The truth about China is not for sale

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See the Lev Navrozov Archive By Lev Navrozov SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Lev Navrozov emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1972 He settled in New York City where he quickly learned that there was no market for his eloquent and powerful English language attacks on the Soviet Union. To this day, he writes without fear or favor or the conventions of polite society. He chaired the "Alternative to the New York Times Committee" in 1980, challenged the editors of the New York Times to a debate (which they declined) and became a columnist for the New York City Tribune. His columns are today read in both English and Russian.

In my recent WorldTribune.com columns I wrote that the American people will wake up to the mortal danger if major TV networks held a dozen or so TV programs on the China threat. In particular, book publishers might get interested enough to publish my book, based on my Internet columns. Who may arrange such TV programs? A top-notch publicist, who charges $10,000 for four months. Another $10,000 would be necessary for travel and other expenses.

Here is how one of my readers responded:

You say all you need is 20K for the publicity? Why have you not been able to raise the money? If you can show me that you have 10-15K ready to put toward the right publicist and if you can show me what results we might get from 20K work of publicity, I will be happy to make up the rest. I want your message to be mainstream. It is what I believe is the necessary step, regardless of nano-weapons or anything else. People in the U.S. NEED TO WAKE UP TO China. Or else it will be too late.

Let me briefly explain why I do not have even "10K," and we must seek another generous contributor to match this reader's pledge (please note that all contributions will be tax-deductible as contributions to the nonprofit Center for the Survival of Western Democracies, Inc.).

In Soviet Russia, I did not want to prostitute myself by writing for the Soviet press, and hence, officially, I was a translator of Russian classical literature into English. As such, I was rich enough to buy the best country house after the mansions and palaces of the dictator himself. As for my own writing, I wrote, as we used to say, "into the desk," in the hope that I would be able to publish it in Russia or in the West.

When we emigrated (what luck!) and arrived in New York in 1972, I was received by the New York Times Magazine editor because the Moscow correspondent of the New York Times (Ray Anderson) had called him and spoken about me. I told the editor about the Soviet development of post-nuclear superweapons, the most significant news since the émigré suspicion (conveyed in 1939 to President Roosevelt) that nuclear weapons were being developed in Nazi Germany.

The result? Until 1992, the New York Times never printed a word of what I told the New York Times Magazine editor. The Soviet development of post-nuclear superweapons (or rather the bioweapons section of it) was believed to be a fact by the West only 20 years later when the Soviet dictatorship collapsed (if only for a while) and Yeltsin opened in 1992 the giant bioweapons section of the country-wide Soviet project.

So it is not accidental that I write not for the New York Times at $300,000 a year (including syndication), but for two "online periodicals" whose chiefs appreciated (in contrast to the New York Times) what I wrote way back in the 1980s and what was proved to be a fact in 1992. But there is a financial difference. The New York Times was bought by its present family owners in the 19th century. The newsstand price of a weekday issue today is $1, and the weekday circulation surpasses 1 million. The newsstand price of a Sunday issue (in standard size) is $3.50, and the Sunday circulation 1.7 million. An online periodical does not sell its online postings (they are free!) and subsist on ads only.

I do not complain‹I left Soviet Russia in search of freedom of the press, not in search of wealth. Our rent for our apartment, which was reserved for us in 1972 by the builder of the apartment house, is ridiculously low, we don't have a car, though my wife drives, we do not "eat out," and we have never "gone on vacation" since we arrived in New York in 1972. On the other hand, I have probably the largest desk in New York, custom-made by our émigré friend, two rooms are set aside for my file cabinets and book shelves, and nothing distracts me from my work on the columns and on my book on the same subject. I have no time to make money as I had it in Soviet Russia. Every minute of my time is necessary to study the Chinese press in English and its translations into English by my Chinese friends, and of course, I watch Putin's Russia and the world. But I have no time for television, and my wife jots down the few bits of interest.

Let me return to the mainstream television programs able to wake up the United States to the possibility of annihilation of the West by post-nuclear superweapons, which China began to develop in seven fields in 1986.

A while ago, I had a call from a top-notch publicist, who had found me because the presentation on mainstream media television of "the China threat," as I describe it, complete with "the sleep" of the Western political establishment, struck him as highly promising. Never mind that not a single such television program has appeared ever since 1986! All the better! As soon as the first program appears there will be a rush for such programs precisely because they have been absent ever since 1986! A new fashion!

Several topnotch publicists can be examined before one of them is chosen.

We (the nonprofit Center for the Survival of Western Democracies, Inc.) and a top-notch publicist will sign a contract. The term is four months, and the cost $10,000. The contract will specify how many major television programs will be arranged for each month and the pay for each month. If the publicist fails in a certain month, the contract becomes void and no further monthly payment will follow.

I give my radio interviews from home no need to travel. But in the present case money will be necessary to go to Los Angeles or wherever the program will be filmed, with all the graphic materials.

Yes, the rescue of the West (and hence the liberation of China, since the mere existence of the West and Taiwan is subversive to the dictatorship of China) is in our hands, but as I tried to show in that recent column I have mentioned, where there's a will there's a way, while to propose to save the West and then vanish will not help to rescue the West from the annihilation by the dictatorship of China in alliance with Putin's Russia.