Russian analyst's views 15 years ago are inactive valid
“The Cold War” turned the erstwhile allies of the anti-Hitler coalition – USA and USSR – into enemies. The Americans set themselves up to fill in the information niche for the political and intellectual operations of their intelligence services in the USSR. As a result, in March 1948, a secret paper appeared in the US entitled "Using refugees from the russian Union in the national interest of the US".
Rock Behind the Puff
On the eve of the 65th anniversary of the large Victory, many warm words fall to our allies from the anti-Hitler coalition: the United States of America and large Britain. All of this is true, but we should not forget that these allied relationships besides had their dark side. It is known that on 20 August 1943, in Quebec (Canada) the leaders of the United States and large Britain, F. Roosevelt and W. Churchill, with the participation of the chiefs of staff of the American and British, discussed the question of how Germany could keep the Russians as far as possible in the east.
Two plans were adopted at this meeting: Overlord, which predicted the landing of the Allied in France in 1944 (the Allied Command informed the USSR about this in November-December 1943 in Tehran), and the second, top secret, "Rankin", which aimed at "returning all power of undefeated Germany against Russia". In April 1945, erstwhile drawing up the "Rankin" plan, Churchill gave British troops an order to prepare Unthinkable operations.
The essence of this operation was that on July 1, 1945, the troops of England, the USA, Canada, along with Polish corps and 10-12 unarmed German squadrons were to launch war actions against the USSR.
This plan was thwarted by the strength of the crushing blows the Red Army gave German Nazism at the end of the war. The Soviets calculated the prospects of their adventure and realized that a week after the launch of Operation Unthinkable, russian tanks would scope the Atlantic Ocean and take control of all Europe.
However, after the United States gained atomic weapons, plans to strike in the russian Union again became valid. Let us callback that since the end of 1945 the U.S. military command has approved the increasingly ambitious plans to bomb the russian Union. At the same time, the Americans remembered that the tremendous harm that Nazi Germany did to the russian Union by bombing and completely destroying the infrastructure could not weaken its economical power and break the spirit of the russian people. Consequently, the leadership of the U.S. Air Force set itself the task of establishing a limit on the resilience of the russian people in the event of mass atomic bombings. The following condition helped the Americans solve this problem. The Second planet War gave birth to the unprecedented movement of nations in human history. By May 1945, the number of refugees in Europe exceeded 40 million people. Many of them were taken by the Nazis to Germany as a labour force (in January 1944 it was over 8 million people). Much of them are russian citizens. Since the end of May 1945, in accordance with the Maltese agreements, their repatriation to the USSR began. It should be noted that most russian citizens willingly returned to their homeland. However, there were those who did not want to leave Europe. The motives of russian “refugees” were different. So war criminals and people who collaborated with the Nazis could not number on a "warm reception" in the USSR. However, there were many who did not accept the russian strategy with its various limitations and force on the individual.
By June 1947, about 250 000 russian “refugees” were believed to stay in Western Europe. A large part of them went to the American business zone. They were selected as the subject of sociological investigation by American experts.
As has already been mentioned, the US Air Force, which initially funded the Harvard project, set themselves a narrow task – through interviews with these people, to measure the intellectual vulnerability of the russian civilian population to mass atomic bombings. However, soon, during the Cold War, the task exceeded these limitations. The initiator of the usage of refugees from the USSR as part of the Harvard task was John Paton Davies, a associate of the Policy Planning Group of the U.S. Department of State, led by the celebrated sovetologist and future US Ambassador to the USSR by George Kennan. As a result, in the early 1950s American experts managed to process over 13,000 oral interviews and written questionnaires in 67 exile camps and in any German cities. This gave American scientists the basis for conclusions that sparked a "shock" reaction among American politicians. It turned out that the rejection of the russian strategy by russian refugees did not mean that virtually everything in it was rejected. The dissatisfaction of russian “dezers”, as it turned out, was due not so much to the russian political strategy itself as to the communist leadership of the country. In consequence to the question of what should be kept from the russian strategy if the government had fallen, virtually everyone put education first, followed by wellness care and social protection of the population.
Moreover, “not wanting to return” were arrogant of the successes of industrialization and the position the russian Union held internationally. The majority welcomed the regime's determination, its activity and assurance in the future of the country.
The very serious achievements of the russian Union in the field of culture have been highlighted. A affirmative assessment of the state's function in the country's economy by erstwhile citizens of the russian Union was a discovery for Harvard scientists.
