The End of History

The collapse of Russia and its subsequent transformation into the Soviet Union was quite possibly one of the most tragic events in the modern era. However, at the time, the globalist enlightened class revelled in its collapse as the beginning of a new era, and the end of history for old Russia.

What was the success behind the Bolshevik Revolution? It was the first time that the woke mind-virus not only toppled a government, but also managed to install the socialist utopia that Karl Marx had envisaged back in 1848. It took over 70 years for the Soviet Union to fail, which remains the longest running communist dictatorship in history.

(Note: Some may argue that the CCP has outlasted the Soviet Union. In our opinion, this is false because the CCP was a failed state by the mid 1960s, and if it were not for the universal assistance of Henry Kissinger and the Nixon administration, the CCP would be long gone.)

No one should mistake the 70 year reign of the USSR as anything spectacular. Communism is an unproductive and demoralizing system. It eliminates an individual’s internal spirit to create and achieve by replacing incentive with coercion. When the Bolsheviks conquered Russia, the international socialist George Bernard Shaw summed it up perfectly:

In other words, the only reason the Soviet Union came into being was by seizing the existing capital structure formed from nearly 800 years of Russian history. The millennia of battles fought, the agricultural development and the industrial achievements of the Russian people and culture was stolen and rebranded by Marxist revolutionaries.

George Bernard Shaw did not want to go to Russia while the Bolsheviks ended Russian history. He knew all too well the horrors that would be revealed to him. He wanted to wait until the brutality of the revolution was over and see the beautiful finished product of a sparkling new Soviet Union.

1917 was truly ‘Year Zero’ for Russia. With over 13 million deaths and far more gulag imprisonments, Russia had become unburdened by what had been, and could start a fresh.

In this article, we will outline the events that led to the Bolshevik Revolution, and highlight a pattern very similar to the French Revolution. We shall start to see a playbook that is hidden in plain sight, and come to find the same characters trying to implement the same playbook today throughout Western civilization.

The Great Prussian Sandwich

In this series we have outlined the permanent geopolitical sandwich Prussia found itself in. As soon as Frederick the Great became king, he immediately brought the Austrians into line, but this did not eliminate all his threats. To the west was the mighty French empire with its colonies, global trade routes and an extremely robust domestic economy. To the east was Russia, a land mass with near infinite resources and people.

As we outlined in our Evolution of Slavery and An Ode to the Prussian Pickle series, 18th century Britain became a vassal state to Prussian interests. The British Royal family were German, the predominant banks in the City of London were of German origin or ex-Hanseatic merchants. The Dutch royal family were from Frederick’s House of Orange. The Poles, Danes, Swedes, Spaniards, Portuguese and other regions were now minor players. In Frederick’s mind, the French and the Russians presented the only real continental threat to Prussia.

Frederick was not afraid of war, and he gave the French and Russian forces a solid hiding during the Seven Years War. But, as Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz once mused, “War is politics by other means”. While a win on the battlefield reduces your enemy’s power, it is rarely a final solution. For Prussia to break free from their geopolitical sandwich, France and Russia needed to be wholeheartedly crushed into oblivion.

During Frederick’s reign, he addressed the Russian issue brilliantly. The heir to the Russian throne, Charles Peter Ulrich, idolized Frederick. Frederick decided to use this to his advantage, and called on an old Prussian General to supply him with his wife and daughter:

Sophia was eventually crowned Catherine, empress consort to her husband Emperor Peter III of Russia. Catherine was a devout student of the Enlightenment, and grew to hate everything about her new husband. Within no time, Catherine built a movement to overthrow him. He was arrested, forced to abdicate, and was later assassinated. Soon thereafter, the Prussian princess Catherine the Great took the throne and cast her Enlightened despotism over Russia.⁵

Incidentally, Catherine and Frederick signed a pact that allowed for German farmers to migrate into the Russian empire and farm some of the Western Russian land. The Germans refused to integrate, and became colloquially known as the “Russian Germans”. The land later became known as the Ukraine, and in WWII Hitler offered German passports to anyone within the land of Ukraine who wished to join the Nazi party. However, we shall save that story for the “Oranges of Ukraine”.

