"Plans for a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union in September 1945"

Adapted from a machine translation, original article at [mil-history.livejournal.com/956037.html] [https://archive.is/qdMWk]:

The nuclear powers are wondering how big nuclear potential should be there to nuclear deterrence. For the common man it sounds like - how much we need to have atomic bombs to be safe?
It is - quite a fair question, though ... how course, many people know that there are many sides of the issues, as can be concerned about and hold on so many that find yourself sitting on a powder keg ... ..
It was there, in the Second World War, the United States of America our real allies to the Soviet Union? Or is America acted on the principle: "The enemy of my enemy - my friend"? .. Yes, in fact it was.
A good example of this "genuine" American friendship is and that this is one of many examples: by 30 August 1945 - before the Second World War was officially over - The US military has already drawn up a list of targets for the atomic bombing of the Soviet Union ... and even made ​​a map of the Soviet Union with a range of its bombers, along with "first" and "second" priority objectives marked on this map.
Today, aware of numerous plans of a nuclear war against the Soviet Union, which intends to implement the US government. All came from the US monopoly on nuclear weapons, which was to become the primary means of drawing the Soviet Union irreplaceable losses. Recall that until August 1949 the Soviet Union did not possess nuclear weapons.
In September - October 1945 the US Joint Chiefs of Staff approved a directive №1496 / 2 "The basis of formulation of military policy" and №1518 «strategic concept and plan the use of armed forces of the United States," in which the main military objective was designated the Soviet Union.
The directive of the Joint Military Planning number 432 / A of 14 December 1945 for the atomic bombing were scheduled 20 major cities and industrial centers of the Soviet Union. Then it expected to lose 196 atomic bombs. It was a plan called «Peancer» (Ticks). It was followed by a number of other plans with daunting names: "Hot day," "radiant heat" "Shake" and so on. Each of them was planned more and more targets for destruction and more victims. Inevitably, this was a war to prevent Soviet tank armies, stationed in Eastern Europe, which in the case of conflict, according to estimates of US experts, would arrive within a week or two out on the Atlantic coast.
Zest American generals also hamper the ability of large, up to 55%, the loss of American bombers during raids on Soviet cities.
This is what these honest allies can pretend to be a friend at the same time and at the same time to make plans and to plot to nuke his ally? Such rotten friends are - and this is the United States.
Notice the following documents. Earlier, they are nowhere and never presented and only now declassified. First of all, I want to note that we are talking of 1945, when nuclear weapons were only one country and the nuclear deterrence of the question. Nuclear weapons are none other than America, no one threatened ... Moreover, America has a monopoly and demonstrate its nuclear weapons on Japanese cities of peace, no one at all, and did not threaten ...
First of all, this card is a package of documents from the archives of General Groves and was scanned from microfilm Vellerstaynom. The Second World War is not over yet! I predstalyayu it to you. Radius shaded triangles - a range of American bombers B-29 and B-36, which had not yet been built, but already designed.
B-29 is the aircraft that carried the nuclear bombing of Japan. In 1945, the B-36 still in the project, they were adopted in the United States in 1949 and had a longer range than the B-29, but the US military has built for them grandiose plans.
The map shows the possible points on the basis of America's friends, who gladly would give the Americans a place to start a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. This Norway (Stavanger), Germany (Bremen), Italy (Foggia), Greece (Crete), Saudi Arabia (Dhahran), Pakista (Lahore), Japan (Okinawa, Shimushiru), United States (Adak and Nome, Alaska). See the map in high resolution [archive.is/eWcKu].
The document is a plan of analysis with distribution of power and resources needed for a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union.
The architect of this document was Major General Loris Norsted US Air Force (USAAF). Major General Loris Norsted was one of the main planners of the Military Air Force and later - the Supreme Allied Command in Europe for NATO. This hero of the American nation, plans to destroy us, even put on the cover of the magazine. That's it!
September 15, 1945 - just less than two weeks after the formal surrender of Japan and the end of the Second World War - Norsted documents sent to General Leslie Groves. As you might guess, the classification for this document was high: "TOP SECRET LIMITED," which is the highest during the Second World War. This document had a map which laid out the purpose of the US nuclear bombing of the territory of the USSR.
Let's turn to the document. So in this paper provides an account of a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, i/e a calculation of the question - "How many bombs you must USAAF estimated that the US" ally "for the bombing of the Soviet Union?" So .... At least they wanted 123. In this case, the document states that the ideal would be to have 466. This was after a little over a month after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That's how it is!
That's the document. Click on it to see the full document (.pdf)[web.archive.org/web/20130117032650/http://nuclearsecrecy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/1945-Atomic-Bomb-Production.pdf].
Of course, a true bureaucratic fashion, they provided a document clearing the table:

Let's look at it. The left column - at least right - optimum. The purpose of the requirements of the plan - "M. Day », defined in the report as the day on which the United States would want a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union. In other words, an attack with a nuclear strike by the United States for the Soviet Union - Nuclear knockout designed to immediately lower the USSR in the Stone Age.
For the "minimum" nuclear attack identified 15 preferred targets for the "optimal" nuclear bombing identified 66 cities of strategic importance. Surprisingly, these American planners decided that the Soviet city need about three nuclear bombs over the city to really destroy and annihilate us !!! That's the fucking crap! And that, I can not be called Americans fagot then !?
And "completely destroy them," not too tolerant and friendly to those documents amers write about our cities and us ...., The text: "The main purpose for the use of the atomic bomb - a full fifteen simultaneous destruction of these preferred goals." They do not do any of diplomacy , stealth, and indicate clearly and specifically - "completely destroy"!
Here is a list of 15 priorities, in order of priority: Moscow, Baku, Novosibirsk, Gorky, Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Kuibyshev, Kazan, Saratov, Molotov, Magnitogorsk, Grozny, Novokuznetsk and Nizhny Tagil. You might wonder why there are Baku, and, say, Leningrad there. Priority objectives are based largely on an important volume of industrial production; Baku was responsible for 61% of all Soviet production of crude oil, 49% of oil refining, and 15% of steel products. Leningrad, at that point, was responsible for a much smaller number of things.
A complete map of the Soviet 66 goals - and 21 goals in Manchuria which they decided not to have a sufficiently high priority, but they still caused them to your map. Here is the map of the document, high resolution at [archive.is/CtRAB]. :

Now think ... Are these documents were under a reasonable containment of which we speak? It is if we consider the fact that now we are some "piss in his ears," that the Soviet Union represented after 2 World War threat to the world and all that .... No! These documents clearly show that US objectives were not only industrial and military sites as such, but the entire population and all our Soviet culture. This is not a strategic containment of Stalin or anyone else! They did not plan containment. They planned the destruction!

