The Roads We Take

or

The Requiem For KGB Russia

 

By Andrei Shkarubo

 

The civic duty’s done –what’s next?

(Subjective causes of the regime’s collapse)

 

A new transmutation of power which has taken place in Russia under the guise of elections once again sent us wondering about the mental adequacy of the Russian political system, and about the repercussions which may follow.

 

Debating the adequacy of the Russian regime many, some jokingly, others in earnest, recollected Sigmund Freud and his psychoanalysis. It’s really difficult to avoid parallels of psychoanalysis here: while in the past our society was forced to scratch the back of its head wondering how come that authorities had once again succeeded in swindling the people, now we have to scratch the other place, and the old feeling of bewilderment has given way to the feelings of revulsion, humiliation and anger – all those feelings the man has when his integrity, defined first of all by the respect of his right of choice, has been trampled on, actually ravished.

 

Naturally, not all in Russia have such feelings – many people think that human rights and human integrity in Russia are nothing but worthless benefits on which they are all too eager to cash in. The more so that some of them, those alleging that all power comes from God and doing their best to convince the other Russians of it, have done rather well selling out their own and other peoples’ integrity, much to the envy and admiration of the legion of Russian philistines.

Of course, there’s still quite a number in Russia of those moral perverts who give authorities their love for free, some because of the deep-rooted masochism called ‘patriotism’, others – from the force of habit, being totally unable to discriminate between their civic and connubial duties – something which for the Russian subconscious became the age-long tradition.

 

On the other hand, the power in its relations with the people harbors the same unhealthy feelings – of cold disdain, fear and sadistic delight in pain caused to its neighbor, i.e. all those feelings which intellectual impotent might harbor discovering in dismay that his possession of secondary sex characteristics, somehow called in politics ‘charisma’, is not sufficient to give pleasure to his neighbor, neither in sex, nor in politics. It’s small wonder therefore that in its intellectual impotence the Russian regime finds no better solution than the extensive use of the rubber dildo known to ordinary Russians as police baton.

 

This intellectual impotence aggravated by total absence of morals has brought about in our modern life a political, if sexual, perversion called ‘sovereign democracy’, so far unknown to psychoanalysts and which malign opposition often calls ‘modern fascism’ to emphasize the perversion’s political essence, the dictatorship of oligarchs and secret services.

 

An appropriate emphasis indeed, although there’s a distinct difference between the modern fascism and its classic predecessor: the latter was an expression of a revanche of a rising socio-economic system seeking expansion and annexation, creating the superman cult and asserting though open terror the right of might.

 

The modern fascism in its present KGB/FSB interpretation, on the contrary, is the agony of a socio-political system, completely compromised and therefore unable to bring into frenzy the gullible masses by total lie tactics wrapped in romantic myths. This is not the marching fascism of fanatics and idealists paralyzing philistine pragmatists with horror, this is a creeping fascism of philistine pragmatists themselves, scared by their inadequacy amidst the rising chaos of disintegrating system, inadequacy common-place among spiritual spongers, capable of breeding only marauders and manipulators.

 

The first tacit admission of this inadequacy was transfer of the highest office in the Russian state to the person who has no KGB background, at the same time trying to keep control over the state by moving Putin into second topmost position of prime minister. In other words, the Russian spooks fearing possible repercussions of their rule are trying to move back into shadow, in fact, in political Past…

The question is if it is possible, even for the KGB, to rewind Time and enter the same river twice?

To answer this the knowledge of Sigmund Freud and his psychoanalysis is insufficient: it can explain only subjective causes of developments, whereas in our, like in any complex case the understanding of objective causes is necessary, which is impossible without systemic dialectic analysis, i.e. it’s not so much Sigmund Freud as Karl Marx who can answer the question.

 

Why they cannot enter the same river twice

(Objective causes of disintegration)

 

Speaking of objective causes of current developments one should keep in mind that our interpersonal, social relations are but a reflection of the people’s attitude to the outside world.

 

It’s our relations with the outside world, i.e. our Being, which forms our social (collective) consciousness, its world outlook and ideology, in other words, creates a picture of the world which reflects our position in it in general, and the position of each of us in particular, the position which we occupy, or have to occupy for the society as a whole to be able to survive in the rapidly changing conditions.

