The most important feature of the contemporary World War is the global attack of the world's fascism and terrorism, under the leadership of the United States of America, on the interests of the working people and young national states of all the continents and regions. American imperialism uses more and more modern weapons in this battlefield, including the weapons of mass destruction. But in the middle of this battle is human psychology, human soul. Washington's strategic goal is to destroy the personality of the Homo Sapiens. This process includes both the spiritual area of the society life and the physiological essence of a human being. Gradually, the whole nations are being wiped off the face of our planet. For example, the population of Ukraine during the last 10 years of the so-called "democratic" reforms has diminished for almost 4,5 million. This is similar to our losses during the WWII. In Russia every year the population diminishes to a degree compatible with losing one medium size Russian region. ("Pravda", 20/11/2003.)

The whole armada of means and methods of bourgeois propaganda is nowadays, just as in the past, aimed at the destruction of the Soviet personality- formed in the Soviet times personality of a human being. Well-known ex-Soviet dissident who nowadays became passionate defender of the Communist idea, Alexander Zinoviev, explains: "Throughout the whole Soviet history the West conducted a non-stop war against our country: firstly it tried to destroy USSR through the nazi Germany efforts during the WWII and then, immediately after that war was over, it started the so-called "cold war" that lasted almost half of a century. This was a real war, not some sort of a peaceful competition, as some want us to believe today. It was a war of a new type. From the West's side it included enormous masses of people and far more means than for WWII were used for it. And we should be surprised not by the fact that USSR has collapsed, but that it was able to resist for so long the enemies whose joint forces were 10 times bigger than his." ("Communist", 06/01/2004)

At the same time, we have to take into consideration that this war is far from over. It continues. The ideological means and methods of the struggle, aimed at the destruction of personality of a Man- Creator, are now being used under the new conditions - those of an extreme social discomfort. As we know, before the Soviet people did not know what unemployment is. They were buying the objects of first necessities at symbolical prices, almost for free. Education, medical care, were free also. And then, suddenly, people, fooled by the enemy's propaganda, almost voluntarily rejected all of this… Instead they have received a mirage, a fantasy "paradise" of the consumer society… All this appeared to be a road to nowhere. Social discomfort, dead end road…

Modern social, political and economical shake-ups in our country, sharp falling of the material and spiritual level of people's lives, mass unemployment, deepening of the gap between the rich and the poor, growth of the political and cultural illiteracy of the people and lowering of their general development level have lead to sharp worsening of the psychological and physical condition of society as a whole and of its citizens as privates. What we see is the disturbance of people's adaptation to the new, discomfort living conditions. The feeling of frustration appears and tends to grow - that is a feeling of suffering about life's misfortunes and of seeing no exit, no light at the end of the tunnel. Stress becomes more frequent and far deeper. This leads to development of various nervous and psychiatric diseases. In such situation a man can rarely find a constructive way out of this dead end road. Appropriate conditions are being created for further brainwashing of the already fooled citizens, by means of the bourgeois propaganda. That is why we are more and more often facing destructive behaviour of so many people. Its essence is in the ethical and psychological derivation from the norms, demolition and final destruction of the personality.

In order to weaken this process, to protect the people from the negative influence of the destructive environment we have to know the peculiarities of such influences, the main forms of the destructive behaviour. One of these forms is the desire of a man to escape from reality. Our current government practically would like to achieve ethico- psychological degradation of our people. That is why it encourages such degradation. Among the means used by men in order to escape from the dis-comfortable reality are alcohol, drugs and other toxically dangerous substances. For the same purpose various games, including computer games, sexual amorality, the so-called "modern" pop music etc are also being used.

But due to the deeper and deeper sinking of a human being into the mist of alcoholic, narcotic or ideological mirage the rose view of the world disappears. It is impossible to escape the reality. The real road into the World of justice, equality and fraternity is the way of struggle. The problem is that those who suffer the sickness of spirit, are unable to fight.! Continuing searching for a way out of the horrible daily life, physically and emotionally weakened man often ends his life tragically. More and more often we see such a form of destructive behaviour as suicidal - that expresses itself in the desire to end life voluntarily. Especially quickly grows the number of suicides since 1992, that means since the total capitalist reformation of our republic. According to the date of Association of Psychologists and Psychiatrists, as result of suicides Ukraine loses annually 1,5 times more people than from the homicides. Annually 13-14.000 people take their own lives.

What is the way out of this current situation? How to achieve the halt of this process of spiritual and physical destruction of a human personality? In order to do that, we must first of all, to end the situation of social discomfort in our society. And there is only one way towards the realisation of this goal - that is the resurrection of our socialist Motherland. "Drugs abuse is a form of a "shadow" of our society," - says psychiatrist from Dniepropetrovsk L.S. Saut. – "The way towards overcoming drugs problem goes through positive changes in the society itself." ("Dosvitni ogni", May 2003, no. 18)

Translated from the Russian by Irina Malenkov

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