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Diary Blog, 15 December 2025

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Morning music

Bondi incident thought

The unpleasant incident at Bondi Beach may not be a “false flag” attack (as some are already claiming) but the System, prodded by the global Jew-Zionist lobby, is already “weaponizing” it. In Australia, it is being used by the System in several directions: to take away rights to ownership of firearms, to reduce freedom of expression and association, and generally to promote a pro-Israel message.

In respect of free speech and rights of association, as well as pri-Israelism, similar attempts are being made in the UK. The serial liar/perjurer Gideon Falter (of “Campaign Against Antisemitism”) has been on several UK TV stations over the weekend, demanding —in effect, if not expressly— fewer rights of freedom of expression etc, in case people are critical of Jews, Zionists, Israel, or the “holocaust” farrago.

It has never been claimed by anyone (not even the Jew-Zionist troublemakers) that I myself favour “terror” attacks. At the same time, one cannot ignore the fact that 200,000 people, mostly women and children, have been slaughtered, mutilated, maimed, poisoned, starved, deprived of medical services etc by the [Israeli] Jews in Gaza over the past 2 years.

Tweets seen

Mirvis was born in South Africa, spent much of his life in Israel, several years in Ireland, and only after that came to the UK.

[Yvette Cooper with Mirvis, Chief Rabbi of the UK and Commonwealth]
[Yvette Cooper, inviting —not for the first or last time— migration invasion]

Yvette Cooper is also a proven expenses cheat and fraud.

Perhaps not “treason” in the technical legal sense, but in the real and down-to-earth sense…yes.

Good point.

Another good, if obvious, point by “Prison Planet” Watson.

If that stupid and ignorant woman helps to trigger a major European war, I hope that one of the first missiles lands on her.

Even I myself do not necessarily share all of Nick Griffin’s views (and I expect that that is true in reverse as well), but I think that we probably agree on most of the big things.

So far, few if any Muslims have attempted to interfere seriously with my blog or, before that, my Twitter/X account (a pack of Jews had me expelled from Twitter in 2018).

All the attempts to gag me, shut down my views, close down this blog, and prosecute me, have come from the Jew-Zionist direction.

Jewish scribbler and talking head Finkelstein claims to support free speech. Is that what he was doing when he used to tweet to people retweeting me, about a decade ago (especially journalists or MPs), that if they were retweeting tweets from my then Twitter account (closed down by Jewish complaint in 2018), that they should not do so?

Typical (((hypocrite))).

Now, the bastard is in the degraded House of Lords…

Mad…

[Zhukov inspects the ruins of the Reichstag in 1945]

Symptom of a society in the throes of degeneration— a painfully ignorant and ludicrously over-promoted monkey-on-a-stick appointed to the Cabinet.

This Labour Friends of Israel misgovernment is also proposing to end automatic right of appeal from magistrates’ courts (usually to Crown Court). Police state in the offing.

Jewish scribbler (and now, apparently, public relations operative) says that anything that any Jew finds (or claims to find) “offensive” should be banned and/or criminalized.

See also:

The Slide of the English Bar and UK Society Continues and Accelerates
Diary Blog, 15 January 2022, including an outline of the failure of the latest Jew-Zionist attempt to prosecute me
Diary Blog, 16 March 2024, including an account of my recent free speech trial and sentencing
Diary Blog, 17 March 2024, including the aftermath of my sentencing hearing

Jew-Zionist supremacism in plain sight. As mentioned on the blog yesterday, the “Hannukah” festival is not (as many British people seem to imagine) a kind of Jewish version of Christmas (which happens at about the same time); it is a celebration of an ancient military and ethno-religious victory over non-Jews.

Starmer-stein recently lighting Jewish ritual candles in a window of 10 Downing Street, alongside his Jewish wife, strikes me as very un-English. Not a private observance, but a public show.

Yes, but not everything bad in the world, or that happens in the world, can be laid at the feet of MOSSAD, Israel, Zionists, or Jews…

I rather like that Rahmeh Aladwan.

Incidentally: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/help-me-fight-the-israel-lobby/

Late tweets seen

The karmic guilt of the Israeli Jews will eventually result in karmic punishment, perhaps not in this generation but a future one, perhaps seven generations in the future. That weight of guilt will be crushingly heavy. The Jew-Zionists can often be observed on Twitter/X etc, laughing at the plight of the Gazan Arabs, but that is now, not then.