Back to the plan: the only difference between "minimal" and "optimal" plan - the total number of designated cities. Three bombs on the city, it is 39 "minimum," 204 "optimum".
The document also indicated 10 bombs to "neutralize possible enemy threats in the Western Hemisphere" - the report explains that this is the case if the Soviet Union will be able to capture the American bases in the vicinity of the borders of the USSR, that is how I understood retaliation the Soviet Union after the nuclear bombing amers us. Yet Pindos do not exclude that we Silenko still remain .... What kind of database, and where - the plan does not specify this. Let's assume that at least one of them is located in West Germany .., it is no wonder they show there "Western Hemisphere" ...
So, to stop the retaliation of the Soviets in Europe need 10 bombs for "strategic isolation of the battlefield" - that is, keep the board within their continent and to prevent the possibility of their vessels, tanks and aircraft to advance in the direction of the United States. Practically, they indicate in their documents to blow the Dardanelles, the Kiel Canal, the Suez Canal ... And in fact - to bomb and Europe!
And so it turned out a total of 59 nuclear bombs for the "minimum" and 224 for "optimum". But they did not stop there. They take into account the practice of the Second World War that a certain number of bombers to be destroyed have technical problems, will miss the target. Thus, they are calculated, that all the bombs to be effective only 48%, and thus they will need to double the total number of charges. So instead of three bombs into the country, they are in the document will be six.
Thus, we share our original totals 0.48, and we end up with a final number of 128 as the "minimum" and 466 as "optimum".
This is still a "small" number in September 1945, but still - bloodthirsty. We know that the peak US nuclear stockpile was more than 32,000 warheads (in 1966), a paltry 466 similar to the "pranks of the child".
Do you like our soyuznichki !? How do you all !? And that scares me marazota "tyrant" Stalin !? But now, after taken away my documents, I am even more thanks to Stalin that he has done everything to save our country and our people from these rotten allies !!! Really - he is a head of state that has led us to victory, he organized the protection and defense of my country, so that all these bastards scared us ... to climb.

"Jewish financiers who pulled Hitler out of the ditch" / "several Jewish bankers are backing Herr Hitler"

Pierre van Paassen (1895 - 1968), Dutch-born Canadian journalist, Unitarian minister, philosemitic, Zionistic and staunchly anti-Nazi; pictured at the Jewish Public Library in Montreal during 1945. From "This Week in JPL History: Pierre van Paassen – The Forgotten Ally" (2013-11-25, jewishpubliclibrary.org) [archive.is/5lnwm], caption: During his visit van Paassen presented the library with the manuscript for “The Forgotten Ally” a novel on Israel.

Van Paassen wrote an article in February, 1933 interviewing Wilhelm Frick, German Minister of the Interior and the first member of the NSDAP to attain political office. Read the entire article, page 1 [archive.is/R8RgY], page 2 [archive.is/hMbGk].
During the interview Van Paassen put it to the then German Minister of the Interior: "Moreover, anyone who care to investigate Jewish life but superficially soon discovers that instead of an indissoluble international solidarity as you claim, the same lines that divide society in classes operate in Jewish life. The best proof probably is that several Jewish bankers are backing Herr Hitler financially and that a Jewish bank is backing Prince Starhenberg in Austria. Since you say you are going to act strongly against the Jews, these Jewish banks are indirectly your aids. How can you speak of Jewish solidarity under the circumstance?"

Another article from 1933 by Van Paassen expands on his knowledge about Jewish bankers financing Hitler and the NSDAP, read the entire article at [archive.is//bq6jN]: "I do not blame those Jewish financiers who pulled Hitler out of the ditch by financing the Nazi Organization. It was in their interest to do so. Class interest far outweighs racial or religious associations. These men simply were consistent capitalists. They looked after and saved the interests of big business and finance in a critical hour. There is nothing to be gained in denouncing these men as traitors to the Jewish people. They never had anything in common with the Jewish masses except that they have always tried "as great Jewish Leaders" in Germany to exert their influence on the Jewish masses in one issue or another. Herr Oscar Wassermann is loyal to his class in society. Inflexibly loyal. Nothing in the world is capable of coming between him and that loyalty."

Oscar Wassermann (1869 - 1934), photo at left, head of the managing board of the Deutsche Bank between 1923 - 1933, who described himself as a non-Zionist but was president of Keren Hayesod (The Foundation Fund) the fund raising agency for Jewish settlement in Palestine, and in 1932 became the honorary chairman of the Administrative Committee of the Jewish Agency, the de-facto Jewish government of British Mandate Palestine. He believed all Jews, whether Zionists or not, should support Jewish settlement in Palestine.
Van Paassen's allegation that Oscar Wassermann, the effective CEO of the Deutsche Bank, was providing funds for the NSDAP (Nazi party) is corroborated by something Heinrich Bruening, Hitler's predecessor as German Chancellor, wrote in 1948: "... from October 1928 the two largest regular contributors to the Nazi Party were the general managers of two of the largest Berlin banks, both of the Jewish faith, and one of them the leader of Zionism in Germany." - from a letter Bruening wrote to Churchill's publishers in 1948, referencing something he wrote to Churchill in 1937, read the full quote in context at [archive.is/3p7EM], published in the scholarly book "Churchill's War, vol. 1: Struggle for Power" [archive.is/9CyMK], you can also read book's 2nd volume [archive.is/wVoMn], a set of books whose author devoted attention on the Jewish financial leaders who funded Hitler [youtube.com/watch?v=rsls6WcYgtE]. More about Bruening's views on Jewish Citizens within Germany before and during the 1st half of the era of Nazi administration [archive.is/7ALHy].
According to JTA newswire (1930) [archive.is/4w6w6], it was reported, that "in London, Lord Melchett, Chaim Weizmann, Oscar Wasserman, Felix Warburg and Max Warburg will meet this afternoon in an attempt to reach a settlement regarding the functions of the Administrative Committee and the Jewish Agency's Executive, the immediate raising of an internal loan of $5,000,000, and Lord Melchett's demand that before any larger colonization scheme be undertaken in Palestine, the 1,500 Chalutzim in Palestine for many years be settled on the land."

