excerpts from Luis Bolin's book Spain: The Vital Years, 1967
"In the summer of 1936, the complicity or passiveness of the government in power gave likelihood of success to a plot of this kind."
"..as a first step enjoined Communists to denounce to agents of Popular Front all prominent members, whether active or passive, of political parties opposed to extremist aims.
All were to be eventually arrested together with their relatives, employees, and servants, threats being used to intimidate them."
"The instructions were specific as regards the elimination of General Officers, Corps Commanders and Colonels.
It was considered preferable to attack them at home, groups of ten men, armed with sub-machine guns, being assigned to this mission. Generals and Colonels would be shot down by the three most determined members of the group, any person offering resistance being killed on the spot regardless of sex or age."
Perestroika as restructuring of western mind;
the failures and successes of the fake collapse;
on Macron, Scholz, Tusk
Sino-Soviet split an instance of scissors strategy ending in one-clenched fist;
decrepit state of our nuclear arsenal, disarmament active measures against the US worked
The more interesting thing is that the collapse of the soviet union was predicted by defectors nearly 10 years before as a strategy to take away the West's enemy.
Now every communist country on earth is aligned with Moscow.
The fiction "Russia ceased to be communist" continues
but this requires a reframing of history, a backpedaling of long-held positions,
careers built on a carefully crafted fiction,
intel reports suddenly become misinformation and the realization that we've not understood the depth of strategic maskirovka.
the Czech Velvet Revolution was the first modern "liberalization"
where the former dissidents soon found out that the entire coup and revolution was planned by the Communist Party itself.
they took away the name "communist" and the West rushed in to aid
thoughts on the events from a different angle;
intrigue and clandestine politics
high-profile & traveling priests are often useful assets for intelligence gathering and espionage.
missions in countries hostile to the united states are sometimes loosely 'employed' as on-the-ground intel.
maybe for their own protection, or other reasons
it was revealed in the Vatican's document on McCarrick that he may have been an FBI informant for counter-intelligence operations.
KGB was certainly interested.
as a deeply compromised man, he'd make a perfect target & conduit for intelligence
in 1982, GRU defector Jan Sejna warned that the soviets would dissolve the Warsaw pact to lull the West to sleep.
Anatoliy Golitsyn, KGB defector, said the same in '84.
he gave some 150 predictions, 140+ coming true by the mid-90's.
then in 1988,
Georgi Arbatov confirmed this by telling us,
โWe are going to do a terrible thing to you,.. We are going to deprive you of an enemy.โ
communists in our gov't (& true believers in perestroika) then built up the "former" communist bloc;
as we did with Tito
it was Lenin's NEP on steroids; a super NEP if you will.
you remember the narrative.
"Reagan defeated communism."
they let us believe we won the Cold War.
but unlike 'denazification' in Germany, there was no "decommunization."
the KGB remained in power and propped up oligarchs.