Regardless, Frederick effectively neutralized the Russian side of the sandwich. In Part 2 of this series, we showed the incredible coincidences between Frederick, freemasonry and the French Revolution. During Frederick’s reign, France and Russia were gradually destroyed from within. He did not live to see the end of the French monarch, but he did not need to because the rot had already set in.

This is how Frederick destroyed the Great Prussian Sandwich of the 18th century.

However, the 19th Century was a very different story.

Motive

In Part III, we showed how Prussia was infatuated with the mass-psychology of the French Revolution. At the University of Jena, Fichte, Hegel and Marx all submitted various works analyzing the driving force behind the mechanics of revolution. The infatuation was not meaningless. The purpose was to break down the French Revolution into its constituent parts. The method was about trying to link the constituents with philosophical explanations about the human condition. The end-state was to build a psychological weapon that, when deployed, would destroy the target nation from within. Prussia was always about war, and the art of revolution would become an unstoppable, invisible weapon.

We have already covered France ad-nauseum. France’s decline started with having their ass kicked in the Seven Years War, eventually collapsing with the French Revolution. They collapsed again to communist revolution in 1848. They had their asses handed to them again by Bismarck in 1871. As far as the 19th century goes, the Great Prussian Sandwich was free from the Franco-threat.

But Russia was not France, and the empire was on the brink of a magical transformation.

Firstly, it was Russia, not Prussia, which put an end to Napoleon’s march East in 1812. This was a catastrophic defeat for the French tyrant. Secondly, in the communist revolutions of 1848, Russia stood proudly above Europe, ready to help any nation from the scourge of the woke mind-virus. Russia had become a clear superpower.

This was an utterly unacceptable situation for Prussia. A century earlier, Frederick the Great and Catherine the Great shared an Enlightened passion for their respective empires. By 1848, Russia was viewing itself as the saviour of Europe. To make matters worse, Russia was contemplating reforms that would align its political ideology with America.

In 1854, Russia suffered terrible casualties in the Crimean War. Czar Alexander II realized his empire was backward compared to Western Europe. Swift, sweeping reforms were required.

Czar Alexander II and Abraham Lincoln exchanged communications on many occasions. During the Civil War, Russia openly supported Lincoln.

In our 1871 series, we showed how the British covertly supported the South during the Civil War while openly declaring themselves neutral. British propaganda machines kicked into gear, busily demonizing the Lincoln-Russia alliance:

We also showed in 1871, that the Jewish German banker and confidant to Otto von Bismarck, Gerson von Bleichroder, was busy brokering the purchase of US Treasuries while they were in freefall during the Civil War. By doing so, Prussian aristocracy were buying Lincoln’s civil war debt at bargain prices in the hope of a huge windfall at the expense of the fledgling American nation.

(Note: The legacy firm of Bleichroder employed George Soros in his first banking job. Today, Soros activities are renowned, but “Bleichroder” sounds eerily familiar to “BlackRock”, who appear to engage in the modern-day version of Bleichroder’s 19th century transactions.)

Regardless, the scale of what was transpiring during this period comes into full view. Russia was reforming, aligning itself militarily and embracing a similar political ideology to America. Britain and Prussia were on the other side of the coin. If Russia and America successfully formed a capitalist partnership, the economic alliance would have been unparalleled for centuries to come. At the same time, Prussia and British mercantilism would be relegated to the dustbin of history.

If Hegel were alive, he would have immediately identified the difference between Russia and Prussia as a “dialectical ideal”. War would be the only means of progress. As Napoleon discovered in 1812, to openly declare war with Russia was suicide.

Instead, Karl Marx “fled” in poverty to London, and imparted his “dialectical materialism” on some of the most influential men in the British Empire; a truly remarkable coincidence.

Marxian Mechanics

Without question, Prussia needed to confront and depose Czar Alexander’s II ambitions to reform and become a second American experiment. Not in open battle, but by chipping away at Russia and destroying the empire from within, by revolution. In this way, Prussia could always maintain plausible deniability.

