10 July 2021

Solzhenitsyn's Warning to the West, Part III

 


More from Solzhenitsyn’s Warning to the West speech of 30 June 1975 in D.C., to the AFL-CIO.  He describes the context of the Communist system.  Most Americans aren’t tracking this information.  Not much of it has been taught in schools.  Note that the Soviet tyranny was several of orders of magnitude larger than that of Nazi Germany, and China is several orders of magnitude larger than the USSR.  With that in mind, as you read, note the parallels between the nascent Soviets and what is happening around us in Canada, Europe, and the US right now.  I lost count.

For decades on end, throughout the 1920’s, the 1930’s, the 1940’s, and 1950’s, the Soviet Press kept writing ‘Western Capitalism, your end is near.  We will destroy you.’

But it was as if the capitalists had not heard, could not understand, could not believe this.

Nikita Khrushchev came here and said, ‘We will bury you!’ They [the capitalists] didn’t believe that either.  They took it as a joke.

Now, of course, they [the Soviets] have become more clever in our country.  Today they don’t say ‘We are going to bury you,’ now they say, ‘Détente!’.

Nothing has changed in Communist ideology.  The goals are the same as they were, but instead of the artless Khrushchev, who couldn’t hold his tongue, now they say, ‘Détente.’

In order to make this clear, I will take the liberty of presenting a short historic survey—the history of these relations which in different periods have been called, ‘trade,’ ‘stabilization of the situation,’ ‘recognition of realities,’ and now ‘détente.’  These relations have at least a forty year history.

Let me remind you with what kind of system relations began [the Soviet System].

The system was installed by an armed uprising.

It dispersed the Constituent Assembly.

It capitulated to Germany—the common enemy.

It introduced punishment and execution without trial through the Cheka [Secret Police].

It crushed workers’ strikes.

It plundered the countryside to such and unbelievable extent that the peasants revolted, and when this happened it crushed the peasants in the bloodiest possible manner.

It smashed the Church.

It reduced twenty provinces of our country to utter famine.

This was in 1921, the infamous Volga famine. It was a typical Communist technique: to struggle for power without thinking of the fact that the productivity is collapsing, that the fields are not being sown, that the factories stand idle, that the country is sinking into poverty and famine—but when poverty and hunger do come, then turn to the humanitarian world for help.  We see this in North Vietnam today, Portugal is on the same path.  And the same thing happened in Russia in 1921.  When the three-year civil war, started by the Communists—and ‘civil war’ was a slogan of the Communists, civil war was Lenin’s purpose; read Lenin, this was his aim and his slogan—when they had ruined Russia by civil war, then they asked America, ‘America, feed our hungry.’ And indeed, generous and magnanimous America did feed our hungry…

…This was a system which was the first—long before Hitler—to employ false announcements of registration, that is to say: ‘Such and such persons must appear to register.’ People would comply and then they were taken away to be killed.  For technical reasons we didn’t have gas chambers in those days.  We used barges.  A hundred or a thousand persons were put into a barge and then it was sunk…

…This was a system which exterminated all other parties.  And let me make it clear to you that it not only disbanded each party, but destroyed its members.  All members of every non-Communist party were exterminated.

This was a system which carried out genocide of the peasantry.  Fifteen million peasants were shipped off to their deaths. 

This was a system which introduced serfdom, the so-called passport system.

This was a system which, in time of peace, artificially created a famine, causing six million persons to die in the Ukraine between 1932 and 1933.  They died on the very threshold of Europe. And Europe didn’t even notice it.  The world didn’t even notice it.  Six million persons!

 Keep all this in mind. The media narrative ignores Antifa, their destruction, and their arrogance while tacitly excusing their ideology.

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