THE KING IS DEAD! LONG LIVE THE KING!
On February 22, 1939, the world learned that the Soviet Union was secretly planning to take over the world with the help of devastating bacteriological and chemical weapons. Encouraged by the pact with Hitler, the Soviets’ Marshal Kliment Voroshilov—who would later succeed Stalin for a few months—publicly stated: “Ten years ago or more the Soviet Union signed a convention abolishing the use of poison gas and bacteriological warfare.1 To that we still adhere, but if our enemies use such methods against us, I tell you that we are prepared—fully prepared—to use them against aggressors on their own soil.”2 The government of the Soviet Union did indeed sign the 1925 Geneva Biological Weapons Convention, updated in December 2017, which prohibited the research and production of bacteriological weapons, but it never respected it.
“In today’s world, where nuclear arms have made military wars obsolete, our main weapon should be terrorism.” That was what the KGB General Sakharovsky used to preach twenty years later, when he was the intelligence adviser to communist Romania. According to him, just several tons of Novichok, a Russian nerve agent—at that time still under development—would have been enough to kill all human life in the non-communist world. (In 2018, a Russian military defector, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter were poisoned in England by Russian intelligence with a diluted form of Novichok, but the British, now familiar with this poison weapon, were able to save their lives.)
In 1989 Soviet communism collapsed, but the new “democratic” Russia was still mass producing bacteriological weapons. We learned that from Vladimir Pasechnik, the first major defector from the super-secret Russian biological warfare program, who in 1989 was granted political asylum in the United Kingdom. Pasechnik alerted Western intelligence to a super-secret Soviet biological warfare (BW) program, known as Biopreparat, and cowrote a book on this subject entitled Liquid Crystals. According to Pasechnik’s revelations, the Biopreparat program was ten times larger than the Western intelligence community had suspected. Pasechnik died of a stroke in 1993. According to his son Nikita, Pasechnik expected to be killed by the KGB—or later by its successor, the FSB—because of his disclosures.
In 1992, Col. Kanatzhan Alibekov, the number-two scientist of Russia’s super-secret biological weapons program, defected to the United States. According to his revelations, partially published by the National Defense University Press in 2016, the first major Soviet biological weapons systems were secretly developed in a laboratory hidden in Moscow and headed by Yakov M. Fishman until 1937, when he was assassinated during Stalin’s Great Purge, in order to preserve the secrecy of his work.3
Also in 1992, Russia’s first freely elected president, Boris Yeltsin, publicly admitted that his country was operating an offensive bioweapons program in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention that Russia had signed. Yeltsin’s admission was temporary, rejected by his successor, President Vladimir Putin. “What is the future preparing for us?” he rhetorically asked in a 2012 interview with the Moscow Rosiiskaya Gazeta. “In the more distant future, weapon systems based on new principles (beam, geophysical, wave, genetic, psychophysical, and other technologies) will be developed. All these will, in addition to nuclear weapons, provide entirely new instruments for achieving our political and strategic goals. Such high-tech weapons systems will be comparable in effect to nuclear weapons, but they will be more ‘acceptable’ in terms of political and military ideology.”4
To the best of our knowledge, today’s Russia still has its highly secret Biopreparat program, which is now involved in producing the new and more devastating generation of bioweapons suggested by President Putin. The Biopreparat facilities are still among the most secret secrets of that country, but in real life few secrets remain secret forever. The Russian media of these days has already revealed that the reorganized Biopreparat program has eighteen labs, production centers, and test sites. Among them are the Kirov bioweapons production facility, the Zagorsk smallpox production facility, the Berdsk bioweapons production facility, the Sverdlovsk weaponized anthrax center, and the Aralsk-7 biological weapons test site.5
So far, we do not have hard proof attesting that Russia has given communist China the technology for producing the novel coronavirus. An accident at Russia’s Aralsk-7 ultra-secret test site, however, did reveal that Russia secretly weaponized several biological weapons quite similar to the coronavirus: B. anthracis, F. tulaenis, Y. pestis, Coxiella burnetiid, and Brucela suis.
Soon after the Soviet bloc collapsed, researchers at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in the now liberated Leipzig discovered a genetic factor, the A1 mutation, which affects the ability to learn from past mistakes. On April 12, 2003, thousands of Americans, presumably infected by the A1 mutation, began sermonizing that capitalism was America’s real enemy and that it should be replaced with socialism by redistributing the country’s wealth. Quite a few young Americans cheered. They were, of course, galvanized by the prospect that a Democratic administration would force rich Americans to pay for young people’s own health care, mortgages, loans, and school tuition.