As noted earlier today, and yesterday, on the blog, “Hannukah” has nothing in common with the Christian festival of peace called Christmas. It is a ritualized and unashamed crowing about an ancient military and socio-religious victory and, thus, Jewish supremacy.

Another untermensch who should be put up against a wall.

“They” almost always support mass immigration, and seem to want to destroy white Europe. They hate us, at root. That (other) man (you know…) was right…

Translates to a Commons with about 390 Reform MPs (very large overall majority), 89 Lab, 60 LibDems, 45 SNP, 19 Cons, and 12 Greens [etc].

For the Conservative Party, surely terminal, yet the Con MPs now in the Commons seem unwilling to bin Kemi Carpetbagger. Strange. She is a millstone round their necks. There are 121 of them sitting now, and 102 of them are predicted to lose their seats, as things stand.

Late thought

A young man called David Morgan, from South Wales, was recently sentenced to 20 months in prison (10 in actual custody) after (perhaps foolishly) having pleaded guilty to incitement to racial hatred following publication of 9 tweets. The prosecution was driven by only two complainants, both fanatically pro-Israel Jew-Zionists, one in North London, the other (oddly) in Pembrokeshire. Those two already, it seems, knew each other, incidentally.

The police were at first disinclined to waste time on such an obviously contrived persecution/prosecution, but it seems that political pressure from “the usual suspects” was brought to bear.

I do not know anything specific about David Morgan, beyond his tweets, but I should say that if he has personal or political friends, they should set up a crowdfunder for him on GiveSendGo [https://www.givesendgo.com/], a reliable American crowdfunding site, and one not amenable to the (((usual pressure))) in or from the UK. The aim would be to provide Morgan with some pocket money while he remains incarcerated, and then some money to help him after his release.

See also the biased but fairly detailed report from Wales Online:

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/twisted-welsh-loner-able-spread-32962872

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Diary Blog, 6 December 2024

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Afternoon music

Talking point

Ja, die Welt ist nur ein Leierkasten,
die unser Herrgott selber dreht.
Jeder muß nach dem Liede tanzen,
das gerade auf der Walze steht.[41]

The world is just a barrel-organ
which the Lord God turns Himself.
We all have to dance to the tune
which is already on the drum

[from an operatic libretto by the father of Reinhard Heydrich, and which Heydrich quoted not long before his own death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Reinhard_Heydrich#Attack_in_Prague]

Incidentally:

“One day he [Heydrich] told me that a decision had been made in Hitler’s Headquarters, to create a big reservation for the Jews in Russia, which could be developed into a Jewish State. Considered the great advances of the German troops in Russia, everything looked very positive. A resettlement of such a magnitude appeared possible.” [from the 1976 memoirs of Lina Heydrich (geboren von Osten)].

Tweets seen

https://twitter.com/SprinterFamily/status/1864813410531041769

“The Oreshnik strike is a signal to the United States and its allies that Moscow will be ready in any way to prevent them from inflicting a strategic defeat. Sergey Lavrov said this in an interview with Tucker Carlson:
“Westerners are fighting to maintain their hegemony in the world, in any country, region, on any continent. We are fighting for our legitimate security interests.”

https://twitter.com/SprinterFamily/status/1864813017684423050

“Key statements by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in an interview with Tucker Carlson:

Russia and the US are not officially at war, but a hybrid war is being waged against Moscow. And what is happening in Ukraine is the most visible and obvious part of this hybrid war. Moscow does not want to make things worse, but since ATACMS and other long-range weapons are being used on Russian territory, Russia is sending signals and hopes that the latest of these signals, from the new Oreshnik system, will be taken seriously.

It is obvious that the Ukrainians could not do what they do with modern long-range weapons without the direct participation of the American military.

The message we wanted to convey by testing this hypersonic system in real conditions is that we will be ready to do everything to protect our legitimate interests. The Minsk agreements stipulated that Kyiv should enter into direct dialogue with the people who did not accept the coup d’etat and promote the development of economic relations with this part of Ukraine, but none of this was done.

We prefer a peaceful settlement through negotiations based on respect for the legitimate security interests of Russia, respect for the Russian people living in Ukraine, their fundamental rights, linguistic and religious rights, which have been destroyed by a number of laws adopted by the Ukrainian parliament.

