Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer
In the Spring of 1986 the
Soviet Union was in a slow motion collapse. No one in the US intelligence
agencies predicted it, the military was taken completely by surprise and no
apologies were ever made for the thirty year, multi-trillion dollar oversight.
It’s political and social institutions were Potemkin villages kept alive by
little more than inertia yet on the outside everything appeared normal, and if
not healthy, at least it seemed monolithic in it’s outward appearance.
The structural rot that had
taken hold after the death of Stalin had become the central pillar of Eastern
European civilization and the foundation upon which it was built- the blood of
tens of millions of murdered citizens- softened the ground further, leading to it’s
eventual implosion five short years later. On the 26th of April a failed
experiment at a nuclear power plant in the Ukraine initiated a slow and steady
series of system failures, leading to a full blown meltdown that forced the
evacuation of tens of thousands of inhabitants from the exclusion zone.
Most Americans recall the
event as a catastrophic ecological disaster that threatened- at that time- to
spread radioactive particles across wide swaths of Europe, poisoning the
groundwater that fed the Dnieper River, leading directly to the Black Sea. No one
was certain in the aftermath of the extent of the damage, nor of the ability of
the Soviet system to respond truthfully to international inquiries. It was
assumed throughout the Free and Democratic nations of the West that the USSR
was incapable of sharing anything that would reflect poorly on their ability to
govern.
The Cold War was still in
full force and despite offers from the NATO alliance including the US to render
aid, the Soviet Union remained steadfast in it’s commitment to face any
political exigency. What happened in Chernobyl, stayed in Chernobyl, except for
the radioactivity. That spread out across the Earth like a funeral shroud,
unchecked by Marxist dogma.
The United States has
entered it’s terminal phase and most of it’s citizens are as blithely unaware
of this reality as they were of the impending dissolution of the Soviet system
in the late 1980’s. On the surface each one projects it’s hegemony and
influence far beyond their limitations through a combination of propaganda and
threats. Both systems were thoroughly corrupted, perhaps from their inception,
but certainly and absolutely as they neared their nadir, yet both systems
affected a nonchalance that soon- very soon, every knee would bend before their
majesty and morally superior aspirations.
For the USSR it was based
upon the trite concept that everyone should share equally of the labors of
others when no such possibility ever existed during mankind’s reign over the
Earth. In America it was the equally vapid and hollow claim that all men are
created equal when no such thing had ever been so at any time, nor could it
ever be possible. To base an entire National mythos on pure sophistry is a
guarantee of failure and yet their remains an eternal optimism rooted in these
fanciful phrases that distorted and diffused before our eyes.
The elites always managed
somehow, regardless of the system and it’s ideals, to rise above equality and
find a toehold in a neo-aristocracy, where rather than blood-ties, loyalties
were developed in the institutions and secret societies; Ivy League
universities, Intelligence agencies, International banking cartels, Media
conglomerates and Corporate boardrooms. The differences between the Politburo
under Gorbachev and the current Congress are most noticeable in attire and
decor rather than in behavior and outcomes.
In America today here is a
complete symbiosis between the organs of information- the MSM- and the
political parties and their apparatchiks, and it is used solely for the control
of the populations and the promotion of The Narrative rather than as a means of
explaining the events of the day. Much in the same way that the Soviet Union
new organizations Pravda (Truth) and Izvestia (News) were able to control
information to such a degree that the people of the USSR joked that “there is
no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia”, the current state of media in
America is summed up in the equally derogatory slur. “Fake News”.
The populations are keenly
aware that they are being misled, but are powerless- in their minds- to do
anything about it. The problem of course isn’t that the populations fail to
believe the lies, but that the elites of both systems have chosen falsehoods as
their basic premise for rule. Any system predicated upon falsehoods cannot
survive the exposure of those lies when reality comes knocking.
The current HBO series
Chernobyl is a compelling examination of the personal experiences of those
brave, and cowardly citizens and officers of the dying USSR who either rose to
the challenge or deliberately impeded the process in the aftermath of the
nuclear meltdown. While minor party officials clung desperately to the fiction
they had been operating under for their entire lifetime, passing the blame for
their failures or deliberately ignoring physical reality in order to keep up
appearances of competency, simple soldiers and civilian volunteers freely gave
their lives in order to save those of their fellow man.
