Oh my God.... a new entry!

Thats right, enough people have subscribed/commented in the months to make me post something. Although im quite confused as to how people keep subscribing to something that hasnt been updated since May.

Anyway, todays Soviet topic of discussion will be the KGB's supposed power.

First for our newer or less politcally educated readers, the KGB was pretty much the Soviet equiveliant to the Secret service and counter intelligence.

Now yes, it is true the KGB had a decent amount of power in the mid to late 40's. However, after Stalin and Kruschev were unsurped from power so was the strength of the KGB. In the 40's the Soviet union also used an organization known as the NKVD which was more or less the KGB's big brother, the NKVD was also inherantly the organization the liquidated the Lenin Guard. (will get into more later) The KGB also at that time had the power to make arrests, write their own official documents and everything you would imagine them doing in the movies.

As said before after Joseph Satlin and Nikkita Kruschev were out of power and people like Garbagechov and Bhreznev were in power they along with the Central committe stripped the KGB of most of its power and they completely did away with the NKVD because they didnt want another incident like the Lenin guard happening to them. The Lenin guard was removed by the NKVD because of capitolist corruption. The central Committe and Bhreznev were ridden with corrutpion so they feared the KGB and NKVD. Thus they made them nothing more than figure head organizations.

In James bond movies ect the KGB is depicted as this all powerful being that has absolute trained killers that do SPETZNATZ training on a daily basis. This also was not true, After the 50's or so, all the KGB did was intelligence work mostly based from Embassys already existing in either Pro-Soviet countrys or countrys that had no standing at all with the USSR.  The KGB was not authorized a "license to kill" or anything, they could no longer make arrests or interrogate "Enemys of the state". The KGB knew of every little bit of corruption in the USSR, all the way up to the Central Committee. But it was excatlly the Central Comittee that stripped them of power to do anything about it, conveniant woulden't you say?

Anyway, the question I pose to the reader, Even though the NKVD and KGB spread horror and fear in their most powerful days, do you think it would have been Benifical to the security and over all long livity of the USSR to keep them as they were with the same amount of power?

Also, Welcome to the new readers, and also welcome to an old friend Nikki, your gonna find this stuff boring unless you like history and Political science.

I seem to have a growing reader base, dispite my lack of entries...

Note to self: Make more entries you lazy person.

Noted.

I will try to post something worthwhile reading soon.

~Commisar Az

V. Lenin's The State and Revolution is said to be "Often quoted and seldom read.

However, I have recently started into it's pages.

In the very first paragraph he makes a concrete point that I would like to share with you all.

Lenin wrote:

"What is now happening to Marx's theory has, in the course of history, happened repeatedly to the theories of revolutionary thinkers and leaders of oppressed classes fighting for emancipation. During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander."

I personally think that is an excellent point. That is not the whole opening statement, but that part really made a lot of sense.

Please, comrades, tell me what you think of that statement, I have not updated much lately but I miss the discussions.

Thank you.

*Edit*

Do you think this is happening ow to any revolutionaries? if so, who and by whom? Do you have any good examples of past revoutionaries that this has happened to?

I plan to speak of the Nothern Ireland conflict of the working class in my next post. It's not quite Soviet, but it is indeed a working class struggle.

I haven't posted fow a while, but I decided there's some things I needed to address. First and foremost, I am a Communist but I do not agree with all forms of it. Communism has many skewed variances and diffrent degrees. On one side we have the so called "Stalinists", then we have the "Marxists" and "Maoists" then we have the anarchists who merely support Communism because its something diffrent than the Republic we have now. I'd have to say the most rounded group in my opinion would have to be the Marxists, I only say that because the Anarchists and Stalinists are too extreame for their own good.

 In fact there's an idea for a post, a critical piece on Stalinists and Anarchists. Maybe for another day.

Anyway, As far as the ideas of Communism that I do not agree with:

In the Communist Manifesto, there is aboulition of family, and that is probibly my biggest issue with communism. (I will elaborate on it after this next issue) My second biggest issue is very closely related to the first in that I do not agree with the abolition of Religion. I truly believe that Religion and morality are very closely linked. Morality I should say is also easily linked to how an individual was raised.

However, the organization of religion I do not believe in. If you organize your religion in the forms of churches, synagouges, mosques, cults whatever, then you are challenging the rule of the state. I think its perfectly possible for someone to be a religious and moral person without attending church, they just have to rely on a good home to give them the morals and structures they need to lead that type of life.

So yes, I do not support 1% of Communism, if that makes me a bad communist than so be it. At least I know what I believe and I will not read a book and take it to heart word for word. All forms of government and economic systems have their pro's and con's. So, I will respect your beliefs because I am sure some of them are very valid.

So long live the communist ideal, and long live the good natured people who bear it correctly.