The Deception of Perestroika Process - Research Paper Example

? PERESTROIKA DECEPTION by Anatoliy Golitsyn and Christopher Story or College Department By Adviser Introduction Whowould ever forget the classic movie, “Dr. Zhivago”? The movie had beautiful scenes shot in Russia and its running plot depicts a multi-romance relationships of Dr. Zhivago caught in the complicated history of Russia. What has become of Russia today? Russia, Soviet Union (USSR before), then, was perceived to be one of the richest, most powerful countries in the world to be casted side by side with world power countries like the United States, Japan, France, China, Germany and Britain. “It is also the world’s largest country in terms of area, described to be nearly twice the size of the United States. 1 It has also the biggest nuclear arsenals in the world. The Chernobyl Nuclear Plant Accident in 1986 is just one of its nuclear plants.2 “Its national language is Russian. Slavs account for the majority of the population.” 3 Russia is also one of those nations that had structural and ideological changes that affected the whole world. One of these radical changes is the what they call “Perestroika” from the derivative word Russian perestroika : pere-, around, again (from Old Russian) + stroika, construction (from stroit', to build , from Old Russian stroiti , from stroji, order)3 . Comes with Perestroika is the word “ Glasnost” which means “openness”. 4 “In communist regimes crises are usually hidden from the outside world; because of the absence of democratic processes and the suppression of internal opposition, popular political, social, and economic discontents accumulate and threaten to develop into serious upheavals or revolts of the entire population against the system as a whole.” 5 There are lots of questions and debates which remain unanswered about Perestroika. For example, the “Perestroika Deception” is like an opened pandora’s box by Anatoliy Golitsyn who warns of an imminent threat from communist community which strategizes to bring all countries (communist and non-communist countries) into One-World Order of Communism? or is it just a political structural policy to shape domestic issues? Did Russia actually benefit from it or not? These are just some questions which this paper would like to try to gather and present some answers. 1 “Moscow-Rich in Russia- Facts & Stats”, Oct. 2003. Frontline World. Available from http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/moscow/facts.html 2 “ Russian History Timeline. History Timelines. [database online], n.d. http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/places-timelines/36-russian-history-timeline.htm 3 “Perestroika’s Root Word”, American Heritage Dictionary, http://www.answers.com/topic/perestroika ( accessed April 01,2011) 4 “Glasnost”, Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, http://www.answers.com/topic/glasnost (accessed April, 03, 2011) 5 Anatoliy Golitsyn, New Lies For Old:The Communist Strategy of Deception and Disinformation http://www.spiritoftruth.org/newlies4old.pdf (accessed April 03, 2011) Thesis Statement The centerpiece of this paper is “Perestroika”. However, Perestroika is being presented from two points of view. The first point of view would come from the point of view of a Western critic as he perceives it from what Mikhail Gorbachev would like people to perceive. The second point of view is a radical twist from what it is being showcased to the world as revealed by a high KGB official and defector in the person of Anatoliy Golitsyn. He claims that Perestroika is a huge deception of the communist bloc and is just part of a bigger grand strategy of the World Communist community intended to defeat existing countries with the ideologies of democracy. This paper seeks to present in a logical and chronological manner how events have build up from its roots up to how it was uncovered. This paper intends to present the following: one is, to reveal the real issues about Perestroika as showcased to the world against its part of deception; second, is to identify and relate different recorded world events and personalities that would have something to do with Perestroika. It is deemed that with this presentation, new essential insights and lessons covering the how, why, what, where and who of Perestroika be better understood as it happened. The Realities The Early Russia It is noteworthy to review the turn of events how Russia developed into communism and determine the precursors to Perestroika. Russia’s growth as a nation is also presented as it is deemed necessary because it closely links with the persona of Mikhail Gorbachev, the man of the hour for implementing his own version of Perestroika. It was written that “He, unlike all of his predecessors as party leader, was a child of the Soviet system. He was born in the Stavropol region of Southern Russia to a peasant family on March 2nd, 1931 (Brown pg. 25).” 