 

To understand the nature of social relations our relations with the outside world may be divided, conditionally, into three levels:

1)                  top level which is beyond human grasp and control, which has the form of various beliefs and religions organizing human relations along the principle of equality of all before God, and preaching brotherly love;

2)                  medium level which covers relations with our own kind and has the form of inter-societal, mostly, inter-state relations, organizing human relations along the principle of “friend or foe”;

3)                  bottom level which covers relations within human grasp and control, relations of man and nature, expressed mostly through labor and consumption, organizing inter-personal relations along the principle of “boss-subordinate”;

 

it’s these three levels-factors which define both the development of social consciousness (its structures like ideology-ethics, universal outlook-scientific knowledge, culture-history) as well as developments of the corresponding relations inside the society.

Paraphrasing the old saying, one can state that we are not simply what we eat, we are also what we create, what we do to our neighbor, and what we believe in.

 

Guided by this three-level character of relations between society and the outside world, as well as by the principle of cyclical and dialectic nature of social development, one can state that each new cycle of development during its period of quantitative growth comprises the following four stages:

1)                  society’s formulation and adoption of the program of a new cycle of development;

2)                  selection-creation of a social mechanism for the program’s implementation (selection of the ruling class which is to play the role of a social engine of development, and, on its basis, formation of the government structures);

3)                  creation of an economic mechanism of development (creation of the energy base necessary for the implementation of vital aspects of economic development);

4)                  implementation of the program of the new cycle of development, i.e. creation of a new socio-economic system;

 

after which, due to dialectic nature of development, a period of ‘qualitative leap’ begins during which the processes opposite to those of the period of the quantitative growth take place, i.e. decline, disintegration-reform of the old structures and emergence of signs of new ones, creating conditions for the conception of a new program of social development.

 

Since the emergence of state, the four above-cited stages of the rising of a new socio-economic system correspond to four major castes-classes: 1) high priests-ideologists-scholars creating a new informational product in the sphere of social consciousness; 2) warriors-administrators responsible for external and internal social relations; 3) capitalists-managers who are determining material-economic carcass of a new society; 4) laborers, implementers of other men’s plans and decisions.

 

As history shows, it’s these four classes which play by turns the crucial role in formation of this or that socio-economic system.

The choice of a hegemon class depends on what aspect of relations with the outside world becomes vital, what program of social development in this connection is selected, and what class is capable and interested in its implementation.

 

(It’s worth note that of these four classes only two contribute directly to society: the high-priests/scholars and the laborers who form two major poles of the ‘generator of social development’. The other two classes contribute indirectly: they live either by making favorable conditions for creation, i.e. play the role of intermediaries-managers, or unfavorable, i.e. play the role of social parasites).

 

Thus, the latest selection of the bottom class, the proletariat, was objectively dictated by the fact that any further intensification in the exploitation of nature (which is still the major way of man’s existence) by the old means, i.e. by further increasing the exploitation of man by man, was physically impossible. Then the ‘progressive’ part of mankind tried to give up its cannibal habits and proclaimed the ideas of Liberty, Fraternity and Equality so as to put up a united front against their old external enemy, the Nature. Ideologically, this path of development was formulated as a program for the construction of a ‘humane’ communist society in which each could have ‘according to his needs’. As social needs were customarily determined by the human stomach and genitalia, it was only too natural that the bottom class became hegemon of this ‘revolution’.

 

As a result of the choice of this path of development (new in form but old in essence because the predatory, parasitic mentality of the ‘master of nature’ remained unchanged) the former grave diggers of capitalism, the working class, gave birth to its own grave digger, intelligentsia (thanks to which the planet Earth is rapidly turning both into the grave digger and the grave of the rapacious mankind). In other words, the bottom of the caste hierarchy, the laborers, had to hand over power to the top of the caste hierarchy, the ‘high-priests/scholars’. (Which naturally couldn’t take effect all at once, bearing in mind the existence of two intermediary castes, and extended throughout the period of ‘qualitative leap’ with its inevitable social melee we are now witnessing).

 

The emergence of intelligentsia and its role of a grave digger had objective causes: first, the continued growth of material product was impossible without corresponding growth of informational product created by intelligentsia; second, the increasing role of intelligentsia demanded a review of social relations – as long as intelligentsia remained a slim social group it was forced to put up with proletarian dictatorship, working in the labor camps’ laboratories of the former USSR. As soon as it began acquiring the features of a class, the objective contradictions between dictatorship and free intellectual work became evident. (The very conception of this new class signaled the end of proletarian dictatorship – which found its expression in Khruschev’s ‘thaw’ and also in Kruschev’s use of the army to shoot the mass demonstrations of workers protesting the forfeiture of their economic and political rights, in plainer words, the rising prices and bureaucratic abuses. Those who had been nothing, and then became all, at the expense of their lost class consciousness, have again turned into nothing, thus finishing their cycle of dialectic development).

