My personal involvement with ‘the system’ had seemingly innocent origins. All through my adolescent years, I had been dreaming of becoming a rock musician. Of course, harboring such dreams, especially by one born in the Soviet Union, smacked of a childish naiveté. For one thing, the Soviet authorities viewed rock music as a political and cultural deviation—and a sad result of the influence of ‘the rotten West.’ Theoretically, it was possible to join a low-profile commercial band and play in restaurants and at weddings, but I aspired to higher (or at least different) things.
But in pursuing my dreams, I did not appreciate another type of obstacle to my dreams. Spheres of influence in the USSR were clearly divided along many lines, including nationality. The Russian majority firmly controlled the government and military (you needed personal connections or better still, you had to be born into the right family to be able to get on the fast track to success). The Jews dominated culture and entertainment—clearly a demotion from their former positions as leading communists. In fact, this demotion was one of the reasons the Jews felt wronged by the Soviet system and why many of them were in silent or no-so-silent opposition to it. But in all artistic spheres and in a great many other liberal spheres, the Jews reigned supreme. For instance, in the early 1980s, the vast majority of movie actors, musicians, writers and journalists were Jews. They were slightly less represented in the medical and legal professions, but still Jews promoted Jews, so if you weren’t one, it was useless to try to squeeze into certain professions.
In vocational college I befriended a classmate — a Jewish guy who, as it turned out, had similar musical aspirations. From him I had learned that it was possible to get around all the official obstacles by forming an underground rock band. The logic behind it was simple: unlike the official music scene that existed under the thumb of the authorities, the underground venue offered a wider exposure to the ‘right’ public, and it was free from any censorship. In other words, it meant freedom to pursue one’s dreams and to become famous among the free-thinking public without being hindered by Soviet officialdom. Thus, step by step I began to submerge myself into the world of ‘the system’. I quickly noticed that it had a heavy Jewish presence, but I did not mind it. It seemed to me that because Jews had access to otherwise unobtainable resources and to precious information, the Jews who stood at the helm of ‘the system’ were in an excellent position to create a rich and vibrant cultural life.
In reality however, ‘the people’, even the Jews among them, survived on mere crumbs of information that trickled in from the West — a smattering of musical recordings, journals, and books which managed to find their way around the Iron Curtain. Although an average ‘man of the system’ regarded himself as an intellectual (again, women were treated as nothing more than sex objects), his cultural baggage was usually quite poor—typically limited to knowing the names of famous authors, musicians and artists. In fact, the art of pretending to be familiar with works of literature, general psychology, politics, and arts was perfected among ‘system people’, however, it was not hard to learn the minimum required for someone aspiring to a reputation for good taste: there were just a couple of novels that were considered to be ‘en vogue’ (Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita, and for some reason, Faulkner), a few artists (Salvador Dali, Picasso, Chagall, and Modigliani). Then, of course, there was Sigmund Freud, and, among movie directors, Fellini. In music it was all about early-70s rock, experimental music, and free jazz.
The primary and almost the sole receivers and distributors of the cultural detritus that arrived from the West were Jews. At least they knew something about what was happening on those distant foreign shores. They were therefore positioned to sow on Soviet soil all the new (and the not-so-new) influences: The Hare Krishna movement, the Summer of Love, Indian philosophies, Ravi Shankar, psychedelic art, surrealism, free jazz—what had become the American culture of the left—another story with a large Jewish sub-plot (see here, p. 76ff).
The interesting thing was that since the Jews were the only Soviet group that had relatively free access to the West and had relatives abroad and even the ability to emigrate, they could propagate whatever they wanted and could interpret things the way they wanted. There were no other witnesses, no other sources of information. No one could contradict them or present a different point of view. Therefore, their version became the only game in town.
