By PAVEL KRASNOV
Executive member of the Canadian Friends of Soviet People
Dear Comrades!
I would like to clarify the current situation in Russia and the former republics of the USSR, because our course of action depends on a correct understanding of this situation. Presently there are two prevalent points of view that are aggressively promoted by Russian and Western mass media.
The first point of view is that Russia is currently at the stage of 'young' or 'wild' capitalism, and with the time approximately 50-100 years it should progress to a western-style capitalist society with all underlying attributes such as 'democracy', trade unions, welfare, a middle class and so on. This model has dominated the media for about 15 years after 'perestroika'.
The other widespread point of view states that Russia is a reincarnating superpower headed by patriotic KGB agents, a-la 'Russia rises from its knees'. This model is being actively promoted in Russia and is also getting popular in the West, since it can be used by western powers to create for the public a demonized enemy, an 'Empire of Evil # 2' of sorts.
Well, I have to disappoint you. The situation is very different. In Russia; power is currently in the hands of an established comprador dictatorship regime. This is not 'young capitalism' as many believe, but a backseat semi-colonial capitalism, similar to the one in the Philippines, Salvador or Nigeria. The situation is a bit more complex because Russia still has nuclear weapon left from the USSR as well as some residues of advanced science and weapon though depredating very fast.
Many think that compradors are a part of the national bourgeoisie. In reality, they are agents of influence of foreign powers who are robbing their country in the interests of their masters. In return for their services, they are allowed to keep a portion of the riches they plunder. Compradors keep their money in western banks, educate their children in western institutions and own property in western countries. Living under a constant fear of a national liberation revolution like in Cuba and Iran, these compradors are always ready to escape to the West.
Backseat capitalism is a rule of thieves and bandits who use the dirtiest methods to manipulate the public mind. They pretend to uphold "democracy" and promote pseudo-nationalism, but elections are faked, voting results are changed and the western lifestyle and culture are being forced on the population.
One of the most distinctive features of backseat capitalism is extremely high corruption. The level of corruption in Russia and Ukraine is currently the same as in Honduras, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Nigeria.
In Russia and the other countries of the former USSR the comprador regimes were established as a result of so-called 'perestroika', which was a combination of special operations executed by several anti-socialistic and anti-Russian groups that established a temporary alliance. This alliance consisted of several degenerate parts of communist and state bureaucracy, the newly formed mafia and the Western elite. Western secret services and the degenerate branches of KGB played a very active role in these operations.
This was not the first attempt aimed at the destruction of the Soviet Union. It was preceded by two other "perestroika" attempts. The first attempt, directed by Trotskyists, occurred in 1936-1939 and was routed by Stalin during the so-called "mass repressions". The second attempt was executed by a Trotskyist group lead by Khrushchev, and occurred in 1956-1965. It was suppressed by a group of WW2 veterans under the leadership of Brezhnev. However, Brezhnev only suppressed the "perestroika" attempt and did not eradicate the roots of the problems. I would like to emphasize that "perestroika" happened because of Khrushchev's actions and the inertness of Brezhnev's regime.
The deal that was reached between the traitors and the western powers and which lead to "perestroika" was simple: the traitorous elite wanted all of the advantages of their positions without any responsibilities. They wanted to have the level of life of the western elite, which they could pass on to their children. To achieve this, the Soviet Union had to be destroyed, all its property had to be stolen and sold, and the profits transferred to western banks.
Obviously, the western elite had promised these traitors everything they wanted – a market for the stolen goods and property, support of the western media and acceptance into the western elite club. In advance they even afforded Russia to join the G7 club that in reality means nothing.
In return, these traitors had to destroy the strategic industries of the USSR, its scientific and educational structures, its space program and its army.
However, after the USSR was destroyed and its stolen riches ended up in western banks, it turned out that the West was not going to uphold its promises. The money and property of the Russian compradors that are kept in the West are controlled by the western powers and can be confiscated at any time. Thus, under the constant threat of confiscation, the Kremlin elite is forced to accept any demands set by the West.
