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There is an
old saying, misery loves company. The person who lives in pain and misery will
often seek to bring others down into their misery. Another similar saying could
be, the wicked love to have accomplices, because those who engage in evil love
to have the reassurance that others are engaging in the same evil as them. For
this reason, among others, wicked people will seek to corrupt and sully others.
The sinner is comforted to know that they are not alone in their sin, they have
a partner, someone with whom to share the responsibility and the blame. The
wicked for this reason delight in enticing others into their miserable deeds.
This is how
addicts will act. It is how the corrupt will act. And it is how criminal gangs
will act. They will seek to break people by bringing them down to their level. Victor
Suvarov shows us, in his book The Chief Culprit, that this is how the
communists broke people and forced them into line, but on a grand and very evil
scale,
“Communists then began to fortify their armed forces, which
they called the Red Army. Junior officer Tukhachevski had a meeting with Lenin
and Trotsky. What they talked about is not known, but Tukhachevski was
immediately appointed commander of the 1st Army of the Eastern Front. Here,
suddenly, surfaced Tukhachevski's ferocious nature. The Civil War in Russia was
not only a war, but also a series of punitive expeditions against those who did
not want Communism. Tukhachevski declared all those who opposed the illegal
Communist leadership to be "bandits," and viciously exterminated not
only them but also their relatives, their neighbors, and everyone who happened
to come his way. The foundation of Tukhachevski's "strategy" was: the
burning of villages, whippings, and mass shootings. Tukhachevski phrased the
main objective not only of the Civil War, but of any other war as well, very
clearly: "With an iron hand crush the local enemy classes." Many of Tukhachevski’s combat orders are not about how to use a
clever manoeuvre to bypass the enemy and hit him in the flank and rear, but
about how many hostages are to be taken and when they are to be executed. Here
is an example:
ORDER
To the Plenipotentiary Commission of All-Russia
Central Executive Committee, # 16
City of Tambov
June 23, 1921
The experience of the first combat area shows a high
predisposition for quick cleansing from banditry through the following
measures. Some localities with particularly strong bandit tendencies are noted,
and representatives of the region's Political Commission, of a Special Section,
Sections of the Military Tribunal and Command, together with units designed to
conduct purges, are sent there. Upon their arrival, they surround the area,
take hostage 60—100 of the most prominent persons, and introduce a siege.
Entering and exiting the area must be forbidden during the course of the
operation. After this, the entire population of the area is gathered, and the
orders of the Commission of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee #130 and
#171 and the signed sentence for this area are read aloud. The residents are
given 2 hours to give up the bandits and their weapons, as well as the bandits'
families, and the population is told that in the event of refusal the
abovementioned hostages will be shot in 2 hours. If the population does not
give up the bandits and weapons within the two-hour time limit, they are once
again rounded up and the hostages are shot before their eyes, after which new
hostages are taken and those gathered are once again told to give up the bandits
and their weapons. Those who wish to comply with the demands are separated,
divided into groups of a hundred, and each hundred is put through a questioning
commission (consisting of representatives of the Special Sector and the
Military Tribunal). Each person must give a testimony, and not be allowed to
claim ignorance. In the event of stubbornness, new executions are enacted, etc.
From the material obtained through the questioning, expeditionary units are
formed with the compulsory inclusion of
the persons who gave the testimony, and they venture to capture the bandits.
Upon the end of the purge, the siege is ended, and a revolutionary committee
and militia are established to rule the area.
The current Plenipotentiary Commission of the All-Russia
Central Executive Committee orders to execute this order fully.
Chairman of
the Commission
Antonov-Ovseenko
Troops
Commander
Tukhachevski
Tukhachevski and all other participants of that war against
their own people declared themselves heroes of the Civil War.
