Getting back on topic here - this is something that might interest Paultician:
The Perestroika Deception' reveals how the largely unseen Soviet collective lead-ership, borrowing the mind-control ideas of Gramsci, implemented their long-prepared shift from Lenin's 'dictatorship of the proletariat' to his 'state of the wholepeople', the primary characteristic of which is a theatrical display of 'democratism'designed to convince the West that a decisive 'Break with the Pasf has taken place, inorder to encourage Western Governments to abandon caution and to embark upon an open-ended programme of collaboration with the 'former' Soviet Bloc. Implicit in suchcollaboration is the threat of a 'return to the Cold War' - or worse - if the West does not cooperate. The equation can be summed up as 'cooperation-blackmail'.
In the 1960s, the strategists had established specialist Institutes under the control of the USSR Academy of Sciences. These were instructed to study Western attitudes and to inform the leadership of likely Western reactions to given tactical manoeuvresor scenarios. As the strategists had anticipated as a result of these studies, the West was caught off guard and enticed by the 'Break with the Pasf. Indeed it was enthusiastic
since, as Anatoliy Golitsyn explains, a deception, to be successful, must match the known aspirations of the target as closely as possible. Thus the West interpreted the cosmetic changes as a deepening of the process of Soviet 'reform', offering fresh opportunities for policy and trade. In reality the West faced an 'acceleration in the unfolding of Soviet convergence strategy which is intended to procure the subservience of the West to Moscow under an ultimate Communist World Government 7 .
Like the works of Sun Tzu, Machiavelli and Clause witz, this work is devoted to explaining strategy. Unlike the works of those classic authors, however, The PerestroikaDeception' deals with the contemporary world, explaining how Russia and China adopted the attitudes and ideas of these thinkers and have applied them globally for a generation. They seek the irreversible 'restructuring' of Western thinking, responses
and society itself, as their price for 'no war' and for 'changes' which the West hasaccepted as genuine, and liable to lead to the normalisation of 'post'-Communist society accompanied by the abandonment of revolutionary objectives.
The Perestroika Deception' is unique in the literature on the Communist and'former' Communist states in that it addresses the unbroken continuity and implementation of the 'convergence' strategy, a grand overall design - or what the Soviet Leninists call 'the general line' - since it was decided upon in 1958-60. As the Author explains on page 51, 'the general line' - which is flexible as to timing, contains a variety of options and takes full account of risks and possible losses - guides the course of the Party's actions over a period of twenty to thirty years in pursuit of its unchanging Communist objectives. The feature of strategy which distinguishes it from policy is that it contains within itself a secret, concealed or deceptive manoeuvre, designed to take the adversary by surprise and thus secure victory for the strategy'. 'One can', as Arbatov
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explains in The System', 'trace most clearly a direct continuity between the ideas of theTwentieth Party Congress, detente, and the New Political Thinking'. Indeed, one can;and for the elimination of all doubt, further confirmation of 'post' -Communist adherence to the strategy of deceptive 'convergence' with the West has been helpfully provided by Viktor Chernomyrdin.
Speaking on the 'Russia' TV Channel [Moscow, 2030GMT, 15 December 1992], the newly appointed Russian Premier reaffirmed 'the general line', asserting the inherent flexibility of the strategy without, of course, revealing its content: 'My colleagues in the Government who are working today will pursue this line. The planned line. The one which has been worked out... Life makes amendments to our programme, additions, perhaps, changes. But we will keep to the basic line'.
Full text of "Anatoliy Golitsyn Perestroika Deception"
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Clearly we see the strategy of the Soviets and Chinese are based on lies and deception. Isn't it amazing that this plan was in place as far back as early as the 1940's - 1950's? Galistyn who defected from Russia in 1960 - thereabouts - has proven to be right. Be sure to read both of his books, Paul. He is a treasure of information!
