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Chris Fox's avatar

Great story. This is such a strange time to be alive: as a Gen-x American looking around at the utter degradation of my country, it is old, solid, beautiful, mysterious and screwed-up Russia that gives me hope. There is something very encouraging about the older, cynical man sharing his understanding with the younger idealistic student here - both lovers of Great Russia, finding each other and passing on the commitment that has kept Russia alive. I would love to hear what the old guy says now about the SMO and what it means. The Covid caper exposed a lot of nefarious bullshit; but now the pro vs. anti Russia divide is becoming the ultimate test of whether anything noble can survive.

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Dionysios Dionou's avatar

Excellent piece Rolo. I see it as follows. As I've mentioned before I studied Russian history and literature in both under grad and grad school. I see Russia as a nation filled with amazing triumphs and horrific tragedies. I agree I think Russia and Russians are trying to make sense of their history especially 20th Century history. I'll offer some random thoughts and observations. Russia is a frontier nation in origins and a such a multi ethnic racial and religious milieu (like the USA) the glue that held the state together was autocracy/Orthodoxy where as in the USA it was Anglo-Saxon Magna Carta based concepts of liberty and "equality". Back to Russia. The 20th Century was tragic for the nation. By 1914 Russia was well on its way to becoming a major industrial power equal to any western nation and the USA. Had the revolutions of 1917 not occurred I maintain that by the later 1920's Russia easily could have emerged as the most powerful nation on earth. This was recognized by the Anglo-American oligarchic elites and they were determined to destroy Russia. The Rockefeller, Morgan, syndicates for financial reasons the Kuhn Loeb for the same plus racial hatred (this banking house was led by Paul and Felix Warburg, Jacob Schiff and Otto Khan German Jews) all three financed with the help of William Boyce Thompson and the American International Corporation political puppets like Woodrow Wilson and the funding of radical and revolutionary movements including the Bolsheviks. The February Revolution 1917 that brought down the autocracy was not spontaneous as it's often believed but planned bribery and treason caused the collapse and after Nicholas II abdicated his brother Grand Duke Michael was intimidated into renouncing the throne (terrible mistake) this paved the way for a liberal democratic regime the so called provisional government that would be toppled in October 1917 by the Bolsheviks that were financed by the Anglo-American oligarchs. William Boyce Thompson (1969-1930) personally gave 1 million of his own money towards the success of the revolutions both February and October. The Bolshevik regime that took power and won the Russian Civil War was a collection of elitists, neurotics, psychopaths, criminals and a few idealists. It was dominated by Jews and their goal was part revenge against Slavic Christians and to establish a base of operations to expand Marxist power which was for them Jewish power in disguise. They had no problem compromising or working with western oligarchs as both the NEP and 5 year plans demonstrate. Because for them it was never really about "Marxist" ideology it was about "their own power" in and outside Marxist circles. Stalin a convinced Marxist realized this and thus began to purge them. Many fled to the USA these Trotskyites eventually morphed into what we call today "neo-Cons" and have infiltrated all levels of life in the USA to the detriment of the nation culture and populace. Irving Kristol and his wife historian Gertrude Himmelfarb were both Trotskyites in the 1940's and 50's. Their son the balding flabby Bill Kristol the dean of "neo-Con" ideology. The USSR was always propped us by western oligarchs whether it was the 5 year plans that they created and built for the USSR in joint ventures with GOSPLAN or bailing out the USSR after the launching of Operation Barbarossa. Whether one agrees with Suvarov's thesis or not, there's no question from the October revolution in 1917 to the creation of the USSR in 1922 the nation was in a star perpetually at war: The red terror, the Russian Civil war, the Sino-Soviet War 1929, the Collectivizing of the land, the purges, the Japanese-Soviet War 1938-1939, annexation of Eastern Poland 1939, the Finish-Soviet War 1939-1940, and the annexing by force of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina from Romania in 1940. All the above led to the decision to launch Operation Barbarossa in 1941. Post 1945 the USSR immerged as a major power that could no longer be controlled the western oligarchs created their own Frankenstein monster. Stalin's dismantling of Jewish power in the USSR turned the Jews against the Soviet Union outside the country. After Stalin's death in 1953 a cold war began to contain the monster and encircle it with pro western (American) puppet regimes that were supported by Washington so long as they were anti Soviet and Maoist (after 1949) regardless of the nature of these regimes that were mostly petty tyrant dictatorships that fleeced their own nation treasuries. Hence current animosity towards the USA in third world countries (The CCP today is doing much the same thing.) Matters came to a head with the Cuban Missile Crisis JFK wanted to scrape the GO political status quo and it's one of the reasons he was murdering in an American deep state coup d' etat. After the collapse of the USSR in 1991 the western oligarchs now dominated by the "neo-Cons" as in 1917 wanted their revenge on the Slavs and tried to wreck Russia and turn her into a half ass puppet state. (ZOG began to slowly take over the USA around 1910 and after 1945 it began rapidly there's an excellent essay I read entitled, "The Decline of Anglo-Saxon America" the author escapes me at the moment that goes into this in detail.) Putin stopped this. And the neo-Cons have been at war with Russia ever since. All of this is not easy for the average Russian or American for that matter, to swallow. Russians are trying to make sense of all this, just as Americans feel lost in a WOKE collapsed American nihilistic trash culture. An alliance of Russia and the USA would be ideal just as an alliance between Germany and Russia pre-1914 would've bee ideal and almost happened. A Russo-American alliance could stop the decline that western nations are facing, and stand as a bulwark against the Maoist in Beijing and globalists in Davos. I've jumped around a bit as to write a full discourse would take a book I may write one day. I'd be happy to hear your thoughts and be a guest on a podcast with you and discuss all of this in deeper detail. Keep up the good work.

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