Pay particular attention to the date of Tukhachevski's order:
June 23, 1921. Twenty years later, Russia would be invaded by different
occupants, but they would act in almost the same way. The difference was that
Hitler herded the enemy's population into a ravine and machine-gunned them,
while Tukhachevski, on top of this, besieged the entire population of his own
country with a mutual criminal responsibility. Later on this method would be
called, in the criminal underworld, "forced snitching." This is
precisely what Antonov Ovseenko, Tukhachevski, his deputy Uborevich, and all
other strategists did: they forced all the people to become traitors and rats,
forced them to betray their neighbors, relatives, fathers, and brothers, and
then go after them in the forests and kill them. Tukhachevski introduced universal betrayal, using fear to
crush and destroy the centuries-old Russian village morale. He replaced all
moral codes with fear for one's own skin, and made each person accountable for
all the others' deeds. Tukhachevski's idea was to crush the peoples sense of
their own worth. When we speak of the defeats of 1941, we blame Stalin. Let us
not forget that the crushing of the people was done under the immediate command
and on the initiative of the very same strategists who were later, during the
purges, eliminated by Stalin
In 1941, the masses who were taught by Tukhachevski to value
only their own skin a priori could not have exhibited heroism.”[i]
In several
parts of his book, Suvarov notes that the Soviet power structure was not any
kind of legitimate government, they were in fact a criminal gang who seized
power and then held onto that power using the methods and tactics of criminals.
And one of their most effective means of bringing people into line, was forcing
others to share their guilt. Breaking people down, forcing them to betray their
loved ones, their relatives, their friends, their heroes, so that everyone had
a seared and damage conscience. Everyone was complicit and therefore everyone
was guilty, and no one was able to trust anyone else. They fractured the moral
fibre of society, so that there was no one with the moral backbone or high
point to stand.
We have seen
some similar tactics used in our own nations in recent years. Not on the same scale
of course, because there were no death squads and there was no hostage taking.
But people were encouraged to turn on each other, betray each other, nark on
each other, point fingers at each other, and see each other as the enemy,
rather than recognize that we were all victims of those who were seeking to
take away our liberties and way of life. And look how many people capitulated,
to a far more mild form of what the communists enacted in past decades and centuries.
So many gave in, so many capitulated to evil.
Do you think
our society would have the moral courage to oppose such a systematic
suppression of people’s rights and dignities? Of course not. In many ways our society
has been increasing personal moral corruption and decadence, which has had the
effect of weakening people to the point where taking any kind of moral stand is
outside of the desires of even many of the most religious of people. Most people just
do not have the desire to stand for righteousness, because they have already
given it up in so many areas of life and society.
But there is
something which should encourage us in this situation.
Though much
of our society did capitulate, many people did not. And this is even more
important; many people who did give in now realize their mistake in having
capitulated the first time. When those mandates and exclusionary rules came
along, they depended on people narking on each other to really have any effect.
And some of the people who supported them now realize how they made a mistake,
how they went too far, how they barracked for the wrong team. Some of these
people will not go along with such nonsense again. Their resistance-to-evil-muscles
have been woken from their atrophied state and they now realize how real and
present the dangers of evil are, even in our relatively peaceful society.
The key
lesson we should take from Sukarov and the Covid years is that when evil is
seeking to crush a people, one of its chief aims is to turn the people against each
other and make as many people as possible complicit in the evil as well.
Wickedness wants others to have guilt on their hands, because those who have a
guilty conscience often find it harder to stand up in boldness, because they
are already defeated in their own mind.
This shows
us a couple of things. 1) It is important to resist evil when it tells you to turn
on your neighbour, even if it costs you. Because doing what is right is a
reward in and of itself. 2) It is important to forgive those who feel guilty
about failing to do the right thing, so that their guilty conscience can be
healed, and they can be better encouraged to stand better next time. No one
gets it right all of the time, and especially when they are not prepared for
the struggles that come. Of course, the guilty need to be repentant, otherwise
they have not learned anything. But if they are repentant and they recognize
their wrong, then they are at least now in a position of having a new awareness
of how evil can affect them, when they least expect it, and will likely be more
sensitive to it next time.
One of the
only ways that a village that had endured the kind of purge that the communists employed could move on, and begin to again mount a
resistance to evil, would have been to come together, realize how they were all
coerced into evil, forgive each other for their complicity, and begin to stand
again. If they could not do this, then they had no chance of standing up to evil
successfully, because they have all been atomized and turned into fractured
units, and fractured units cannot withstand any real kind of pressure.
[i]
Viktor Suvarov 2013, The Chief Culprit, pp82-83.
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