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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Culture? No, indoctrination in Post-1917 Russia and in Post-1949 China

Lev Navrozov emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1972. His columns are today read in both English and Russian. To learn more about Mr. Navrozov's work with the Center for the Survival of Western Democracies, click here.

Marx and Lenin were writers of thick books about the Òproletarian ideology,Ó and in the spirit of German philosophy, and, though Stalin was a Georgian who barely spoke Russian, he also wanted to be a Western intellectual. Mao Zedong was born in a peasant family and his Òpeasant biasÓ remained after he, at the age of 73, staged a determined attempt to reimbue the entire Communist Party with pristine militancy by pitting youthful ÒRed GuardsÓ as well as army units against Òthe party hierarchy.Ó

  

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In Russia, just as in the West, there was a chasm between ÒseriousÓ (classical) culture and Òpop.Ó According to the Russian Communists, who came to power in 1917 as a result of an armed uprising, the pop culture originated because the poor had been deprived of serious culture. The first national radio station in Soviet Russia was constructed as an electrical network, supplying every Soviet family with small loudspeakers installed in every household. The radio station transmitted only classical music and other elements of ÒseriousÓ culture. The trouble was that possibly only a fraction of 1 percent of the population would listen to such programs, and the station had finally to introduce some pop in the expectation that the audience would some day become 100 percent serious.

The Soviet Communist connection with classical Russian culture ensured an audience in the West for such ÒSoviet composers,Ó inherited from old Russia like Shostakovich and Prokofiev. At the same time, the Soviet forcible indoctrination distorted creative minds into dead stereotypes, paralyzed by the fear of being annihilated.

The Russian Communists expected that the world would become Communist the same way Russia did: after WWII one quarter of the French voters and one third of the Italian voters voted Communist, to say nothing of the countries of eastern Europe, which became ÒpeopleÕs democraciesÓ after StalinÕs march into Europe following his victory over HitlerÕs invasion.

Before the mid-1930s, every inhabitant of Soviet Russia had to be a Marxist-Leninist. He had to know as the ultimate truth that the essence of life could only be cognized scientifically, the way it was done by Marx and Lenin (neither of whom was a scientist). Later Stalin (a Georgian!) began to introduce Russian nationalism, which ousted more and more Òdialectical materialism,Ó and finally, ÒThe InternationaleÓ as the Soviet Òstate hymnÓ was replaced by a hymn which glorified the ancient Ògreat RusÓ for Òputting together to last forever our union of free republics.Ó After Stalin died, his dismissed subordinates told me that Stalin had planned to exterminate Jews and to introduce the Orthodox Christianity with himself as God.

Now, the owners of China realize that, to begin with, in no country in the last 10 or 20 years has there been a Communist movement large enough to stage a coup as in Russia in 1917 or in China in 1949. Hence, in contrast to Soviet Communists before the mid-1930s, their Chinese counterparts expect to attain their world power not through the Communist uprisings but through world wars of ÒLiberation.Ó

The population of Russia today is 150 million. It took Stalin about four years to defeat the invasion of HitlerÕs Germany. The population of Russia had been too small for the owners of the country to think in terms of a victorious world war.

On the other hand, ChinaÕs population of 1.3 billion opens a way to a victorious world war, with post-nuclear superweapons Ñ especially if the free countries behave as did France in 1940, and (despite the British troops of defense in France) was conquered by Germany within a month and a half, while in 1914-1918 the war of Germany against France lasted for about four years, and Germany was defeated.

The owners of China have no need for not Òserious Communists.,Ó As for the respect for Òserious CommunismÓ in China, it is no doubt relevant that over 54 million Chinese Communists have quitted the Chinese Communist Party!

The owners of China need not ÒseriousÓ Communists but armed forces able to win Òworld warsÓ against the free countries! Stalin needed ÒseriousÓ Communists as long as he hoped that Communist Parties would take over many countries, unite them, and create a Communist world (with Stalin at its head no doubt).

But this hope was going away with every passing decade. So the owners of China no longer need ÒseriousÓ Communists as much as they need world warriors able to develop, produce, and use post-nuclear weapons to win a world war against the free countries.

Forcible indoctrination of the Chinese world warriors? They donÕt need it to the same degree Stalin needed the forcible indoctrination of his Communists. These Chinese warriors are under the severest Òmilitary discipline.Ó They know that any deviation from an order would mean a ruthless death for a violator. Not a single case has been known of the Chinese warriorsÕ resistance. In the Tiananmen Square case, the warriors annihilated with modern weapons unarmed spokesmen for freedom and against slavery.

LeninÕs slaves were able to repeat ÒMarxist-Leninist conclusions from the factsÓ and to persuade their equals that the conclusions were correct. The Chinese world warriors are to obey orders for the extermination of the enemy and make their subordinates obey them. The Chinese war theorists see wars, and in particular a world war, as machines made out of many machines, some of which still have to be made out of humans.

In other words, the final ideology of the owners of China has arrived in a magnificent period in which humans will be slaves Ñ to do what machines cannot yet do.

Also, there has been a trend in Western aristocratic culture to regard a war as a kind of duel, in which certain actions are forbidden as insufficiently fair or noble. The very title of the book, Unrestricted Warfare, written by two Chinese officers and published in 1999 by ÒPLA Literature and Arts Publishing House,Ó in Beijing, suggests an end to this trend in China. Gen. Chi Haotian (between 1993 and 2003 the Minister of National Defense) spoke publicly about the extermination of the civilian population of the USA by biological weapons though they were stopped to be used even at the front and were not used either by Hitler or Stalin in any war.  


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