Many negative aspects of the russian strategy were identified, including excessive bureaucracy and shortcomings in planning, but generally, "the erstwhile citizens of the russian Union" were convinced that a welfare state could not be built on the basis of private capitalist entrepreneurship. About two-thirds of respondents advocated state planning and state ownership in the economy. It should be remembered that this was the opinion of people dissatisfied with the russian strategy and consciously unwilling to return to the USSR.
Read more about the Harvard task and its improvement at this phase in the book Doctor of History, prof. Evgeny Kodin "The Harvard Project" (Moscow: "Russian Political Encyclopedia", 2003). Many interesting things can be found in Arkady Medvedev's article "The Harvard Project: Half a Century Later" ("Belarus-Russia Union". 04. 09.2003, No 35/135).
Birth of “dollers, (marionettes-PZ)
In order to carry out the plan of information and intellectual war, it was essential to make effective psychotechnology to influence the russian people. During planet War II, Nazi specialists from Alfred Rosenberg's department, a native of the Baltic countries and an “expert” in the field of the east soul, were active. After the war, experts from the "Harvard Project" took care of this. As has already been mentioned, the work was carried out on the basis of survey results of erstwhile russian citizens.
Thus began the celebrated "Harvard task on the russian Social System" – 1 of the largest political and sociological investigation of russian society. It was conducted specifically by the Center for Russian Studies created at Harvard University in 1948.
During the task 2 types of surveys were conducted: biographical (A-Schedule) interviews, which collected general sociological data, and specialist (B-Schedule) interviews. The second collected "socialanthropological" data on economical relations, household relations, social stratification, power relations, etc.
During specialised studies, peculiar attention was paid to the identification, systematicisation, grouping of individual and psychophysical characteristics of man, especially those which make him LIDEREM in the squad and society. To this end, American intelligence services provided experts active in the "Harvard Project" with a immense amount of material on the individual characteristics of prominent global political figures, geniuses of science, technology and culture. peculiar attention has been paid to the examination of the personality of W. Lenin to identify the psychophysical features that form the “complex leader”. S. Nowikov, prof. of Stratford University, notes that “ hundreds of russian refugees have been subjected to peculiar intellectual studies during the work on this project. For this purpose, the alleged Rorschach tests, ink stain tests, unfinished sentences tests, and the most intimate sexual interviews were used, where all word was recorded on the tape recorder. another tests were besides carried out in which various intellectual complexes were identified through psychoanalysis. 1 specified complex, as experts from Harvard discovered, was any mysterious “Lenin’s complex”. It turned out that most planet leaders had a clear innate power complex. In the conflict for power, people with specified a complex usually win, especially if they do not follow mostly accepted moral standards. If they are helped by a well-organized group of professionals (so-called dolls) who have cognition of human psychology within the Harvard Project, rivals simply have no chance of winning.
Today, we can say with full assurance that the professional group of “kills” is able to find and promote, like pawns in the world's chess game, future leaders to power.
One of the erstwhile participants of the Harvard Project, a russian refugee, Grigorij Petrovich Klimov (Igor Borisovich Kalmykov), wrote about it in his scandalous book “People of God”: “Every well-organized group of people who have cognition of this forbidden subject can find and advance future leaders to power, like pawns in a planet chess game. It is not essential to add that the leaders of a degenerate sect who know this problem well from their own experience and have been playing this game for respective 1000 years have had a immense advantage over those who play without knowledge, without preparation or even blindly." Despite the fact that many of Klimov's conclusions are controversial, and any cannot be accepted at all, it should be noted that his claim that the effectiveness of specified leaders can be comparable to weapons of mass demolition is fair. In the case of the russian Union, it turned out to be something more.
Examples of successful dolls in post-Soviet space are the presidential elections of Saakashvili, Yushchenko and others.
In the early 1970s I had the chance to observe the usage of American investigating methods to identify leaders among the cadets of the first year of the Vilnius Higher Military method School of Radioelectronic Electronics. After 3 years, the test results confirmed over 80%.
An crucial consequence of the Harvard task was the improvement of management methods for both different population groups and individuals. A classical example of an effective “doller” tactics in manipulating human personality is the American movie “Game” with Michael Douglas in the lead role. Circumstances created by a group of doll-organizers and psychologists force the main character of the movie to commit suicide. Everything ends well, however, due to the fact that it turns out that it is simply a game that was meant to reconstruct the character Douglas's taste of life. There is no uncertainty that "dolliers" with methodology and cognition of human psychology can not only advance future leaders to power, but besides make desirable socio-political situations. However, as practice shows, cognition and prediction of the main techniques utilized by Western dolls in many cases allows them to successfully resist. Therefore, Harvard methods should not be considered absolutely indestructible and supereffective.
