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General Staff.
This book was written in order to confirm this simple fact.
At first it was conceived as an instructional manual for a narrow
circle of specialists. Subsequently it was revised by the author for a wider
public. The revision was confined mainly to the excision of certain
definitions and technical details which would be of little interest. Even
after this, there remained in the book many details of a technical nature,
which may sometimes make for difficult reading. But though I may apologise,
there is nothing to be done. In order to understand a disease (and the
desire to understand a disease implies a desire to fight against it), one
must know its pathology as well as its symptoms.
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For one of their very first chosen myths, the communists decided to
record that the organs of enforcement of the new State were not created
until the nineteenth of December 1917. This falsehood was circulated in
order to prove that Soviet power, in the first forty-one days of its
existence, could dispense with the mass executions so familiar to other
revolutions. The falsehood is easily exposed. It is sufficient to look at
the editions of the Bolshevist papers for those days which shook the world.
The Organs and subsequent mass executions existed from the first hour, the
first minute, the first infantile wail of this Soviet power. That first
night, having announced to the world the birth of the most bloodthirsty
dictatorship in its history, Lenin appointed its leaders. Among them was
comrade A. I. Rikov, the head of the People's Commissariat for Internal
Affairs which sounds less innocuous in its abbreviation, NKVD. Comrade Rikov
was later shot, but not before he had managed to write into the history of
the Organs certain bloody pages which the Soviet leadership would prefer to
forget about. Fifteen men have been appointed to the post of Head of the
Organs, of which three were hounded out of the Soviet government with
ignominy. One died at his post. One was secretly destroyed by members of the
Soviet government (as was later publicly admitted). Seven comrades were shot
or hanged, and tortured with great refinement before their official
punishment. We are not going to guess about the futures of three still
living who have occupied the post. The fate of the deputy heads has been
equally violent, even after the death of comrade Stalin.
The paradox of this endless bloody orgy would seem to be this. Why does
the most powerful criminal organisation in the world so easily and freely
give up its leaders to be torn to pieces? How is the Politburo able to deal
with them so unceremoniously, clearly not experiencing the slightest fear
before these seemingly all-powerful personalities and the organisations
headed by them? How is it that the Politburo has practically no difficulties
in displacing not only individual heads of State Security but in destroying
whole flocks of the most influential State Security officers? Where lies the
secret of this limitless power of the Politburo?
The answer is very simple. The method is an old one and has been used
successfully for thousands of years. It boils down to the principle: 'divide
and rule'. In the beginning, in order to rule, Lenin divided everything in
Russia that was capable of being divided, and ever since the communists have
continued faithfully to carry out the instructions of the great founder of
the first proletarian state.