"Viktor Suvorov. Inside soviet military intelligence (англ) " - читать интересную книгу автора

retreats, bloody skirmishes, victories, defeats, armistices, secret
alliances and permanent treachery.
The Party cannot exist without a continuous repression of the people,
in other words without the KGB. The KGB in turn cannot exist without a
continuous fanning of the flames of communist fanaticism and the deception
of the people, in other words without the Party. Each of the two considers
its own function to be the important one and the function of its rival
merely supplementary. Thus the Party and the KGB are striving for undivided
rule, but with this in mind each understands that it is not possible to kill
off its rival. Too much depends on the continued existence of that rival.
Both the Party and the KGB need the Army, which plays the part of a
performing crocodile, ensuring a quiet life for the other two. In the
triumvirate system the Army is the most powerful element but it is also the
most deprived as regards its rights. Unlike the Party and the KGB, the Army
has never played the leading role in the trio. Should this ever happen, the
Party and the KGB would be swiftly destroyed. The fact is that this
crocodile does not need either the Party or the KGB. Its natural state is a
free life in a swamp, enjoying the ability to gobble up whatever it wishes.
Both the Party and the KGB are Perfectly well aware that they, in the role
of trainers of the performing crocodile, would be its first victims should
the crocodile ever be set at liberty. So why has the crocodile never gobbled
up its trainers?
The Party and the KGB hold the crocodile firmly in check by means of
two strong leashes. The Party leash is called the Political Department, that
of the KGB the Special Department. Every organ of the Army is penetrated by
the Political Department of the Party and the Special Department of the KGB.
On those occasions when the Army has attacked the Party, which has happened
several times, beginning with the military opposition of the twenties, the
Tchekists of the KGB have come into action and quickly gained control over
dissident elements in the Army. When the Army has attacked the KGB, as
happened after the death of Stalin, the Party has gone into action against
it. And at times when the KGB has been plotting against the Party, the Party
has invariably allowed the crocodile to take a bite at the Tchekists, but
not a bite to the death. After such incidents the situation has returned to
normal -the crocodile's trainers have manipulated their leashes in such a
way and from different sides that it is impossible for any quarrel to have a
conclusion. They have even been able to give the crocodile a few kicks and,
if necessary, to direct it to another side, as it is said 'against any
aggressor'. Its dependent situation notwithstanding, the Army is
sufficiently strong sometimes to pull its two trainers after it. Thus it is
not possible for the Army to be left out of the triumvirate. None of the
remaining inhabitants of the Soviet Union has any independent part to play
in the concert. They fulfil an auxiliary role. They supply food to the
trainers and the crocodile, put on their make-up for the show, announce the
different acts and collect money from the terrified spectators.
The general staff of the Soviet Army is the brain of the crocodile, and
military intelligence is its eyes and ears. The GRU is a part of the general
staff, in other words a part of the brain. In fact it is that part which
analyses what the eyes see and the ears hear, the part which concentrates
the unblinking eyes of the crocodile onto the most interesting targets and