Armageddon as Clown Show: Iran War Pratfalls (Part 4 of 5)
In 1958 two KGB generals, Nikolai Mironov and Alexander Shelepin, pointed to the role of the Soviet secret police in carrying out Lenin’s New Economic Policy (NEP) of the 1920s. Mironov and Shelepin wanted the USSR to prepare for a new and enlarged NEP. This would be carried out by a reorganized and flexible KGB. For this brilliant suggestion they were awarded posts in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The strategy that evolved into Gorbachev’s perestroika began in the 1950s, but President Reagan and his team were clueless. Margaret Thatcher was clueless. The Soviet nuclear arsenal became the Russian Federation nuclear arsenal. The KGB lieutenant colonel in the Kremlin is threatening us with these nuclear weapons today. As for capitalism in Russia, the country’s billionaires are not like Western billionaires. They were recruited by the KGB and CPSU.