* * * *
Of course, it took me a considerable time—more than a year—to start noticing peculiarities and contradictions of ‘the system’. At the beginning of my own ‘system’ career I was concerned with things like going through proper initiation. Namely, I was introduced to drugs. To make my image complete, I quickly became an ardent pacifist as well. Formally, I was still a student. My buddy and I walked around school exhibiting a ‘devil may care’ attitude. More and more often we arrived stoned, or we simply skipped out on school, sometimes for weeks at a time. Finally, we dropped out altogether.
It was the time when Brezhnev died and Andropov came to power. For me, it turned out to be a memorable time. Andropov immediately started a campaign against slackers, social parasites and ‘spies’. Rumors about street arrests of straight citizens and police searches in the metro began to circulate around the city. During those years and later, I was frequently arrested and threatened with a prison term on all kinds of trumped-up charges. But luckily for me, the prison term never materialized. Gradually, I even got to know the KGB men who took a personal interest in my ‘activities’. (They were all Jews, even thought all the senior officers I met were Russians.) Curiously, despite (or maybe because) of their interest in my humble person, by that time I was not involved in any political activity, and the only thing I could be justly charged with was my lack of gainful employment.
Nevertheless, the KGB officers tried to charge me with a double murder, a terrorist attack, a house robbery, rape and espionage. Since I was unemployed and living in Leningrad (which was open to foreigners), I never even got near any classified information, and I really could not figure out how I might be useful to the CIA or MI5. Neither was I ever engaged in any criminal activity. All the discussions of my crimes ended with the threat to put me behind bars unless I agreed to collaborate with the ‘organs’. I would dutifully take an officer’s business card and promise to call as soon as the CIA or MI5 or a terrorist group contacted me, or even if I hear anything related to these matters.
But the occasion never arose. I might just add that the few times I was arrested with other ‘people’, Jewish guys were let go right away. But a couple of times my ‘partner in crime’ was a Russian, and they were beaten in the cell. It might be just a coincidence, although I don’t think so.
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Uhh, what happened here? Just kind of ended abruptly. What are your final thoughts on Jewish influence in Russia, and how did you get out of that lifestyle?
I was pretty engrossed in the story otherwise.
That’s it?
I got caught up in this fellow’s experiences and suddenly, the narrative ended. I would like to know what happened after that. Well, I guess I do…. If he died suddenly or was murdered I would be very sorry.
I hope all turned out well for him. He seemed like a decent chap.
Who says there isn’t a part 3?
Great series. Getting to know the Soviet system before it knows you.
OT, but worthwhile highlighting:
http://rt.com/news/uk-bans-wearing-cross-317/
http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-film/russian-parallel-cinema-full-length
I’d like to know how many of these film-makers are Jews. Maybe the article’s author could comment.
It’s no different in the US, or anywhere else in the West for that matter. Certain ‘industries’ such as ;journalism’ , or entertainment are wholly owned and controlled by jews and no one else is allowed to get very far.
I assume the author has figured this out.
“it had a heavy Jewish presence” —-”But in all artistic spheres and in a great many other liberal spheres, the Jews reigned supreme”
Tell me about it ???
Perhaps its because the Goyim are so “slow” & have been trained to await guidance from their mumbo sky-wizard God via the Vatican or other Christian voice .
Will the Goyim ever awake ???? —————— IMHOP—- no.
The Goyim will not dump Christianity even though that mumbo religion religion has locked down their intellectual advancement for centuries.
About 40% of Jews are Atheists & they smile at the poor dumb Goyim who follow their Jewish Bible “religiously” ,who support Israel´s barbarism in the Middle East carried out by European Jews with no historical connection to the Middle East.
Easy for Jews to feel superior because it is obviously so.
Yes!
I too would love to know more. Perhaps a bit better organized, if that is possible.
