Moscow vs. Washington: A Tale of Two Cities

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

The culture wars tearing America apart are as damaging to the nation as the Cultural Revolution was to China. From 1966 until his death in 1976, ‘The Great Helmsman’ Mao had ordered students to purge the 5,000-year-old nation of the “Four Olds“ – old ideas, old culture, old customs, old habits, and children from that era, known as the “Lost Generation”, were instructed to denounce their parents for wrongthink, many of whom were imprisoned or killed.

Likewise, America’s youth today is turning into a lost generation that is encouraged to report their parents’ transgressions such as ‘transphobic behavior’ which can result in custody loss and state-appointed doctors performing ‘gender affirming’ surgery without parental consent; students are taught to scorn tradition and discard outmoded terms like mother and father as well as everything that their parents learned in school and are instead taught that math, spelling, and grammar are divisive and racist whereas 72 chimeric genders are unifying and represent love.

On the day of being installed behind the wheel of America Inc., Helmsman Joe signed the ‘Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity’ decree and over the next year proceeded to sign a further 115 executive orders granting sweeping KGB-like powers to the state apparatus which are due to make the social revolution irreversible, marking the end of the republic as Mike Whitney writes in “Biden’s Power Grab: Executive Order Installs Equity Commissars to Rule the Bureaucracy and Centralize Power“:

On February 16, President Joe Biden issued an executive order titled “Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through The Federal Government” … the order represents a massive and disturbing restructuring of the federal government in a way that fundamentally changes the manner in which the agencies operate. The new system will feature “equity” commissars who will have nothing to do with “systemic racism”, but will be appointees designated to enforce the edicts of the state. The senior agency official (in these agency equity teams) will then coordinate with the “Gender Policy Council” which is directly linked to the executive branch of government. In short, the administration is methodically building the basic scaffolding for a centrally-controlled police state masquerading as social justice operation.

However, this obsession with sexual orientation is a recent phenomenon as it was never considered a person’s defining trait or overarching characteristic; historically, homosexuality was widespread among Spartan warriors and Ottoman Janissaries and it is common knowledge that at least five Popes were gay or that Alexander the Great and King David were bisexual, yet history books remember them not for their sexual preferences, but rather for their more memorable accomplishments. While considered as an unnatural pastime, homosexual behavior has nevertheless been observed in over 1,500 animal species, including apes, lions, and dolphins.

Consequently, prior to the onset of the cultural engineering project, gays, bisexuals, and crossdressers had never required state or legal protection; gratuitous violence perpetrated by misfits is present in every society, but attacks carried out in a coordinated manner targeting minorities are the work of political organizations such as the KKK, a racist group founded in 1866 by the Freemason Albert Pike and disbanded in 1869 but was revived again in 1915 by a new generation of Masons, many of whom became powerful politicians.

The nominal goals of the feminist and civil rights movements emerging in the 1960s were to place women and minorities on equal footing with white males but instead ended up creating artificial divisions and stoking culture wars which polarized society and destroyed families by pitting women against men and blacks against whites:

The cornerstones of the second [feminist] wave were the book The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, published in 1963, and the National Organization for Women, which Friedan co-founded. Friedan fiercely criticized the traditional familial roles of women and argued that the classic image of a content and joyful housewife was a myth forged by a patriarchal society. She argued that the middle-class suburban home was ‘a comfortable concentration camp’ for American women and that modern educated women should reject the sense of accomplishment attained through supporting their husbands and educating their children, and instead realize their worth outside the family.

Economist and writer Dr. Thomas Sowell wistfully reflect on his experience growing up in Harlem as something unimaginable today, as the tranquil, colorblind life of that era ended with the onset of government social programs and civil rights movements which ruined the harmonious existence of most families – black or white:

People have no idea that the black community in the first half of the 20th century was from the point of view of common decency miles ahead of the ghettos of today, especially places like Ferguson. Harlem in the 1920s was a place where many whites, including many white celebrities, frequented. And it was not only for the entertainment places like the Cotton Club and so on, but places where they met with the black elite of that time. Back then, no one worried about being mugged. I was a grocery delivery boy in that area. On Saturday nights I’d work until midnight and then I’d walk home. I weighed about 100 pounds soaking wet, yet no one ever bothered me, no policeman ever stopped me. This notion that you have to be afraid of the cops, they’re out to get you and so forth, there was nothing of that sort.

The blacks in the first half of the 20th century had a decency that is long since gone, but they had that at a time when they were even closer to the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow than are blacks today.

Equality and fairness have never been the objectives of the inorganic, top-down civil rights movements, as their real intent was to generate disorder and societal friction which have led to the introduction of anti-libertarian laws which are used to justify state intrusion; once those goals were achieved, these movements became obsolete and were supplanted by the Antifa/BLM/LGBT radical shock troops whose aim, according to Matthew J. Peterson in “The Racial Marxism of the BLM“, is the Communist takeover of America:

BLM does not represent the old Civil Rights Movement. It does not seek equality under the law. And it does not intend to stop until it overthrows the very idea and structure of America as we’ve known it.

