Many generations have grown up hearing the statements made in schools, universities and the media that the capitalist West and the communist East were real enemies during the 20th century, and opposing sides during the so-called Cold War.
However, several courageous and insightful researchers have proven that the confrontation between the capitalist West and the communist Soviet Union and its allies in the 20th century was largely just apparent. An outstanding work has been done by Dr Antony C. Sutton’s research, which can be taken together as follows:
Communist Russia would not have survived without the help of the US and its allies after the bolshevik coup d’etat in 1917 and long after that.
Dr Sutton’s monumental work “Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development”[1] and its condensed version “National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union”[2] highlight a strong and substantial support of Western economic and banking forces to the Soviet communist movement and regime.
During many years, doctor of economics Antony C. Sutton (1925-2002) conducted his ground-breaking research and discovered thousands of documents that prove something, which the conventional historians have hard time to digest. He showed that the communist regime in Russia was wholly dependent on capitalist aid and trade with the US and its allies.
According to Dr Sutton, by far the most significant factor in the development of the Soviet economy has been its absorption of Western technology and skills. His primary sources for data were the U.S. State Department Decimal Pile and the German Foreign Ministry Archives, supplemented by journals in half a dozen languages from a dozen countries, especially the journals published by Soviet trade representatives abroad.
Historian Richard B. Spence has also researched the subject and highlighted the “achievement” of the communists – in just a few years after 1917, they had expropriated the Russian economy from its former owners, run it into the ground, and stripped the country of gold and valuables, most of which ended up in the West – the lion’s share in America. Russia had been turned into an economic wasteland, and foreign capitalists were now being invited to rebuild it.[3]
Historian Sean Mcmeekin has described that bolsheviks opened negotiations with both Germany and the Entente powers over the possibility of commercial concessions in Russia already in the first half of 1918. The concessions game was serious: without some investment in Russia’s economy, the bolsheviks would soon find themselves ruling over a barren wasteland.[4]
In fact, Western aid to the Bolsheviks began already during the First World War. This will be the subject of a separate analysis to be published soon.
These facts have been systematically hidden and silenced by the authorities and business circles. Every serious seeker who strives to understand the happenings in our present civilisation should reflect upon the motives and backgrounds of such actions.