Struggling
to survive on $3.10 minimum wage of 1978 America, I never envied or blamed anyone
for my state in life. I understood the work ethic and the fact that everybody had
to start at the bottom and climb the ladder of success if they worked hard.
I came here
for the opportunities America offered. I wished to study and earn my Ph.D.,
raise a family, and be free under capitalism. I did not want my whole life to
be watched by the dreaded communist police state and to stand in line for hours
every day for our food. I was tired of poverty, fear, misery, and exploitation.
I never
really talked about my former life publicly because I had a healthy dose of
fear of all the communist agents that had infiltrated the west. I knew they
were everywhere, hiding in plain sight in American society. Every knock on the
door threw me into a panic – I was reliving the dreaded 2 a.m. knock on our
apartment door in Romania.
On the days
when the drudgery of being a low-paid secretary was discouraging, I imagined
the innocent and happy eyes of my future children who would grow up to
experience freedom, parental love, no hunger, a nice home of their own, toys, books,
abundant water and electricity, and plenty of clothes to keep them warm.
I can still
see in my mind’s eyes the twinkle of happiness when my Dad would bring home
something special, grapes in winter, a pear, a banana, or an orange. I wanted
to be able to do that for my children every day, without having to stand in
endless lines and then come home empty-handed.
Marx,
Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Ceausescu, and all those who forced communism and its
police state upon millions, were truly evil and Machiavellian tyrants thirsty
for absolute power and control.
Dr. Emile E.
Watson wrote in 1952, on the occasion of Joseph Stalin’s 72nd
birthday, “Meditations of Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili, alias Joseph
Stalin,” with the idea to let “the aging Stalin, in his own words,” explain his
world communism because the “ignorance of Communism has been a costly luxury
for the American people.” (Meditations of Joseph Stalin, The American
Coalition, Southern Building, Washington 5, D.C., 1952)
Millions of Stalin’s
communist agents were spread around the globe, his “undercover army” mounting
ideological attacks on the “social, political, cultural, and religious edifices
of civilized society.” Dr. Watson criticized our foreign policy which he
believed was based on “stupidity and the appeasement of Communism.”
In writing this
book, necessitated by the fact that there were “several hundred thousand
American Communists and fellow travelers in the United States,” Dr. Emile E.
Watson consulted with “nine men in the United States and Canada” who were
authorities on the subject of communism and of Stalin.
Stalin grew
up in a blue collar family – his father was a shoe cobbler and alcoholic who
beat his only child, and his mother was a laundress; they lived in squalor and
poverty. He trained for five years at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. His life
in such an austere and monastically simple environment may have contributed to his
sullen and despondent disposition, while his atheism flourished.
Stalin’s
insubordination resulted in his expulsion from the seminary, perhaps guiding
him into a future of street activism, crime, and revolution. Having been beaten
repeatedly by his father, Stalin became brutal himself and a master at
“evasion, trickery, and deception” while pretending to champion the cause of
the poor and downtrodden.
After
meeting Lenin in 1905 at a revolutionary party meeting in Tammerfors, Finland, Joseph
V. Djugashvili was accepted into the ruling elites of the Party. His prior
activities of payroll and bank robberies which funded the Bolsheviks, opened up
new opportunities for the constantly unemployed and unskilled Joseph, nicknamed
by Lenin, Stalin (Man of Steel). But
Lenin found him so capricious that he left instructions in his January 4, 1923
last will and testament that Stalin be removed from the position of General
Secretary.
Sentenced to
various jail terms and exile in Siberia between 1902 and 1917, the criminally-inclined
Joseph changed his name 20 times and found ways to run subversive activities
from various czarist prisons and even from Siberia. His experience there taught
him how to build later an escape-proof labor camp with the “largest prison and
exile population in the world.”
The
Bolsheviks, who seized control in 1917, did not want a constitution that would interfere
with what they wanted to do. After the Bolshevik dictatorship was entrenched, a
Stalin constitution was adopted in 1929 which solidified a government based on
“force, violence, recognizing no legal restraints, subject to no laws
whatsoever.”
Stalin’s
totalitarianism was validated when the United States gave the Soviet Union
diplomatic recognition in 1933. And, on August 17-24, 1943, at the first Quebec
conference, a “death sentence was passed on freedom for Eastern Germany,
Eastern Europe, North Korea, Manchuria and China.”