Industrialists of many nationalities contributed to the rise of the NSDAP, including Henry Ford and Thomas Watson (Founder, IBM) of the USA, and Eugene Schneider of France, of whom not much information is available, but is mentioned in the following.
"Merchants of Death: A Study of the International Armament Industry" book by H. C. Engelbrecht, Ph.D., and F. C. Hanighen (Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1934): [...] In Europe their colleagues are even more active. Hitler has now become the symbol of the return of German militarism. Even before he managed to obtain supreme power there was speculation as to his financial backers. Obviously they included German industrialists fearful of socialism, communism, and the labor unions, nationalists smarting under the "insults" of the Versailles treaty, and a host of other discontented folk. But on the list of these contributors supplying funds to the Hitler movement were the names of two capitalists Von Arthaber and Von Duschnitz directors of Skoda, the great armament firm of Germany's neighbor and enemy, Czechoslovakia.
Interlocking directorates are a familiar phenomenon in the United States. The real controller of industries is frequently found in the most unexpected places. In Europe the same system prevails. And so it appears that Messrs. Von Arthaber and Von Duschnitz represent a firm which is controlled by still another firm. The head of this holding company is neither German nor Czech. He is a French citizen, M. Eugene Schneider, president of the Schneider-Creusot Company which for a century has dominated the French arms industry and which through its subsidiaries now controls most of the important arms factories in Central Europe. Some of Hitler's financial support, then, was derived from a company owned by a leading French industrialist and arms maker.
Arms merchants also own newspapers and mold public opinion. M. Schneider is more than just president of Creusot. He is the moving spirit of another great combine, the Comite des Forges. This French steel trust through one of its officers has controlling shares in the Paris newspaper Le Temps, the counterpart of the New York Times, and the Journal des Débats, which corresponds to the New York Herald Tribune. These two powerful papers constantly warn their readers of the "danger of disarmament" and of the menace of Germany. Thus M. Schneider is in a position to pull two strings, one linked to Hitler and German militarism, the other tied to the French press and French militarism. [...]

Fascist Legacy Politicians

"2003 Recall Vote: How Come Only Two Choices Were Pols With Nazi Family Ties?"
Adapted from a posting at "Los Angeles Topix Forum" [archive.today]:
This is a big state, in a big country.
Was it just a coincidence that the governor, Gray Davis, was the grandson of Nazi agent, William Rhodes Davis, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Davis]: "...Early life and political career.. ...It was not documented, until July 20, 2008, and never previoulsy disclosed by Davis, that his grandfather was WWII Nazi agent, William Rhodes Davis, an American working to supply oil from Mexico for Hitler's Germany, and to aid the 1940 presidential election campaign of republican candidte, Wendell Wilkie. William Rhodes Davis died about August 1, 1941, a year before the birth of Gray Davis, reportedly "removed" by British spymaster Sir William Stephenson, aka "Intrepid".[7]"
We now know Arnold's grandfather, Karl, and father, Gustav, were Nazi party members, because Arnold told us... but what is up with this?
In five of the last presidential elections, people with Nazi family ties, Bush father and son, were elected to either the presidency or as VP, five times. In 2004, both Bush and Kerry were members of a tiny secret society, Skull and Bones, that "taps" only 15 Yale Univ. juniors for membership, each year.
Do you know anyone with Nazi family ties? Why are politicians with such ties so numerous in our highest elected offices? JFK was the grandchild of Joseph P. Kennedy, a well-known Nazi sympathizer... George W. Bush is the grandchild of, and George Herbert Walker is the son of Prescott Bush, himself a US Senator and a bonifide Nazi agent in the USA banking networks... California Gov. Arnold is the grandchild of Karl Schwarzenegger, Nazi SS official of Austria... former California Gov. Gray Davis is the grandchild of William Rhodes Davis, Nazi agent...
All elected just on the whim of informed voters... all just coincidence...or....?


"Exposing Arnold Schwarzenegger", (2013-10-13) [OriginalSourceMag.com/2013/10/20/exposing-arnold-schwarzenegger] [archive.org] [archive.today]

Photo showing the elder Schwarzenegger with fascist Germany Leader Adolph Hitler, meeting with fascist dictator Franco of Spain:

Photo showing Franco meeting at the White House with President Ford, 1975, showing how entrenched and trusted fascists are to "the Establishment", and why little Arnold and his family were allowed such success after World War 2.



They were called "Ratlines" because these rats just killed 20+ million Russian civilians and were allowed to continue operations with the help of the USA and allies, and the Church of Rome (with the Knights of Malta)'s sovereign banking system and travel identification:
** "Nazi Hunt: South America's Dictatorships and the Avenging of Nazi Crimes" book by German historian Daniel Stahl
** "Otto Skorzeny: The Vatican Conspiracy" [Szorzeny.greyfalcon.us/Vatican.html][archive.today]
** In 1949 letter, German SS commander Otto Wächter says Nazis on the run entered Brazil without passports [archive.today/tObpn]
** "IN A LETTER, WÄCHTER SAYS NAZIS ENTERED BRAZIL WITHOUT PASSPORTS" [archive.today/d1Mrl]
** "Read the full letter from Otto Wächter about possible escape to Brazil" [archive.today/x84IS]
** War Crimes: How Nazis Escaped Justice in South America [archive.today/41vgT]
** How the Nazis escaped justice [archive.today/Uy7GR]

** "2 SS chiefs who fled to US on new Wiesenthal list of 10 most-wanted Nazis" (2014-10) [archive.today]

Kissinger and the secret spy network of old Nazis and German aristocrats 'who plotted to overthrow West German goverment' [archive.today]
* 'The Little Service' was made up of many former Gestapo and S.S. men as well as titled barons and counts
* Kissnger even discussed with them the possibility of a coup to overthrow the government of Chancellor Willy Brandt
* The Little Service which came into being in 1969 and ran for a decade
* Was lavishly funded and with more success than state intelligence agencies which were riddled with East German moles

"Russia and China Are Not Imperialist" (2015-03-02, by Steven Argue)

[Photo: South Ossetians celebrate independence maintained with the help of Russia. In 2008, an unprovoked military attack by the U.S. and Israeli sponsored Georgian government on the tiny country of South Ossetia left 2,000 civilians dead. Russian military backing of the Ossetian people maintained their independence and ended imperialist aggression in a 5 day war.]

By any legitimate Marxist analysis, neither Russia nor China is imperialist. Russia is a weak capitalist country in the crosshairs of U.S. and EU imperialists who have targeted Russia for isolation, regime change, and to be broken up into three more easily controlled neo-colonial governments. This plan was even laid down on paper by top Obama advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. China is a deformed workers state facing a combined imperialist policy of economic engagement, military encirclement, and threats.

