The Perestroika Deception Memoranda to the Central Intelligence Agency by Golitsyn Anatoliy

Author:Golitsyn, Anatoliy [Golitsyn, Anatoliy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: History, Russia, Soviet Era, Political Science, Political Ideologies, Communism; Post-Communism & Socialism, World, Russian & Soviet
ISBN: 9781899798001
Google: WKvaAAAAMAAJ
Amazon: 1899798005
Publisher: Edward Harle
Published: 1995-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

PART FIVE

EXPOSING 'PERESTROIKA'

AS THE SOVIET STRATEGY

FOR A 'SECOND OCTOBER

REVOLUTION'

['WELT0KT0BER']

Non-violent revolution,

controlled fake

'democratism' and

strategic disinformation

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THE PERESTROIKA DECEPTION

Memorandum to the CIA: SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER 1990

1 EXPOSING 'PERESTROIKA AS THE STRATEGY FOR A SECOND

OCTOBER WORLD SOCIALIST REVOLUTION ['WELTOKTOBER']

2 THE NEW PATTERN OF NON-VIOLENT REVOLUTION, NOT BY

COMMUNIST PARTIES, DICTATORSHIPS, THE SOVIET ARMY AND

VIOLENCE BUT THROUGH FALSE REFORM, INFLUENCE AND THE

POLITICAL ACTION OF THE SOVIET FORCES ENGAGED IN PARTY-

CONTROLLED 'DEMOCRATISATION' AND THE SO-CALLED MULTI-

PARTY SYSTEM IN THE USSR

3 THE PARAMOUNT ROLE OF SOVIET STRATEGIC DISINFORMATION IN

THE SUCCESSFUL EXECUTION OF THE 'PERESTROIKA' STRATEGY

It was not the Author's intention to submit further political Memoranda to the CIA on Soviet affairs. But he found that he could not sit idly by and watch the United States and its political leaders being taken in by Soviet strategic disinformation and overwhelmed by their own wishful thinking about the evolution of the Soviet system. He therefore decided to make a further attempt to explain the real essence of 'perestroika', to expose its contradictions, to reveal its strategic design, to give warning of its potentially dangerous impact on the United States and to counteract the present simplistic and over-optimistic Western view of its significance. Sooner or later informed opinion in the Western democracies will comprehend the new dimensions of the Soviet threat and the pendulum of US policy will begin to swing back from its present confusion to a greater sense of reality. The Memorandum is submitted in the hope of accelerating the process.

SOVIET REJECTION OF THE DISCREDITED PATTERN OF VIOLENT REVOLUTION IN SELECTED PARTS

OF THE WORLD

The first attempt at World Socialist Revolution was based on violent action by Communist Parties and the Comintern seeking to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat through uprisings, civil war and terror. The Revolution succeeded only in Russia in 1917 and failed elsewhere with the collapse of the Bela Kun regime in Hungary in 1919 and the suppression of the Communist uprisings in Germany in 1919

and 1923. After the Second World War Stalin succeeded in spreading Revolution into Eastern Europe through occupation of the area by the victorious Soviet Army and successful diplomacy vis-a-vis the Western allies. In China, Mao Tse-Tung and the Chinese Communists, with concealed military assistance from the Soviets, took power through civil war.

After the anti-Communist uprisings in Hungary and Poland in 1956 the Soviet strategists realised that Stalin's 'police socialism', which had thoroughly alarmed the Western democracies, was discredited and that violence and terror offered no possibilities for the advance of the Revolution at least in the developed world.

SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER 1990

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WHY DID THE SOVIET STRATEGISTS OPT FOR A NON-VIOLENT PATTERN OF WORLD

REVOLUTION?

From the late 1950s onwards the Soviets have been developing and pursuing a new long-range strategy for World Socialist Revolution. Its essence has been: (a) Replacement of the outdated concept of the 'dictatorship of the proletariat'

by the concept of the 'state of the whole people':

(b) Development of new political forces under the 'state of the whole people': (c) The preparation of economic and political reforms and the transition to a planned socialist market economy and

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