Sovietology
-
According to reports, during the most difficult period of the Sino-US trade war, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) considered the use of viral weapons to disrupt the United States. Chinese Samizdat 🍵 The Soviet Party fell apart because no one had the balls to keep it together. Xi Jinping, to CCP leaders in 2012 đź’€…
-
If Yugoslavia was an example of an army let loose after the collapse of a communist regime, the Soviet Union exemplified a disintegrating police state. The type of anarchy that follows from these two scenarios is different. Instead of open civil war as in Yugoslavia, in Russia the civil war is covert. WisĹ‚a Suraska The…
-
It is symptomatic that in the history of postcommunist societies the greatest political and journalistic hatchet jobs were against those who had doubts about granting the communists first immunity, then privileges. Professor Ryszard Legutko On the Fourth of July I received best wishes from a Romanian friend, Dr. Anca Maria Cernea. I could not help…
-
The people who brought Vladimir Putin from St. Petersburg to Moscow never cared about his credentials as a specialist in developing business. For them he was an expert in controlling business. All the time Putin worked in St. Petersburg, he played an official role as deputy mayor and chairman of the Committee [for Foreign Liaison],…
-
Many will not believe the truth. But here it is: The ruling clique in Russia is not nationalist. Real nationalist groups are persecuted in Russia. The leading political parties of the country are led by apparatchiks; that is to say, by “Soviet” persons. A famous KGB defector once suggested that Russia’s political parties are mere…
You must be logged in to post a comment.