Is Russia Imperialist?
Examples of supposed Russian imperialism do not stand up to scrutiny. Ukraine, for instance, was one of Russia’s close allies before the U.S. and EU sponsored a coup that overthrew their elected government a year ago. This is a country with a long and close relationship with Russia. If we were to find an example of Russian imperialism, it would be in Ukraine. Yet at the time of the imperialist sponsored coup, Russian Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Ukraine was extremely low.
According to 2011 figures, nearly 80% of Ukrainian foreign direct investment (FDI) in Ukraine came from the European Union. The actual number is actually a little bit lower because about 22.2% of that is comes from Cyprus, a location Ukrainian capitalists use for tax avoidance. Still, that leaves about 60% of Ukraine’s FDI coming from the EU. Russia, on the other hand, accounted for only 7.6% of FDI. This is a very low number given the historic ties of former Soviet influence. Much lower than could possibly give credence to claims that the Euromaiden “revolution” liberated Ukraine from Russian imperialist control.
Today, the relatively weak capitalist class that has developed in Russia since the Yeltsin capitalist counterrevolution in 1991 is standing up, in its own national self-interests, against a U.S. engineered and fascist infested coup government in Kiev. That government hates Ukraine’s national minorities and seeks to hurt the entire working class of Ukraine through imposing the austerity and other dictates of the IMF, EU, and USA. It is a deadly threat to the working class of Ukraine and is a dagger aimed by the U.S. imperialists at Russia itself. A victory by relatively weak Russia against U.S. imperialism will be a blow for the world’s working class which suffers under deeply under the terror and exploitation of U.S. / E.U. imperialism. An anti-imperialist victory in Ukraine will also serve to protect the oppressed Russian nationality of Crimea, protect Russia from imperialism, and protect the deformed workers state of Belarus.
The capitalist government of Russia has many problems, and needs to be overthrown in a proletarian revolution that brings back the socialist planned economy and brings workers democracy. Yet, Russia's support for the sovereignty of South Ossetia, Ukraine, Crimea, and Syria from the religious fanatics, genocidal maniacs, and extreme nationalists sponsored by the imperialist governments of the U.S. and E.U. are relatively minor actions by a weak capitalist country (Russia), against the real imperialist powers of the United States and European Union. In these situations, Leninist-Trotskyists side with the weaker countries against the imperialists, as Lenin pointed out:
‘If tomorrow, Morocco were to declare war on France, or India on Britain, or Persia or China on Russia, and so on, these would be “just”, and “defensive” wars irrespective of who would be the first to attack; any socialist would wish the oppressed, dependent and unequal states victory over the oppressor, slave-holding and predatory ‘Great’ Powers.’
(Socialism and War, July 1915)
Leninist-Trotskyists side with Russia against the great powers. This does not mean we support the capitalist system in Russia. Today, Russia still needs a socialist revolution despite Russia under Putin moving away from the total capitulation to imperialism found in the years of the Yeltsin led capitalist counterrevolution.

Is China Imperialist?
Regarding China’s foreign investments, they are in their vast majority socialist state investments, not capitalist investments. Here is part of a piece I’ve been writing on Vietnam and Laos that takes up this question:
In 2014 the People’s Republic of China became the biggest investor in Laos with the Laotian government announcing $5.1 billion in investment from China in January, 2014. Among the Chinese projects are a massive project developing rail from China through Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Massive hydroelectric projects are also being developed with benefits both for development and the fight against global warming, but also unfortunate disruptions and damage to the environment as well.
In 2013 the People's Republic of China also announced it is providing Laos with $49 million (US dollars) in aid and an additional $32 million (US dollars) in interest free credits. This will help keep Laos free of some of the debt slavery suffered under the loans countries are given by the World Bank and the International Development Bank. Under those imperialist capitalist loans, poor countries subsidize the wealthy ones with exorbitant interest rates on unpayable loans, causing the flow of wealth to be from poor countries to the rich. Robin Hood in reverse. In addition, restructuring is contingent on harmful policies of austerity and privatization. A form of colonialism.
For many on the left, China's investments bringing development to numerous underdeveloped countries are seen as a form of imperialism. This ignores a few basic facts. First of all, the vast majority of these investments are by the Chinese mainland state run banks or other state owned sectors. Instead of being short-term speculative investments based on the profit motive, as imperialist capitalist investments are, they are investments that seek needed commodities for China's economy which is still largely planned and socialist. Unlike the USSR's planned socialist economy, which was built in a resource rich country, China is now building up its economy, largely through the vast advantages of socialist planning, in a country that is relatively resource poor. To do so they must invest in other countries in order to import needed resources for their collectivized enterprises back in China.
To extract these resources China makes investments. For many in Africa and Asia these investments in schools, roads, railroads, and other needed infrastructure and enterprises are generally seen as a welcome change from the neglect and underdevelopment imposed by the imperial capitalists. This is not to say that there have not been abuses, but these well known abuses have come from the small minority of private Chinese enterprises functioning abroad.
The socialist character of Chinese investments was even recognized by U.S. State Department official Princeton Lyman in a 2005 presentation to the Congressional U.S.-China Commission, who said:
“China utilizes a variety of instruments to advance its interest in ways that western nations can only envy. Most of China’s investments are through state-owned companies, whose individual investments do not have to be profitable if they serve overall Chinese objectives. Thus the representative of China’s state-owned construction company in Ethiopia could reveal that he was instructed by Beijing to bid low on various tenders, without regard for profit. China’s long term objective in Ethiopia is in access to future natural resource investments, not in construction business profits.”
This has produced radically different ways of operating that have been highly praised by important African academics. Chinese investments in Laos, which includes socialist construction, aid, and interest free loans, are also likely to prove mutually beneficial for the people of Laos.

