Communist Revolution 2

 

Communist Revolution 2

 

From Barrel of a Gun to Termites

Experiments by Lenin and Stalin had shown that communist economic policies lead to nothing but disaster. It had dawned on the communists that the bloody revolution through the barrels of a gun, as predicted by Marx, was no more a possibility. The Berlin wall was the biggest symbol of communism’s failure. Thousands of East Germans on one side of the wall, used to defy search towers, barbed wires, Sten gun wielding guards, trained dog squads… to escape to the west. They were willing to risk their lives to run away from the Communist Utopia in the East to the Capitalist Exploitation of the West. Communism needed fresh ideas and new strategies to fulfil its ambition of global control.

Since the canons of revolution could not destroy the impregnable walls of western democracy and capitalism, a strategy was created to bring them down with the help of internal enemies, who would keep gnawing at them like Termites. This collapse of the West would happen slowly, crippling their power centres one by one, wearing them out one step a a time. For achieving this they created the biggest organisation in world history whose proficiency in treachery, betrayal and deception was unparalleled. This organisation was known as KGB, Russia’s dreaded secret service.

The poisonous belief system and modus operandi of KGB was first exposed when its senior functionaries like Vasily Mitrokhin and Yuri Bezmenov defected to America and took political asylum there. Bezmenov has spoken and written in detail about his interactions with Indians. One of his assignments in KGB was to keep Insia’s so called progressive intellectuals, authors, poets, journalists, professors, always spell bound by the virtues of a communist revolution. He was in charge of organising their visits to Moscow, hosted by the soviet government. He says one of his tasks was to keep them permanently intoxicated. He says, they really believed that they were actually VIP intellectuals, but for us, they were a bunch of political prostitutes to be taken advantage of for various propaganda operations. Bezmenov says, his job also included collecting volumes of information on opinion makers- publishers, editors, actors, educationists, Member of Parliament and businessmen. Those who would toe the Soviet line, would be provided opportunities for career advancement. Those who resisted the Soviet influence, would be character assassinated, insulted in various ways, denied opportunities, or if needed, be executed physically. Bezmenov continued these activities, when he was placed in the Russian Embassy in India. He says, when it came to slow poisoning the Indian mind and keeping it permanently under Soviet influence, the KGB saw no role for ideologically minded leftists. The KGB was of the opinion that one day, these people would be disillusioned and then they would be the worst enemies. Bezmenov was horrified to find the names of pro soviet journalists. These are the most recruitable people, people who lack moral principles, who are either too greedy or suffer from too much self importance.

The job of these useful idiots was to create instability in the country by spreading ideological confusion. The KGB had a bullet reserved for them, once their utility was over. Bezmenov says that the Indian media lied to its own people when it claimed India was the biggest democracy. He says that India was an autocracy ruled by the Nehru family. India was not a non aligned nation, it was aligned with the Soviet Union. Indira Gandhi was in the Soviet pocket from the moment she stepped into her office, says Brezmenov. This is also corroborated by Vasili Mitrokhin in his book Mitrokhin Archives, which is a collection of his hand written notes and official soviet documents collected during the thirty years of his work in KGB. Mitrokhin says,” India under Indira Gandhi was also probably the arena for more KGB active measures than anywhere else in the world.” According to KGB files, by 1973, it had taken 10 Indian newspapers under its control. During 1972, KGB claimed to have  planted 3789 articles in Indian newspapers. Another KGB agent Kalugin recalls one occasion on which Andropov personally turned down an offer from an Indian minister to provide information in return for $50000, on the ground that the KGB was already well supplied with material from the Indian Foreign and Defence ministries. It seemed entire country was for the sale.