We return to Prussia’s top spy during that period; Wilhelm Stieber. Stieber was accumulating intelligence from all over Europe for his boss, Chancellor Bismarck. This was during the peak of Prussia’s wars with Austria, Denmark and France which led to the unification of Germany known as the Second Reich.

How, exactly, was Prussia going to address the reform and rise of Russia under Alexander II?

Assassination Attempt #1

The relationship between Alexander II and Lincoln came to an abrupt halt when Lincoln was assassinated. While this did not sever ties between the two nations, it marked the beginning of the end of Russian reform. Stieber and Bismarck were all over it, and worked feverishly to undermine Russia:

Put simply, the head of Prussia’s 19th century CIA not only knew about a pending assassination attempt on the Russian Czar, but was instructed by his Chancellor to allow the act to happen, for “political reasons”.

Sound familiar?

The failed assassination attempt put a wedge between France and Russia, and Russian security was beefed up to protect the man who pledged to make Russia great!

Meanwhile, Back in Britain

Apart from the odd assassination attempt, Stieber kept a close eye on the slovenly, fat Prussian living in the squalor of London. For some reason, Karl Marx, the first man to be infected with his own Epicurean woke mind-virus, was a person of interest to Stieber.

Stieber did not appreciate the state of Marx’s home, his body odor, or the open sores that prevented Marx from sitting down properly. However, he was very interested in the relationships Marx was establishing, particularly those who declared their hatred for Russia:

It is strange that Marx developed a hatred for Russia around the same time Stieber and Bismarck were monitoring the assassination attempts on Czar Alexander II. His disdain for all things Russian caught the attention of some seriously influential British politicians:

While David Urquhart was busy infecting and radicalizing Russian revolutionaries with the woke mind-virus, Marx turned his attention to the British Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston:

Urquhart was an open critic of Palmerston, claiming that he was a Czarist agent. Marx effectively agreed with Urquhart.¹⁴ However, the public spat between Marx, Urquhart and Palmerston was nothing more than a publicity stunt. All men viewed Russia as an ever-looming threat. The public criticism of Palmerston simply allowed for papers to publish the dispute, thereby shining a bright light on the Russian issue and convincing the people of a possible Russian invasion.

In other words. Russia Russia Russia was alive and well over 150 years ago. Sound familiar?

Perhaps the most startling aspect to the propaganda campaign were the origins of Urquhart and Palmerston’s respective worldviews. They were both disciples of the utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham.¹⁵

The Panopticon

With a quote like that, one wonders if Jeremy Bentham was the inspiration for Dr. Fauci’s Beagle experiments. Who was this man and what was his legacy?

Let’s begin by looking at Bentham’s worldview:

Where have we heard this rhetoric before? It is a carbon copy of Epicurus and his development of the commune. Bentham decided to physically bring the Epicurean concept of egoistic hedonism into the Age of Enlightenment. His vision of an Epicurean Garden sealed off from the outside world was not that of a commune, but a prison.

Underlying Bentham’s thought processes was the idea that punishment is a form of pain, and should therefore be eliminated from society. Based on this, Bentham called for the abolition of slavery, the death penalty and a new penal code which decriminalized a number of illegal practices.

In a series of essays titled, “Offences Against One’s Self”, Bentham makes a case for the legalization of homosexuality, lesbianism and masturbation. However, Bentham’s utilitarian philosophy also called for the legalization of polygamy, pederasty, bestiality and a host of other unsavoury sexual practices.¹⁷

Bentham was also an intense intellectual opponent of the American Revolution, even though it was a moment in time when Americans were breaking free from the confines of British enslavement. Theoretically, his philosophy should have endorsed freedom for the American patriots.

Bentham may have had a disdain for American patriots, but the French Revolution was a different story altogether. In a correspondence to one of the French revolutionaries, Bentham offered an interesting proposal:

Bentham was obsessed with creating a criminal code and prison system. The cost of the prison would be free to the state, because prisoners would be committed to hard labor which would provide them with a basic level of subsistence.