 

As socialist state did not envisage any democratic institutions which might allow the transfer of power from one ruling class to the other, depending on changes in the balance of class forces, a small, or rather, minute part of intelligentsia, ‘idealists’ tried to fight for their civil, if not political, rights by organizing dissident, human rights movement.

A larger part of intelligentsia, ‘pragmatists’ began seizing economic power by organizing shadow economy (which was inevitable under the USSR’s conditions of economic stagnation and increasing deficit), and merging with the party and state nomenclature.

 

As a result of this mesalliance, the soviet bureaucracy got rid of the alien proletarian ideology and its material carrier, socialist state, while intelligentsia, with the proclamation of liberal values, acquired access to power and national wealth.

Though in practice they soon discovered that power and wealth was shared with their minutest part, those who had since soviet times strong, long-lasting ties with bureaucracy which used them as informers against their own class, the fellow-intellectuals. Those who for some reason failed to catch the KGB’s kind attention and join the ranks of their most trusted aides, those became ‘free entrepreneurs’, joining the army of small merchants and speculators.

 

Naturally, these social transmutations could not in principle solve the contradictions accumulated in the society, and restore the broken social balance. Like any process of decay and fermentation, they only made a temporary intoxicating illusion of disappearing contradictions; and like in any process of decay and fermentation what came on the very top could only decay and stink, i.e. was a complete shit.

When this process of decay started getting out of control and threatening the very fabric of political system, the caste of capitalists-managers surrendered power to a ‘higher’ caste of warriors-bureaucrats; in other words, the KGB, the armed corps of soviet bureaucracy openly came to power.

 

Having acquired an uncanny sense of the class enemy, first, in the battles against internal enemies of the soviet, now of the Russian state, these gentlemen-comrades made no mistake in identifying their strategic adversary: the only obstacle to their plans of ‘restoring law and order’, in plainer words, of building a fascist, Pinochet-style regime, was creative intelligentsia, all those who had a much more powerful intellectual, if not moral, potential, and who because of their self-sufficiency had no need for KGB minders, moreover themselves were capable of organizing a new form of social relations. In short, these people could, at any moment, turn from objective potential rivals in the fight for power into their actual rivals, the adversary. And KGB has always sought to nip such in the bud.

 

So the early XXI century was marked in Russia by the whole array of trials of scientists on preposterous charges of espionage, treason and disclosure of state secrets (prior to this some of the scientists became eliminated in a mysterious wave of murders and ‘suicides’). At first this even affected the self-esteem of our dissidents and human rights activists, those professional fighters with the wind-mills of the Russian state who thought naively that moral superiority was sufficient to defeat the Empire of the Evil, and who therefore believed that they, being in the front-line of the fight between the state and people, would be the first to come under the attack of the KGB ruling regime.

Their self-esteem was soon restored because everyone thought that this brazen prosecution of spying academia was actually designed to coerce our civil society in general, and dissidents in particular.

 

Alas, had our dissidents studied Karl Marx’s dialectics and historical materialism more closely, instead of criticizing him for the sins of his wayward followers, they would have seen that the whole situation was much more dramatic, that KGB, like Biblical King Herod, was in effect seeking to destroy the country’s future – the hegemon class which actually hasn’t emerged yet, as it has no class awareness of its own, i.e. no independent outlook, no ideology, and consequently, no party of its own.

 

But vying with Time is beyond the faculty of humans – even if they belong to the God-chosen type of KGB scum. Such strife soon reveals their spiritual and intellectual meagerness, because history shows that their unsophisticated approach of “No man – no problem” has not solved a single problem yet, leaving to others to sort out the mess this approach has created.

 

KGB has indeed succeeded in putting away our scholarly ‘traitors’, in silencing our journalistic ‘whores’ , in banning all ‘unconstructive’ opposition, and even in disciplining some of their own governors and oligarchs. In short, they succeeded in building the hierarchy of power, or ‘the vertical of power’ in their parlance. But this vertical, because of the peculiar nature of its construction material as well as the builders themselves, began exuding such a stink that people preferred to call its rule ‘shitocracy’.

