Georgia’s South Ossetia war Has a Connection to American Airmen Finishing Out Their Lives in Soviet Prisons

Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago (Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 at 2:58 pm) by jwsmith

By J.W. Smith

Russia’s defense of Slavic people of South Ossetia when Georgia, under America’s tutelage, attacked that break-a-way province is being portrayed by many as Russian aggression.

But America and Western Europe are not satisfied with having finally destabilized the Soviet Union after the slaughter of tens of millions around the world and spending trillions of dollars over the 70 years of the Soviet Union’s existence to destabilize them.

With their perception of world events carfully managed, citizens of America and Europe were unaware that the threats were coming from the West, not the Soviet Union. Nor, as M.K Bhadrakumar clearly lays out, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/JH13Ag02.html, are they responsible for this one.

But with 80% of Germany’s firepower expended against the Soviets during WWII, they knew well that the purpose of that war was to destroy them, not destroy Germany. They also know that the attack on South Ossettia by Georgia was a continuation of this plan to destabilize Russia and many others recognize this. Read Patrick J. Buchanan,
Rodrigue Tremblay,
Eric Margolis,
Antony Black, and
Spengler in the Asian Times Spengler alerts us that the shattering of the Soviet Union was so devastating that by the end of the century there will be only 20 million ethnic Russions within the formal borders of Russia by the end of this century. It is his story and we will let him tell it.

After reading that history and forecast for Russia’s future, one will realize the desperate position the Russians have been forced into. From that precarious position, a nation is forced to take high risks.

The intent to totally fragment Russia is obvious, lets analyze what you or I might do if we were so threatened. As we speak, several fleets (American and European with a few ships from Japan) from all over the world are on their way to the Persian Gulf to blockade Iran and bring that nation to its knees.

Russia has already armed Iran with unstoppable Sunburn missiles designed to sink the largest of warships and more can be put in place faster than those war fleets can get to the Persian Gulf.

Since the shattering of S. Ossettia and the signing of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the U.S. to emplace missiles within 10 minutes striking distance to Russia, the Russians have said they will arm Iran and Syria with the latest air defenses. Almost certainly that will include more Sunburn missiles as well as the S-300 defense system capable of tracking and firing on 100 incoming planes at a time. Both of those defense systems are deadly.

But lets add another advantage Russia has, nuclear weapons. Remembering that America has already broken the agreement to reduce nuclear armaments and have openly stated they would use them as first strike weapons, this leaves other nations open to the same options.

Once we understand how Israel orchestrated the 9/11 attack on America, which justified current U.S. assaults around the world, would not you or I arm Iran with a few nuclear weapons that could only be activated electronically by Russian personnel?

Unless Israel and America wanted to commit suicide, suddenly enormous power has moved to the side of Russia. Quietly Russia would inform the aggressors that if they attack Iran (a blockade is an act of war) Israel disappears as a nation, all their fleets go to the bottom of the Persian Gulf along with a fair share of their airforce.

As doing Israel’s dirty work under that flag of protecting her, even if many are unaware of that reality, is what the threat of war with Iran is all about, both Israel, America, and NATO will call an immediate halt to their planned assault.

From their position of strength, Russia could demand the removal of the blockade Armada, respect for the rights of the Iranians, removal of the missiles being put in place in Poland which are only 10 minutes flight time from Russia, and for America to abandon her multi-colored revolutions within Georgia, the Ukraine, and Belarus designed to expand NATO all the way to Russia’s border and essentially strangle her.

Once the aggressions of the West were checkmated, their warships withdrawn, their missile installations in Europe canceled, and an agreement that Iran would not be embargoed or attacked, Russia could withdraw her yet inactive nuclear missiles and hopefully the world could enjoy the peace it is entitled to.

This assault on Eastern Orthodox Christians has a long history. After WW II, from the Soviet side, it certainly looked like the West intended to finish the job that war was designed to do. From 1945, and up to at least 1956 when the U-2 spy flights started, thousands of U.S. “ferret” spy flights photographed Soviet territory and raced back before they could be identified and attacked.