6 The Tsarism, Autocracy and Feudalistic Period in Russia It is amazing to review the historical past of early Russia. “For thousands of years they have been oppressed by invasions of barbaric tribes, placed under the thumb of Czarist (Tsarist) Russia.” 7 The 11th to 15th century saw Russia running an autocratic form of government. Everything was under the control of the landed few. “Members of the society were composed mostly of nobles and serfs or peasants and practiced Russian feudalism. Power was in the hands of royal families, Tsars or Emperors.” “Originally, the feudal system was in use for Russian peasants. Serfs worked the land that was owned by aristocracy. The serfs were bound to that land for life, never getting a chance to own the land that they worked so hard for”. 8 6 “Gorbachev” scribd.com Online http://www.scribd.com/doc/8367775/ .Internet. Accessed April 04, 2011 7 Jay Rogers, “Mikhail Gorbachev: Can Perestroika Produce Democratic Freedom?” Forerunner.com. Online. August, 1991. http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0665_Gorbachev_-_Democrat.html 8 “What is Russian Feudalism” chacha.com. Online. http://www.chacha.com/question/what-is-russian-feudalism . Internet. Accessed April 02, 2011 ““Communist Russia has been ruled with the same spirit of oppression as during the time of the Czars.” 9 This was a period ruled by Tsarists, emperors, empresses and royal families in the person of Peter The Great, Ivan, The Terrible _ a madman, Catherine The Great, Alexander I , Nicholas I who all ruled and managed their owned vast tracts of lands with peasants working for them. Russia was also noted to be with the Orthodox Church joining other crowned heads in Europe.10 The 18th and 19th centuries were a period of reform where the growing discontentment and uprisings were prominent in addition to the arrival of Bolsheviks and early socialist militants from the outside. 11 It was noted that Russia participated in World War I, Japan-Russo War then in World War II as short-termed member nation to the Axis countries. 12 The Arrival of the Bolsheviks and 1917 October Revolution Some writers claim that Russian history started in 1917. On this year, a provisional government was established to legitimize an ad hoc government to run the affairs, Russia was on a war so it became an empty commitment. 13 When this was installed, there were no Marxist followers around and when Lenin and Trotsky learned about this situation, they immediately decided to return to Russia.14 “On October 10, Lenin presided over a secret meeting of the central committee at the Bolshevik party. Here, a crucial decision was made when Lenin was able to persuade majority of his comrades who were present to vote for his own policy. They decided in favor of it and planned to have an armed insurrection - though without specifying as yet any intended date.” 15 Also in the same year, “ Lenin was able to secure power and introduce his New Economic Policy (NEP) at the Tenth Party Congress, which declared that peasants are to be allowed to keep the surplus of their product after a tax in kind has been paid to the state. At the same time the ban on markets was lifted.” 16Lenin’s policy gained popularity and support. 9 Jay Rogers, “Mikhail Gorbachev: Can Perestroika Produce Democratic Freedom?” Forerunner.com. Online. August, 1991. http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0665_Gorbachev_-_Democrat.html 10, 11,12,13.14.15, 16, “History of Russia” .Historyworld.net.Online. http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=2570&HistoryID=ac14>rack=pthc Accessed April 03, 2011 The Rise of J. Stalin “Joseph Stalin, a committed Bolshevik from his early twenties and a passionate supporter of Lenin, has been in the inner circle of the party since the revolution. But the real growth of his power began in April 1922 when Lenin created a new post for him as General Secretary of the Communist Party. In this position Stalin had direct control over party appointments. It gave him the perfect chance to prepare for the coming struggle after Lenin fell ill in May. In this position Stalin had direct control over party appointments. It gave him the perfect chance to prepare for the coming struggle after Lenin fell ill in May.”17 He died in 1924.18 By 1929, Stalin became the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR). Stalin was a ruthless dictator. There was purge and terror during his rule.19 He died in 1953 and was succeeded by Nikita Krushev.20 Bolsheviks won over and gained military control of Petrograd. 