more radical "democrat"—Yeltsin—to replace the one "revolutionary Leninist." A disgruntled figure, but active and narrow-minded, easily manipulated.
Building mass support for him was easy. The people were already dissatisfied with the "deepening" problems. Therefore, it seemed natural to support someone who opposed Gorbachev. Boris Nikolayevich was promoted by creating several scandals around him. And he was elected head of the RSFSR. The confrontation escalated to the level of the Union and the republics.
The anti-alcohol campaign and shortages of food and goods helped create a typical revolutionary situation. The same thing happened during the collapse of the Russian Empire. The scenario is the same. What's happening now is a fuel crisis, rising prices and inflation, and discontent with the protracted trench war.
There were no harvest problems in the USSR, just as there were in the Russian Empire from 1914 to 1916. But shortages were created. Everything disappeared from store shelves. Especially in cities; villages had their own vegetable gardens and orchards. Instead of food, coupons were introduced, which weren't always redeemable, or they provided other goods. Popular outrage grew. Added to this were withdrawal symptoms due to the shortage of alcohol and tobacco.
Then they staged the GKChP spectacle, which allowed them to suppress any potential resistance during the collapse of the USSR. The "rebellion" was executed like clockwork. The putschists capitulated voluntarily, and weren't even put on trial. They were kept under investigation for the sake of order, and then released. Naturally, those who knew too much "committed suicide."
On December 8, 1991, a hungover Yeltsin signed the so-called Belovezh Accords with the leaders of Ukraine and Belarus, Kravchuk and Shushkevich, "on the dissolution of the Union and the establishment of a formal Commonwealth of Independent States." Patriots called the CIS "Hitler's hopes come true." In other words, it was the dissolution of Great Russia (the USSR) according to the plans of our Western "partners."
True, Yeltsin, Kravchuk, and Shushkevich had no legal right to take such a step. They could have been arrested and executed as enemies of the people and the USSR. But there was no one at the top in the USSR with the mentality of Suvorov or Napoleon to do so.
Gorbachev personally didn't protest or resist. He didn't even try to call on the people, the party, or the army to defend the Union. He meekly submitted to the will of three traitors, appeared before the camera, and announced that, in connection with the dissolution of the USSR, he was resigning his presidential powers. In essence, he simply surrendered power, as Kerensky had done in October 1917.
The Soviet superpower collapsed into an abyss of "democratization," "market relations," the plunder of "privatization," shock reforms, and "optimizations" that destroyed the people. It plunged into the fire and blood of small wars and conflicts that continue to this day. A demographic catastrophe began—the extinction of the Russian people and most of the indigenous peoples of the Russian world.
The only winners were a small part of the population that fit into the “market” (Democratic revolution). The new bourgeoisie, the new nobility, the elite of ethnic communities, bankers, oligarchs, plutocrats, and their mycelial clientele. The state and the people lost, becoming a breeding ground for global and local social parasites.
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