It is both heart wrenching
and exasperating to watch the honorable men and women of the Ukraine work night
and day to mitigate a disaster they had no part in causing while those
responsible for the faulty engineering and inadequate training sought only to
promote themselves by concealing the full scope of the disaster. In this
series, whether unintentionally or not, it becomes quite clear what a
population can expect when forced to submit to the venal and obsequious for
political gain and just how similar our current situation is today.
The unwinding tale of
Russian collusion, with all of it’s reeking details rooted in pure fiction,
have done nothing to resolve the deeper issues that cause the greatest amount
of suffering for the population. It has, in fact, rent the fabric of an already
frayed body politic, driving the divide further apart than at any other time
since the War Between the States. It is clear that these animosities and
resentments are being deliberately stoked by a compliant press in order to sow
division so that no one might notice the wholesale plunder of the American
people by a small cohort of deeply corrupted and morally bankrupt criminals who
care nothing for the country they are employed to serve.
Like their counterparts in
the Soviet era they live lives completely detached from the populations they
pretend to champion and in fact work tirelessly to strip from them the last
vestiges of their God-given rights under the pretext of keeping them safe. They
know neither shame nor guilt and their avarice is second only to their venality
making them equally corrupt and unrepentant.
Several years ago I became
acquainted with the FedEx driver who serves our region. I recognized his
Russian accent and one afternoon while exchanging hellos it was revealed that
he had served in a Soviet Airborne unit. I told him that I too was a former
paratrooper and as we traded stories it was revealed that we had crossed paths,
in October of 1983 on the island of Grenada. My squad had secured the campus in
St. Georges and after rescuing several dozen American med school students that
had been trapped in their dorm for several days, we moved on the Soviet Embassy
to protect the ambassador until transportation could be arranged.
The FedEx drive had been
assigned as a guard for the facility and I was on the other side of the fence,
rifles pointed in both directions. Both of us traded enough details to assure
each other that we’d both been in that same place at that same time, and over
time we became fairly good friends. I can say without reservation that the two
of us share far more in common than I do with anyone currently serving in
Washington D.C. and that he shares the same sentiments about his former country
and the politicians who ran things. Soldiers, workers, farmers, citizens,
regardless of their homeland are more or less similar in their beliefs and behaviors
than the politicians and mandarins who serve them in the citadels of power.
Commoners, the comrade class in the USSR and the Deplorables of flyover
country, are the ones who grease the wheels of civilization and keep it
functioning. They are more than satisfactory as cannon fodder and as dependents
of The State, but in the eyes of the ruling classes they are disposable. In the
aftermath of the explosions at Chernobyl nearly three quarters of a million
souls were used like donkeys to rid the world of the radioactive debris, to
tunnel underneath the core itself to prevent further contamination of the water
table and to relocate their fellow citizens, often against their will while the
heads of state continued to spin their fantasies of a controlled situation.
And that is our present
situation today in America, where our betters have sold us out to foreign
interests, undermined our history and culture in order to usher in a utopian
fantasy that they neither believe in, nor practice while we suffer in a simmering
silence, filled with righteous indignation, on the verge of a meltdown of equal
proportions to that of April 26th, 1986.
It would be impossible to
predict exactly what set of circumstance will lead us to our own moment of
complete and undeniable political collapse, where tanks surround the Capitol
rather than the Kremlin, but it approaches, slouching towards Gomorrah. The
disaster of Chernobyl may have appeared on the surface to have been a failure
of engineering, poor training and scientific ineptitude, but it was more the
direct result of a failed political system built on paranoia, rooted in lies,
and nursed at the twin teats of corruption and degeneracy.
Our own system is far worse today, having grown to
enormous size and influence globally, while practicing callous indifference to
it’s own citizenry in every form, and endlessly lashing out with organized
violence across the face of the Earth in the name of Freedom and Democracy. The
hypocrisy required to maintain such a ideological system has strained what
little is left that still holds us together. Whatever triggers our own
dissolution is yet to be revealed, but it is coming and when it does there will
be a reckoning not unlike the one experienced by the Supreme Soviet that saw
its entire premise swept away in the blink of an eye while the world turned
away, indifferent to the loss.
Chernobyl was an event that never need have happened and
at every step along the route to that ecological and political debacle there
was room to correct and repair the structural damage that led to its inevitable
outcome. And just like today, there was no one left with the moral compass to
correct the failures when they were still possible, creating something less
than Destiny and more of a reckoning well earned.
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