Imperialist Pivot Asia and the Paracel Islands Dispute -
A profound capitulation of the Vietnamese Communist Party to U.S. imperialism is cooperation with Obama’s aggressive military maneuvers aimed at the People’s Republic of China as a part of Pivot Asia. This has included the Vietnamese Coast Guard carrying out attacks on Chinese oil drilling in the South China Sea. These are attacks on the $1 billion deepwater oil-drilling platform that has been deployed in exploratory operations by the People’s Republic of China near the Paracel Islands. The Paracel Islands are about equidistant from the coastlines of China and Vietnam. The People’s Republic of China seized one inhabited section of the Paracel Islands in 1950 from the U.S. backed Chinese Kuomintang government, a government that was overthrown on the mainland and reduced to only maintaining power in Taiwan after the 1949 Chinese Revolution. Another uninhabited section of the Paracel Islands was seized by the French imperialists and became a claim of the South Vietnamese puppet governments thereafter until 1974. At that time, in a brief war between the People’s Republic of China and the U.S. imposed Thiệu dictatorship of South Vietnam, the PRC took control of the entire chain of islands. The islands include the Chinese city of Sansha with an estimated 3,500 inhabitants and infrastructure investments from the PRC, including the 2014 completion of a solar powered desalinization plant that now provides the additional freshwater that the city’s inhabitants needed.
Until very recently, the only people raising a fuss over the PRC’s control of the Paracel Islands have been counterrevolutionary Vietnamese and Chinese. This has changed with Vietnamese cooperation with Obma’s policy of Pivot Asia. Obama’s policy of Pivot Asia involves military encirclement of China, military provocations against China, and an attempt to dominate resources in the China Sea while at the same time carrying out capitalist economic engagement with China as an means of undermining the Chinese Revolution from within. Imperialist aggression towards China includes wrongful Japanese claims and military build up in the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands in the East China Sea. These islands are Chinese, but with the current Japanese military occupation of the islands, they could be used in military attacks against the industrialized east part of China. The islands are also crucial the PRC’s self-defense from potential naval blockade from U.S. and Japanese imperialism if imperialist war breaks out against the People’s Republic of China. In addition, in 2014 within days of U.S. threats against the PRC, the United States, Japan, and South Korea all flew aircraft over Chinese airspace, including nuclear capable B-52 bombers, to test Chinese defenses for a potential imperialist attack on China. The Vietnamese Stalinists also joined in this imperialist campaign by attacking Chinese claims to the Paracel Islands and even allowing the U.S. Navy to dock in Vietnam.
2014 actions of the Vietnamese government included sending Coast Guard and fishing vessels out to aggressively interfere with Chinese oil exploration. This has led to confrontations with China spraying water on these boats and an allegation, denied by the Chinese, of the Chinese sinking one of the Vietnamese fishing boats involved in the confrontation by ramming it. China says the boat “capsized after harassing and colliding with a Chinese fishing boat”.
One sided coverage of these events in the west helped fuel unfair anti-Chinese prejudices that have been pushed by the U.S. government and western corporate media for decades. Likewise, the Vietnamese Stalinists whipped up a nationalist frenzy that included violent chauvinistic riots as 20,000 people marched against Vietnam’s ethnic Chinese minority and carried out nationalistic anti-Chinese violence that left over 20 people dead and a hundred people injured.
The Vietnamese Coast Guard who have been participating in these attacks are themselves now partially funded by the United States, including $18 million dollars in assistance in 2014. They also receive training from the Japanese and U.S. imperialists. In addition, despite the hard fought anti-imperialist victory of 1975, U.S. naval ships are now even allowed to dock in Vietnam. This, as well as massive capitalist inroads into the Vietnamese economy, are a Stalinist betrayal of the 2.8 million Vietnamese lives given to rid Vietnam of blood thirsty imperialist troops and overthrow the capitalist system and throw the imperialists out of Vietnam.
Ultimately, what will be necessary to defend the remaining gains of the Vietnamese, Laotian, and Chinese Revolutions will be political revolutions that overthrow the repressive Stalinist bureaucracies of those countries, institute systems of workers democracy, end Vietnamese capitulations to western and Japanese imperialism, end capitalist inroads into their economies, and build an internationalist revolutionary movement to break the socialist countries out of isolation without capitulations to imperialism. This is part of a Trotskyists program that also defends these three countries from imperialist attack and internal capitalist counterrevolution as well. The lie that China is imperialist only aids U.S. and Japanese counterrevolutionary aggression directed at the People’s Republic of China.
The false notion that China is imperialist only aids U.S. and Japanese counterrevolutionary aggression directed at the People’s Republic of China. Likewise, the lie that Russia is imperialist only aids western imperialist ethnic cleansing of the Russian speaking minority in Ukraine, imperialist aggression against the people of Syria as part of an intervention that formed ISIS and continues to back religious fanatics against the Syrian and Kurdish people, and aids imperialist sanctions against Belarus with its remaining socialist economy, as well as other western imperialist acts of aggression against the world’s working class and farmers.

End U.S. and EU Imperialist Sanctions Against Russia!
End U.S. and Japanese Military Threats and Encirclement of China!

-Steven Argue of the Revolutionary Tendency
Revolutionary Tendency
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More Material Wealth leads to Less Reliance on Religion

"Faith Versus Finance: Does affluence affect spirituality?" by Julian Archer (2015-03-01, AdventistWorld.org)

Seesaws, or teeter-totters, are common in playgrounds around the world. The name “seesaw” is a direct Anglicization of the French word ci-ça, meaning literally, “this-that.” The seesaw is an “either/or,” a“this or that,” mechanical device. You can have only one side at the top at any given time; never both.Is that how it is with faith and finance? Can we have only faith or finance, never both? Or is it only great faith and great finance that tend to seesaw?

What I’ve Learned in the Playground “Down Under” -
According to the latest reports, my home country of Australia is one of the most affluent nations on earth.The 2013 Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report shows that Australian adults have the second-highest wealth level of any country on the planet (second only to Switzerland), and that our median wealth level per adult is the highest on the planet, more than double Switzerland’s. This means that we’re not only extremely wealthy (even though we may not always feel it), but our wealth is also more evenly distributed than in many other nations. As a Christian who spent many years trying to maintain a strong relationship with God while my income was high enough for me to live self-sufficiently. I must ask the question”What impact does affluence have on spirituality, including my own?” Does it lead us nearer to God, to a greater faith? Or does it turn our eyes from Him? Or perhaps finances are completely unrelated to faith?

Searching for the Answer -
In 2009 a Gallup poll reported on their surveys conducted in 114 countries. One of the questions the Gallup organization asked was “Is religion an important part of your daily life?” Gallup also researched the per-capita income levels for each country and then made correlations between the two. The data made it clear that the see-saw effect is in full swing. The higher the per-capita income of a nation, the lower the role of religion in daily life,and vice versa. Let’s zoom in on some of the nations at the top and bottom of the“faith versus finance” seesaw. The accompanying table is based on data from both the Gallup poll and the Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report. The data clearly show a great divide—in both the importance of religion and levels of wealth—between the world’s richest (less religious) and poorest (more religious) nations. It could be argued that the reason for the high wealth ranking of these`“Top 10” wealthiest nations shown in the table is that they originally based their societies and business practices on Christian principles, and God blessed them. Times are changing, however. The seesaw has tilted, and affluence is toppling both religion and spirituality. Mahatma Gandhi once said, “The fact is, the moment that financial stability is assured, spiritual bankruptcy is also assured.” Gandhi seems to be reflecting Jesus’ words: “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God” (Mark 10:25). I know from my personal experience that when a person is financially blessed they’re in the most spiritually dangerous stage of their life. The higher my income went, the less I felt my need for God. My income taxed my spirituality.

Living the Dream?
As I run Faith Versus Finance seminars, I see that most affluent Christians, in their deepest hearts, really do want a vibrant, life-changing relationship with God. But they’re frustrated. They feel as if they’re being forced to live a life focused on earthly priorities when they know that true satisfaction and fulfillment come only from eternal things. I can hear their cries because I spent years “living the dream” but aching for a deeper relationship with God. I finally realized that God’s mate-rial blessings had become a curse in my spiritual life. It’s not that God’s blessings are curses, but we often use them in such a way that they become curses. When we allow God’s material blessings to fill our hearts, we can’t open our heart’s door to Jesus. And that’s a curse—an eternal curse. The Bible is full of examples in which the mistreatment of God’s blessings led to curses. In Deuteronomy 6, Moses tells the children of Israel that they’re about to enter a“land flowing with milk and honey”(verse 3). But then he adds the clincher: “When you have eaten and are full—then beware, lest you forget the Lord” (verses 11, 12). It’s a powerful reminder that a full stomach can make us very sleepy