 

Even the West which treated KGB’s regime with obvious benevolence and secret envy started averting its nose, claiming that Russian democracy stinks. Kremlin retorted by saying, quite reasonably, that it’s not up to the West guided since Roman times by the principle ‘money doesn’t stink’ to stick its nose in the affairs of others and to dictate how the Russian democracy should smell, the more so that Russian democracy is a sovereign affair, with its own national-cultural features. The West, mumbling something about the division of power, the free press and fair elections, has finally clasped fingers over its nostrils and shut up.

 

A resounding victory for KGB both on domestic and foreign front. And suddenly amidst this triumph of sovereign democracy, for no apparent reason, the winner takes off his laurel wreath and tries to hide behind the royal seat, installing in it the other person?! The person of a different ‘blood group’: with no experience of undercover work, no training in assassination techniques or any other appropriate methods of state government. Suspicion arose among the members of the order of the knights of cloak and dagger that the most heinous treason had taken place – the sell-out of their corporeal interests. An explanation too subjective and emotional to deserve any comment.

 

Whereas the objective cause of this unexplained miracle remains the same: Kremlin has openly failed to solve the problem of the rising class. Their plans to raise a ‘middle class’ which was to become the pillar of their kleptocratic regime proved still-born: the class became broke before it had any chance to make money. For which the regime was only partly to blame because impoverishment of intelligentsia and its transformation into intellectual proletariat is a world-wide phenomenon, one of the manifestations of the crisis of our consumer civilization in which brains cannot compete with the stomach and genitalia by definition.

The extermination of these paupers with academic degrees by KGB methods coupled with the state ‘reform’ of science and education proved counter-productive – the intelligentsia has taken a radical turn to the left, and now is actively engaged in its own unification.

 

Nor the KGB-built hierarchy of power has benefited in any way the Russian society as a whole: its rule of terror had only a short-lived success in putting down our socio-economic conflicts, being unable to solve neither its ideological nor economic causes.

The absence of any ideology which could give, if not moral, at least public justification to the rule of terror has only increased corruption and broadened the social gap to unprecedented scale turning Russia into the country with the largest population of billionaires and beggars. To fill the acutely felt ideological vacuum, the public consciousness has been fed a wild mixture of royal absolutism, nationalism and orthodox obscurantism called ‘national idea’.

But try as they might, the public, nonetheless, did not become high on this junk. The only one who seemed to become hooked on it was the main architect of this ideology, as Kremlin was soon to announce that it would solve all our economic problems by turning Russia into the energy superpower. One might treat such announcement as continued ravings of megalomaniac regime and greet it with a hearty laugh, had it not been for the crumbling economic infrastructure, freezing and sporadically exploding homes in the country of irreversibly declining population, now for the first time facing the real prospect of hunger.

 

This ‘energy superpower syndrome’ was bound to sour foreign relations too, as Kremlin’s repeated attempts to blackmail the West by cuts in power supply made the West question the plausibility of its notoriously pragmatic attitude to comprador dictators: sooner or later their latter aspect gets the better of their former one – an inevitable finale for any political schizophrenia built on the principle of polarization of public consciousness by full-blown lies and terror.

 

To crown this all, the inability to solve fundamental problems caused a visible schism in the hierarchy of power itself: the KGB clans split by business interests (as they say, ‘it’s only business – nothing personal’) started an open war with each other – much to the delight of completely terrorized public.

 

Confronted with complete failure of their both domestic and foreign policy, the KGB has no option but to move back into the shadow, and thus preserve their wealth and control over the actual levers of power. That’s why they chose such ‘presentable to all’ successor: a liberal and a patriot, an intellectual and law and order supporter. Anyway, if the situation in the country begins to get completely out of control and possibility of collapse becomes evident to everyone, they could use such president to launch yet another ‘perestroika’, the way they did it in the late1980s. For the time being, their main task is to keep their rabble at home and their ‘friends’ in the West unaware that this collapse has actually started.

 

To hide this topmost state secret, the state’s top official has to issue a barrage of threats against the West (earlier KGB employed their political clowns for such tasks), the Russian strategic aviation resumed its patrol flights both in media and air space; while huge Arctic territories became overrun by the Russian deputies’ corps. This orchestrated campaign caused mixed reaction: some received it with humor, the way the Los Angeles Times commented Putin’s Munich speech by the article “The Louse Roared” , others responded with equal farce, like Time Magazine which nominated Putin the Man of the Year; the rest, to save their sanity, suggested feebly that the whole circus was necessary for Kremlin to ensure the victory of its party of power in the coming parliamentary and presidential elections – although the last idiot in Russia knew full well that printing press was a sufficient enough instrument to ensure Kremlin’s victory in any elections.

