"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

The reader will see that this description suited the Soviet system, its
ideology and leaders. The brutality of Soviet power is well documented. Its
ideology bore a distinct likeness to the mirage of the desert, since neither
of the two have anything at all to do with reality.
Despite personal experience of Communism, the average subject of the
Soviet Empire knew nothing of the fundamentals or essential points of
Marxism-Leninism, or of its true origins and history. Everything of impor-
tance or in the least bit compromising has been concealed in both Western
and Soviet history books.
The former president of the United States, Ronald Reagan, stated that
concealment was a kind of falsehood. Therefore, the author would like to
reveal a few facts, which corrupt historians usually pass over in silence.
This book deals with Adam Weishaupt, who founded the Illuminist-
Socialist movement in the Bavarian town of Ingolstadt on the first of May
1776, and Moses Hess, Karl Marx's guide and teacher, two names, which
are not generally known to those who have passed through Marxist
educational institutions.
There is a saying: communism is the bloodiest, most difficult and the
most terrible way from capitalism to capitalism. The truth of this now
appears to be proved by reality.
The representatives of the criminal powers who halted Russia's
development and threw the country into chaos have now themselves
admitted that life was better in tsarist Russia than in the Soviet Union. As
an example of this, a Soviet Russian head clerk in 1968 lived at a standard,
which was only 18 per cent of that which a normal Russian clerk enjoyed
in 1914. It has also been calculated that a Russian labourer in 1968 lived at
a standard, which was only half of his counterpart's in 1914, even coun-
ting an inflation rate of 8 per cent per year. Even so, life in Russia was not
so hard in 1968 as in 1991, the last year of Soviet power. Workers during
the tsarist regime earned 30 roubles per month, teachers and doctors 200.
A loaf of bread (410 g) cost 3 kopecks, 410 g of meat 15 kopecks, 410 g of
butter 45 kopecks, 410 g of caviar 3 roubles and 45 kopecks.
If we compare the conditions in the USSR with those in the West, we
find even sharper contrasts. In 1968, the average standard of living in the
United Kingdom was 4.6 times higher than in the Soviet Union. The
figures are taken from Anatoli Fedoseyev's book "About the New Russia"
(London, 1980).
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