“On March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Churchill’s famous words ‘From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent,’ ushered in the Cold War and framed the geo-political landscape for the next 50 years.” (Source, for photo and quote)
The Soviet Union died on December 31, 1991. The system of a singular ruling party staffed by professional functionaries (AKA: apparatchiks) soon evolved into a hierarchy not unlike the Sicilian Mafia in America (La Cosa Nostra) with “Don” Putin ruling over Russia’s subservient oligarchical capos. Rich men, mostly, of whom several have been prone to unexplained deadly accidents since Putin’s “Special Military Operation” was launched.
Before Putin captured the Russian government, the old Soviet Politburo was the policy and decision-making center of the USSR.
When Khrushchev spoke critically of the deceased Joe Stalin, he was fired in a phone call made by a nearly unknown Russian, Mikhail Suslov. Suslov’s role in the Kremlin is described in Serge Petroff’s book entitled “The Red Eminence”. (Hard to find and expensive.)
For decades, Suslov was the ideological high priest of Soviet doctrine. He served as a king crowner. But was never king material himself. Seldom photographed. He minded the Communist store, as it were. And managed Soviet theory and practice as the unofficial chief ideologue of the party until he died in 1982. Then came…
A Russian General Wrote Truth
After the USSR crashed, Soviet Army Colonel-General Dmitre Volkogonov gained access to previously classified information in the Kremlin. He used what he found there to write a series of three biographies on Trotsky, Lenin, and Stalin. His fourth and final book was entitled “Autopsy For An Empire, The Seven Leaders Who Built The Soviet Regime”.
In the last book Volkogonov wrote before he died in December 1995, he wrote this:
“There are no perfect social-political systems. All suffer from corruption and bureaucracy to some degree, but experience suggests that these defects are best dealt with not by making tougher laws but by guaranteeing the liberties and rights of the citizen, by openness in the media, public accountability, a minimum of secrecy and the improvement of living conditions.” (p. 354)
And, he added this:
“As the Polish thinker Leszek Kolakowski has written, in totalitarian societies the lie fulfils a special function: ‘Versions are released for the people from above and can altered the very next day. There is no reliable criterion of truth apart from what is the declared truth at any moment. Thus, the lie in fact becomes the truth, or at any rate, the distinction between truth and lies, in the ordinary sense of these words, disappears. This is the great triumph of socialism, in the sphere of knowledge: to the extent that it succeeds in demolishing the notion of truth, it cannot be accused of lying.’” (p. 393)
Now, seventy-seven years after Churchill’s speech, a domestic Iron Curtain has fallen over the United States of America.
The key question today is: How long will it stay down?
And who, if anyone, will be assigned by the Democrat Politburo to phone Joe and tell him he’s fired?
Lee Cary——Bio and Archives
Since November 2007, Lee Cary has written hundreds of articles for several websites including the American Thinker, and Breitbart’s Big Journalism and Big Government (as “Archy Cary”). and the Canada Free Press. Cary’s work was quoted on national television (Sean Hannity) and on nationally syndicated radio (Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin). His articles have posted on the aggregate sites Drudge Report, Whatfinger, Lucianne, Free Republic, and Real Clear Politics. He holds a Doctorate in Theology from Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL, is a veteran of the US Army Military Intelligence in Vietnam assigned to the [strong]Phoenix Program[/strong]. He lives in Texas.