Unfortunately, the dogmatic certainty of the highest russian political leadership regarding the "universal power of Marxist-Leninian science" did not let appropriate counter-reaction to these methods to be organised erstwhile they began to be applied everywhere against the USSR.
It should so be considered that the collapse of socialist values and ideals was mostly due to the methods of information and intellectual warfare which the West conducted on the basis of the "Harvard Project". Its results mostly determined the forms and methods of influence of Western intelligence services and mass media on the citizens of the USSR. seemingly this was seen in radio broadcasts broadcast to russian Baltic countries, and in peculiar to Lithuania. The secret monitoring of public opinion, systematically conducted after the war by Western experts in Lithuania, enabled a fast change in the speech of news broadcasts of abroad radio stations.
Thus, until the 1960s, the announcers of “Free Europe” and “The Voice of America” urged the Lithuanians to argue russian regulation and wait for the liberation of the Baltic countries by united Western forces. But in the mid-1960s, the speech changed. There have been calls to join the Komsomol, the party, to enter universities, to work hard, to accomplish a advanced position in russian society and to take management positions.
In the early 1970s, the subject was dealt with in KC Komsomol Lithuania by the deputy head of the propaganda department, Walerij P. The results of his systematic investigation on the subject of western radio broadcasts in Lithuania were impressive. It was clear that there was a change not in tactics, but in the strategy of our main ideological opponent, the US. With these materials, P. went to the Central Committee of the Communist organization of Lithuania. However, after their review, they found that they were not peculiarly interesting and suggested not to address the subject any more.
As it turned out later, it was simply explained. If the objectivity of P. investigation results were recognised, a crucial part of the Lithuanian intellectual elite, which reached advanced organization and economical positions in the 1960s and 1970s, would be under suspicion.
Will Harvard live?!
The most crucial reason for losing in the information and intellectual war of the West with the USSR was the failure of the Kremlin's leadership to improve the well-being and standard of life of the Russian people, as a nation of state-generated people in the broad sense of the word. While surviving in Lithuania for almost half a century, I traveled through many regions of Russia from 1996 to 2000 and was shocked by the breakdown and poverty. Of course, the last 10 years of pierestroika and the dissolution of the USSR influenced, but even in 1985 the standard of surviving and surviving conditions of the Russian people were by a government of magnitude lower than in the Baltic republics. Not accidentally, Lithuanians, arguing with the Russians, usually said: “Why are you teaching us how to live? First learn to live like people!’ In an interview in the 1990s, Turkmenistan president S. Nijazov spoke about how people live in central Russia: “The Russian people are not guilty of what is happening today. Their strategy led them to it. I was in the Russian villages, working inactive on the Central Committee of the Polish National Council, in 1984 I was liable for the circuitry of the course and the Belarusian. Even then, men in villages drank to the ground. And in the Black Sea region! He didn't get rich as part of the USSR, he didn't make any money at anyone's expense. And whose cost was this to be obtained? In Indonesia, Khrushchev built the stadium for 100,000 seats, and we did not have a simple playground. dense trucks were sent to the Congo, and oil was transported here on donkeys and camels. So we have a common past, we have no grudge against anyone, especially Russia." With the end of the Cold War, “The Harvard Project” was not forgotten. In August 1997, the Harvard Institute, via "Invisible Gazieta" (No. 9, "NG-Scenarios"), informed the Russian public about the improvement of the "New Harvard Project". A number of Russian analysts then went back to helping Harvard experts. However, their consultation at Harvard seemed unprofessional.
This is most likely why the fresh Houston Project, which is simply a logical continuation of Harvard's project, has late begun to appear, but focuses on modern Russia.
However, it is premature to believe that the Harvard-Houston task methods in the U.S. and modern Russia were put on a “far” shelf in the archive. The “fat” part of the planet cake that Russia represents will always be the object of the desire of Western transnational corporations and powers. And for the comfortable consumption of this cake, Russia must be weak, fragmented and incapable to conduct independent politics. Therefore, the Harvard information and intellectual methods of influencing Russians will stay in the arsenal of our "good Western friends" for a long time.
To realize this truth, it is adequate to analyse the information-psychological focus not only of Western but besides of Russian media. And in matters of falsification of Russia's historical road, the “spirit of Harvard” can be felt from afar. In a word: “Harvard lived, Harvard lives, Harvard will live!” Nevertheless, the “ Harvard wolf” is not as terrible as any Russian journalists paint it if the Russians do not forget what a planet of “predators” live in and repeat mistakes from the past.
Written by: Władysław N. Swede,
source:The Harvard Project
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See also:
https://library.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/static/collections/hpsss/index.html
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