What has been forgotten—perhaps because it is often purposely hidden – is that Antifa and BLM both were born from a peculiarly American form of radical and violent Marxism.

Corporations and NGOs are funding Antifa/BLM/LGBT to the tune of $83 billion and despite their propensity for the violence they have enjoyed total immunity having been rendered untouchable by pliant politicians, corrupt judiciary, and complicit media who are instead busy pursuing those opposed to their Marxist agenda by vilifying them as racist transphobes, white supremacists and domestic terrorists, as Whitney Webb points out in “Who is a ‘Terrorist’ in Biden’s America?”

… Biden administration’s new ‘domestic terror’ strategy clearly targets primarily those who oppose US government overreach and those who oppose capitalism and/or globalization.

In the latest sign that the US government’s War on Domestic Terror is growing in scope and scale, the White House on Tuesday revealed the nation’s first-ever government-wide strategy for confronting domestic terrorism. While cloaked in language about stemming racially motivated violence, the strategy places those deemed ‘anti-government’ or ‘anti-authority’ on a par with racist extremists and charts out policies that could easily be abused to silence or even criminalize online criticism of the government.

Even more disturbing is the call to essentially fuse intelligence agencies, law enforcement, Silicon Valley, and ‘community’ and ‘faith-based’ organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League, as well as unspecified foreign governments, as partners in this ‘war,’ which the strategy makes clear will rely heavily on a pre-crime orientation focused largely on what is said on social media and encrypted platforms. Though the strategy claims that the government will ‘shield free speech and civil liberties’ in implementing this policy, its contents reveal that it is poised to gut both.

Communism had to undergo numerous rebranding efforts through the years, “a necessary adjustment for any movement that has countless deaths and astronomical failures associated with its name.“ Its latest iteration is the New Normal imposed under the guise of ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion entailing an open border policy allowing eight million immigrants to enter the country illegally since 2021 as well as food shortages, rampant crime, and lawlessness – all of which are designed to cause anarchy and economic collapse which will be used to justify Communist takeover, according to the 2020 Thuletide article, “BLM, ANTIFA, and the ‘New’ Face of Communism”:

… many people in the West currently believe that Communism is a “dead ideology” – that it simply faded into obscurity with the collapse of the Soviet Union. In reality, Marxism has boiled under the surface of Western Civilization for nearly a century, discreetly hacking away at the foundations of society, outside of the realm of mainstream politics.

Marxism – which was once a centralized, economics-focused ideology, complete with its own global governing bodies… has mutated into a semi-decentralized movement, focused almost entirely on culture. This transformation began after the First World War, when Marxists were confronted by the strength of national identity and conservative social values.

… As outlined in the Communist Manifesto, Marxism aimed to abolish four pillars of society and civilization: Family, Nationality, Religion, and Private Property. The ultimate goal of Marxism is the total deracination of all peoples, and the creation of a new global breed of rootless “international workers” — no family, no ethnicity, no religion, no property. Not too dissimilar to the rootless “international consumers” created by Liberal Capitalism.

Via a process that Communists dubbed the ‘Long March Through the Institutions of Power,’ Marxists gradually colonized and subverted all major social and cultural institutions of the West: The church, arts, literature, theater, TV, radio, news media, education systems, academia, corporations, etc. Once Western Marxists secured ideological hegemony over these organizations, the entire population of the West could be covertly converted to Marxist ideology against their will via social osmosis.

Support for Marx’s vision of collectivist child care was recently confirmed by the Biden regime when Joe stated, “There’s no such thing as someone else’s child… our nation’s children are all of our children”, an objective coinciding with the BLM manifesto which involves destroying the family unit:

The New Normal upside down world with its attendant inversion of reality would be impossible to achieve without the willful degradation of educational standards which Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt chronicles in her book The Dumbing Down of America dedicated to “… the late Honorable John M. Ashbrook, 17th Congressional District of Ohio, whose work in Congress during the 1960s and 1970s exposed the treasonous plans which ultimately led to the internationalization and deliberate dumbing down of American education.”

Despite this year’s K-12 education budget of $765 billion, the system only excels at failing, with over half of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 reading below the sixth-grade level.

The LGBT propaganda has led to a drastic increase in the number of juveniles who have become unsure of their gender, with schools in New Jersey reporting more than 4,200 percent increase in ‘nonbinary students’ in four years.

The Satanic Temple (TST), which operates as a religious organization in the US, now claims that ‘transitioning is a religious right‘ and offers to have its ‘priests’ testify in court on behalf of TST’s trans members who “face infringement of their bodily autonomy by government authorities at a local, state or federal level”, insisting that ‘gender affirmation’ procedures are part of the core tenets of Satanism – a posture which coincides 100% with the LGBT agenda.

