Ayn Rand used to write editorials about this stuff

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For several days, since receiving the latest Time magazine – a gift subscription from a misled friend, I have been worrying over a possible conspiracy in the Marxist takeover of the world. This topic is about the take over of Poland by Russia.

I put three things together.

· The video, "Deception was my Job".

· The crash of the Polish government, described on Fox News as their very "Conservative" government.

· The April 26, 2010 article analyzing that plane crash.

In the video, "Deception was My Job", Part 3, Cultural Subversion and Escape, by Juri Bezmenov, former propagandist for the Russian KBG, Mr. Bezmenov describes the methods of "the World Communist System". His description includes the description of how the Communist operatives would cause "catastrophies" in a country that would drive that country toward submission to International Communism. He tells us that 85% of the KGB is spent on "active measures" or propaganda aimed at "changing the perception of reality" in the targeted country.

Keep in mind that both Germany and Russia tore Poland apart during WWII. They murdered her citizens and destroyed her culture and industry.

Now, go back for a moment to 1940 in the Katyn forest just west of the small Russian town of Smolensk where Soviet Troops massacred defenseless Polish POWS who were mostly members of the Polish Intelligentsia and Military (The thinkers and the defenders of the country).

Come forward to April 10, 2010 when a plane carrying dignitaries to a ceremony commemorating the 1940 massacre crashed in the same Katyn Forest. Nearly 100 of the top political personalities of a newly independent Poland, including Poland's president, Leck Kaczynski died in the crash.

From the April 26 2010 issue of Time Magazine by Zbigniew Brzezinski: (all emphasis in the article is mine.) (http://www.time.com/...world/article/0,8599,1981930,00.html)

"Those who died on this modern pilgrimage of peace included Poland's President, Lech Kaczynski.

And yet it is possible that future historians will see in these combined events — and especially in the consequence of the second one — the beginning of a truly significant turning point in Polish-Russian relations. Should that come to pass, it would represent a geopolitical change in Europe of genuinely historic proportions.

A few days before the second tragedy, the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, and the Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, met to formalize a protracted process of painful accommodation regarding the Katyn crime. What happened in the forest 70 years ago was for many years a forbidden fact of life in Polish society. From the end of World War II to 1989, Poland was politically subservient to the Soviet Union. Even the closest relatives of those who perished at Katyn were not allowed to talk about it. People who claimed that their fathers or grandfathers had died on a certain date in 1940 were often viewed with suspicion; it was thought that they might be aware of who the killers really were. It was not until the era of Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia from 1991 to 1999, that a serious process to acknowledge what had happened in the past was initiated.

When Tusk and Putin met on April 7, the goal of the two men was a formal and comprehensive reconciliation of their nations. Putin spoke at that event and spoke well. But he still spoke more as a statesman doing what was needed; somehow, he did not really connect, in a human sense, with the Poles. By contrast, within hours of the fatal plane crash outside Smolensk three days later, Putin himself was on the spot in Katyn, reaching out to the Poles in a spontaneously warm and compassionate fashion. That all of a sudden infused human feelings into an issue that had divided the two peoples. (I suppose there had been no human feelings involved in the 1940 and the 2010 events prior to Putin's arrival? Good God!)

It is difficult to tell what the long-term reactions in Poland will be to what has so recently transpired. Poland is still mourning its dead; it is possible that conspiracy theories (Ya think?) could yet surface. But I feel confident that the gestures of the past few days will unleash a degree of reciprocal human warmth from the Poles and the Russians. There is a chance that together they will initiate a new era in the historically troubled relationship between their two nations. (troubled? Troubled? Can you say understatement boys and girls?)

Should that happen, the map of central Europe would be transformed. A Russian-Polish reconciliation is impossible to imagine without it leading also to greater security for others who live in proximity to Russia, whether they be Estonians or Ukrainians or perhaps even Georgians, who fought a brief war with Russia in 2008. One should not overestimate the consequences of a change in mood, but ultimately human affairs are shaped by human beings. The sensitivity with which Russian leaders have handled the tragedy, coupled with the determination of Poland's leaders to face the future without recrimination, augur well for what is to come. (I keep choking on this man's words – security? Mood? Sensitivity of Russian leaders? Are you kidding me?)

(Here comes Bezmenov's "Changing the Perception of Reality in America of course, so that we will not demand that our government do something to stop Russia's takeover of Poland.) If my hopeful perspective comes to pass, the evolving reconciliation between the Poles and the Russians will be another milestone in the process of a larger European accommodation. It is only in recent years that a genuine and socially far-reaching reconciliation between Poland and Germany — bitter enemies in World War II — took place. And it is only a matter of decades since something similar happened between the Germans and the French. A Europe in which old enmities like that between Russia and Poland have been put aside will in turn make the relationship of the U.S. with Russia easier.

In brief, maybe someday there will be a memorial in Katyn to all its victims: the earlier ones, whose death and suffering in 1940 was ignored for so long and even lied about, and the more recent ones, who perished on a mission of peace in 2010. If so, Katyn will have at last earned a more hopeful place in Europe's collective memory." (What!? Why?!)

You've got to read about the author of this article. A real piece of work. As Amerians are doing it to Americans, so Polish are doing it to Polish.

See the whole write up at http://www.sourcewat...niew_Brzezinski

Zbigniew Brzezinski, born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1928, the son of a diplomat posted to Canada in 1938, serves as Counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and is Professor of American Foreign Policy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. Brzezinski is said to be a protege of both Nelson A. Rockefeller and Paul H. Nitze (see Nitze School), his CSIS profile states. [1]

In the private sector, Brzezinski serves as an "international advisor of several major US/global corporations." He is a "frequent participant in annual business/trade conventions" and is President of Z.B. Inc. "(an advisory firm on international issues to corporations and financial institutions). Also a frequent public speaker and commentator on major domestic and foreign TV programs, and contributor to domestic and foreign newspapers and journals."[2]

Brzezinski's career with the U.S. Government spans several presidents: advisor to John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson; policy advisor to James Earl Carter, Jr.; and George Herbert Walker Bush's co-chair on the National Security Advisory Task Force (1988).[3]

He earned his B.A. (1949) and M.A. (1950) at McGill University and his Ph.D. at Harvard University (1953). He holds honorary degrees from several universities.[4]

Honorary Trustee, Institute of International Education

International Board, U.S./Middle East Project [1]

International Advisory Board, Journal of Democracy [2]

Honorary Member, Academy of Political Science [3]

Former Director (1992), National Endowment for Democracy [4]

Read more: http://www.time.com/...world/article/0,8599,1981930,00.html#ixzz0llhxSrHP

Any thoughts?

Edited April 22, 2010 by Mary Lee Harsha