22 Perestroika Begins In 1964, Krushev was replaced by Leonid Brezhnev.22 Brezhnev was the brainchild of Perestroika which he proposed in 1979. But Brezhnev’s Perestroika originally referred only “to the construction of reforms for increased automation and labour efficiency”.23 Brezhnev died in 1982 and was succeeded by the KGB Yuri Andropov, and then by Konstantin Chernenko – neither of them lived long enough to implement significant changes. 24 17 “History of Russia” .Historyworld.net.Online. http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=2570&HistoryID=ac14>rack=pthc Accessed April 03, 2011 18,20 “ Russian History Timeline “ history-timeline.org. Online. http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/places- timelines/36-russian-history-timeline.htm. Accessed April 04, 2011 19,21 “History of Russia” .Historyworld.net.Online. http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=2570&HistoryID=ac14>rack=pthc Accessed April 03, 2011 22 “ Russian History Timeline “ history-timeline.org. Online. http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/places- timelines/36-russian-history-timeline.htm. Accessed April 04, 2011 23 Oxford Dictionaries, 2011 “Brezhnev’s Perestroika”. 24 “Former Russian Leaders” money-zinc.com .Online. http://www.money-zine.com/Career-Development/Leadership-Skill/Former-Russian-Leaders/ Accessed April 04, 2011 Gorbachev, The Man of the Decade (1985) “The world changed profoundly in 1985 when Mikhail S. Gorbachev came to power in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and became one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century.” 25 “From humble beginnings in a modest village, he went on to run the Kremlin. He taught the world two new words: “perestroika”- meaning restructuring and “glasnost”- openness.26 “The last Soviet leader was born into a peasant family on March 2, 1931 in southern Russia. He witnessed the horrors of famine, the arrest of both his grandfathers and the German occupation. But it didn’t dent his belief in socialism. A star at school, he gained a law degree from Moscow State University in 1955 and embarked on a party career. Three decades later, Mikhail Gorbachev made it to the top as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.”27 “For the next six years, he made headlines around the globe was named “Man of the Year” and later “Man of the Decade” by Time and received the Nobel Peace Prize.”28 Gorbachev and His 1985 Perestroika Gorbachev was perceived by the West to be unaware that his “Perestroika” and “glasnost” would put behind on the side the 70 year old Soviet’s ideology of Communism. Initially, Perestroika was just a borrowed euphemism for the word “reform” from Brezhnev who introduced it in 1979. “For Gorbachev himself the term "perestroika" meant different things at different times.”29 When Gorbachev was given the power, Brezhnev’s successor, he resurrected the concept, promoted and gave it a broader scope in meaning, that is, to mean “reconstruction or restructuring” to solve pervading domestic issues from within their system. Later it was changed to signify a restructuring from a systemic issue that must be immediately addressed. 25 “Gorbachev” scribd.com Online http://www.scribd.com/doc/8367775/ .Internet. Accessed April 04, 2011 26, 27 “ Russian history:m Glasnost and perestroika. http://russiapedia.rt.com/russian-history/perestroika/ . Internet. Accessed April 04, 2011 28 John Griffing. ‘The Perestroika Deception”. September 2009. [online] Available from http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/09/the_perestroika_deception.html Accessed April 04, 2011 29 Gale encyclopedia [online] Available from http://www.answers.com/topic/perestroika Accessed April 05, 2011 The reasons why Gorbachev’s embraced Perestroika is that he claimed to have witnessed “Soviet society suffocating from the grip and rigidity and immobilism of the neo-Stalinist regime of the command-bureaucratic system.” 