In 1946 and 1947 alone, this was before the Cold War officially started, 30 such planes were shot down and at least 20 U.S. airmen were captured alive, never acknowledged by their government, those airmen finished out their lives in Soviet prisons while their families were told they died in various accidents.

As acknowledged by the highly respected U.S. News and World Report, between 1950 and 1970, after the Cold War officially started but those overflights had been going on since the end of WW II, there were over 10,000 and possibly over 20,000 such overflights deep into Soviet and Chinese territory by military aircraft.

There was much more going on than the photographing of Soviet territory. Sabotage and assassination teams were being dropped in to hide among their relatives and ethnic brothers. Almost universally these acts of war failed, with large losses among the agents and their relatives who were to hide them.

In June 1992, when Russian President Boris Yeltsin met with President HW Bush and said, “We may have American prisoners yet,” quite a stir was created. News anchor Tom Brocaw reported this disturbing news and the congressional uproar over these possible prisoners.

The next night Brocaw said, “These were American airmen shot down during the Cold War. This is the first time Americans have been apprised of this.”

Then for weeks, except for an occasional highly sanitized statement, all went silent on that explosive subject.

A few months later, the headlines read, “Yeltsin: POWs ‘Summarily Executed.’” But the last line of that front-page article depicting these execution horrors told the real story.

“The largest group of Americans imprisoned or who died in the Soviet Union were more than 730 pilots and other airmen who either made forced landings on Soviet territory or were shot down on Cold War spy and sabotage flights.”

As they finished out their lives in prison, their families were told they had died in accidents.
The intelligence agencies of Britain, France, and Germany were running similar, but smaller, covert operations against the Soviet Union and other nations of the Eastern bloc.

This was a massive assault on Soviet sovereignty, actually outright acts of war, by essentially the same powers that had invaded Russia 25 years earlier when they broke free and also the same powers who owed an enormous debt to the Soviets for saving them from fascism in WW II.

The fact that there were no Soviet spy planes carrying assassination and sabotage teams overflying Western territory during this period is something scholars should note.

Nor should the internment of U.S. pilots in the Soviet Union have been news to U.S. newscasters. With the Soviets complaining to Washington, DC, to the United Nations, and holding many trials, for the American people not to be informed of these assaults on Soviet territory can only be due to cooperation by the major media of record in misinforming America.

These illegal flights remaining a secret only to Western citizens testifies to how locking society within a belief system requires suppression of information about acts of war by their managers of state simultaneously with depictions of imminent attack from the targeted society. That is, of course, the creation of enemies to protect a power structure.

As in any society after any revolution, there were those within the Soviet Union who were sympathetic to, and subject to manipulation by, their religious and cultural cousins in the West.

The same process ongoing in Georgia/South Ossetia today. Western Christians want to join their religious cousins in the West and Eastern Christians wish to retain their ties with their religious cousins to the East.

Thus, when Germany invaded, whole communities of ethnic Germans and other communities still having religious ties and loyalties to the West joined the invading army.

When that war was over, entire communities were resettled in Siberia where they could not link up with outside powers still threatening to overthrow the Soviet government.

Millions of innocent people, even many dedicated and loyal communists, were rounded up for resettlement and many were executed. But a large share of those executed had been harboring trained saboteurs who had been parachuted into the Eastern European countries all the way to Byelorussia.

Struggles for power became mixed with the legitimate battle to defend the revolution, and many were swallowed up in the holocaust. America today, facing the much weaker threat of individual terrorists, is reacting far more violently, primarily outside its borders but also within them.

It was protecting their country from being overthrown by external powers manipulating internal ethnic groups that created these suppressions. Where America faced no such threat after its revolution or even since, the cooperative efforts of many nations to overthrow the Soviets had been ongoing for 70 years.

These included direct intervention in their revolution, the WW II effort to exterminate them, years of covert actions such as training and flying in assassins and saboteurs, being embargoed from world trade, and their post-WW II military encirclement.