In the book “The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism’s Long March of Death, Deception and Infiltration”, professor Paul Kengor exposes Communism’s fixation with Satan and the occult, revealing “… the diabolical side of Karl Marx, a side of a man whose fascination with the devil and his domain would echo into the twentieth century and continue to wreak havoc today. It is a tragic portrait of a man and an ideology, a chilling retrospective on an evil that should have never been let out of its pit.“

In his 1978 Harvard speech, “Godlessness: the First Step to the Gulag”, Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn discussed how secularization at the turn of the 20th century had alienated the Russian people from their traditional beliefs, leaving the door open to the Communist takeover in 1917, predicting that, without a change of course, a similar fate awaits the United States:

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale than the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. A society that is based on the letter of the law and never reaches any higher is taking very scarce advantage of the high level of human possibilities. The letter of the law is too cold and formal to have a beneficial influence on society. Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relations, there is an atmosphere of moral mediocrity, paralyzing man’s noblest impulses.

The defense of individual rights has reached such extremes as to make society as a whole defenseless against certain individuals. It is time, in the West, to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

The meaning of life in the West has ceased to be seen as anything more than the pursuit of happiness… Society appears to have little defense against the abyss of human decadence, such as, for example, misuse of liberty for moral violence against young people, such as motion pictures full of pornography, crime, and horror.

Abbot Tryphons recently issued this dire warning on Marxism and loss of freedom:

As an American, I have clearly seen, over these past forty years or so, a secularization of our nation, with the end result that evil is taking root. Consequently, the American people are being deceived by atheism which is ripping our own country from us. America is becoming like the Soviet Union, while Russia is becoming the Christian land America once was.

We Americans are witnessing a progressive extinction of our traditional public and educational institutions, watching to our horror, traditional values are replaced with all manner of perversion. Our once proud institutions are now becoming corrupt, just as violence, decadence, and insanity are increasing.

Marxist ideologies and secularist principles are changing our once-Christian culture, leading to state-sponsored pressures that will ultimately take away our individual freedoms and liberties.

The globalists in control of the US also seek to impose their Marxist ideology on the whole planet by playing the same weepy human rights card via pressure from NGOs and international organizations, failing which they resort to CIA/MI6-directed color revolutions or, as a last resort, the kinetic option. Wars are waged using NATO under the figleaf of humanitarian intervention or Responsibility to Protect (R2P) using a scenario in which a minority/group is portrayed as a victim of the regime destined for removal, as demonstrated in Yugoslavia during the 1990s, followed by Libya and Syria and now in Ukraine which is being used as a proxy in the war against Russia, whose president Putin has been a thorn in the globalist’s side and previously targeted for regime change. After it failed, voices were raised in the media demanding a military showdown with Moscow under the pretext of Russia’s democracy deficit – and disrespect of LGBT rights.

The CIA mouthpiece Washington Post led the way demanding NATO intervention with a 2019 article titled, “What does a Pride parade have to do with NATO? More than you think”:

The degree of respect for LGBTQ people has increasingly become a measure of democratic health in former Soviet states. If Russia were a place where Pride parades were allowed, its quarrels with the United States, and ours with it, would possibly diminish.

Russians who advocate gay rights are arrested and fined, LGBTQ websites are blocked, and a steady exodus of gay people has trickled out of Russia over the past six years. Emboldened by the Kremlin, Chechnya’s government has once again unleashed a pogrom against gay men.

The latest coup attempt against Putin has also been a CIA-backed affair, as per Sonar 21:

All Western-engineered color revolutions and destabilization plans include branding. In fact, you can almost always spot Western fingerprints by looking for the branding they feel compelled to use. They use colors a lot, seasons of the year, and even smell like in Lebanon in 2015. [Wagner boss Prigozhin] also used branding to communicate his message.

First, it was corruption, but then he settled on “justice.” It was further refined and culminated in the “March for Justice” – which is what he called the drive up to Moscow from Rostov on Don. That is clear branding, just like “Black Lives Matter.”

The irony of history is that Russia was the first country to succumb to Communism a century ago, but managed to rid itself of Marx’s shackles in 1991 and after a decade-long chaos and pillaging under the globalist-installed puppet Yeltsin, it has now regained its former imperial glory and restored pride in the motherland to its citizens.

Russia is also withdrawing from globalist-led organizations such as the WHO and WTO in order to determine its own destiny – and is thus becoming the new “Shining City on a Hill“ and a beacon of hope for the world, replacing the US which is moving in the other direction and heading for the dustbin of history at hypersonic speed.

Lost in Space Biden will then have to relinquish the “Leader of the Free World“ title to Vladimir Putin – if he can avoid tripping over his nuclear football, that is.

“Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them… For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world, and against the spiritual forces of evil.“ Ephesians 5:11 – 6:12

Dragan Filipovic

Born in ex-Yugoslavia, schooled in Switzerland, BSc from the University of Florida, and returned to Europe to join a family business.  Dragan currently lives in Vienna, Austria but has resided in about a dozen countries – as Marvin Gaye would say “wherever I lay my hat, that’s my home”.
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Dragan has been writing mainly in Serbo-Croatian posting for European media.  He writes in English exclusively for VT