30 “Stagnation’ years had precipitated not only an economic, but a political crisis. Gorbachev chose Perestroika to be predicated by the support of the intelligentsia, and by its middle class values and emphases it had run a foreseeable risk of alienating mass support. ”31 Along with Perestroika campaign is its twin- “Glasnost “ meaning openness. “Glasnost was a policy of reform that was implemented alongside of perestroika. Glasnost was a call for changes including freedom of expression, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press.” 32 All these were radically introduced and Gorbachev lifted all restraints previously accorded to media. Features and Results of Gorbachev’s Perestroika “His initial reforms began with dismantling the past dictatorship, putting an end to the one man rule or monopoly of power concentrated in the hands of the dictator and the transferring of sovereignty to the people.33 “By 1987 the concept for Gorbachev was much broader and clearly embraced radical political reform and the transformation of Soviet foreign policy. Glasnost opened the way for real political debate and political movement in a system which had undergone little fundamental political change for decades. ” 34 One main objective of Gorbachev’s reforms was to liberate or lift the people from the quagmire of doctrinaire and dogmatic misconceptions and interpretations into which the true original socialism of Lenin had fallen. Democratization signifies the change from a one - man rule to the rule of the many, the people. 35 “Here in effect, is Gorbachev’s plan. Allow basic human freedoms to function within the socialist state while bolstering the material productivity of the nation and the happiness of the individual:” 36 30,31 “Gorbachev” scribd.com Online http://www.scribd.com/doc/8367775/ .Internet. Accessed April 04, 2011 32 “What is Perestroika?” iknow2.net [online] Available from http://www.iknow2.net/what-is-perestroika/ Accessed April 04, 2011 33 “Philosophy of Perestroika Part 1”, n.d. scribd.com. [online] Available from http://www.scribd.com/doc/29078446/Philosophy-of-Perestroika-Part1 Accessed April 04 34 “Perestroika” encyclopedia.com [online] 2004 Available from http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/perestroika.aspx 35 Philosophy of Perestroika Part 1”, n.d. scribd.com. [online] Available from http://www.scribd.com/doc/29078446/Philosophy-of-Perestroika-Part1 Accessed April 04, 2011 36 Jay Rogers, “Mikhail Gorbachev: Can Perestroika Produce Democratic Freedom?” Forerunner.com. August, 1991. [Online] available http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0665_Gorbachev_-_Democrat.html “One of the most remarkable innovations was Gorbachev's breaking of the taboo on speaking positively about pluralism. Initially (in 1987) this was a "socialist pluralism" or a "pluralism of opinion. 1.Freedom of speech and expression which always signifies diversity of views and/or opinions. 2. It is not the case of one working as many; but of many working as one.”37 In the end, Perestroika resulted to positive, intended and negative, unintended consequences. For the former, “ it initiated the liberalization of the Soviet system and the ending of the Cold War by the end of 1980’s . Other communist countries in Europe like Germany and China also followed suit. In short, Liberalization, in fact, developed into democratization. A major facet of perestroika is its initial conception that is to inject new dynamism into the Soviet economy which failed ultimately. He came to believe that for any dying or irresponsive system deems a total dismantling and a rebuilt of a system on a different foundation. Finally, the adverse and unintended consequence of perestroika was the fall or disintegration of the Soviet Union. ”38 “Gorbachev’s revolution from within had thus proved more negative that positive: it had destroyed one political-economic system but not replaced it with another (Gooding pg. 56).” 