Ignoring the background behind the forced migrations to Siberia, and in its constant search for drama, the Western press openly pushed the governing belief system that the death toll within the Soviet Union was 60 million.

But then it became 40 million, then 20 million, then 10 million, and the figures are still coming down towards the true number killed under “Stalinism,” certainly under 100,000 and most likely fewer than 50,000, primarily those harboring their cousins from the West intent on overthrowing that government.

These are the same principles peddlers of crisis have been using for thousands of years. The greater the lie, the more surely it will be believed by their followers.

Even if it is done only verbally and the accuser is in no personal physical danger, the surest way to be recognized as a leader is to lead an attack against an enemy.

There has been so much fabrication it is impossible to know what is true. We are satisfied the citizens of those Soviet communities who welcomed the German armies, who were contacts for the saboteurs the West was infiltrating into those countries, and thus who were a threat to the security of this new federation, were relocated to Siberia.

This was a full-fledged war, the Soviets knew it, and many innocent people died from the 70 years of intense destabilization efforts and outright wars.

The names of the now declassified plans for war against the Soviet federation, Bush-whacker, Broiler, Sizzle, Shakedown, Dropshot, Trojan, Pincher, and Frolic graphically portray their offensive purpose.

Some of those plans included the actual occupation of the Soviet Union. Papers in President Johnson’s library testify to a planned nuclear strike to destroy the rising economic and philosophical threat.

Make no mistake about it, the intention was to both destroy the Soviet federation and suppress any other breaks for freedom around the world and both goals were reached.

However only temporarily, periphery nations are allying, again making a break for freedom, and, as they are now aware that it was the historic imperial nations–Europe and America–who were destabilizing them for 50 years, they may finally break free.

Those destabilizations cost trillions of dollars and 16 to 20 million lives. Slaughters in Iraq (over 1.2 million and counting) and the Congo (over 4 million and counting) alone added over five million and both struggles are still ongoing even though the struggle in the Congo is basically unreported in the West.

That seventy year struggle to keep the world from breaking out from under capitalism cost those 16 to 20 million lives just mentioned plus hundreds of millions from disease and hunger as those nations’ economies were destroyed.

Analysts are right when they say the West would not have attacked the Soviet Union. But that is only because the Soviets developed the atomic bomb too quick. One hydrogen bomb getting through to America would be one too many.

But the steady encroachment to the East with the goal of fracturing Russia is intended to finish the job that started with fragmenting the Soviet Union.

After destroying Yugoslavia, probably the most productive and peaceful nation on earth who had forgiven Western Christians for their three thirds policy (1/3 the men to be killed, 1/3 to become Western Christians, and 1/3 to be pushed out into Siberia) in Croatia in WW II and their 26 ethnic groups were 30% intermarried, parts of that former nation and Romania were brought into NATO.

Belarus, the Ukraine, and Georgia were then targeted. Belarus rejected their offer, the struggle goes on in the Ukraine, and the ongoing conflict in Georgia that the world is now watching closely is a part of that struggle.

Study the history of suppressions worldwide, study why tiny impoverished Vietnam faced such an assault. Study why Cuba is under such an assault even though their revolutionary government provided Cubans with universal health care, education equal to America, and eliminated hunger. And study why every offer of the Soviets for mutual disarmament and peace was ignored and not even reported in the American press.

A key part of Western perception management was the lack of rights in the Soviet Union and secret police everywhere.

Not only was this fundamentally true only for Western visitors of which many were spies, America and most of Western Europe could give more freedom and rights to their citizens because they were not subject to bombings, assassinations, and threats of invasion, the CIA’s Mighty Wurlitzer saying otherwise notwithstanding.

Take note how, under a far lower threat level, group terrorism as opposed to state sponsored terrorism, America is reacting at a far higher level of repression and suppression of rights.

Professor Michael Chossudovsky and Russian intelligence think the 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai India “has the fingerprints of a paramilitary-intelligence operation” controlling the perception of the world just as has always been done (http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message675861/pg1).