In September 2007, tens of thousands of young Americans attended an anticapitalist meeting in San Francisco, and on March 20, 2010, many more took to the streets in Washington, D.C., in a chain of so-called spontaneous demonstrations. In reality, these events were organized by a Moscow-financed outfit, A.N.S.W.E.R (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), which had sloshed out of the Workers World Party (WWP), a KGB front when Gen. Pacepa was at the top of its community. In typical Soviet style, A.N.S.W.E.R generously supplied buses to transport the “spontaneous” demonstrators and posted ready-to-use flyers on its website to be downloaded, printed, and passed around. At that time, A.N.S.W.E.R had large headquarters in ten major U.S. cities.
In November 2008, over 60 million Americans, most of whom had no longer been taught real history in schools, became galvanized by a socialist pledge to redistribute the country’s wealth in order to “change” the “rotting” America, and they gave their votes to the Party of Change. Soon, the United States was changed from a country belonging to “We the People” into one managed by a kind of a socialist nomenklatura with unchecked power, like the socialist Romanian nomenklatura to which Pacepa once belonged.
“We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it,” the leader of the U.S. House of Representatives nomenklatura once told the media.6 That was a first in U.S. history. It did not take long before this American nomenklatura started to take control of banks, home mortgages, school loans, automakers, and most of the health care industry. When tens of thousands of Americans disagreed with this transfer of wealth from private hands to the government, the Congressional nomenklatura called them Nazis. That was also what Ceausescu’s nomenklatura had called its critics.
God forbid comparing the United States with the bankrupt socialist Romania of those days, but we believe there is a dramatic lesson behind this figure of speech. On August 15, 1947, the Politburo of Romania’s Communist Party, which had just taken over the country’s helm, converted Romania’s old currency, called the leu (lion), into a new socialist leu. Each Romanian, regardless of how much money he owned, received the same small amount of the new currency. From one day to the next, there were no more Romanians owning more than the equivalent of a couple hundred dollars. In other words, there were no longer capitalists in Romania. A few months later, private properties were nationalized, and on December 30, 1947, Romania was officially declared a socialist country.
In 1948, when the Romanian socialist nomenklatura nationalized the oil industry, that country was the second-greatest oil exporter in Europe. Thirty years later, Romania was a heavy importer of oil, gasoline was rationed, the temperature in public places had to be kept under 63 degrees, and all shops had to close no later than 5:30 p.m. to save energy.
Once the second-largest oil and grain exporter in Europe, Romania was starving in those days. One of the most astonishing failures of Russian-style socialism was also the regularity with which its political triumphs produced economic ruin. Whether in transforming that country from the world’s greatest grain exporter at the time of the 1917 revolution into the world’s greatest grain importer, or in devastating Ethiopia’s economy to the point that its famine stirred the compassion of the entire world, Russian-style socialism invariably destroyed the national economy wherever it came to power.
In 2011, the new “democratic” Russia unleashed another weapon of mass destruction: anti-Americanism. On October 6, 2011, in a broadcast in English, a pro-Russian Cuban radio station that calls itself “A Friendly Voice Around the World” announced that the Workers World Party (a Marxist organization financed by Moscow) had decided to join the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations “against the capitalist system and in favor of a socialist future.” Radio Havana also reported that a Workers World Party conference to be held on October 8 and 9 in the Bronx in New York City would debate, “from a Marxist perspective,” America’s current “economic crisis.” “Long live the revolution! Long live socialism!” Others in Chicago and Philadelphia marched with communist flags. In L.A., a speaker advocated violence, as in the French revolution, which “made fundamental transformations, but it was bloody.” He supported bloody revolution in the U.S., too, because “Ultimately, the bourgeoisie won’t go without violent means … Long live revolution. Long live socialism.” Marxism is on the march again, and it has not even bothered to change its old clothes. Others in Chicago and Philadelphia marched with communist flags.
Anti-Semitism has raised its head too. “I think the Zionist Jews who are running these banks and our Federal Reserve … need to be run out of this country,” declared one Los Angeles occupier. “Jewish money controls American politics,” a New York occupier complained. Still others yelled that “Jews control Wall Street.”7 These are the identical slogans spread by Gen. Pacepa’s DIE around the world during the Cold War, when Moscow went out of its way to portray the United States as an “imperial Zionist country” financed by Jewish money and run by a rapacious “Council of the Elders of Zion” (the KGB’s favorite epithet for the U.S. Congress) in order to transform the world into a Jewish fiefdom.
On November 7, 2017, the new “democratic” Russia celebrated one hundred years since armed Bolsheviks had installed communism in Russia. For the rest of the world, however, that day marked the beginning of one of the worst mass-killing eras in history. According to a recent estimate by the prestigious Hudson Institute, “the victims include 200,000 killed during the Red Terror (1918–22); 11 million dead from famine and dekulakization; 700,000 executed during the Great Terror (1937–38); 400,000 more executed between 1929 and 1953; 1.6 million dead during forced population transfers; and a minimum 2.7 million dead in the gulags, labor colonies and special settlements.8