39 “This goes along with his thinking that he could at first just refine the existing system, but again with the lack of central control, “what occurred was a revolution against the effective party (namely, the oligarchy) and the mental constructs which sustained it, carried through in the name of Leninist socialism, and its result was to erode; whatever credibility the official ideology still possessed without generating any alternative ideology or even ethic that could command general assent. The party had lost its right to rule but not its ruling position, and yet found that it could no longer rule effectively. Perestroika’s unanticipated success and its transcending of the modest parameters within 37 “Philosophy of Perestroika Part 1”, n.d. scribd.com. [online] Available from http://www.scribd.com/doc/29078446/Philosophy-of-Perestroika-Part1 Accessed April 04, 2011 38 “Perestroika”. Gale Encyclopedia [online] Available from http://www.answers.com/topic/perestroika 39 “Gorbachev” scribd.com Online http://www.scribd.com/doc/8367775/ .Internet. Accessed April 04, 2011 which it began resulted therefore in a breakdown rather than a transfer of authority. The revolution left in its wake a wounded party, a more or less destroyed ideology, a president weakened and bewildered by the collapse of the political center and hence of his strategy, a vociferous democratic opposition given populist appeal by the personality of Boris Yeltsin, and forces of entrenched conservatism which showed every intention of fighting to claw back what they had lost. The reformers had set out to restore to Russian politics the possibilities and the squandered socialist potential of the 1920’s, but they had finished by confronting the country with choices so stark and fundamental that they recalled 1917 instead (Gooding pp. 56-57).” 40 The Deception Anatoliy Golitsyn, The KGB Defector Reveals the Deception “In 1961, Anatoliy Golitsyn defected to the United States and revealed the secrets of Perestroika Deception. Anatoliy Golitsyn was born in the Ukraine in 1926, served as a member of the KGB in various intelligence, counterintelligence, and counterespionage roles, until he defected to the United States in 1961 of which he is now a citizen.” 41 “The main purpose for his defection was to warn the American government about: a) the adoption of the current grand strategy for communism, b) the political role of the KGB, c) the use of disinformation and controlled political opposition with the strategy entailed and d)help the West neutralize KGB penetration of their governments.” 42 “ Since that time Golitsyn has diligently studied Communist and international affairs, reading both the Western and Communist press which has lead him to submit Memoranda to the CIA outlining his analysis of Communist affairs. ”43 Golitsyn revelations were made public through a book published by editor, Christopher Story in view that CIA and FBI have ignored Golitsyn’s revelations in his Memoranda to the said agencies.” “ CIA, Mark Riebling explained that after carrying out a careful analysis of Golitsyn's predictions in New Lies for Old, he had found that out of a total of 148 falsifiable predictions, 139 had been verified by 1993 — "an accuracy rating of 94%." He was commended for having 94% accurate predictions.”44 40 “Gorbachev” scribd.com Online http://www.scribd.com/doc/8367775/ .Internet. Accessed April 04, 2011 41,43 Anatoliy Golitsyn, Anatoliy & Christopher Story (ed.), “The Perestroika Deception: Memoranda to the Central Intelligence Agency ”1998. philologos.org [online] Available from http://philologos.org/guide/books/golitsyn.anatoliy.1.htm (Accessed April 04, 2011) 42 Anatoliy Golitsyn & Christopher Story (ed.), “The Perestroika Deception-Foreword By the Author” ,1993[online] available from http://en.calameo.com/read/0001844325266426e54ab (accessed April, 03, 2011) 44 William Jasper. “Dispelling Disinformation”[online] Available from http://www.reformed-theology.org/html/issue07/perestroika_01.htm Accessed March 31, 2011 Perestroika Deception, The Second October Revolution? Gorbachev has even been blunt as calling ‘Perestroika’ a continuation of the October Revolution. 45 It is not merely a cosmetic policy to cover up smears of the domestic matters of Soviet Union. In Golitsyn’s written revelations , it pointed out that Perestroika is now treated as a philosophy by the worldwide communist community in this strategy whose real essence is the application of Lenin’s New Economic Policy in new conditions. “Perestroika Deception explains the devious secret intent behind the Leninist strategy which former Communists are pursuing under the cover of fake reform and progress towards democracy.”46 The ultimate objective of Lenin’s : replacement of nation states with collective regional government’s as building blocks of the ‘New World Social Order’- the World (Communist) Government.”47 “Accordingly, Perestroika’s paramount global objective is to weaken and neutralize anti-communist ideology and influence of anti-Communists in political life in the United States, Western Europe and elsewhere _presenting them as anachronistic survivors of the Cold War, reactionaries