Seesaw Snapshot -
So what does this seesaw look like in the day-to-day life of a comfortable Christian? Let’s look at three areas:Construction: When I “build bigger barns” and store up my treasures hereon earth, it distracts me from eternal riches. I start to worry about them, and I invest increasing amounts of time and energy into protecting and multiplying the blessings instead of trusting completely in Him. My finances rise, but my faith falls; and I often don’t even realize it (see Rev. 3:17).
Time: The first indicator of spiritual apathy is the crippling and cropping of my time with God. This usually occurs during periods of increased time pressures because of financial, personal, entertainment, or other priorities. The problem could last just a few mornings, or perhaps even many years. When I neglect to spend quality time praying and studying the Scriptures, my relationship with Christ weakens.
Heart: Whenever I fill my heart with the gifts instead of the Giver, my faith falls. When Christ knocks on the door of my material-blessings-filled heart (verse 20), the sound of His knocking is muffled. And even when I do hear it, I struggle to climb over all my material blessings to reach out and open the door.
Ellen White referred to this crowded-heart syndrome when she wrote, “The heavenly Guest is standing at your door, while you are piling up obstructions to bar His entrance. Jesus is knocking through the prosperity He gives you. He loads you with blessings to test your fidelity, that they may flow out from you to others. Will you permit your selfishness to triumph? Will you squander God’s talents, and lose your soul through idolatrous love of the blessings He has given?” (Ellen G. White, in Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Nov. 2, 1886). This is very challenging territory,but it begs the question Does our faith always need to decrease as our affluence rises? Is the faith-versus-finance seesaw an unchangeable, universal principle?

Breaking the Seesaw -
God offers a cure for every person who realizes that their affluent life-style is damaging their spiritual life. It’s a heart attack! Not a cardiac arrest,but a total spiritual heart transplant.In Ezekiel 36:26 God tells us that He wants to give us a new heart, a loving heart of flesh, to replace our materialistic heart of stone. We must be converted again. We can be active church members and financial supporters of God’s work but still contract spiritual heart disease. We need a total heart transplant. Instead of faith versus finance, it can and should be faith and finance. Or even better, faith regardless of finance.May we be true to God in all things, including our material blessings.

Country: Mean Adult Wealth (US$,000) / % Answered “NO” to “Is religion an important part of your daily life?”
Switzerland: 513 / 57%
Australia: 403 / 67%
Norway: 380 / 78%
Luxembourg: 315 / 64%
USA: 301 / 36%
Sweden: 299 / 88%
France: 296 / 74%
Singapore: 282 / 53%
Belgium: 256 / 68%
Denmark: 255 / 83%
THE GREAT DIVIDE
Thailand: 8 / 2%
India: 5 / 9%
Haiti: 4 / 8%
Pakistan: 4 / 4%
Kenya: 3 / 3%
Cambodia: 3 / 3%
Nepal: 2 / 5%

Statement By Mao Tse-tung in Support of the Black Liberation Struggle in the United States

[Photo: American exiled civil rights leader Robert F. Williams in China with Mao Tse-tung.]


Introduction by Steven Argue of the Revolutionary Tendency:
Robert F. Williams, a civil rights leader and advocate of Black armed self-defense, was forced to flee the United States for Cuba and then later also moved to the People's Republic of China. The writings of Robert F. Williams, including "Negroes With Guns" and his Cuban sponsored radio broadcasts into the semi-fascist American south in his program called "Radio Free Dixie" played a far greater role in the abolition of Jim Crow segregation than most people know. The following is a statement on the question of Black liberation issued by Mao Tse-tung on behalf of the struggle for Black liberation in the United States requested from Mao by Robert F. Williams. While I think Mao makes a few mistakes in this statement, and I am a Trotskyist and not a Maoist, I also think that this is an important piece of history most people don't know about that is worth sharing. This piece is available on the Marxist Internet Archive. I provide a link at the end of Mao's piece to that site as well as a link to a piece I wrote on police murders with impunity in the United States that includes a discussion of the importance of Robert F. Williams.
Regarding Mao. Imperialist propagandists falsely portray him as a mass murderer and a devil. All leaders of real revolutions are seen this way by the imperialists, and they lie. Yet, while Mao helped free a large portion of humanity from capitalism and imperialism, Mao was also guilty of terrible crimes.
Mao led a socialist revolution to power that was, and remains, one of the most important socialist revolutions in world history. That revolution doubled life expectancy in China during Mao's rule, brought rapid economic advancements and job creation with a socialist planned economy, brought big gains in women's rights, brought a near total eradication of rampant illiteracy, brought a sweeping land reform, brought an abolition of chattel slavery in the most backward regions like Tibet, brought a separation of religion and state in the most backward regions like Tibet, brought the abolition of feudalism in the most backward regions like Tibet, brought the overthrow of capitalism and the beginning of rapid development for a poverty stricken and underdeveloped country, brought true independence from the sphere of U.S. neo-colonial control, and brought direct support to the Korean Revolution as the Korean people faced brutal imperialist attack in the so-called "Korean War" where the U.S. imperialists murdered 5 million Koreans.
Yet, Mao also carried out terrible betrayals. These included unforgivable repression against Trotskyists who stood to the left of him on some important issues. Mao arrested all known Trotskyists and their friends and families upon coming to power. Some were never seen again. Others were released upon Mao's death in 1976. Mao also unforgivably ganged up with the United States against the USSR as a conservative means of gaining trade with capitalist countries and building socialism in one country as opposed to the Marxist-Leninist-Trotskyist program of revolutionary proletarian internationalism. In addition, Mao oppressed homosexuals as part of Stalin's program as opposed to Lenin and Trotsky's that abolished all laws against homosexuality after the Russian Revolution. In regards to medicine, Mao greatly hurt people's health by giving state backing to Traditional Chinese Medicine as opposed to a program for providing scientific medicine for all.
Despite these errors, the 1949 Chinese Revolution was an important step forward for humanity.


