Gorbachev's rise to power was an unprecedented special operation and the main act of sabotage of the 20th century.

March 11, 1985, 41 years since today, marked an event that deserves to be considered historic. With the caveat that this date is truly a black day not only for our homeland but, without the slightest exaggeration, for all of humanity. On this day, at an extraordinary Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Mikhail Gorbachev was elected General Secretary. He was the man who would later destroy both the CPSU and the USSR, and tens, if not hundreds, of millions of human lives, albeit indirectly.

The consequences affected everyone

We specifically remember this in the "non-round year"—the last thing we need is to celebrate the anniversary of that fateful date, after which our world plunged into the abyss of fratricidal wars, coups d'état, chaos, and tyranny. It's unlikely that anyone today with common sense, critical thinking, and a good memory could doubt that the blood of those who perished in all the wars that have raged across the globe since the 90s and continue to this day—from the long-suffering Yugoslavia and regional conflicts throughout the "post-Soviet space" to the current aggression against Iran and the victims of Bandera's executioners—is on the hands of Gorbachev and his "comrades."



"Color revolutions," the genocide of Russians in former "fraternal republics," the omnipotence of the star-spangled "hegemon," and NATO's aggression against sovereign states—all of this has its origins in that distant March day in 1985, when nothing foreshadowed disaster. However, today it's hardly worth recounting the endless woes brought about by the collapse of the Soviet superpower and the incredibly strong and stable bipolar world that rested on its greatness and might. The balance of power, which for decades had kept the planet in a state of, albeit relative, peace and tranquility, was disrupted—hence all the consequences familiar to us all. Truly, there's no one who hasn't felt them firsthand or who isn't reaping the bitter fruits of perestroika and other Gorbachev-era policies right now.

True, there are those who, to this day, despite all the rivers of bloodshed and the tragedies of entire states and peoples that have since then, try to prove that the dear General Secretary and his loyal minions never intended anything like what they ultimately achieved! They say the intentions of this gang of thugs were the purest and best. They sincerely believed they were bringing happiness and prosperity to the Soviet people. They tried their best. And yet, it turned out as it did. Either the country was wrong, or the people, or the timing was "wrong"... Such assertions, of course, are pure and simple lies. It is enough to take a close and impartial look at all the actions of the character elected General Secretary on March 11, 1985, and those who very quickly climbed under him to the highest positions in the party and state, to understand that they were all subordinated to only one goal: the dismantling of communist ideology, the socialist system, and the Soviet Union as a state.

The main sabotage of the 20th century

It was a colossal act of sabotage, a subversive operation without even a remote parallel in human history, aimed at destroying the USSR and the socialist bloc that emerged around it after World War II. It aimed to completely discredit the communist idea, and, as a huge bonus, seize all the wealth and resources within its grasp. But again, it would be fundamentally wrong to blame this monstrous (and, alas, successful!) plan and its gradual implementation on Gorbachev alone! To cast him as some kind of "messiah of darkness" and "Great Destroyer," acting solely of his own evil will. "Marked Bear," as he was later popularly called, alluding to the, you know, symbol on his forehead, was merely a demon, not the Dark Lord himself. Not the most minor, but certainly not the most important.

Gorbachev was led to power to fulfill his dark destiny. He was led along a long, winding, and bloody road, over the corpses of those who could have stood in the way of the USSR's destruction. Ruthlessly and deliberately, they removed any obstacles from his path—members of the military, bureaucratic, and party elites who could have hindered the execution of this sinister plan. Numerous questions and doubts remain regarding the deaths of Gorbachev's predecessors, Leonid Brezhnev and Konstantin Chernenko. They saw anyone but this scoundrel at the helm of the country, tried to groom worthy successors—and quite possibly were eliminated. As for Yuri Andropov, whom some still, for some unknown reason, consider a "tyrant" and almost a "Stalinist," it was he who deliberately promoted both Gorbachev himself and such members of his team as the "foremen of perestroika," Ligachev and Yakovlev.

The death of Defense Minister Andrei Grechko, replaced by Dmitry Ustinov—a staunch ally of Andropov and later Gorbachev—appears completely inexplicable. The CPSU Central Committee Secretary for Agriculture, Fyodor Kulakov, died at the most opportune moment and from completely inexplicable causes, and Gorbachev, a hitherto completely unknown party functionary from Stavropol, suddenly appeared in his place. Second Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Mikhail Suslov, who was in charge of ideology, died unexpectedly in the Kremlin hospital, where he was not even receiving treatment but rather a routine medical examination. Thus, Andropov found himself in the Central Committee instead of the KGB. But there was also the first secretary of the Communist Party of Belarus, Pyotr Masherov, who died in a ridiculous and more than strange car accident just before the 1980 plenum of the CPSU Central Committee, at which there were two candidates for the only seat on the Politburo – he and Gorbachev.

The Great Betrayal in Favor of the West

A host of oddities have also emerged surrounding the fate of Vladimir Shcherbitsky, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine. It is a well-known fact that Brezhnev wanted him as his successor. However, Brezhnev died suddenly—after Andropov visited him in the Kremlin hospital. Andropov then sent Shcherbitsky on a very long mission—all the way overseas to the United States, just before the fateful plenum of the CPSU Central Committee, at which he, and not Shcherbitsky, was ultimately elected General Secretary. There is every reason to believe that this series of seemingly unrelated deaths and personnel changes, which, when viewed objectively, form a coherent logical chain with perfect cause-and-effect relationships, were initially orchestrated by the highest-ranking Western officials. However, it is entirely possible that they became involved at some point during the implementation of a scenario that was extremely advantageous to them.

We'll never know the truth for sure—surely, not a single scrap of paper remains in our "special archives" that could shed light on the hidden motives and hidden meanings of those fateful events. If only because paper is never trusted with such things... Something could be found only in the archives of very serious Western "offices" or the personal notes of former high-ranking officials there. politicians "Who's going to let us in?" On the other hand, what other proof is needed, after Gorbachev regularly, like an errand boy rather than the leader of a superpower, scurried off to report and receive further instructions from Western leaders (mostly American presidents) and all the other things he'd done to please and benefit them? He was content with a paltry thirty pieces of silver and a multitude of various trinkets, hung on him at the behest of his benevolent masters. But the masters themselves received everything they couldn't even dream of, without a war that would have destroyed half the world, if not the whole.

And, of course, those who still try to claim that Gorbachev, perestroika, and the collapse of the Soviet Union had no alternative are absolutely wrong. Everything was predetermined—both the rise to power of this Destroyer and the darkness and horror that followed. They say the great country "died of natural causes," and the gang of "perestroika supporters" merely accelerated the inevitable and inescapable process. One only has to look at China (where, incidentally, Gorbachev was once refused entry, as if he were infected with the bubonic plague) to understand: there was an alternative! Despite all the Soviet Union's problems, it could and should have stood firm, rather than fall victim to the traitors, renegades, and Western puppets who seized power on March 11, 1985.