This is a great series and a subject of personal interest to me as I have spent some amount of time attempting to learn about the Soviet counter-culture. It is an often ignored feature of Soviet life though I think that fact owes as much to the shock of the 1990s than to any organized attempt to downplay it. The freedom and chaos of the 1990s was a completely different milieu from the gritty, restrictive Soviet machine with its complicated bureaucracy and distinct and rigid social stratification. Subsequently, in the 1990s the Soviet counter-culture and dissident movement seemed not only quaint and dated, it had nothing to say about the new Russia. The 1990s were chaotic, confused, flush with new freedoms, as a gaudy new business elite emerged and everything Soviet broke down, from morality to the carefully crafted social hierarchy.
What is indeed a well known fact, though rarely emphasized, is that the dissident movement was primarily Jewish, if not strictly in numbers but certainly in organization and energy. It is fascinating how the Jews managed to navigate the treacherous Soviet world over the course of the USSR’s 70 year existence (it was, admittedly, treacherous partly due to their own making). Having lost their near stranglehold on the organs of power under Stalin, many Jews turned their attention to introducing westernizing influences into the country, taking as their cue Western democracies where not just living standards but Jewish influence continued to rise. The popular image of a late-Soviet intellectual is almost certainly a Jew, probably a professor and likely harboring some degree of anti-Soviet sympathy. Others stayed on the sidelines politically, outwardly supporting hard-line policy, but continuing to enjoy privileged posts in any number of spheres. But fascinatingly enough, these two camps (the quasi-dissident intelligentsia and the established elite), while ostensibly opposed to each other, never attempted to seriously harm each other because so often that would have pitted Jew versus Jew. There are certainly individual exceptions to this rule but this strange kind of neutrality existed for several decades.
On a tangentially related note and partly with a mind to directing subsequent discussion away from the tired and already well established WN lament that “the Jews took control of everything”, I would like to throw out the idea that counter-culture is a very healthy and vital phenomenon with strong roots in the European tradition. Instead of being afraid of it as a potential spawning ground for Jewish manipulation, we should rather be encouraging such impulses, working all the while to capture it or develop it along our lines.
The burgeoning local food and crafts movement in the US(Go Local!), under which a number of related offshoots exist (such as independent coffee shops, permaculture, etc.) is a counter-culture we should not only be a part of but attempting to steer our way. Those of us in my generation (born in the 1980s) don’t remember a pre-multicultural past, “the old America or Europe “and often don’t have conservative sensibilities anyway. But I think moving the extremely vital neo-hippies (for lack of better wording) a few degrees in the direction of a realization that this is a movement of our people, for our people would be extremely powerful. It doesn’t even have to get as far as overt white nationalism to be extremely powerful – I am envisioning a slightly more insular, harder to manipulate manifestation of well organized, relatively self sufficient Europeans, minus the idealism, universalism and naiveté of the 1960s. My generation is a little bit tougher and we have a bit of a chip on our shoulders which will only grow as the extent to which our elders sold us down the river becomes more evident. I think we could hold out much better.
I’m really enjoying this series (and I too am hoping for a part III). Having studied the Russian language and culture, this article helps me empathize for those who have (and continue to) faced the same evils we do here.
Can someone help me out? I know I’m displaying my ignorance world-wide by asking this, but what does “IMHO” mean? I see it all the time. Presumably it is an acronym, but for what? Please bear in mind I have no home computer, no TV for 30+ years, don’t use Facebook, hate the internet, etc…
@Farnham O’Reilly:
In my humble opinion. Now if someone will help me – please explain the meaning of *this*?
@Hooper:
I would be very interested in hearing more of the world-view you mention. I agree that there are many implicitly white groups that can be reached – many are disenchanted with the current state of affairs. We need numbers and allies. Thanks.
@Trenchant:
That’s a good question. I think the first thing that should be asked *ever*, when it comes to anything new anywhere, is are the Jews behind it?
There is a newest thing on the MSM that’s being pushed, a youtube called “Kony 2012″. There was a news segment on it just this morning on TV.