 

The other tone and tactics were used by the KGB to advance their appointee to the throne: on the one hand, a rumor has been launched dear to the ears of the liberal intelligentsia alleging that the would-be president is to restore the democratic norms and to end the KGB abuses - the way it was done in East Europe which,, after the restoration of its democratic institutions, used lustration against the former members of their disbanded secret services (such rumors cause particular laughter among those who still remember similar, but pathetically futile, attempts mounted by the Russian human rights movement in the early 1990-s). On the other hand, patriotically-minded intelligentsia has been told an equally laughable tale about upcoming large-scale innovations (the so-called ‘program of four ‘i-s’’).

 

Naturally, neither any acting, nor any enact president would be allowed to implement any lustration. Nor does he seem to entertain any idea of it, or planned any attempts on the real power per se – otherwise he, while no enacted yet, would not have stripped the Russian defense ministry of its most valuable asset, the land. No politician planning a fight for real power would risk souring relations with the army, even as depraved as the Russian one. Anyway, if you cannot rely on such army as your would-be ally in the battle for power, why turn it into your enemy?

 

Note: That the Russian army cannot be a reliable instrument of politics is a well-established fact – since it has long degraded from being a ‘school of soldiery’ into a ‘school of sodomy’, and has long accepted its unmanly role of a passive ‘passion bearer’ in Russia’s political life. It’s worth noting that Russian military caste has never been known for its political activity – their infamous rebellion ‘on the knees’ they staged Dec.14, 1825, against Russian absolutism is the case in point. Whereas if you study the Russian myths and legends you’ll see that civic courage has never been a strong point in the culture of the Russian military, often resembling a drunk sally rather than a civic action: take, for example, a well-known episode when Russia’s most popular hero, Ilya Muromets, after his row with King Vladimir (not to be mistaken for his present namesake Vladimir Putin) joined his booze-companions and knocked off all church cupolas in the ancient Russia’s capital, Kiev; or another episode, less familiar (for understandable to the Russian authority reasons) when a well-known king Vladimir’s warrior called ancient Russia’s first lady ‘a bitch and a whore’ – far from being disposed to question the veracity of his statement, I’d still point out that it was made at the king’s banquet, i.e. in a state of inebriation.

 

As for the tall tales of four innovational ‘i’-s, they must be finally dotted: deep qualitative innovations which mankind needs so badly in its present impasse – these innovations are just means for further progress, unable by itself to solve any serious problem because mankind is undetermined about the goal of its progress or its course, nor, what’s more important, about the cause of its present impasse.

 

In other words, creation of the new forces of production based on high-tech science-intensive technologies requires new scientific outlook, new understanding of the surrounding world; it requires new ruling class, new state and new society which must have a vested interest in the implementation of these reforms. In a Russia of KGB cannibals, this can be only a political bluff with the only aim of escaping the inevitable retribution by bringing the country into a mess in which the usual Russian queries “Who’s to blame?” and “What to do?” would be pointless.

 

Nonetheless, before this happened, one should look for answers to these questions if not for one’s own sake, then at least for the sake of those who can learn from others’ mistakes.

 

But before talking about the causes of the accumulated insolvable contradictions in social relations and in the relations between society and the surrounding world, we must say at least how these contradictions manifest themselves.

 

First of all, the old contradiction has reemerged of physical impossibility of any further intensification of exploitation of nature by means of further intensification of exploitation of man by man. This contradiction was alleviated for a period, on the one hand, when the working class came to power and abolished exploitation of man; on the other, when a new class sprang up, intelligentsia, whose brains made it possible to intensify the exploitation of nature.

After which everything has been restored to its former position, with the only change that to the impoverished workers an equally impoverished intelligentsia has been added. And another insolvable contradiction has been added, too: any further exploitation, in effect, elimination, of nature leads to unavoidable elimination of man. In other words, the social crisis of insolvable class contradictions has deteriorated into civilization crisis – the contradiction between man and the planet Earth, aggravated daily by the fact that mankind has no integrated planetary vision which modern science cannot form despite its possession of sufficient knowledge potential. Science is helpless because its creator, intelligentsia, is still serving not cause of spiritual harmony and reason, but the interests of the golden calf, the demands of human stomach and genitalia.

So, at the present stage of historical development human society is experiencing a crisis of all three levels of its relations with the outside world which means that we are at the threshold of the start of a new civilization cycle which is to be launched, like it or not, by the caste of ‘high priests-scholars’.