Speaking about the formation of Bangladesh, Bezmenov says, reporting by American correspondents as it being an Islamic grassroot revolution, was ‘absolute baloney. He says there is no such thing as grassroot revolution. Any revolution is a by product of a highly organised group of conscientious and professional organisers. Members of the Mukti Bahini were trained by the KGB at Lumumba University, Crimea and Tashkent. He further says, these liberation armies of all kinds all over the  world are nothing but useful idiots. Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, a leftist, was shot dead by his own Marxist- Leninist comrades. The moment they served their purpose, all these useful idiots are either shot dead or left to rot in prison, like in Cuba. ( The source of all this information is the book The best of Schuman, a collection of interviews with Yuri Bezmenov who was known as Thomas Schuman after his defection to the USA.)

 

Ideological Subversion –

On realising that the bloody revolution of the proletariat in the capitalist countries of the west was no longer a possibility, the KGB evolved a new strategy of changing the perception of reality in the minds of millions of people all over the world, by psychologically manipulating them through media, publishing, entertainment etc. By winning this battle for minds and hearts, they set about to create so much ideological conflict, confusion and instability that their target countries would inexorably get drawn towards self destruction. Roman diplomat Marcus Tullius Cicero had said,” A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it can not survive treason from within. For the traitor appears not the traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims and he wears their face and their arguments. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city. He infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”

Destruction is inevitable when the values on which the country stands are subverted from within. Chinese philosopher Sun Ztu had said in 500 BCE, ”All warfare is based primarily on deception of an enemy. Fighting on a battle field is the most primitive way of making war. There is no art higher than to destroy your enemy without a fight – by subverting anything of value in enemy’s country.”

No wonder, they relentlessly attack Bharat’s most valuable possession – Our Culture. Sun Ztu had formulated seven principles of subversion:

1.    Cover with ridicule all the valid traditions in your opponent’s country.

2.    Implicate their leaders in criminal affairs and turn them over to the scorn of their populace at the right time.

3.    Disrupt the work of their government by every means.

4.    Do not shun the aid of the lowest and most despicable individuals of your enemy’s country.

5.    Spread disunity and dispute among their citizens.

6.    Turn the young against the old.

7.    Be generous with promises and rewards to collaborators and accomplices.

2500 years after Sun Ztu, we came across the same thoughts in a document titled, “Rules of Revolution” prepared by the Communist International for guiding young revolutionaries.

1.    Corrupt the young, get them interested in sex, take them away from religion. Make them superficial and  enfeebled.

2.    Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial issues of no importance.

3.    Destroy people’s faith in their national leaders by holding the latter up for contempt, ridicule and disgrace.

4.    Always preach democracy, but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible.

5.    By encouraging the government to extravagance, destroy its credit, produce years of inflation with rising prices and general discontent.

6.    Incite unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorder and foster a lenient and soft attitude on part of the government towards such disorder.

7.    Cause break down of the old moral values – honesty, sobriety, self-restraint, faith in the pledged world.

Bezmenov says that the most potent weapon of self-destruction is EQUALITY. Complete equality is an idea that sounds great, but it is simply impossible to implement. That is why democratic nations promise equality in three things – Opportunity, Voting Rights and Rule of Law. Making legislated or enforced ‘equal outcome’  a pillar of a political system, leads to sky high expectations. Every citizen expects the best outcome irrespective of his/her ability, output and performance. Moreover, they expect this as a right, which means the state must give it to them irrespective of any effort on their part. Unfulfilled expectations lead to discontent and frustration, social unrest and instability. These in turn lead to demands that the state must pass stricter laws to enforce equality. The country rapidly hurtles down the path from an open society to closed society. In this situation, it is easy to fan the flames of discontent and push the country towards anarchy and destruction.

The KGB has created a four stage action plan to bring about this collapse. Being the leaders of the free world, this plan was designed with America as a target. That is why Bharat needs to study this plan closely, interpret events happening around us in its context and be aware of the mines being planted in our path. These Four phases were – 1. Demoralisation

  2. Destabilisation

  3. Crisis

  4. Normalisation

The first and the most important phase of the subversion process is DEMORALISATION. Once a country’s self-confidence and self-respect are destroyed, it loses its ability to counter any ideological or real attack. Once this is achieved, it is easy to go through the next three phases. Bezmenov says, it takes about 15 – 20 years to demoralise a nation, as this is the minimum number of years to ‘educate’ one generation. Once this indoctrination of a generation is completed, the country starts slipping irrevocably towards destruction. In this process, education is weaponised to attack the value system and the ideals that have nourished the country so far.