Dr. Watson
explained that Roosevelt, “like most of the people of the United States, did
not comprehend what Communism really is, how it works, and what it intends to
do to the rest of the world.” The world did not understand how truly evil
Stalin was. Contemporary Americans still have no idea how oppressive communism
is and turn a deaf ear to survivor stories and to historical accounts.
The Soviet
participation in the United Nations was not geared towards “world peace,”
whatever that means, but to create “enmity and division among the non-Communist
countries to the detriment of the United States.”
Stalin turned
North Korea into a mini-Soviet Union and “trained and equipped a native army”
which resulted in a conflict that the United Nations called, in liberal
euphemistic fashion, a “police action,” while Stalin described the Communist
Chinese fighters in Korea as “volunteers;” and millions of Chinese were
subjugated to the will of Kremlin’s communist apparatus.
Stalin took
absolute economic control by nationalizing light and heavy industries,
commerce, arable land, subsoil, minerals, and water resources. Nothing was left
to chance. Private mom and pop enterprises were forced to deliver any surplus
to the Bolsheviks at very low and fixed prices, making it highly unprofitable
to produce anything except subsistence crops and goods.
Lenin tried
in 1921 to reverse the economic disaster and the depopulation of cities caused
by the lack of food and succeeded in bringing in surpluses. “By 1927 there was plenty of food in Moscow
and in other cities.” The free enterprise system worked beautifully.
Stalin
stepped in and, in 1928 private enterprise took a dive again when he forced
collectivization which caused massive starvation in Russia in 1932. “From 1932
on, the Bolshevik regime went through one crisis after another, each worse than
the other.”
The
Bolshevik collectivism confiscated the peasants’ homes, livestock, tools, and
placed them in the ownership of the new collective farm. Farmers were forced to
work for their own subsistence, giving the lion’s share to the communists. Growers
who resisted this massive confiscation became “enemies of the state” and were
loaded onto cattle trains and sent into labor camps in Siberia where they
succumbed to cold, hunger, and the backbreaking work.
Many farmers
burned their barns, granaries, and killed their animals rather than turn them
over to the Soviets – “50 percent of their horses, 45 percent of their cattle,
and two-thirds of their sheep and goats.” Fifteen million died of starvation in
the famine that ensued. And news of the disaster, like any other purge, was
never allowed to travel outside of the Soviet Union.
To
completely root out capitalist ideas and to fundamentally transform society,
the ruthless communists formed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
(1922-1991) which forced people speaking 150 languages and dialects into a huge
social engineering project.
“Whole
populations, especially in the area of Western Europe, were uprooted. Hundreds
of thousands of Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Letts, Estonians, Germans
and others were torn from their families and lands and shipped to remote
regions.” All the groundwork was led by the “Communist Fifth Column directed
from Moscow.”
Stalin
wanted to make sure that the Communist Party survived long after he was gone,
controlling the future of all human beings. Bolsheviks, he admitted, should
have never been invited as part of the United Nations because they are
“permanently at war, war against their own people and against the world.”
“We are war
makers and will continue so until we have conquered the world,” Dr. Watson
wrote in his book.
What kept
millions and millions of Iron Curtain citizens compliant? They had been
disarmed, unable to defend themselves, and were frightened by the 2 o’clock a.m.
knock on the door when the political police might whisk them away, never to be
seen again. This reign of “mute terror” kept them under control. The large
contingent of family and neighbors turned police informers on each block were also
a force to be feared.
How were so
many people lured into accepting communism in the first place? It was plain
discontent with one’s miserable status in life and unfettered envy of those who
were successful. Communism was presented as the “drowning man’s last hope.” The
false and deceptive slogan “forward” did not include personal responsibility
for one’s choices in life, it was always someone else fault and nanny communism
was there to fix it.
“Victims of
poverty, disease, illiteracy and insecurity complexes, frustration,
over-emotionalism, racial, religious and political intolerance, an urge of
recognition of power are the motivating forces causing discontent among the
peoples of the earth.”
Labor
leaders in America had become pro-communist, undermining the very capitalist
system which provided them with good wages and a standard of living far superior
to any communist country.
It is
incomprehensible how so many Americans can undermine their own capitalist way
of life even today. That is because few understand how the kudzu seed of
communism was sown into labor unions, government, and other institutions. Communism
was presented as a magical cure for all diseases that “plague” the “socially
unjust” capitalism.
The three
steps that Stalin used to take over his communist satellite countries were:
1. Sending in agents for propaganda,
agitation, and street organization.