The same scheme was used to take over Indian kingdoms 300 years ago, to control China during the Opium wars in the 19th century and to destroy Yugoslavia recently.
Western elites have a huge amount of experience in dealing with traitorous powers.
Step by step, the traitors are forced to surrender the strategic positions of their countries, sell their resources and betray their allies. In the end, the compradors receive the final demand, which consist of the complete separation of the country and allows foreign rule. This is the logic of treason. If they try to resist, they will be destroyed by the now superior western forces, as happened with Milosevic. This is what happened to USSR and is now planned for Russia.
At the same time, the compradors are always under threat of an internal revolution. Thus, they must both fulfill the western demands and try to control their people using force and lies.
Because of this, the surrender of the country is done gradually under the cover of mass media and pseudo-patriotism. Putin and Medvedev are nothing more than puppet leaders of a liquidation team, whose goal is going to be achieved when the country dies. However, they cannot allow this truth to come out, and so they are forced to play the role of patriots. The "restoration" of Russia and its army, the flights of strategic bombers to Venezuela and verbal threats to the western powers are nothing more than PR, meant for the Russian people. At the same time, it is an attempt to blackmail the West in order to bargain for better capitulation conditions in the future.
Now the compradors do what any independent state ever does – sell everything that possible to get cash now, not caring how much harm it will bring in the future. They sell advanced military technologies as happens with China and India, including equipment for their production, demolish and sell state-of-the-art Soviet machinery to get money now, cleaned uranium to the USA for nuclear weapons ('uranium deal') and so on.
However, what is going to happen to the compradors after the separation of Russia? Originally, they planned to escape to the West, where their money is kept, where they have property and where many of their families live.
When they lose these strategic positions, their property and money are going to be confiscated and they are probably going to be eliminated one way or the other. This happened to the Iranian Shah Pahlavi and the former president of the Philippines Marcos.
The West is in a serious crisis and needs to complete the destruction of Russia as soon as possible. The Russian traitors understand the trap that they are in, but they have no way out of this situation. They are trying to trick their western masters, but it is not so easy to do.
We cannot count on the reincarnation of the treacherous Russian elite. They cannot transform from traitors to patriots – that means they are going to release their riches that stored in the West. Besides that, do you honestly think that Putin, for instance, is going to order a nuclear attack on Germany, where his family is living?
The current events in Ossetia are a quick attempt to finish Russia because it still has potential to rise up, defeat compradors and become an empire that would be a competitor of the West that blocks them from the world domination. Moreover, then Russia can transform itself into the nightmare of the imperialists – into Soviet Russia that is especially dangerous for the West that faces a very serious crisis.
To avoid that scenario the Western powers initiated the plan of finishing Russia. Potentially, the destruction of South Ossetia and its planned betrayal by Russia would have led to an anti-Russian rebellion in North Ossetia, which is a part of the Russian Federation. This, in turn, would have lost Russia the Caucasus region, and then a big part of South Russia.
However, the now cornered Russian traitors realized that this was the beginning of the end for them and decided to regain their lost positions and they gave the Russian army the order to attack. Naturally, they were not allowed to finish the fascist Georgian regime. Now the compradors are trying to recover their relationships with the West.
However it is obvious that the West will not allow this after they have disobeyed their master's orders. The western powers always have a "plan B" and now the destruction of Russia is following a different, longer, path than before.
To understand how much the Russian elite is controlled by the West, it is enough to remember that during the war in South Ossetia, which was inspired and backed by the western powers, Russia continued to transit NATO military shipments to Afghanistan through Russian territory without the right to inspect these shipments. Recently, the compradors began to understand that they are of value to the western powers only while there is something to destroy in Russia and while they still control the nuclear armaments left over from the USSR.
It is obvious that a country with such leadership has no future. In the current situation, the only future that Russia is likely to have is that of a third-world country, a country with the coldest climate on the planet.