The British had used this technique very effectively against Bharat by weaponizing history and education. This is called Colonisation of Mind. The process of Demoralisation operates simultaneously on  three levels. The first level is the level of Ideas. Subversion is most effective when its seeds are sown in the field of ideas. No one ever faces a firing squad for the sake of money. But thousands are willing to lay their lives for their belief, faith or ideology. Once ideas are contaminated and ideological confusion is created, it is easy to push a country towards self-destruction. There are certain values, principles, faith that define a nation and the citizens of that country would not hesitate to sacrifice their lives for it. In order to destroy them, influencers of the public mind in fields of religion, culture, education, media, entertainment etc. are undermined from the inside, and become like Termites. Religion is ridiculed to end its influence, education and media is monopolised to control the narrative and culture is branded as regressive and a new, shallow, pretentious, plastic culture is created. Traditions like respect for elders, following rules or discipline are made to look uncool. Bezmenov had written down in his book, Love Letter to America, in 1984, “Though shocking, it is an undeniable fact that the socio cultural downfall of democratic nations has not happened naturally, but has been brought down by precise planning and implementation.”

 

The Second Level of Demoralisation is Structures. Along with the realm of ideas, seeds of demoralisation have to be sown in Structures, like- Social, Economical and Political Institutions of the target country. These include Judicial and Law Enforcement Agencies, Security and Defence Organs, Political Parties and groups, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and related Think-Tanks, Bureaucracy, etc. For example this results in real victim of crime or lawlessness – a law abiding, tax paying, common men- feels helpless and more dependent on the government. This creates a society that is habituated to depending on the all powerful government for every small issue, an ideal condition for a totalitarian state. People’s rights are over emphasised, and responsibilities that go with them are completely ignored. This creates a society composed of irresponsible, careless, reckless, uncouth individuals, each one doing his own thing, unconcerned about anything else. We often hear comments like, ‘Logon ko danda hi chahiye’, which is actually a desperate cry for dictatorship. A consistent smear campaign is carried out against the police and the armed forces, painting them as bloodthirsty, demons and fascists. Doubts are raised against their every actions, enquiries  are instituted against them, under the charges of human rights violations. Such confused and demoralised law enforcement agencies are a sure recipe for anarchy. People started making baseless charges against our armed forces with impunity because they want to use the freedoms and rights in a democracy against itself.

Level Three of Demoralisation is the Daily Lives of the citizens of the target country. To achieve this, the fiercest attack is made on the institution of Family. Family is the strongest pillar supporting the global order. No wonder all the totalitarian ideologies who wish to spread anarchy and destroy global order, have always viciously attacked the family institution.

In stage 2, that is DESTABLISATION, Political Parties that take a myopic view and ignore the long term rise of the country, are promoted. They promise social security by raining freebies upon people. The already dispirited and enfeebled society looks up to these parties as saviours. Having shifted the entire responsibility to the saviour, people continue to live in their glorious inaction, while the parties that have promised them the moon, keep postponing the inevitable collapse, one day at a time. The country is kept on a boil by leveraging present fault lines and by creating new ones. This instability is useful for the next phase.

Stage 3 is CRISIS. In this phase, the sleeper cells that were so far biding their time, become active and seize power as quickly and as ruthlessly as possible.

The 4rth and final phase is NORMALISATION. In this the remaining pockets of resistance are crushed and the country is brought into the normal state of Socialism that is Subjugation. Hitherto shrill voices about rights, people’s movement and social justice are completely silenced. The state is no more to be criticised and the media obediently censor itself. The Useful Idiots who were instrumental in pushing the country towards self-destruction are either thrown in jail or are summarily executed as they are of no use now.

This entire description of KGB’s strategy is from Thomas D. Schuman’s (Bezmenov) 1984 Book, Love Letter To America.