If we use Bentham’s philosophy, punishment was the infliction of pain, and therefore evil. However, all species of animals need a certain level of productivity in order to survive. He reasoned that prisoners could escape the realm of punishment by producing their own level of subsistence through labor, rather than depending on the state for their survival. Their labor would reward them with food, shelter, and some level of protection. Prisoners, therefore, were no longer being punished, but rehabilitated to become productive members of society. If the prison made money in the process, so be it.

Despite Bentham’s logic that prisoners were not being punished, the key to the Panopticon was the perception of 24-hour surveillance. No prisoner would be free from the all-seeing eye of the guards, whether the guard existed or not.

Bentham even made his own logo for the Panopticon:

Bentham first travelled to Russia to build his Panopticon on behalf of Catherine the Great. He then pleaded with the French revolutionary government to make him the warden of his own prison if they built it in France. Then he turned his attention back to the British Empire. The prisons were overflowing in England during the late 1700s, and Bentham argued to build Panopticons throughout Britain instead of shipping the convicts to Australia.

The Panopticon he envisaged has never actually been built, but he was so convinced of his vision that he travelled in the hope to meet and convince his intellectual idol, Frederick the Great.

When we look at the philosophy of Jeremy Bentham, we see that he was simply a product of the Enlightenment and freemasonry. Not only did he maintain an Epicurean-bend on the world, but he resonated with the worldview of his intellectual superior and idol, Frederick the Great. In Berlin, Bentham was a small fish in a very big Enlightened pond, and he would do anything to please his masonic master Frederick.

This is perhaps where Bentham’s proteges developed a pathological hatred for Russia. It had nothing to do with protecting British interests, but rather to free Frederick from the Eastern flank of the Great Prussian Sandwich.

By the mid to late 1800s, Karl Marx, David Urquhart and Lord Palmerston were all in London working on exactly that exact problem; Russia. Russia. Russia.

Preparing an Empire for Revolution

Marx’s revolutionary papers were translated into Russian and distributed by David Urquhart’s underground revolutionary contacts throughout Russia. Most of the literature found its way into universities, where Marxist revolutionary theory was readily accepted by a number of professors and students.

The goal was to re-create the same conditions that led to the French Revolution. However, there was a slight problem with that mission. Unlike the French king a century earlier, Czar Alexander II was trying to reform Russia to become more like America; a free-market capitalist society. He emancipated the serfs and embraced the formation of industrial capital that would make Russia great and build a powerful middle class that would lift the serfs from poverty.

The Marxist revolutionaries were having none of it. How could they take over Russia if the serfs became part of a new, industrious Russia? The very base that they could appeal to about being “oppressed” would be lifted out of poverty and have nothing to complain about. In other words, Marxists needed people to be dirt poor and on the brink of starvation in order to gain power. There was only one solution to this conundrum; kill the Czar.

We have already discussed one attempt on Czar Alexander II’s life. Stieber and Bismarck were well aware of the assassination plan and allowed the attempt to happen to gain a geopolitical advantage. When at first you don’t succeed, try and try again:

In 1881, Marxist revolutionaries finally succeeded in killing Alexander II. They threw a bomb at him, blowing his legs off in the process. He managed to escape the scene with his guards, but died an hour later.

The horrific news and garish details were instantly reported throughout the world.

This was Russia’s 9-11 event, and marked the beginning of the end of the great Russian empire.

Polarizing the People

For many, including Marx, the assassination attempt was the beginning of something special. They thought that Russia was on the brink of revolution, and that their communist rhetoric would instantaneously transform the empire into a communist utopia. They could not have been more wrong.

When Czar Alexander III was crowned, he was determined to crush the Marxists into dust. Members of the Marxist terrorist organization, Narodnaya Volya (NV), were arrested and hung for their role in the assassination of his father. Alexander III continued to arrest anyone with links to NV, resulting in over 10,000 arrests in the following three years.

This policy created a new fear within Russian society. Everyone was seen as a potential “domestic terrorist” and surveilled by the secret police. Trust between neighbors dissipated, and everyone started to think that an all-seeing eye was monitoring them 24/7. Bentham’s Panopticon crept into Russia and gradually broke down the social fabric.