At the moment, the Russians are, per se, an occupied and oppressed people. The constant insults aimed at the nation and its history, combined with the people's increasing disappointment with the leadership and the upcoming unavoidable crisis cause a strong feeling of national protest and form a potential for a revolutionary situation. Consequently, the ideas of Lenin regarding oppressed people and the connection between social and national liberation can be applied to the Russian people.
However, let us not deceive ourselves. Neither in Russia nor in most other former republics of the USSR there is now a basis for a socialist revolution – an active and poor proletariat or a huge peasant class, suffering from a transition to capitalism. At the moment, Russia is a classical comprador state, just like most countries in Latin America.
The type of the future revolution in Russia will, most likely, be in the form of national liberation. It could later be transformed into a socialist revolution, just as happened in Cuba. This means that it is necessary to not only work with communist movements, but to also cooperate with powers that are ready to fight for national liberation.
National movements can be very powerful, but usually they have problems with understanding what they are planning to build after they get to power. Usually the nationalists are acting more 'against' then 'for'. If national liberation forces stay without ideological and intellectual support of socialist forces they can become a victim of the big bourgeoisie or other manipulators and join national-socialists, more known as Nazis, and these forces are already formed in Russia.
I want to emphasize – if we reject dealing with fair and reasonable national liberation forces, well, after some time we will have deal with Nazis. We can say from history that communication with Nazis is possible only by force and it costs a lot of blood.
So, we need to work with rational and fair national liberation movements. By the way, Fidel had started his way of revolutionary as s Cuban nationalist.
Now I want to say a few words about so-called 'communist' parties in Russia, but presently this illness is specific for the entire communist movement in the world. Usually in one country we can see several dozens of tiny groups that name themselves 'truly communists'. These political dwarfs are always in the state of blood feud that never stops.
Even a child can say that union is much more effective that a single unit. No doubt that adult people understand that as well, but at the same time, for the last 20-30 years we hear only appealing to integration but nothing happens.
This phenomenon is permanent over time and from country to country. That means that this political fragmentation has objective not subjective reasons. The root reason of this phenomenon is not personal and does not depend on the leaders’ ambitions.
These political sectarians just pretend they struggle against capitalism, but in reality they do no harm to the declared enemy. They know it and excuse their passivity by their paucity. But the Bolsheviks started their struggle when their party consisted of 9 persons! Why are 'modern communists' so passive? Of course, some of them are communists only by name, but not all of them. I think the reason why they do not act in reality is based on their uncertainty about their way. They agree with main ideas in common but they cannot visualize the smaller details and they don't know what to do and where they are going. All of them agree that they want socialism. But which socialism: socialism of Stalin, socialism of Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Mao, Fidel or Kim Il Sung? Which model?
Only 2 models of socialism are presented now on the planet – Cuba and North Korea. Frankly speaking they are not the models to envy. They don't even come close to the bright image of the 'society of the future' that the USSR had.
The Soviet model was really stunning with the effectiveness and humanism but it demonstrated serious weakness of this model – the degeneration of its elite into compradors. And people think now – if we build USSR-2 what if we have Khrushchev-2 and Gorbachev-2. And we don't have the answer now how to avoid that.
If we say the truth, then we should admit that we have a huge gap in our ideology and the image of the future that we are planning to build. It is hard to believe that the last person who really moved ahead the theory of socialism was Stalin, but that was more than a half century ago!
What happened afterwards – all frozen ideas, even the best ones, covert with time into sectarian form – according to dialectics – it does not have movement and progress.
That means that one of our main tasks is to move ahead the theory of socialism, the model the society of the future. We should build the upgraded model and attract new people by beauty and fairness of this idea.
Progress of human consciousness has clear rules and history shows that
after a temporary standstill on the way, it inevitably follows a new
ascent of ideas and creativity. It is not the end at all, just the very
beginning of the way of ideas that are worth living and fighting for,
since humanity is now facing the most threatening crisis in history,
and there is only one way out of it – socialism. In the last years
there has been developing a great interest in the USSR, its experience,
socialism and the ideas of communism.
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