The Anti-Communist Manifesto by Jesse Kelly

Author:Jesse Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Threshold Editions
Published: 2023-06-06T00:00:00+00:00

The pollution caused by the Soviet planners should clearly bring the tree-huggers to tears, but the animal rights activists should be downright horrified by what the communists did—especially the “save the whales” crowd.

Between 1948 and 1973, the Soviet whaling industry engaged in what some marine biologists have called “arguably one of the greatest environmental crimes of the 20th century.” Over the course of a quarter century, Soviet whalers illegally killed some 180,000 whales, driving several species onto the endangered list. Although they made a good showing during the 2017 Women’s March in Washington, D.C., the whale population is still struggling to recover.

To a hard-hearted guy like me, this is all somewhat forgivable. Whales provide all sorts of useful products, from oil made of whale blubber to perfume made of sperm whale vomit. (I’m serious, look it up.) Of course, we don’t want to drive animals into extinction—especially the useful ones—and the Soviets appear to have done it for no reason whatsoever, needlessly wasting the whale carcasses after they’d been killed.

Writer Charles Homans described the senselessness in Pacific Standard magazine:

[T]he Soviet Union had little real demand for whale products. Once the blubber was cut away for conversion into oil, the rest of the animal, as often as not, was left in the sea to rot or was thrown into a furnace and reduced to bone meal—a low-value material used for agricultural fertilizer, made from the few animal byproducts that slaughterhouses and fish canneries can’t put to more profitable use….

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