Alexander III was undeterred by this, and continued to deprive Russians of the liberties that were granted by his father. Not only did he crack down on the freedoms of the people, he also tried to reverse the policies of his father, including the emancipation of the serfs. All of this worked against Alexander III because the oppression only fed into the base of his Marxist enemy, Narodnaya Volya.

Marxist terrorist activities continued for the next few decades. Several attempts were made on Alexander III. In 1887, an assassination plot against Alexander III was uncovered. Alexander Ulyanov was charged with taking part in this plot, and summarily executed by hanging.

Ulyanov was Vladimir Lenin’s older brother. His execution allowed Lenin to create a martyr out of his brother, and provide the inspiration for his future Bolshevik revolutions.

The assassination of Alexander II may not have instantly started a revolution, but it certainly put the wheels into motion.

Declining Economy

While Alexander III was obsessed with crushing Marxist terrorists, it came at a horrendous economic cost. The reforms of his father were reversed, and the capital formation of Russia stalled. The broader economy started to fail and the living standards of the masses precipitously dropped.

The people were now willingly aligning with Alexander’s enemies. By early 1900, the rot was setting in.

Military Humiliation

Similar to the decline of the French monarch, Russia was about to suffer the greatest humiliation of all. In the Far East, Japan was expanding its commercial interests in Asia. They were openly rebuking Russia. This was the first time an Asian nation was spitting at a European power.

Russia and Japan declared war, and the world thought it a near impossibility that Japan would triumph.

The military defeat of Russia at the hands of Japan catapulted the empire into civil chaos.

The Russian Marxists thought they had their opportunity. By 1905 they had a huge popular base, and they were convinced they could achieve what their French counterparts managed back in 1789.

The Art of Revolution is Not So Easy

The 1905 revolution appeared to be a sporadic event, but things had been brewing for a long time.

In 1904 Lenin was living in exile in London, of all places. There is no evidence to suggest that he was controlled by one of the Russophobes of the British elite, and it appears he was caught off-guard by the events unfolding in Russia. He made his way back to Russia in the hope to destroy the Empire and install a communist utopia, along with many of his comrades.

Things got really ugly in 1905 when Russian soldiers opened fire on demonstrators, killing up to 200 people and injuring many more. This was a dream for the Marxist revolutionaries, who used the death and conflict to incite more revolution. They truly thought their time had come.

It seemed that the Marxists had gotten a little over their skis. Their failure was a result of infighting and the fact that Czar Nicholas II was reasonable and willing to make reforms. The people were willing to accept Nicholas’ reforms and continue to try and build their way toward prosperity. The Marxists only offered bloodshed and hell, and so the Russian people realized that Nicholas II was a better option. The 1905 revolution was yet another communist failure.

Lenin soon fled Russia again, thinking that he would never see a great Russian Revolution after all. Once again, he was wrong.

Communism’s Savior

By the end of 1905, the only nation that appeared susceptible to revolution and collapse was France. So many freemasons and students of the Enlightenment were continually disappointed by the failed Marxist uprisings they thought could transform civilization into a communist utopia.

Marx died a broken, fat, poor loser. He believed that revolution was just around the corner, but it never came in his lifetime. Four of his kids were already dead, and he had nothing to really show for his life. His Epicurean head-fantasy was a woke mind-virus that Western civilization appeared to be immune to.

Lenin’s brother was dead, and he was living most of his life in exile, dependent on his mother’s bourgeois pocket money payments. After the failure of 1905, Lenin and his comrades were also having doubts about the potential for a communist uprising.

The woke mind-virus was dying out. However, what they failed to understand was the critical ingredient missing from communism. That ingredient was credit; lots of credit; from the world’s most corrupt crony capitalists.

Once the Prussian legacy firms of Kuhn, Loeb, Warburg, Bleichroder & co calculated the return on invested capital that could be achieved from a communist revolution, Lenin’s life was about to change forever. Unfortunately, the 20th century marked the period when humanity was also about to change forever.

To be continued…

Addendum: Learn about Lenin

To understand the true man Lenin was before he became famous, I highly recommend yet another brilliant lecture by TIKhistory about him. It will perhaps shed some more light as we unpack the Marxist revolution that Western civilization is now collectively immersed in.