I heard about it awhile ago, and as annoying as this is, I looked into it. This ‘Kony 2012′ thing has to do with a youtube video called ‘Invisible Children’ of Uganda, the making of child soldiers by this Kony fellow, who claims to be a Christian.
So, I watched the 6 part series of “Invisible Children” a few days back. Tell me these white boys who made this youtube aren’t Jews (and they look homosexual too, but this is besides the point). They went to Uganda and created this video and want us to send money to Uganda to help these Ugandan children. I read also that there will be an upcoming ‘Kony 2012′ campaign in the USA to ‘highlight this problem’. Yeah, right. Someone pointed out somewhere beware of giving your money to this (which I wouldn’t do anyway, on principle), as it is a scam:
‘Invisible Children’ Pt 1/6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qds5MQCqWnk
@Alice Teller:
Hi Mrs. Teller. Good day to you and all T.O.O. visitors.
Are you talking about adding asterisks around a word?
For example:
I *love* broccoli.
That is a way of emphasizing the word “love”, similar to italicizing the word.
(Thankfully I have a dictionary nearby; I had “broccoli” spelled with one “c” and two “L’s”.)
@Alice Teller:
@Richard:
I forgot to add that sometimes people put asterisks around a word when the option to italicize is unavailable.
Thankfully T.O.O. gives us the option to italicize a word.
It’s simple. The comment formatting instruction in blue font (above this comment box that I’m typing in now) gives the basics.
You just add “” before the word (or sentence or paragraph) that you want to italicize, and “” after the word (or sentence or paragraph) that you want to italicize.
Note: you don’t add the quotation marks… just the stuff in quotes. And notice that the second one includes a slash mark. It’s very simple to use once you understand it. Hopefully I didn’t make it sound more difficult than it is.
@Richard:
Hi Richard, it is good of you to be so patient with those of us on the other side of the digit divide. Thanks.
@Alice Teller:
digital – maybe one of these years I will master the art of typo free writing in this comments section!
@Farnham O’Reilly:
You can find all abbreviations of the internet on internetslang.com.
You can find there things either alphabetically or via the search box.
Good luck.
@Alice Teller:
I looked at my comment here@Richard: and noticed that the stuff in between the quotation marks is missing.
I guess that’s because it (what I typed) is some kind of formatting code, and when I typed it, it didn’t show up — just as it doesn’t show up when I type the code in order to italicize a word.
For example:
Tree.
The word “tree” will be italicized once I hit the submit button, but the short code I typed around it (the word “tree”) won’t show up, even though it shows up while I’m typing it in the comment box here. It’s much simpler than I’m making it sound. The instructions are highlighted in blue underneath the T.O.O. comment policy (highlighted in red.)
I don’t see myself as being patient with you or others (although I appreciate your gratitude.) It feels good, the thought of possibly helping other pro-White people, even if it’s something seemingly small. It really is a comforting thought — the thought that I’m contributing something good, something lasting… even if it seems very small in the big scheme of things.
Maybe so many things in our modern culture, out in the real world, seem like a chore because… our culture is disordered and unnatural. So it is a chore then; we’re helping and participating in a system that ultimately supports our destruction. People are forced to fake niceness. But in a natural, healthy, ordered society, I figure genuine kindness and niceness flow freely.
I feel genuine love for a lot of the commenters here.
Have a good week everyone.
@Alice Teller: @Franklin Ryckaert: @Richard: What I typed was IMHO, with quote marks on it. That’s the way it looks on my screen, but not on yours?
I used to be fond of saying I knew nothing about life insurance or carburators. Now I’ll add the internet to that list.
I do not mean to detract from the writer’s wonderful article by diverting attention to my ignorance of technological or contemporary parlance, but I’d still like to know what IMHO means.
@Richard:
Thanks for the clarification. I think that you have hit on one of the most pernicious aspects of modern life – the idea that all of those little things don’t matter. In fact, we are far more in control of our own lives then we think. The mass media supports the notion that we are simply on the receiving end. They tell us what ought to be and far too many of us try to live up or down to their standards.