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Statement Supporting the American Negroes In Their Just Struggle Against Racial Discrimination by U.S. Imperialism
(August 8, 1963) Mao Tse-tung [Note: We reprint this statement in commemoration of the third anniversary of the day Chairman Mao made it. —Peking Review Ed.]
An American Negro leader now taking refuge in Cuba, Mr. Robert Williams, the former President of the Monroe, North Carolina, Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, has twice this year asked me for a statement in support of the American Negroes’ struggle against racial discrimination. On behalf of the Chinese people, I wish to take this opportunity to express our resolute support for the American Negroes in their struggle against racial discrimination and for freedom and equal rights.
There are more than 19 million Negroes in the United States, or about 11 per cent of the total population. They are enslaved, oppressed and discriminated against — such is their position in society. The overwhelming majority are deprived of their right to vote. In general, only the most backbreaking and despised jobs are open to them. Their average wages are barely a third or a half those of the white people. The proportion of unemployment among the Negroes is the highest. In many states they are forbidden to go to the same school, eat at the same table, or travel in the same section of a bus or train as the white people. Negroes are often arrested, beaten up or murdered at will by the U.S. authorities at various levels and by members of the Ku Klux Klan and other racists. About half the American Negroes are concentrated in eleven southern states, where the discrimination and persecution they suffer are especially shocking.
The American Negroes are awakening and their resistance is growing stronger and stronger. Recent years have witnessed a continuous expansion of their mass struggle against racial discrimination and for freedom and equal rights.
In 1957 the Negro people in Little Rock, Arkansas, waged a fierce struggle against the barring of their children from public schools. The authorities used armed force against them, creating the Little Rock incident which shocked the world.
In 1960 Negroes in more than twenty states held “sit-in” demonstrations protesting against racial segregation in local restaurants, shops and other public places.
In 1961 the Negroes launched the “freedom riders” campaign to oppose racial segregation in public transportation, a campaign which rapidly spread to many states.
In 1962 the Negroes in Mississippi fought for the equal right to enroll in colleges and met with bloody suppression by the authorities.
This year, the American Negroes-started their struggle early in April in Birmingham, Alabama. Unarmed and bare-handed Negro people were arrested en masse and most barbarously suppressed merely for holding meetings and parades against racial discrimination. On June 12 Mr. Medgar Evers, a leader of the Negro people in Mississippi, was murdered in cold blood. Defying brutality and violence, the indignant Negro masses waged their struggle even more heroically and quickly won the support of Negroes and other people of various strata throughout the United States. A gigantic and vigorous nationwide struggle is going on in nearly every city and state, and the struggle is mounting. American Negro organizations have decided to start a “freedom march” on Washington on August 28, in which 250,000 people will take part.
The speedy development of the struggle of the American Negroes is a manifestation of sharpening class struggle and sharpening national struggle within the United States; it has been causing increasing anxiety among U.S. ruling circles. The Kennedy Administration is insidiously using dual tactics. On the one hand, it continues to connive at and take part in discrimination against Negroes and their persecution, and it even sends troops to suppress them. On the other hand, in the attempt to numb the fighting will of the Negro people and deceive the masses of the country, the Kennedy Administration is parading as an advocate of “the defence of human rights” and “the protection of the civil rights of Negroes,” calling upon the Negro people to exercise “restraint” and proposing the “civil rights legislation” to Congress. But more and more Negroes are seeing through these tactics of the Kennedy Administration. The fascist atrocities of the U.S. imperialists against the Negro people have exposed the true nature of so-called American democracy and freedom and revealed the inner link between the reactionary policies pursued by the U.S. Government at home and its policies of aggression abroad.
I call on the workers, peasants, revolutionary intellectuals, enlightened elements of the bourgeoisie and other enlightened persons of all colours in the world, whether white, black, yellow or brown, to unite to oppose the racial discrimination practised by U.S. imperialism and support the American Negroes in their struggle against racial discrimination. In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the whites in the United States, it is only the reactionary ruling circles who oppress the Negro people. They can in no way represent the workers, farmers, revolutionary intellectuals and other enlightened persons who comprise the overwhelming majority of the white people. At present, it is the handful of imperialists headed by the United Slates, and their supporters, the reactionaries in different countries, who are oppressing, committing aggression against and menacing the overwhelming majority of the nations and peoples of the world. We are in the majority and they are in the minority. At most, they make up less than 10 per cent of the 3,000 million population of the world. I am firmly convinced that, with the support of more than 90 per cent of the people of the world, the American Negroes will be victorious in their just struggle. The evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it will surely come to its end with the complete emancipation of the black people.

This Statement is on Marxist Internet Archive
[https://www.marxists.org/subject/china/peking-review/1966/PR1966-33h.htm]

For Russia's Survival, a Unity of Heritage and History

"Number one goal for Russian world" by Evgeny Chernyshev (2015-01-27) [http://novorossia.su/ru/node/13428] [https://archive.today/iRE7I] [article machine-translated from the original Russian language, and adapted for syntax]:
To date, we can confidently say that the union of Orthodox Christians with supporters of the Soviet project is a philosophical and ideological number one task for the entire Russian world. If Russia will solve this problem, it will rise to its highest pitch, unite around him all the Russian world and become the center of attraction of all free mankind who does not want to live under the thumb of the West. If we do not solve this problem, we will find ourselves on the threshold of the inner turmoil and destruction. Too powerful forces interested in this.

The fact that the Soviet system, and the more Orthodox are the worst enemies of the West, confirmed by a simple historical fact: the West has consistently fought against both. First, it was destroyed by the Orthodox Russian Empire, then - the atheistic Soviet Union. Today, when Russia officially is neither communist nor Orthodox, and has no ideology, the West comes from anger emerging in Russia association of Orthodox Christians and supporters of the Soviet project. How Come? Because it is - the key to the revival of the Russian world.

Naturally, we are not talking and can not talk about reconciliation Christian worldview with communist ideology, because in some areas they directly contradict each other. But this is not necessary. We need no mixing of the two worldviews to some one that does not suit anybody, and bringing people together on the basis of love for the Fatherland. And since we have one homeland, then one story. This is the primary postulate from which to draw on. The history of Russia is based on the Orthodox Church, but also had a very important Soviet "saying" that it is important to decipher and write in the context of the "language" of Russian history.

Orthodoxy united dozens of Slavic tribes into a single Russian people, who have historically formed exactly as Orthodox people who has mastered half of Eurasia and prityanuvshy to itself the mass of other nations, and even gave many state. At the same time, the Orthodox Russia has failed to respond to the historic challenge of Western "progress" under the guise of which the Empire was destroyed, but there were signs of this long before 1917.

Soviet ideology allowed to make a grand economic breakthrough, won a great victory, to rebuild the country, but gradually in the minds of the people has been reduced to the pursuit of Western belongings, chewing gum and entertainment.

Already on these examples, it is clear that Russian history can "speak" in different ways.

In this historical moment the Russian world is undergoing a vital need for a new mobilization, and this brings the need for extremely orthodox and Soviet-communist world outlook of the Stalinist era, and who have a common goal - the revival of the whole of Russia, and the common enemy - the liberal globalism. Yes, they understand it differently, but it is not an obstacle for their synthesis. Combining Orthodoxy and Soviet communist ideology means not mixing them, and joining forces. This association is quite possible, if you leave Orthodoxy niche and communism - a. Orthodoxy - this world-leading human salvation in the kingdom of God. Communism - the ideology of economic dispensation of society on the basis of justice. That's how it understood and accepted at the time the Russian people and Russian communism that is very different from Western communism, has degenerated into the legalization of all abominations. Russian Communism - an ideal community order in a state in which the interests of the whole above selfish. The Russian soul is still in the depths of the remaining peasants, reached for communism as the new edition of the Orthodox faith. Unfortunately, the materialism of communism has evolved into consumerism, but communism itself remains in the memory of the people his desire for perfection. Did the holy Orthodoxy does not put the same problem? And Orthodoxy, and Soviet (especially Stalin!) System refer to a person's identity, appealing to the highest spiritual ideals, and are both imperial spirit. Just communism - is the economic system, and should not claim to ideological universality, and only Orthodoxy and certainly not the Ministry of Economy.

