To be American and Christian is to be anti-Communist that is ingrained in Americans’ psyches. Evangelical Christians have a similar social psychological dilemma about Zionism. Evangelical Christianity was birthed in Britain in the late 1800’s, incubated in the Azusa Street Revivals in Los Angeles in the early 1900’s, and ended up the prevalent form of religion in the American South (see Sean Durbin, Righteous Gentiles: Religion, Identity and Myth in John Hagee’ Christians United for Israel, 2020). Seventy million American evangelical Christians currently support the Israeli War against Hamas and the Palestinians in Gaza, as an apocalyptic “end times” war against Communism prophesied in the books of Revelations, Ezekial and Isaiah.
The Gulag Archipelago has become the “bible” of anti-communists, without apparent awareness that Solzhenitsyn was a phony anti-communist and deserter when it came to fighting greater evil. Hitler was planted by British bankers to bring about the downfall of Germany so that it would not align with Russia against Britain (see Guido Preparada, Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America Made the Third Reich and Destroyed Europe, 2021).
But Dreher, evangelical Zionists and pro-Solzhenitsyn Leftist intellectuals are no worse than the person described earlier in this article (myself) who is a James Bond movie fan. British anti-communist propaganda is embedded everywhere. This is how successful propaganda operates; it becomes an indistinguishable and taken for granted part of the ether. It is not how some British novels like 1984, or A Brave New World describe it as manifestly cruel and totalitarian. In fact, those novels were themselves pseudo-propaganda meant to make you unconscious about real, insidious propaganda.
This article should not be misconstrued as some pro-Communist refutation of anti-Communist criticism against Joseph Stalin. Nor is it a defense of ‘useful idiots’ George Bernard Shaw, John-Paul Sartre and Walter Duranty for being Stalin’s dupes nor Hannah Arendt’s warped resentful anti-totalitarianism that scapegoated the American working class for war crimes. Nor is this a condemnation of Evangelical Christianity carte blanche. To repeat, everyone’s camp of propagandists and unconscious James Bond movie fans has been infected by the English Shakespearian plague of distorted anti-Communism. Truth has been murdered so many times by so many people taking their lines from the anti-Communist script written by British Intelligence that it is like the English Shakespearean play Titus Andronicus where there are fourteen murders as well as cannibalism and mutilations, that one can’t keep track.
In closing, another dot that perhaps needs connected is that the Gulag Archipelago was originally published by the YMCA Press in Paris, France. Sounds innocent, doesn’t it? The Young Men’s Christian Association was founded by George Williams in London in 1844 and the YMCA Press was coincidentally formed in Russia and moved to Paris. All roads lead to London including Solzhenitsyn’s, Robert Conquest’s and Stephen Kotkin’s books and all those Ian Fleming novels and movies. I rest my case.