2. Organize a Fifth Column (overt of
covert operatives) and direct it.
3. Take over the government.
In the
Soviet Union Stalin controlled the Communist Party, its Central Committee, and
the ultimate power broker, the Politburo. He controlled the state, the Communist
Party, and the international communist movement.
He kept two
million policemen to control the 300 million Sovietized Russians; additionally,
he had the military and the infamous slave labor camps.
The M.V.D.,
the political police of two million, included agents who were assigned to watch
the secret police. And then there was an inner group of thousands of specially-chosen
men who answered only to Stalin.
The M.V.D.,
similar to Hitler’s Gestapo, was organized around regiments, divisions, an air
force, tanks, infantry, and artillery. The inner army suppressed rebellions,
controlled the railroads, borders, factories, power plants – “the
obedience-compelling arm.”
“Every
factory, every railroad and every government enterprise were controlled and
held in check by these fractions and the M.V.D.”
The masses were
also controlled by forcing them to join organizations such as labor syndicates,
the young communist league, mandatory professional organizations, or the elementary
school “pioneers” with their red scarves and revolutionary berets emblazoned
with communist symbols.
Stalin’s
Secretariat appointed representatives to all government agencies and to the
Communist Party. These hand-picked representatives reported only to the
Secretariat and “were authorized to appoint, remove, or command the personnel
of any committee or agency.”
Doctors were
his medical henchmen. Those who were suspected of harboring divergent opinions
were murdered through slow-acting poisons. Lenin’s death is alleged to have
been hastened this way.
Stalin was the
ultimate dictator and ruler. He arrested, removed, and disposed of members of
the Central Committee and Politburo, disappearing them overnight, even removing
them from previously published photographs. Stalin was the final decision-maker
who imprisoned 12 million Russians in forced labor camps, lording over his
slave labor state.
A master in
the art of indoctrination, Stalin took over the schools and dictated the
curriculum, emphasizing Marx’s, Engels’, and Lenin’s Socialism and vilifying
capitalism, molding the youth, controlling the press, radio, and movies. His
cult of personality included adulation ceremonies, May 1 parades, military
parades, large statues of himself and portraits placed in every institution, factory,
and classroom. Journalists and artists were censored.
Bolshevism
used propaganda to “create a breakdown between the more backward and
undeveloped nations and the West, or as Lenin said, ‘to separate the metropolis
from the hinterland,’ … a grand design of economic and political warfare.”
To disrupt
the capitalist world economically, Stalin used communist-controlled or communist-influenced
labor unions and the diplomatic campaign of “peace” while he thought of nothing
else but “to sharpen my knife to cut their throats.”
The
long-range Soviet plans to destabilize and destroy other governments also
included “undermining their governments and institutions, organize their
workers, and steal their secrets, including the atom bomb.”
During
Stalin’s reign, Dr. Watson wrote, there were “half-million Communists and
fellow travelers in the United States, plus hundreds of communist-front
organizations and their subversive publications, with little opposition. Daily
these are undermining the moral fiber of the people, and especially the youth.”
Stalin
boasted, Dr. Watson wrote, that “My agents and fellow travelers are so deeply
infiltrated into the fabric of the United States that they have become a
powerful influence in government, industry, labor, education, and religion.”
His agents
infiltrated public schools and colleges in the U.S. in the name of “progressive
education” which was interpreted to suit their purposes. Dr. Watson wrote that
the infiltration was facilitated by the “pirate method.” It was so much easier
to enter a port and assault it by taking down the pirate flag and raising the
flag of the country to be raided.
Stalin used
psychological warfare to capture the empty minds of the young who were craving
for direction. Planting an idea is
inexpensive and long-lasting, Dr. Watson wrote. Feeding the empty stomachs like
the Americans do, he said, is lost overnight.
Dr. Watson
wrote, “Hollywood is a powerful outlet for undermining the Capitalist system by
creating doubts in the minds of the adults and, above all, the youth of the
United States and other nations to which American films are exported.”
Stalin
admitted that communists are dangerous like him because they have no ethics, no
integrity, and recognize no moral law. They keep no promises or pledges, except
those that are to their advantage. They place no value on human life and suffer
no “disturbance of conscience.”
Dr. Watson wrote
that our “nation will never fall if the majority of its leaders and people
cling to the hand of God, creating a rebirth of religion and morality.”