and obstacles to “restructuring” and peace” 48 The Misconceptions A common misconception or fallacy is that Perestroika only started with Brezhnev in 1979 or Gorbachev in 1985. It was a revelation of this book that “it was as early 1958 not in 1985 that Perestroika was already in a long- term plan and preparation, adoption of a long-term plan of world wide Communist leaders. From 1958 – 1960, Communist leaders worldwide converged to restructure and transform capitalist systems with a grand plan that would ultimately lead to one World Government. ” 49The KGB‘s sinister role was to execute the plan. 50 45 Griffing, John, “The Perestroika Deception”,The American Thinker [online] available from http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/09/the_perestroika_deception.htmlJohn 45,47 Anatoliy Golitsyn & Christopher Story (ed.), “The Perestroika Deception” , 1993 p.17. [online] available from http://en.calameo.com/read/0001844325266426e54ab (accessed April, 03, 2011) 48 Anatoliy Golitsyn & Christopher Story (ed.), “The Perestroika Deception” , 1993. p.18. [online] available from http://en.calameo.com/read/0001844325266426e54ab (accessed April, 03, 2011) 49 Anatoliy Golitsyn & Christopher Story (ed.), “The Perestroika Deception” , 1993 p.12. [online] available from http://en.calameo.com/read/0001844325266426e54ab (accessed April, 03, 2011) 50 Anatoliy Golitsyn & Christopher Story (ed.), “The Perestroika Deception” 1993 ,p.14.[online] available from http://en.calameo.com/read/0001844325266426e54ab (accessed April, 03, 2011) Here are further some selected declared fallacies claimed by Golitsyn: “1) Perestroika was purely domestic attempt to correct measures within Soviet Union it was an intent to expand beyond Communist world to achieve World victory of Communism through restructuring. 2) That the Cold War is Over and that Communism is Dead- from Soviet’s side, the Cold war will accelerate and become more deadly, especially for the political right which is being targeted as never before with the intention that it should suffer total obliteration; 3) The decline of ideology – They have not realized that perestroika is an expression of ideological strategy and a practical means of reviving ideology. It is not the abandonment of class struggle but a finesse to secure the defeat of the capitalist democracies by the use of capitalist weapons. 4) ideological victory of capitalism – Through perestroika, Soviets have captured the strategic and political initiative on the global stage and have began to carry out their long nurtured designs against the West which threaten its survival.; 5) Gorbachev as the father of Soviet’s social democracy – The positioning of Gorbachev were all carefully planned and executed pre-calculated by the communist party.”51 Perestroika Events That Were Precalculated To Happen  Golitsyn’s main predictions included details of the “forthcoming false liberalization of the whole of Eastern Europe, followed by similar developments in the Soviet Union. He predicted the removal of the Berlin Wall, the unification of Germany, the restructuring (if not abolition) of NATO. He even went so far as to specify that a “Break with the Past” process would start in East Germany, with the opening of its borders — as it turned out, to neighboring Communist countries. Golitsyn knew that the process would start in East Germany; and it did.”52 The Strategies The Communist apparatus planned for three grand strategies: “The first one is to overthrow the Tsarist regime by a workers’ revolution and the establishment of a dictatorship of the Communist Party of Russia. It actually took roughly 20 years to accomplish this objective through the October Revolution of 1917. The second grand strategy includes the promotion of Socialism (Communism) in Russia and to foment world-wide communist revolution. The third and final strategy contains threefold sub objectives. One is to abolish of Stalin practices related 51 Anatoliy Golitsyn & Christopher Story (ed.), “The Perestroika Deception”. 1993. p.39. [online] available from http://en.calameo.com/read/0001844325266426e54ab (accessed April, 03, 2011) 52 Anatoliy Golitsyn & Christopher Story (ed.), “The Perestroika Deception” . 