Early November is a time of great significance in Eastern European history – for those disposed to know about such things, anyway. November 6, 1943, generally marks the liberation of Kiev by the Soviet Red Army, under the leadership of Gen. Nikolai Vatutin – a legendary hero of the Eastern Front. And November 7, 1917, marks the Bolshevik Revolution that overthrew the original, quite liberal and pro-Western, government that had itself overthrown the Tsar earlier that same year.
Now, there are multiple points of view to everything related to Soviet and Russian history, of course. Many Westerners would argue that the Bolshevik Revolution was an utter disaster for Russia. Ardent anti-Communists (like me) would say that Communism is a disease that must be expunged at almost any cost. However, there is simply no getting past the achievements and accomplishments of the Soviets, at a time of colossal geopolitical and economic turmoil in their country. It took the Soviets over 5 years, but eventually, they defeated actual Western invasions of Russia – which at certain points took huge swathes of Russian territory, and threatened to cut the world’s biggest country into three much smaller and weaker pieces.
Eventually, the Bolsheviks managed to establish the world’s second most powerful industrial base. While their economy never was particularly efficient, and never developed a serious consumer sector, it did provide an extremely solid foundation for economic development.
That foundation persists to this day. I have seen firsthand the Chirkey Dam hydroelectric power station in Dagestan, on the Sulak River, that was built during Soviet times, which provides endless cheap power to the whole region. If you spend any serious time gallivanting around the Russian countryside, you will come across plenty of examples of old Soviet factory towns, which are in the midst of a major economic revival, thanks to the boom times in Russia (which have slowed significantly).
Russia’s economic prosperity today, comes from a colossal base of industrial strength, left over as the result of Soviet policies. It is not an exaggeration to say that Russia’s industrial base is possibly larger than that of the FUSA – with less than half the population. It is certainly larger than all of Germany’s, and quite possibly larger than Japan’s. This is not a country that the West can trifle with or afford to ignore – despite the very best attempts of the collective West to destroy Russia, it has always come back stronger, better, and more prosperous.
This is why the West appears to be driven to distraction in its attempts to force a military and economic defeat upon Russia. None of these attempts have worked, at all. Russia today is a strong, free, proud, independent nation, that relies on the West for basically nothing, and which wants nothing to do with Western stupidity and degeneracy.
And, ironically, none of it would have happened, were it not for the godless Communists, who – in the early years of the Soviet Union – tried to push through any and every possible form of degeneracy and liberalism.
You know who put a stop to that shit?
Stalin.
It does without saying that I am NOT a fan of Stalin’s, at all. But I have to give him credit where it is due. It was Stalin who reimposed a sort of secular conservatism – rooted in his own background as a man who once trained for the seminary in an Orthodox Christian nation – that officially ignored and derided God, but unofficially supported and sponsored the Orthodox Church.
Orthodoxy survived Stalin. So too did the Soviet state, in spite of Stalin’s own huge mistakes in culling the Red Army’s top leaders during his notorious purges. The result today is the Russian Army – the world’s most capable and battle-hardened land fighting force – and the Russian Orthodox Church, which remains perhaps the sole bastion of serious traditionalist Christianity in Europe and the West.
This is not a country that the West should be trying to destroy. It is one that the West should try to learn from. Of course, Western arrogance and stupidity will never permit this, which is precisely why the West is now in terminal and catastrophic decline.
Anyway, that is enough geopolitics for one day. Let us get to the fun stuff.
This week’s lovely lady is Anastasiya Konovalova (Анастасия Коновалова), age unknown but probably in her early twenties, probably from St. Petersburg, Mordor.
Happy weekend, all.
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