Hair raising interviews of an ex KGB informant revealing the dismemberment of East Pakistan - and much more

Digging down the history can be interesting, devastating or even demoralizing to many - but facts must be truly known as these help steer nations' course of action for the future and to know who and how was responsible for the break of their nations.

We have recently seen regimes falling down, ostensibly by USA covert and overt actions. We have seen demise of Iraq from a progressive and fast developing country, now reduced to rubble and marred by civil war. We also saw Libya, one of the most prosperous countries ripped apart by the Americans and the killing of its popular leader by the same people whose perception was changed by ideological subversion by the Americans.

But ever wondered from where such strategies originated? Ever wondered why America has taken upon itself the same role of destabilizing nations and replacing the governments with their own puppet regimes?

I recently came across a series of interviews of Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov, a former KGB informant, who defected to Canada in the 1970s, which amply highlight the role of the erstwhile Soviet Union in supporting their style of ‘liberating’ nations and then killing the key leaders they once loved and supported after the success signal was fired.

In one of the series of interviews with G. Edward Griffin he dilates in detail how Soviet helped to incite anger and uprising in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), which was in fact  the final straw in his personal decision to defect to the West. In the interview Yuri details how Russian consulates in India were used to smuggle weapons and propaganda material to East Pakistan in a largely Soviet effort to break up the state of Pakistan, then a staunch Western and US ally.

Watch the interview below:

In another interview, he also explains how the Soviets unleashed an Ideological subversion or the psychological warfare around the world – based on a long drawn strategy to demoralize and subvert the minds of those who would be at the helms of the affairs in a time frame which happens to be now almost taking its shape to break nations for lust and destabilization. Watch the interview below:

In the backdrop of the interviews above, now watch the world scene – the USA is doing exactly the same which the Soviets did in the 70s. We have come a long way and seeing the strategy super powers destroying the world peace is now well known to us.

Wherever have the Americans gone, they have left behind destabilized nations, like Iraq, Libya and even Egypt. They have failed to stabilize the state of affairs in Afghanistan and are likely to leave it amid a quagmire that will have far reaching ramification not only for Afghanistan but also for Pakistan and other nations of the region.

he intended American intrusion into the Balochistan is the next step, where the Baloch leaders are coerced to take up arms against Pakistan, the same way the Soviets did in coercing the East Pakistanis in the late 60s and early 70s. And remember, heroes of today will be on gallows tomorrow or mercilessly gunned down tomorrow as has been clearly highlighted by Bezmenov in his first interview above.

Its time now that we read these revelations and get educated as to how noose is being tightening around our necks and how the future will be shaped, if we do not heed to the warning shots being fired around us.

Videos courtesy: YouTube /  HISTROIKA

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The Saabs and the Mame Saabs of the British empire

Contributed by Pervaiz Munir Alvi

IN MODERN Britain, it is bad form to speak too highly of the British empire. Yet beneath such squeamishness, an undercurrent of relative pride still pulses, defiantly. Of course, today’s educated Briton murmurs, the empire was wrong. But at least the British learned the languages, schooled the sons of native chiefs and tried to do some good, didn't they? Surely, other imperialists were worse, the British tell themselves: those savage Germans or outright villains such as King Leopold II, running the Congo not as a Belgian colony but his own private property, unaccountable to any parliament back home?

But was the British empire a good or a bad thing? What is the world view of the men (and a sprinkling of fearless, extraordinary women) who shaped and ran the empire. What are the imperial roots of some of today’s thornier geopolitical problems, from Kashmir to Myanmar or Sudan? Who were the empire’s ruling elites and what are their modern-day legacies? Who were the Saabs and the Mame Saabs of the British empire?

A close examination of the British empire reveals ghostly ranks of imperial warriors, administrators and diplomats who stand exposed and damned by their own memoirs and memoranda to London, and by their carefully minuted actions. Time and again, these “men on the spot” are observed taking decisions for reasons of caprice, snobbery, cynicism or—in the case of the British police chief obsessed with photographing the exact moment a bullet punctured the skin of Burmese rebels sentenced to death—something bordering insanity.

Still more damningly, the arbitrary, individualistic nature of so much imperial decision-making was not a weakness of the system, but the system itself. There was no “master plan” since a policy could be reversed by the appointment of a single colonial governor, or even by the lobbying of energetic mavericks, such as Gertrude Bell, an Arabist caught exulting “We've got our King crowned” in a letter home after planting a Hashemite prince, Faisal, on the newly invented throne of Iraq. If Congo was a personal fief of the wicked King Leopold, the British empire was a scarcely more representative oligarchy, organised on avowedly “aristocratic” lines by a clique of white men on the make. In theory, Whitehall officials and ministers back in London oversaw the empire. In practice, professional imperialists ruled through a caste system alien to anything seen at home.

In Sudan, a notably snobbish spot, one-third of all colonial political officers were the sons of clergymen and half of those recruited between 1902 and 1914 had a “Blue” (a sporting distinction) from Oxford or Cambridge, leading to the quip that Sudan was a land of “Blacks ruled by Blues”. In the 1930s, only officials able to play polo could hope for advancement in the Sudanese province of Darfur: in the same period, Darfur had just one primary school. In 1916, David Lloyd George, the humble son of a Welsh Baptist minister, could become Britain’s prime minister, but would have stood no chance of being governor of colonial Nigeria.

Men from the same narrow, middle-class band of society crafted oligarchies with the British crown at the top and, at the bottom, a tier of native chiefs, maharajahs and princelings granted wide and autocratic powers over their own peoples. They then inserted themselves in between as viceroys, governors and pith-helmeted district commissioners: raised to a form of quasi-aristocracy by their race and education. The same colonial officials who liked sporting, Harrow-educated native princes actively disliked educated Africans and Asians, above all those shifty, resentful urban “examination passers” who made it to British universities or law schools. I suppose we felt the local intellectuals were aiming to take our place, Sir James Robertson, a former Sudan official candidly reflected, years later.

And finally when the British scrambled for the exits, lingering chaos was often the result of this hearty ad-hocery. Was the British empire a good or a bad thing? It all depends on what spot one stood within the Empire.

About Pervaiz Munir Alvi: Pervaiz Munir Alvi was born and raised in Pakistan. After graduating from Government College, Lahore (now Government College University) with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree Mr. Alvi proceeded to the United States  of America for further studies where he received his Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Civil Engineering and Master of Science (M.S.) in Geo Technical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mr. Alvi resides and works in the USA as a consulting GeoTechnical Engineer.

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