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ended up with Khamenei’s revolution? Part II

Before the revolution 45.500 Americans lived in Iran and substantial part of them were military specialists and technical consultants of companies that supplied military equipment and arms to Iranian army. While in 1973 American profits from arms sales all over the world made up «merely» $4 billion, in 1974 they reached the level of $9 billion, half of which was paid by Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.

11/07/11 | HISTORICAL ALCHEMY OR TRANSFORMATION OF WHITE INTO GREEN. How comes Pahlavi’s «modernization» ended up with Khamenei’s revolution? Part I

Perhaps, some people believe monarchy an archaic form of government but it’s only true when the ruling monarch doesn’t add the financial means of this century to his armory. When Mohammed Reza Pahlavi improved his personal authority in management of Iranian oil policy and personal Shah’s property, the authority was gradually passing to American banks that kept abreast of the time. First of all, it was the «Chase Manhattan Bank» headed by David Rockefeller — the largest bank of entire Rockefeller dynasty, closely bound to the top U.S. political leadership.

27/06/11 | WHAT DID RED ARMY SOLDIER PRUDNIKOV DIE FOR?

Two ideologies — racial superiority and human equality — were to inevitably enter the last fight. That’s why I don’t consider signing of certain documents by certain individuals to be a sufficient reason for the savage fight to death. Only collective decision of the German nation to believe into its own superiority and the faith of Russians into a humanity brotherhood might be considered truly fatal.

26/06/11 | «EQUAL RESPONIBILITY» BLUFF

For us the war started on the 22^nd of June, 1941, for Europe — two years earlier, on the 1^st of September, 1939. And here we are, seventy years from the moment, when there are almost no living witnesses of the great drama, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly is accusing our country of unleashing the Second World War along with the Nazi Germany. It’s paradoxical: how could we unleash the war that we didn’t participate in at first? It is not a sack, whose knot may be untied by pulling it from the outside.

24/06/11 | 22ND OF JUNE. Fatal decisions or fatal instinct?

It’s good that German journalist, who took part in the movie «Fatal decisions» tried to stay within the framework of proper manners. It was exactly Andreas Albes, who said the essentially important phrase: «The very Nazi ideology was the fundamental reason for the war». That’s what every talk about the war should be started from. Strike against Russia was not a preventive step, but rather a vital need of the German nation. Hitler continued the footsteps of Napoleon and Wilhelm, following the main instinct of a Western warrior: at first, unification of continental Europe and then charge to the East. No diplomatic moves were able to stop that machine.

13/05/11 | SHALL WE JUDGE BY HAMBURG STANDARDS OR ACTUALLY BY THE STALINGRAD ONES? Soviet Union has won its enemy without superiority in numbers. Part II

Let’s try to understand: is it possible that Russians had a manpower advantage over Germans in autumn of 1942, during the principal breakpoint of the world battle? Did our grandparents actually have such opportunity — to block Germans up with corpses and to suppress them with pure people’s masses — at this milestone moment?

12/05/11 | SHALL WE JUDGE BY HAMBURG STANDARDS OR ACTUALLY BY THE STALINGRAD ONES? Soviet Union has won its enemy without superiority in numbers. Part I

Following «fair judgment» is quite characteristic of those, willing to humble our Victory in any possible way. While estimating the manpower of Allies, extensive colonies and dominions are not taken into consideration. While estimating the manpower of the Third Reich, no one counts its satellites and «fellow-travelers». These are allegedly insignificant nations, playing the back-seat utilities at the historical stage of war. Yet resources of the Soviet Union are mentioned A to Z.

09/05/11 | PRICE OF THE VICTORY AND VALUES OF THE WINNERS. Why Algerian divisions failed to defend Paris at their own Dubosekovo turnout?

The thought that comparing abilities of the Third Reich and the Soviet Union we may not take the Asian nations into consideration, has never even occurred to us. They are Soviet people after all, our fellow compatriots! In the same time we easily accept the logic that excludes African territories of the French Empire and their dwellers out of comparison. Why is that so?

24/03/11 | LIBYA-BAHREIN-GRENADA: FORGOTTEN PARALLELS

During the recent days we’ve witnessed couple of military interventions — attention of entire humanity is bound to one of them, while the second one goes seemingly unnoticed by the world media. The very same state coalition is doing its best in order to change the regime via strong-arm means in Libya and trying to defeat the opposition in an island state of Bahrain at the same time. Both military operations have a lot of in common with American invasion to Grenada in 1983.

28/01/11 | REHABILITATION OF FASCISM IN THE EASTERN EUROPE. How comes that "young democracies" ignored the UN General Assembly resolution?

During the years, preceding the USSR collapse, nationalism was artificially planted into the mass conscience by the ruling circles of former Soviet republics, willing to draw people’s attention away from the started re-division of power, curtailment of the social programs and misappropriation of national property. Establishment of national self-conscience, national identity and creation of national states was proclaimed. It was mostly creative intelligentsia and various public movements — funded by the foreign grants — that rendered considerable aid and comprehensive informational support of the former CPSU functionaries. It were them who gave birth to the numerous "national-liberation people’s fronts" — and as far back as in the end of 1980s rehabilitation of the Nazi henchmen started in its depths. Today this process became yet more dangerous.