Book: A new cold war. Who will win this time?

Maybe we have nothing to say Poland? Is. We also may require the poles to pay and repent. For example, for the destroyed Russian Orthodox churches. And, I emphasize, not of ROCOR - the Russian Orthodox Church abroad, which was formed after the revolution, and those that were in the bosom of the Moscow Patriarchate. In the first place from the poles can demand repentance for the destroyed and plundered during the years 1924-1926, the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral which was the tallest building in Warsaw and the largest Orthodox Church in Europe. The destruction of the Cathedral of the Polish authorities attached great political significance, inspiring their compatriots, thereby they destroy the symbol of Russian domination and alien faith. The Warsaw city Council even issued a special loan secured the cost of the material resulting from the destruction of a stately building, in order to "every pole could have part in this Holy cause." So by creating mutual responsibility flagrant act of vandalism was given the kind of events that have become almost a matter of national pride. The destruction of a unique monument of architecture lasted almost two years, and required according to different data, from thousand to fifteen thousand small explosions. Subsequently, the Jasper columns from the ruined Cathedral were moved to the tomb of Pilsudski in Krakow, and marble slabs and frescoes used to decorate many buildings in Warsaw. Those poles who kept a sober view of things, it is a satanic act caused consternation and outrage.

And now, in 1999, the Americans decided to bomb Belgrade. I think that if they are led to victory (as they thought) in the cold war is not dispersed their experienced Sovietologists, it would be to explain: the worst thing they could do is to Wake the Russian bear, hurting the Serbs, who, as we know, since there is a saying: "God is In heaven and on earth - Russia". I personally know many people who for many years professed liberalism, but after the events in the Balkans were radical patriots. Yeah to be honest, I myself walked a similar path.

Victory in the cold war in no way is not the conquest of the West, and entirely is a merit of Soviet society and the CPSU in particular. No "five-star" generals of the Pentagon failed to achieve what I did needless to Soviet society and the Soviet leadership. <...> Responsibility for what happened to the country, must be wholly borne by the elite of the Communist party, the party leadership - she did nothing to save the Soviet Union. Of course, you can indict the CIA and the US state Department, but let us, in the words of the great military analyst Colonel Messner, just recognize that first and foremost we need to blame themselves. Everyone who lived at that time, in fact, to blame for the fact that the Soviet Union collapsed and the state was destroyed. Of course, responsibility must be commensurate, it is impossible to put in a number of the guilt of the leaders of the party and the state and blame the ordinary citizen.

Now who would believe that at a time when he was still alive comrade Suslov, the Soviet Union quite seriously in a list of... forbidden Western rock bands! On what basis there has been pop music bands in different countries, neither I nor many of my peers can't understand until now. And now no mentally normal person would not be able to understand and especially to explain how to disable the wording "for the propaganda of Nazism" rock band "kiss", where two out of four of the performers were Jews! And their parents were victims of the Holocaust, sat in Nazi concentration camps... And such examples were plenty.

... decided that the General crisis of the system occurred only because Lenin's Testament was misunderstood. He concluded that the writings of the leader of the world revolution need to rethink. Tried - but then problems arose. It was all about the Higher party school of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Created long before perestroika, it turned out to be completely incompetent. Suslov for thirty years, not just trampled there all relatively alive, but flooded the clearing with concrete, that was not even a hint of any new shoots. And when Gorbachev called on once again tenderly and gently to reconsider the artistic heritage of Lenin, it became clear that to do this, in principle, no one.

... shortly before Stalin's death, one of the key roles in the state was occupied by Mikhail Suslov. <...> Looking back, we can determine what was the main mistake Suslov. He firmly preserved the state ideology in the form in which it existed under Stalin and throughout his life, jealously saw to it that this condition has not changed, and Suslov lived, as you know, until January of 1982... <...> the Result was that for more than forty years, the state from the point of view of the development of the political model has not moved anywhere.

... the collapse of the Soviet Union and, as a consequence, the fact that today in America is called "victory in the cold war", was the result of a fatal error that led to the crisis of ideology. And it all began not with the advent to power of Mikhail Gorbachev declared perestroika and the advent of "new thinking". It began, oddly enough, from the perspective of the founder of the Soviet state Vladimir Lenin.
The fact that the state model, which is found in the land of the Soviets the Bolsheviks after the Civil war, did not imply a number of crucial institutions required for a full life of any normal society. Political science and sociology as a science did not really exist; the philosophy was clearly a pen - philosophers trying to think broadly, at best dismissed, at worst were sent to places not so remote. Plus, within the Soviet society, in principle, there was no debate on the most pressing issues.