"....because my own country was going down the drain and its lifeblood was slipping away,its youth,its future,and the Russians don't give a f... about our country and its future and I'm going to reciprocate the favour"..
....and, secondly,as a Reform Communist,I saw that glasnost was having absolutely no discernible impact. I perceived that,unless there were Two Steps Backwards,One Step Forward Russian living standards would continue to decline. Likewise,"the coast was clear" because the war veterans could not affect the outcome of what I had in mind,namely "an end to the post-war settlement" and meaningful international conciliation.
How have things panned out?
Russia is a prosperous,modern country.
Proof of that is the fact that the youth are pampered and not prepared to fight in the war against Ukraine. This war is a largely unprovoked but unavoidable confrontation. Russia has followed Europe's path into decadence and moral decay.It will one day revert to the same stagnation and atrophy as was evident before Michael Mc Manus commissioned my slogans in exchange for Libyan weapons and high explosives.
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Why could the Second World War veterans not alter my plans for a Russian revival in 1988?
In 1988,they collected their old age pensions and were no longer, in my thinking back then, anything other than 'bit-players'....
I challenged 'O Riordain' in my monologue of July-August 1988, to "head the ponies off at the pass".
That was something he tried to do by open collaboration with Mike Mc Gwire of the CIA between 24 July and 22 December 1991. In association with the Dublin Gardai and Army Rangers Wing they organised a campaign of attrition, poisoning and sleep deprivation.
In February 1989,he had found out my gameplan. He failed in his childish narratives (The Judgement,23 December 1991) to alter outcomes.
Eventually,styling himself a Marxist in his pink and grey attire ("Colours mean things,Joe",Albert Mc Cready,ATGWU, November 1990),be delivered his answer-song,his pronunciamento, on 23 December 1991 ("Cam is Casta","The Judgement")
....he claimed-the colours of his poor attire being grey and pink, those of the 3-volume selected volumes of Marx-the cover-piece of Lenin's 3-volume Selected Works being mine,
"His colours were grey and blue."
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A postscript?
Live and dangerous,all Communists,so only pillory them honestly or with some mileage on the clock since they despise spoofers.
He had an ace up his sleeve, however.
Both Gogol and Tolstoy mention the colours,blue and grey,in their Short Stories, (Folio Society, London,2006ff.). The colours those Russian writers associate with psychiatric confinements in their respective stories (see their Diary of A Madman). On 25 April 1992 I was taken into hospital custody suffering with the effects of poisoning.
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The Judgement (23 December 1991)
His bent and twisted views were a mixture of Irish Military Intelligence (G2) pathology, the coarse"You're mad!",the common refrain of the corner-boy,and the catcall of the feminine hoodwink, "'Nough, Duff!" (Massey-O Brien,355 St Teresa's Gardens).
His aim?
It was the offending hand he desired to conceal,that of the Communists and CIA and more so,keeping on the right side of his paymaster and principal,the British Foreign Secretary's representative Leonard Doyle. It was MI 6 who he and the Communists had worked for since 1948.
During my exile in Dublin,I met O Riordain rarely but I am convinced that he was a tramp and a guttersnipe like the people he attracted,Dublin cutthroats and whores.
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A saving grace?
In his empty but long-prefigured philosophising of December 1991,there was a giveaway but inconsistent truth,"If you live amongst criminals, you become like a criminal."
Better read as,"If you live amongst Germans or English or Irish layabouts,you become like them."
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7.8.2023
The theme running through glasnost and the 'drama' of July-August 1988 was the loss of moral authority of socialism in its pursuit of A Brave New World.
I saw the need to pull the rug from under Gorbachev before it was too late to chart a course for change. Repression was an unalterable constant in Soviet Russia.
I had already heard that the "Pandora's Box" which I was opening (by more rounded scholars trained in the arts,Brian Mc Cartney being one,in 1985) would lead to the end of of detente in the Soviet Union. I took the 'detonator man' approach and endured the consequences of stepping out of my socialist skin.
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I was poisoned with Chlenbuterol in 1991 and on admission to a psychiatric hospital was put on tranquillisers which made life bearable. That is the real outworking of the gangsterism fostered by psychopaths in the CIA and Gardai, people who take their own lives.
Poisoning activities are the raisin d'etre of these organisations. Both KGB and CIA are protected by law and whistleblowers brutally punished and hunted down.
We say of those who lionise Communism and the gangsters in its shadows such as the MI 6 outfit that they ignore the business of crime and murder. They prevail for many years but the regimes which they protect and kill for come unstuck in the end as Western imperialism is now coming unstuck and heading for profound and far-reaching change.
It is time for the US and Europe to change and stop the haemorrhage of men and money into faraway wars.
Trump was the first to plot a course for Pax Americana but events have been unkind to the peace drive.
Let Russia cease and desist from aggression and the West accept that a new status quo has been established in Ukraine.
Ethnocentrism has won out over demands to restore socialism in the East. I have no more readymade slogans but say that neither side in the Russo-Ukraine conflict is blameless.
Let us have peace,AN ENDURING PEACE,not the heady elixir of War or Freedom or intrigue.
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