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Russia's geostrategy: From robbing the robbers to post-nuclear weapons


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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.
Lev Navrozov

Monday, April 17, 2006

Tsar Nicholas II abdicated in the spring of 1917, and the Provisional Government which took over was compelled by its Western Allies to continue the war against Germany. But in the anarchy following the abdication of Nicholas II, many Russian soldiers had deserted and fled with their arms to St. Petersburg, the capital of Russia. For the Provisional Government and its Western Allies, they were criminals to be court-martialed. For Lenin, the leader of a rapidly growing party, they were heroes, saying "no" to the war, which was "imperialist," that is, a slaughter whereby the "imperialists" tried to capture from each other as much territory and wealth as possible. The war was caused by the greed of the rich, dreaming in each country of THEIR world empire at the expense of their enemies.

Accordingly, the deserters overthrew the Provisional Government in the fall of 1917 and supported Lenin. They also "robbed the robbers" (that is, the rich), as Lenin put it, calling the poor to enrich themselves by robbing the rich. What then?

On the basis of his Russian experience, Lenin believed that in every country the poor were ready to rob the rich. It would be enough for his Red Army to enter Europe, and the poor would rush to rob the rich. As for the United States, with all those billionaires… In short, drawing nigh was the world proletarian revolution, as ushered in by Marx! "Arise, ye prisoners of starvation…"

Lenin's was a mistake, similar to the assumption that Moslems, such as Iraqi, want American "freedom and democracy." In Irwin Shaw's play of 1939, "The Brooklyn Idyll," a Brooklyn worker, his wife, and daughter want to be rich — not to kill the rich for the sake of social justice. The American Communist Party has always been tiny.

When Lenin died, and Stalin became the dictator, that is, came to the top of the mafia by destroying his rivals in the next 13 years, he launched the industrial revolution to make his conventional armed forces at a par with those of the West, which has had its Industrial Revolution earlier. But conventional weapons were only part of HIS industrial revolution.

Peter Kapitsa went to England in 1921 and became a favorite disciple of Rutherford, one of the founders of nuclear physics, apart from his other scientific achievements. In 1934 Kapitsa went to Russia to attend a scientific conference (as he did before). But in 1934, that is, five years before Einstein wrote to Roosevelt in 1939 his letter about the possibility of nuclear weapons, Stalin and his scientific entourage already understood the geostrategic importance of nuclear weapons, and Stalin did not let Kapitsa go back to England, that is, he kidnapped him despite a possible international scandal over his banditry.

Kapitsa's English laboratory was brought to him from England (money no problem!), yet it was noticed that he was miserable. Why? He complained that he missed reading his morning paper, the (London) Times, at breakfast. No problem! Every morning, a Soviet airplane was dispatched to England to pick up a copy of the (London) Times to be delivered in time for Kapitsa's breakfast in Moscow.

Nor were nuclear weapons Stalin's only goal as far as superweapons were concerned. Thomas Bearden, a retired lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Army, who has developed theories, considered by the U.S. scientific establishment wrong or controversial (see my previous column) started his Website article of 1990 "Historical Background of Scalar EM [electromagnetic] Weapons" as follows:

    We begin our history in l939 at T. H. Moray's lab in Salt Lake City. In that year, a Soviet espionage agent obtained detailed drawings of Moray's specialized amplifier which extracted energy from the powerful quantum mechanical fluctuations of vacuum…. After extensively testing Moray's device and obtaining the drawings by subterfuge, the Soviet agent destroyed the device. Moray, a truly great pioneer who was unjustifiably ignored in his time, had expended several hundred thousand dollars and exhausted his funds on the first unit. He was never financially able to rebuild it …
    So in 1939 detailed drawings of Moray's unit were obtained and forwarded to Russia, along with details of experiments that the Soviet agent performed with the device in Moray's laboratory. Moray's lab still [1990] stands in Salt Lake City, Utah, operated by his son, John Moray, who has faithfully carried out his father's work.
However, in 1939, Hitler launched a conventional war on the democratic Europe, and in 1941, on Stalin's Russia. As a result, all the available resources in Hitler's Germany and in Stalin's Russia were channeled into the all-out conventional war, so that too little remained for research and development of nuclear and other superweapons, while the United States could afford the development of "atomic bombs," and in 1945 the heretofore fanatical Japan surrendered to them unconditionally.