Imperial Democracies, Representative Democracies, Participatory Democracies, Direct Democracies

An internet search using the keywords “republic, not a democracy” is an education. America describes itself as a democracy, conservatives openly state this is a republic and that it was never intended to be, and it is not today, a democracy.

Of course word meanings change over time. If a majority of the people perceive a word as meaning something that becomes its new meaning.

Western nations have described themselves as democracies for so long their citizens, and the world, generally take this claim for granted.

However, because early settlers and frontiersman only came to town once or twice a year, only a “representative democracy could function and, even though they now have rapid communication and could practice direct democracy, a republic, not a democracy, is what America is yet today.

Democracy, as understood by their citizenry, does not conform to reality. In fact, it never did. Most voters think the winners of elections are representing them. But that is seldom true.

Winners of elections at the state and national levels, where those crucial laws are enacted, are normally determined by who spends the most money and who controls the various media. Thus the winners of elections represent wealth and power far more so than the citizenry at large.

On the other hand, the Soviet Union, even under hostile conditions of foreign imperial powers bent on their destruction, had a participatory democracy.

That they were true democracies with the citizenry sending “representatives” to their legislatures with instructions on how to vote has been kept out of Western media and history books.

Under those participatory democracies, suggested laws were discussed within the communities, voted on, and a representative was sent to the legislatures with specific instructions to vote yes or no on each aspect of each law, not for he or she to decide on their own how to vote.

At the North American-Cuban Philosophy conference in June 2002, Western scholars watched mesmerized as the nation shut down for three days and Cuban citizens of all ages gave impassioned televised speeches on the pros and cons of changes in their constitution.

Modern communications permitted them to practice direct democracy. True democracy, in its fullest meaning, participatory and direct democracies of the Soviet Union and Cuba, has been censored from Western media and history books.

Though the words are never used within an empire’s mainstream media or educational system, the world has many imperial democracies. These puppets on the periphery of empire are supposedly elected by the citizenry but the leaders being picked by powerbrokers within the imperial centers disenfranchise the electorate.

The media and historians of the imperial centers again reverse reality and call these puppets kept in power by Western intrigue and military might as democracies and those who temporarily break free as dictators and killers.

As the citizenry believe they have democratic rights, both representative and imperial democracies have the potential to become truly democratic. That, of course, would be through ballot box revolutions restructuring authoritarian nations into true democracies.

While the entire world understands how the citizenry within imperial democracies are disenfranchised, few in the imperial centers realize they too are similarly denied true representation. To maintain such democratic fictions, through corporate funded think tanks funded to the tune of hundreds of millions per year, massive numbers of perception management articles and books are inserted into the media and educational systems.

The Essence of the Cold War was perception management (propaganda) encasing society within a belief system.Former attaché to the Soviet Embassy George Kennan, undoubtedly the U.S. citizen most knowledgeable about the Soviet Union, one of the prime promoters of the Cold War, and one who eventually had a change of heart about the morality of that deception, is quoted as saying those executed in the Soviets were in the tens of thousands.

Tens of thousands is still a large number to be sure, but, even though many, even possibly most, were innocent, a large number were attempting to overthrow that new gov-ernment which is a capital offense in any country.

For a balanced perspective, compare the under 100,000 killed within the former Soviet Union as they searched for those be-ing supported by the West to overthrow the government with the 16 to 30 million killed, and still rising, on the periphery of empire by the West (2008) as addressed above.

Many innocent people within the Soviet Union were swallowed up in this mass hysteria. The Soviets opened their records and restored the good names of these people. Historians are tracing what happened to each individual so their families can know their fates. Perhaps the world may someday know the true numbers of those unjustly persecuted souls.

We caution the reader on the statistics that will be published. The slaughters within defeated centers of capital and others threatening to break free are exaggerated, while the suppressions and oppressions by the dominant centers of capital are camouflaged as defensive actions and their slaughter of innocents are recorded in history as a response to others’ aggressions. Both are happening today in the Georgia, South Assetia, Russian conflict,

When Hitler was planning WW II, Reinhard Heydrich, deputy chief of Hitler’s SS, operated a covert operation counterfeiting letters from top Soviet military officers to indicate a counter-revolution by these officers.

