https://konkret.la/the-new-colonial-counter-revolution/I frequently cite Himmler, who was one of the leaders of the Third
Reich, and we have secret conversations of the Nazis, closed to the
public, where Himmler said:
“Now that I speak only with Nazis, I can
speak freely. Germany needs slaves”–in the literal meaning of the
word—and says that they would find their slaves in Eastern Europe,
particularly in the Soviet Union. In other words, the struggle of the
Soviet Union was a struggle against the attempted colonization and
enslavement of the peoples of the Soviet Union.
Immediately after the conclusion of the Cold War, which was a triumph
for the West and for the United States, Russia was in danger of becoming
a colony. The massive privatization of the economy wasn’t only a
betrayal of the working classes of the Soviet Union and Russia, but also
a betrayal of the Russian nation, because the perspective was that the
west wanted to possess the immense energy resources in the country.
The
US was on the brink of possessing these immense energy resources.
Yeltsin was the “great champion” of that colonization of Russia by the
west. Putin, obviously, isn’t a communist, but he wanted to avoid that
colonization and sought to reaffirm Russian power over its energy
resources. In other words, in this context, we speak of a struggle
against the new colonial counter-revolution; we speak of a struggle
between imperialist and colonialist powers, principally the U.S. on the
one hand, and on the other we see China—the third world. And of this
greater third world Russia is an integral part, because it was at risk
of becoming a colony of the West. That's my philosophy of world history,
so to speak.