In fact, we create our own social reality in every thought and deed. We imagine that sending money to some foreign charity makes us good people, even if our personal influence in daily life is to contribute to the general ugliness surrounding us.
We really do need to take a more proactive position. What cannot be changed must be endured for the moment, we should not ignore all the things we can control.
@Farnham O’Reilly:
IMHO acronym for In My Humble Opinion. Sorry I did not make that clear.
@Alice Teller: Thank you! (!!!) And, that gives me a little humble pie for my breakfast, too!
@Farnham O’Reilly:
IMHO means “in my humble opinion”, as Alice Teller already said. The shorter form IMO means “in my opinion”. Have you gone to internetslang.com already? You can find the meaning of all such abbreviations there.
As for italics, I don’t know what Richard means but the easiest way to do it is to type before and after the word that you want to italicize.
In the text will appear the word in italics but then of course without those signs.
This thread is priceless. We are cunningly tricking the enemy into thinking we are all 100 years out-of-date in using technology :)
@Farnham O’Reilly:
It means “In my humble opinion.”
Also, I neglected the possibility that there could be a third part of this series. However, usually most here are only 2 parts long, so I just assumed otherwise, perhaps incorrectly.
@Hooper:
Listen you young whipper-snapper, I was programming back in the days of FORTRAN when you were just a gleam in your Daddy’s eye! But your are quite right, I am several generations behind. Be kind to the old and simple-minded. :-)
@Franklin Ryckaert: Thanks for your tips. Years ago I learned Russian, then dawdled in Finnish, Kurdish & even Mongolian. But Techy appears even rougher than those (well, except Kurdish maybe).
@Hooper: No tricks here; I realy am 100 years out of date, even though I’m in my mid-50s.
@John: Thanks for the feedback.
@blue rose:
Blue Rose, about that “Kony” thing, it appears to be a scam not in the first place for money but to prepare the public mind for a socalled “humanitarian” intervention. Real reason : there has been found oil in Uganda.
Mr. Kony himself is probably dead for nearly 6 years already, but just as in the case of Bin Laden that doesn’t matter.
For more information go to northerntruthseeker.com, March 10, 2012 : The “Stop Joseph Kony” Push is a Fraud.
Regards.
@Franklin Ryckaert:
What’s interesting, now that I become more aware of how these things get started in the MSN, is to watch how these things play out, first by a simple ‘news item’, to get the public aware. Angelina Jolie is behind this Kony 2012 thing, and I read they will be kicking off a USA campaign. It’s fascinating to be able to watch these scripts play out, as if it all just ‘innocently’ came about.
Here’s my main man telling it like it is regarding this Kony ‘Christian’ Liberation Army warlord, who’s probably decrepit by now. He agrees with you that it has to do with oil. What I don’t understand is are the Hollywood Left ‘in on it’ to help the US government, or are they just suckers for these Third World angst documentaries and see another cause they can get behind?
The last Kony-type person I looked into was General Butt-Naked of Liberia. The vice.com people did a harrowing documentary on Butt-Naked (real name Josuha Blehyi. If anyone’s interested, the History Channel did a follow up documentary on Blehyi, after he converted to Christianity, after a conversion experience. I was deeply interested in this. But even after the follow up, though he did seem to have a genuine conversion experience, it’s still hard to say if he had one or not. Both the vice.com and History Channel follow-up are fascinating.
KONY 2012 is a Pro-War Propaganda film…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYpzVA5lRwI&feature=uploademail
@Franklin Ryckaert:
Incidentally, what I was trying to say originally, is that the white guys behind the Kony ‘Invisible Children’ youtube, which I watched in 6 parts, look to me like Jewish boys. So, in this sense, yes, I would say they are ‘in on it’ and the US government sent them to make this ‘documentary’, so that Angelina Jolie could kick off the campaign — and the Americans have no idea what’s behind it all.