Possibly 35,000 highly loyal officers were executed. We say possibly because we must remember how intelligence services create and exaggerate facts to demonize enemies; these exaggerated figures then become recorded history.

After WW II, copying Heydrich’s successful destabilization efforts, Western secret services counterfeited papers and letters that caused massive arrests of innocent people in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

Citizens of the West heard all about the repressions but nothing about the causes or that, when the Soviets caught on to the scam, they released those imprisoned and even paid compensation to an innocent American couple who were caught up in that intrigue and imprisoned for several years.

Even as the Russian revolution with its participatory democracy with full and equal rights for all was succeeding, the British were attempting to destroy Lenin’s reputation to the world.

By the same methods that placed Napoleon in history books as a megalomaniac, the leaders of the Bolshevik Revolution and Soviet Union will be in future history books as mass terrorists.

This, of course, may change if the world breaks free and writes their own history which will include the slaughter of their people as we describe here.

That falsification of history will be accomplished through financing already highly biased (or unwitting) historians to research executions and point out the total innocence of those executed, and will simultaneously totally ignore the counterfeit papers fingering innocent people, the destabilization-assassination teams inserted, the many who were guilty, or the massive amounts of money spent placing a ring of steel around the Soviet federation.

A participatory democracy with full and equal rights for all was a threat to representative democracies with their excessive rights for a few and limited rights for the many and the intentions were to take the Soviet Union out.

Limited rights for the many are not immediately apparent due to broad sharing of the wealth stolen from the periphery through plunder by trade. When they need allies, monopoly capital pays their labor and necessary allies well.

Conceptually Reversing the Process

Remembering how close the Soviets came to winning the arms race and thus winning the Cold War, does anyone doubt what would have happened if the Soviet Union was untouched and America was the one that had been invaded, the nation which lost 30% of its prime labor, and the nation in which everything above the Mason-Dixon line and east of the Mississippi River had been blown up or burned to the ground?

The conclusions are obvious. WWII and the arms race imposed upon it is all that prevented the Soviet Federation from outperforming monopoly capitalism. Their cooperative ways explain why the Soviets developed so fast under such adverse conditions and development could even be much faster yet under Henry George’s inclusive philosophies as we address throughout our website (click on “Home” at top of screen, www.ied.info).

If the Soviets had been incompetent, as we hear so often, they would have been no threat and there would have been no Cold War. They would have simply been quietly overwhelmed by capitalism. It was their competency that was the problem. To have advanced as far as they did under such adverse conditions before finally being overwhelmed by assaults from the Western world testifies to a fiercely loyal population working hard for their country. They were not a terrorized and sullen population.

Keeping the World in Chains

Patriotic forces in the former Soviet Union have taken back their country and are rapidly rebuilding. Some of the property titles of those who bought Russia’s wealth for pennies on the dollar have been reclaimed.

But for a quick lesson on what Marx meant by “monopoly capital,” and what “debt traps” mean, look at what those shattered economies face. If they repudiate or default on any external debts, any assets outside their borders can be, and will be, attached.

This means businesses, property titles, bank accounts, goods-in-transit, ships, or planes. Those beleaguered societies would be in one of the tightest containment traps any imperial center of capital ever devised.

Every ship or plane leaving their ports would be subject to seizure to repay those debts. Without unimpeded access to the world, no economy of any country can function efficiently.

The traps structured within unequal property rights laws designed to keep the world in chains becomes fully visible and it is obvious that, so long as one group has title to an excessive share of wealth, and especially considering it is appropriated wealth, neither “rule of law” nor “property rights law” means equality under the law.

Those chains kept upon weak nations and the suppression of their breaks for freedom proves colonialism has never been abandoned. The colonial masters only put on a cloak called Adam Smith free trade and spoke fine words of peace, freedom, democracy, justice, equality, and rights while all the time covertly suppressing those breaks for freedom and rights. Thank you.

J.W. Smith

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