It is absolutely useless to claim that the people who came to power as a result of the military coup in February 2014 represented the Crimeans or the inhabitants of the east and south of Ukraine. The Crimeans rejected the coup, demanded to be left alone and said that they did not want to have anything to do with these people. So did the Donbass.

If there had been no coup d’état in February 2014 and if the agreement reached the day before between then-President Poroshenko and the opposition had been implemented, Ukraine would be united and Crimea would be part of it.

Russia is ready to send additional “messages” to the West if they do not draw the necessary conclusions after the launch of Oreshnik.

Russia is not considering the possibility of a nuclear war with the US.

Trump is friendly in conversation, but this does not mean he is pro-Russian.

Russia does not intend to destroy the Ukrainian people, they are brothers and sisters for Russians.

It is not his responsibility to disclose information about the number of Russian citizens killed since February 2022; this is the responsibility of the Ministry of Defense.

Russia still hasn’t received Navalny’s test results after his treatment in Germany.

Talk of a limited nuclear strike is an invitation to a catastrophe that Russia does not want.

Russia has never set out to kill people, unlike the Ukrainian regime.

There is a tragedy in Ukraine, while in Palestine there is a catastrophe

The number of civilians killed in Palestine in a year is almost twice the number of civilians killed in the Ukrainian conflict over 10 years.

US ‘feeding’ some Kurdish separatists in Syria.

Moscow does not believe that the solution to the Ukrainian issue is only for Russia and the US.

Statements by individual NATO officials about the possibility of preemptive strikes against Russia raise concerns.

The West is making a serious mistake in believing that Russia’s “red lines” can shift.

Zelensky is inadequate if, after everything he has done, he wants to return people of Russian culture to Ukraine.

For peace in Ukraine there should be no NATO, military bases or exercises involving foreign troops.

West will have to consider realities on the ground for agreement on Ukraine.

Russia will judge the Trump administration on its specific steps, but Biden wants to leave him a difficult legacy.“

“Why are @Nigel_Farage and Reform surging again in the polls? Because of one word. Immigration. Because of mass, uncontrolled, unprecedented immigration.

Consider just a few things we’ve learned since the election in July —and which you’ll already know if you read my newsletter.

We’ve learned that despite all the promises on Left and Right to reduce net migration it’s now rocketed to nearly one million people a year —more than twice what it was at the time of Brexit.

We’ve learned that neither Left nor Right, nor more importantly the Treasury, have any serious interest in slashing net migration and their forecasts now assume ongoing mass immigration forever.

We’ve learned that enough people to fill the city of Birmingham migrated into Britain last year —in just ONE year.

We’ve learned that the government departments and agencies that are supposed to count immigration cannot even get the numbers right.

We’ve learned that according to the government’s own forecasts Britain’s population is forecast to grow by at least another 6.5 million people by the year 2036 —equivalent to six Birmingham’s.

We’ve learned via the centrist Pew Research Centre that between today and 2050 Britain will see the largest increase in the absolute number of Muslims of all European nations.

We’ve learned that Muhammad has become the most popular baby name for boys in Britain for the first time, overtaking Noah.

We’ve learned that mass immigration is not only the biggest driver of Britain’s population growth but is now, in fact, the ONLY driver of our population growth.

We’ve learned that the fertility rate among the British has fallen to 1.4 and is forecast to fall below 1.3 by the end of the century, well below the replacement rate of 2.1 and while nobody in Westminster will dare talk about pro-family policies, we’ve learned that 86% of all immigration that’s now coming into Britain is coming from outside Europe —from poorer and radically different nations and cultures.

We’ve learned that our broken asylum system which neither of the big parties are willing to fix is now costing us at least £5.4 billion a year and has cost us around £18 billion since 2018.

We’ve learned about these costs at the very same time as our leaders have taken winter fuel payments off pensioners and smashed family farms to save £2 billion We’ve learned that over the last four years, only 15-18% of people who migrated into Britain came here to work in skilled jobs.

We’ve learned that on average each low-wage, low-skill migrant is now costing British taxpayers between £150,000 & £1 million a year.

We’ve learned that while Keir Starmer is talking about building 1.5 million homes we need to build more than half that JUST to keep up with the demand from immigration.

We’ve learned that over the last 4 years some 40,000 criminal offences were committed on Britain’s streets by immigrants who have avoided deportation.

We’ve learned that at least 1 in 4 migrants who avoid deportation have gone on to reoffend.