After the war, Stalin resumed the research and development of nuclear and post-nuclear superweapons. At that time, I joined the Moscow Energy Institute because I hated the Soviet humanities (propaganda), but had to join SOME higher school to avoid conscription in the Soviet army. But I studied only for several days before each exam. In the Calculus exam, my examination ticket required the demonstration of a certain mathematical proposition. But I had read nothing about it. So I presented to the professor my own ad hoc demonstration of the proposition. At first the professor was scandalized, but I begged him to have some patience. The result?

Established under the auspices of the Moscow Energy Institute was a Special Faculty, the Soviet dream. True, its researchers lived within a certain area which they had no right to leave. But functioning within the area were, for example, two clothing stores: one for women's dresses from Paris and the other for men's suits from London.

I learned that the professor of mathematics who had examined me had recommended me for that Special Faculty! Which I rejected in horror, of course! It was only in the West, as I read Thomas Bearden, that I understood why. Bearden asserts that one reason of Western backwardness in superweapons has been, for example, the "Western elevation of the curtailed Maxwell's theory to cult status." Mathematics should be renovated, recreated, reinvented to attain new results in a new physics of superweapons.

The development of superweapons under Stalin since 1939 to 1953 (the year of his death) yielded results only later, under Khrushchev. In his Website article, Bearden writes:

    In January 1960, Khrushchev announced the development of a new phantastic weapon — one so powerful it could wipe out all life on earth if unrestrainedly used. The New York Times printed part of the story. Khrushchev, of course, was referring to the newly emerging scalar EM werapons. So in early 1960 the Soviets were in at least what we call the engineering development stage for the large scalar EM [electromagnetic] beam weapons, which would be developed when finished.
At that time, Khrushchev's insolence seemed to be enigmatic to the West. He demonstrated his scorn for the West by taking off his shoe and banging it against the table in the United Nations. He shouted "We'll bury you!" Today, it is clear that a series of ever new superwpeapons drove him berserk. He was the world's most powerful man, and the world would be his!

However, his subordinates, such as Brezhnev, were scared. They had retained that awe for the West which Russian villargers have for urban life. If Russia can develop those new superweapons, surely the United States with its skyscrapers, each of which is built within one night (as it was reported in Russia), can develop them even better. The flippant, erratic, insolent rowdy-dowdy "Khrushch" was leading Brezhnev et al. to their doom. In 1964, they kicked him out of office, and Brezhnev moved in his place.

In June 1975, Brezhnev called for a ban on post-nuclear superweapons. Bearden writes:

    With obvious lack of knowledge of scalar EM weaponry by the West and failure to achieve a total ban, the Soviet hawks again were able to prevail over Brezhnev and the more conservative Party leaders. The Soviets decided upon a massive buildup of arms, with the intention of being prepared to dominate the world in a decade [that is, by 1985].
The difference between the 1960s and the 1970s was that in the 1960s Soviet Russia developed post-nuclear superweapons AND nuclear weapons, while in the 1970s the development of nuclear weapons was discontinued as being obsolete, and all the resources channeled into the development of nuclear weapons were switched over into that of post-nuclear superweaponry. At the time, my wife had been working as editor of the the international magazine Nuclear Physics, copublished by the Lebedev Institue of Nuclear Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, but Skobeltsyn, a venerable Soviet nuclear physicist and Director of the Institute, declared at its general meeting that nuclear physics was out! "But what will be in?" asked one of the nuclear physicists present in despair. Her name was Lazereva. "Well, lasers, for example," answered Skobeltsyn. "But why?" she pressed him. "Without lasers," he quipped, "there will be no salary for LAZEReva". Ha-ha-ha!

In 1991, the Soviet dictatorship collapsed. No wonder. A dictatorship is a social structure with a small social base. Involuntarily, owing to its very existence, the democratic West is subversive. Since 1917, Communism had been promised to be established, that is, wealth so abundant that there is no money: take whatever you want — free! But in 1991 many Russians believed that Communism was in America, where welfare ensured more wealth — free — than did sometimes the hardest work in Soviet Russia!

Hence a dictatorship's "quest for world domination," as John F. Kennedy used to put it in reference to Soviet Russia. A dictatorship will never be safe unless it dominates the otherwise subversive democratic West. Putin has resumed the development of superweapons, which Yeltsin opened in 1992 for international inspection as a relic of the disgraceful dictatorship. Putin has a powerful ally, the dictatorship of China, with which Russia may divide the rest of the world or/and be annihilated by China's superweapons unless Russia surrenders unconditionally.

Lev Navrozov's (navlev@cloud9.net] new book is available on-line at www.levnavrozov.com. To request an outline of the book, send an e-mail to webmaster@levnavrozov.com.

Monday, April 17, 2006

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