Originally communism itself as a Western invention, has little to do with a Russian soul, it is enough to read the manifesto of the Communist Party in 1848 Abolition of the family, Free female, general promiscuity - no, it attracted people of Russian Communism. It has attracted a deep mystical messianic feeling inherent Russian and calls for sacrifice for the salvation of all. The Russian people have adopted communism as a way to Calvary, and its difficulties - as the sufferings of Christ. And this comparison is not an exaggeration, since the USSR had his crucifixion and at the same time for the redemption of all - the Great Patriotic War. Not accidentally during the war was the reconciliation of the Orthodox Church and the state, as well as an appeal to the thousands of years of Russian history. Internal Russian religiosity merely "expressed" in communist terms.

Stalin era has unusual historical jewel - it is an experience of successful confrontation with the West, global experience rapid spiritual and economic mobilization of the country. This is what Tsarist Russia at the time could not do, was hooked integration into the capitalist western world. This experience is an invaluable Stalinist period, and it certainly will learn more.

Normally, as an argument against the thesis of Orthodoxy on the separation of church (ie organization) from the state, and besides, enshrined in the constitution. In the eyes of the liberal-coded paper contract clause (a constitution by its very nature is always a contract) is inviolable canon, but in fact this thesis is Western invention, from which it does not immediately need to give up, but do not need to and idolize.

The fact that the separation of church and state - a natural result of European - and only the European! - History, due to the Reformation. For centuries, the papacy as the spiritual power of Europe, struggling with the government to crush it under itself. Temporal power, on the contrary, tried to subdue the papacy itself. In this struggle, and the Thirty Years War 1618-1648 gg. and hammered out the compromise that the European states should be arranged at a legal separation from their church, and the churches began to be thought of as an organization that they have in fact, as opposed to the Church as the Body of Christ (Eph. 1, 22), as it understands Orthodoxy.

Same logic of Russian history unfolded in a completely different direction. The Church has always been at the same time with the state, and Russian state supported Russian Orthodox Church. In this sense, Russia was a worthy successor to Byzantium, embodying the symphony of powers, which is embodied in our coat of arms. Two-headed eagle symbolizes the unity of the spiritual and the government under the general head of the invisible - God. It was the thought of the Empire mission - to keep the world from the end, is the last obstacle to holding the son of perdition. It is this thought and mission of communism - to save the world from falling into the global capitalist slavery, and the USSR - indicate to all nations the way to freedom. It is the Christian motivation - to be free, free from the shackles of government money, only expressed in different terms. A "Code of the Builder of Communism" - except he was not like the "code" of the Orthodox Christian? Christianity without Christ - perhaps that's what the Soviet Union sought to implement. Although no Christian can accept "without Christ," motivation actions and aspirations of the Soviet man Stalin era wore it Christian. It is no coincidence that at the end of his life, Stalin, understanding the role of Orthodoxy to Russia, has become the path of reconciliation serial Orthodoxy and the Soviet state. Unfortunately, this was prevented by an early death.

Opponents of the joint efforts of the Russian Orthodox Church and the state have to destroy inevitable in this case, the strengthening of state power and the restoration of Russia's borders and spiritual health of the Russian people. Nobody like ROC, is not interested in strengthening the Russian state, even if it is clearly anti-religious character, as it was in the USSR. Powerful Russian state to the ROC - is the ark of salvation. It is for this from all sides and attacked the Church. Because it is labeled in Russian.

Thesis on the separation of church and state more dangerous by the fact that national boundaries are changing. Exemplary embodiments of this thesis we see in today's Ukraine, which has replaced the church canons nonentity "jurisdiction" and began a methodical expulsion of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church on the sole ground that it is an autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox Church. Armed with this thesis, seized power in Kiev rebels want to "get the most" from the fence, which they temporarily fenced off from the Great Little Russia. And those who support this thesis, inevitably pours water on a "mill split" Holy Russia. Do we need such a thesis? Orthodox should be in the same Russian state - that is our answer to the thesis about the "separation of church and state"!

Patriarch Kirill often uses the expression "all the historical Rus'. How Come? Because the ROC is obvious. Think about it: living Russian Church considers the unity of Holy Russia as a self-evident fact! Where else can you find such a stronghold? And whose memory is commemorated annually in the ROC (and UOC-MP)? Only of the most venerated saints it (among others): hierarchs Moscow Metropolitan Peter (metropolitan department has transferred from Kiev to Vladimir and then to Moscow), Alexis, Jonah, Philip, Patriarch Hermogenes, worn by Polish invaders in 1612, St. Sergius of Radonezh and St. Seraphim of Sarov, St. Alexander Nevsky and Dmitry Donskoy, Xenia of Petersburg, Matrona of Moscow and many other holy ascetics of Russian Orthodoxy. No wonder among Orthodox Christians in Ukraine the idea of unity with the rest of Russia enjoys the greatest support. In these circumstances, to speak out against the ROC simply suicidal, and this activity can only come from the enemies of Russia.

We must remember that the unity of the Russian land does not follow from the communist ideology. However, it does not follow from the Orthodox dogma, but the Russian Orthodox Church preserves the continuity of Russian history as their "pedigree" and especially because it holds dear. Therefore, the attacks on the Church of the Patriots are harmful - they pull the rug out from under Russian unity. Unfortunately, the Russian Orthodox Church remains the last, but, fortunately, very strong thread linking Russia. And strengthen it - our common task. Believe it or not - a private matter, but to understand and accept the historical significance of the Russian Orthodox Church shall each. Well, that "the Church hinders progress" - how many more of these, which believe it when the West imposed "progress" has long svёlsya to one thing - how to destroy the human race (or, at least, "unnecessary" part that interferes with the distribution of wealth)?

No, "progress", which dreams of Russian communism - is quite another. He refers to a person's identity, like Christianity. And, amazingly, when the hard materialism he embodied the ideal of Christianity - sacrifice. Tens of millions of people have worked and sacrificed themselves for the sake of future generations, creating all the things we still use: at home, in which we live, the plants on which we work. Sometimes it seems that the mission of the Soviet era was that for centuries ahead to create a reserve, reserve of strength sufficient to live up to a new leap. Today it is the need to have a loud knocking. Time is short. It is time to discard the infighting and unite efforts in the fight against the common enemy - the liberal globalization, building a global concentration camp of tolerance, which will destroy all.

It is time to discard the mutual claims and understand that the Church is not the economic system, and the Stalinist economic plan is not an organization for the destruction of temples. Their peaceful coexistence and integration effort is not only possible, but necessary. Church and state are not necessarily adversaries, but allies. "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God the God" (Matt. 22, 21). This is something that we have not successfully implemented in the twentieth century. This is what we need to do in this century.