 

For the society to be able to cross this threshold, intelligentsia must form its own outlook, which must demote man from the rank of master of nature to its servant; it must form its ideology too, founded not on the principle of polarization and exploitation of everything living and nonliving, but on the principle of harmonious cooperation with the outside world, the ideology which is to rebuild the present civilization of consumption into civilization of science, living not by exploitation and destruction, but by harmonization and creation, not by senseless barbaric intrusion into the macro-world, but by careful creative penetration in the micro-world, after learning the invisible laws of which, mankind would be able to launch a qualitatively new cycle of space exploration by entering into the commonwealth of civilizations of cosmic consciousness.

Creation of a new civilization requires not just new social relations, but a new man pursuing knowledge not for the sake of his material interests of lust and luxury, but for the sake of internal spiritual development.

 

 

Elections without choice, or Russia’s special path – into nowhere

 

As the crisis of our consumer society becomes increasingly evident throughout the world, people become aware of the necessity of the choice of alternative path of development.

Where such awareness is happily matched by the presence of democratic institutions of power hope emerges that people would be able to make such choice and overcome their civilization threshold.

Where people with their animal level of consciousness have lost all moral and political right of choice, where democratic institutions of power have been turned into a sham to hide the criminal fascist nature of their regimes, there can be neither hope, nor alternative.

 

Russia is no exception. This is becoming increasingly evident right now when its ruling regime is no longer capable of influencing reality, and therefore is forced to generate mass illusions, like parliamentary and presidential elections, the United Russia Party congresses and other porno-shows of political unity – nothing of this has been new to the country of fools and scoundrels (I apologize for this slip in political correctness: in the country of masters and servants – who’s who there is open to debate).

The result won’t be new to us either: the way disappeared the USSR, which its citizens called jokingly ‘a country of fools’, so will disappear the Russian Federation, the country of scoundrels.

(Note: One hopes that the fate of these two states will teach others a moral: Brainless herd is easy to govern, but uneconomic to keep)

 

The more so that the chosen form of government, the diarchy, now fully matches the Russian state emblem – a two-headed monster facing both the West and the East because its chicken brains are incapable of normal geo positioning.

The notorious duality of the Russian power, evident in its thoughts and words, words and deeds, has now acquired a really symbolic expression because this bicephalous business is actually the result of genetic mutations accumulated over numerous generations.

 

The only problem is that in real life such two-headed creatures do not live long. So all politologists’ disputes as to which of the two heads of this eagle-posing chicken is to win are useless: this predator of the chicken species won’t survive the strife.

This is evident to all serious analysts. According to the forecasts made in the US intelligence reports, Russia as state won’t last till 2015.

Small wonder, therefore, that the West ignores the numerous despairing appeals of the Russian opposition and human rights activists urging it to freeze western banks’ accounts of the Russian criminal ruling elite.

The pragmatic West is well-aware that KGB Russia is doomed and its collapse is inevitable, and it will contemplate the use of such powerful lever as freezing of bank accounts only when Russia starts disintegrating and the whole situation there will get out of control, i.e. when the country’s division along business interests takes form of administrative-geographic division and collapse of Russia’s Far East provokes China to switch from the creeping intervention of illegal immigrants to open intervention under a slogan of return of original Chinese lands, with Chinese original deposits.

Naturally, in such situation the West won’t sit idly by, watching its strategic rival seizing no man’s assets; it will be forced to retaliate, and at such critical moment it wants to be sure that none of the KGB bandits or Russia’s regional strongmen who might find themselves in possession of the remains of Russia’s nuclear arsenal would dare opposing the West, which at this very moment will suddenly remember these bank accounts, their criminal origin, their holders and their numerous crimes, including crimes against humanity – which won’t be difficult with the international tribunals’ practice fully recognized.

 

So, what can those who have no bank accounts, neither abroad, nor in Russia, do under such promising circumstances? How can they, reduced by the fascist regime to a state of voiceless slaves, prevent it from turning them into utter brutes which their masters, after using them as draft animals, are finally to skin as well?

Strange as it may seem, there is a way out even in such situation: unlike animals, slaves can think. One should learn, first of all, to distinguish between the requirements of Time and its temporary favorites; one should learn to analyze and draw one’s own conclusions and, finally, make one’s own inner choice, even if you’re denied the formal right of choice.

As soon as he succeeds in rasing his own self-awareness, the former slave turns into freedom fighter.

If you have brains, you have hope. Unless God chooses to punish people for their sins by taking their reason completely…

April 22, 2008