1993. pp.3-11. [online] available from http://en.calameo.com/read/0001844325266426e54ab (accessed April, 03, 2011) to the use of mass repression and instead introduce other changes needed for recovery from the crisis of mid 1950’s. Second is restore Lenin’s style of collegial leadership within the communist Parties and genuine fraternal relations between them. Third and final, is to prepare and introduce in the final strategy economic and political restructuring and democratization of USSR and other communist countries. ” 53 However, the editor C. Story provided further info from Golitsyn that to understand the strategy of Perestroika, there are seven (7) keys one has to learn about: 1) “The innovation application of Lenin’s experience with the New Economic Policy to the whole Communist bloc; 2) Preparation for the use of the Bloc’s political and security potential; 3) The creation of controlled ‘political opposition’ by the KGB and the security services of other Communist countries, along the lines proposed by Shelepin; 4) Lenin’s ideas forging of new and old forms for the development of socialism and the achievement of communist victory. Gregory Chicherin’s ideas on the creation of false representative institution’ by the admission of non-communist members. 5) The development of controlled ‘political opposition’ in the creation of new ‘democratic’ and ‘non-communist’ structures 6) Lenin’s experience with giving fictitious ‘independence’ to the Far Eastern and Georgian Republics 7) The new design for anti-Western strategy and the use of the Bloc’s political potential in its execution.” 54 What is Lenin’s New Economic Policy? “Lenin’s advice to the Communists is that they must be prepared to ‘resort to all sorts of stratagems, maneuvers, illegal methods, evasions and subterfuge to achieve their objectives’ This advice was given on the eve of his reintroduction of limited capitalism in Russia in his work ‘Left Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder’.” 55 53 Anatoliy Golitsyn & Christopher Story (ed.), “The Perestroika Deception” , 1993. p49-54. [online] available from http://en.calameo.com/read/0001844325266426e54ab (accessed April, 03, 2011) 54 Anatoliy Golitsyn & Christopher Story (ed.), “The Perestroika Deception” , 1993. p72-75. [online] available from http://en.calameo.com/read/0001844325266426e54ab (accessed April, 03, 2011) 55 Anatoliy Golitsyn & Christopher Story (ed.), “The Perestroika Deception” , 1993. p18. [online] available from http://en.calameo.com/read/0001844325266426e54ab (accessed April, 03, 2011) The new method sees “Perestroika” as an application of Lenin’s advice in new conditions, as follows: “Our only strategy at present is to become stronger and therefore, wiser, more reasonable, more opportunistic. The more opportunistic the sooner will you again assemble the masses around you. When we have won over the masses by our reasonable approach, we shall apply offensive tactics in the strictest sense of the word.” 56 Unfolding More of Perestroika Events in the Future Here are some of the predicted final phase of Perestroika events that may unfold in the near future, as follows: “a) Restructuring in Eastern Europe and China; c) Restructuring in Western Europe; d) Restructuring the Third World and finally, e) The Restructuring of the United States.”57 Conclusion This book is full of astonishing revelations about Perestroika. Putting things in the right perspective, the author would like to emphasize that “the essence of a special maneuver in the present grand strategy for Communism lies, internally in the creation and use of controlled ‘political opposition’ to effect a transition to new ‘democratic’. ‘non-communist’, ‘nationalist’ power structures which remain in reality communist-controlled. Internationally, the essence of the maneuver lies in the use of the political potential of these new power structures to develop new contacts and promote solidarity with the Western democracies as a means towards the achievement of world communist victory through the convergence of the communist and non-communist systems. ” 58 In other words, communists will practice “immersion” to win confidence of non-communists. This tactic is envisaged to conquer the world into communist’s side, an unending dogma derived from the New Economic Policy of V. Lenin. In the process, the reader is reminded to analyze and see the world order on a global scale and examine if such goal is feasible. The strategy may be feasible. This strategy can be compared with the economic strategy used by Japan against the United States. Yes, indeed, there were no arms used. But Japan was able to conquer through its economic structures, policies and programs. Now, Japan has shown the world that it won the race. 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