I suggest not going to the website with internet slang and omitting all shortcuts.If you feel that communicating within our language is too bothersome, taxing your patience- refrain for a while and gather enough mental strength that would allow for normal use of language. All those “LOL”s and “IMHO”s are there for sub-Saharan content,best expressed by tom-tom drumming,smoke signals and rectal yodeling.
Here’s my other main man. He says precisely what he thinks and I like him. I may have deleted his youtube on Kony 2012, but if you go to his channel, I’m sure it’s there. Subscribe to him. He’s GOOD.
Kony -Hussein, Bin Laden and Propaganda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh4k_JRlhTc&feature=uploademail
@Neville: The goyim are everyone who is not a Jew, irrespective of race, creed, colour, or religion. In the Middle Ages, Christians, both Orthodox and RC had no problem putting Jews in their place, whether that was burying them (literally) or excluding them from certain activities at the pain of death. The biggest mistake the Spanish Inquisition made was to allow them to convert. This made them Marranos, and is a tactic they have used successfully since that time.
The revolutions that removed royalty in Europe were all funded and instigated by Jews. The current crop e.g the Windsors owe their existence to their relation to the hand picked successors of the Catholic James II. This allowed the Bauers to create the privately owned Bank of England, which is the mother of all war funding.
The Jews have separated people from true Christianity, and perverted it. The overwhelming majority of people who call themselves Christian, aren’t. They are brainwashed Ziophiles.
Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, or other are all on the Jews’ “to do” list. Even convert Jews are suspect. Nothing short of the annihilation of Israel, as a state, will stop them.
This is ridiculous. Why is Andrew Breitbart’s video being showcased on TOO? Breitbart was a Jew.
Alas, Judaic dominance in the post-Stalin USSR didn’t merely extend to the creative field that in much of the West has long become a matter-of-fact affair.
It always struck me as mathematically absurd that a people who in the past few millennia never produced anything vaguely resembling distinct architecture, or original music or even national cuisine should somehow become our cultural trend setters.
Anyhow, willfully little is mentioned by the piss-stream media concerning Judaic involvement in the Soviet military-industrial complex from missile designers to advanced radio engineers to nuclear physicists. Granted, you would’ve had tough time finding ‘yearners for Zion’ or any such pap among that crowd as they tended to reside in nameless, quasi-military towns under the umbrella of KGB and generally off-limits to much of the country. We’re literally talking parallel biosphere here.
Among the multiple perks for loyalty to the State was access to members-only-type warehouses where wife Cyla could treat herself to such sought after luxuries as Polish cosmetics; Czechoslovakian toilets; Hungarian wallpaper; Romanian sneakers; Yugoslavian shearlings ; Russian salmon roe, et cetera. (At this point you simply have know what a basket case was the USSR economy to dispense with sarcasm.)
Soviet academia could best be described as heavily Judaic virtually on all levels. Start the ball rolling with deans of leading medical schools to professorships @ the country’s best conservatories to classified researchers. BTW, not infrequently said instructors might’ve boasted perfectly neutral, Slavic sounding surnames like Kovalev or Parkhomenko. Something which grandpa Nathan chose to adopt in the heyday of judeo-bolshevik reign of 1918-1938 by prudently ditching family name like Zederbaum or Rabinowitz.
Non-Jews with academic ambitions who planned to pursue Masters/Ph.D. in either one of the country’s chief scientific hubs (read: Moscow, Leningrad, Novosibirsk, Kiev) had better be prepared to be:
A. vetted on account of his/her qualifications by possibly a Judaic superior
B. face a clearing board packed with Grand Poobahs of a particular branch of science in which Judaic ratio could range from ¼ up to ½.
Yet despite all that evidence of privileged status one still manages to find a sizable number among contemporary Judaic mythographers, who have the gall to spew about ‘state-sanctioned anti-semitism in the USSR’ !