LOOMING DISASTER

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conflict represents an existential threat to our whole being.” 7
Ironically, even though the post-Soviet Russia has indeed been
transformed in unprecedented and positive ways, the notion that
the Soviet Union and its global threat suffered total defeat is sheer
disinformation. The Soviet Union changed its name and dropped its
façade of Marxism, but it remained a samoderzhaviye – the historical
Russian form of autocracy in which a tsar is running the country
with the help of his personal political police.
General Pacepa’s old KGB counterparts must have been chortling
in their graves on New Year’s Eve 1999, when their boss,
Vladimir Putin, once Pacepa’s equivalent in the KGB, was enthroned
in the Kremlin at the end of a KGB palace putsch, detailed in our
book Disinformation. The as-yet unknown KGB officer introduced
himself to the world as a Peter the Great for our times, while grumbling
to his fellow Russians that “the demise of the Soviet Union
was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.” 8 President
Putin has been sitting on the Kremlin throne for the last sixteen
years, and there is no end to his reign in sight.
Under the Soviet Union, the KGB was a state within the state.
Now the KGB is the state, and Russia has become the first nuclear
intelligence dictatorship in history. Three years after the KGB took
over the Kremlin, some six thousand KGB-ists were running the
federal and local governments. 9 One of them is Russia’s current
foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, a graduate of the KGB-sponsored
Institute of International Relations and – as noted below – one of
Hillary Clinton’s close buddies.
The KGB’s super-secret nuclear cities, described in our book,
also survived. General Pacepa became familiar with them during
the twenty-two years he spent managing the Romanian branch of
the KGB’s scientific and technological intelligence. Chelyabinsk was
on a map of Russia, but Chelyabinsk-40, a city of forty thousand
people located in the Urals, where the weapons-grade plutonium
was stockpiled, was not. Nor did even the most highly classified
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