And we’ve learned, only this week, that since the financial crisis some 441,000 people from outside the UK have been given new social housing lettings at the same time as British families and young people have been plunged into a major housing crisis by our hapless elites.

This. This is why one in four Brits are now turning to Nigel Farage and Reform. This is why Reform is now ahead of Labour and looks set to pick up the realignment which the Tories squandered by lying to the country.

Millions of British people have simply had enough. Had enough of Labour Had enough of the Tories. Had enough of the expert class. Had enough of the lies. Had enough of the gaslighting. Had enough of the insults. They want their country back. And they will use whatever vehicle is available to get it back.”

Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan, an international, transnational conspiracy to create a mixed-race population, especially in Europe.

Both main System parties (and the LibDems) are connected to that conspiracy. Traitors who should be, and one day will be, dealt with.

The mainstream media also is riddled with traitors and those who go along with the evil plans of the conspirators for reasons of money and/or careerism.

There will one day have to be a thoroughgoing purge of the political, mass media, and general cultural milieux.

When Germany was on its knees after the First World War, and riddled with traitors and exploiters, one man, with a few followers, stood up against the tide. He attracted support and, despite the attempts to repress the national rebellion, prevailed and created the most advanced state in the world at the time.

Britain, and much of Europe, now also needs to free itself from exploitation and treachery.

Temps perdu

I just read one of my blog posts from 2018, but about events in 1992.

32 years ago. Seems hardly possible…

Fragments of Memory…#From Pupillage: Neil’s Party

More tweets seen

https://twitter.com/BrightonJournal/status/1861143256123257129

Scamdemic. Panicdemic.

https://twitter.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1865083909332955255

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Diary Blog, 2 July 2020

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This blog post may be shorter than other daily posts, at least in terms of original content, because I am working on a long post about the Alison Chabloz situation and connected free speech issues. That will probably be posted this evening or overnight; if not, then soon, anyway.

In the meantime, some tweets and news reports I have seen:

https://twitter.com/ArcherOnTheWall/status/1278627432636039168?s=20
https://twitter.com/ArcherOnTheWall/status/1278634318957608961?s=20

Incidentally, I would not usually repost anything from “Never Again UK”, a Twitter account run by a fanatical Jew Zionist, but in this case I make an exception. It made me laugh, too.

That woman exhibits the same characteristics as Shane Jones of Nailsea and others of that ilk (see preceding BBC tweet), an inability to see themselves and their own inconsistent stance clearly.

The extraordinary thing is that many in government, commerce and the msm seem to assume that the public will rush eagerly to pubs, wine bars, other places, even if forced to wear muzzles orsome sort, and perhaps even be enclosed in separate areas by plastic shower curtains. Screw that! Barbers too.

If my barber insists on me wearing a facemask in his shop (presumably the ladies he employs will also be wearing masks), then I shall just get my hair cut again at home. I am not a pop singer or male model, and no-one cares if I am not perfectly coiffed. I shall also be saving nearly £20 a pop. Ten more Lotto tickets. Yay!

Israeli Intelligence agencies must have their lights burning all night at present…I have blogged often about this case: https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/08/11/the-jew-epstein-and-prince-andrew-the-british-royal-family-has-another-scandal-maybe-its-time-to-just-get-rid-of-them/

Will MOSSAD or Aman (Israeli “services”) kill her, too?

The tweet below amused me. “Antifa” cheerleader (always from well behind the lines), Mike Stuchbery of (now) Stuttgart, claims, not for the first time, that he has several jobs. In reality, he spends most of his time playing the “historian” (deriving his comments from guide books etc), travelling around Baden-Württemberg to see the sights, drinking coffee or beer in cafes, while tweeting and trying to get those of whom he disapproves removed from Twitter, Facebook etc.

I have blogged previously about this Stuchbery character: https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/10/23/a-few-words-about-mike-stuchbery/ and https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/11/27/mike-stuchbery-and-tommy-robinson-legal-dispute/

Actually, I quite like some of his Germany-based tweets about mediaeval and Renaissance history, but he will keep supporting the destruction of white Northern Europe… unacceptable.

Oh, here is the self-styled “historian” unable to spell the name “Mosley”…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley https://www.oswaldmosley.com/

On previous occasions, “historian” Stuchbery (he also claims to be “journalist” and teacher, among other things) has made other howlers, such as misidentifying a photo of Enoch Powell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Powell as one of Oswald Mosley, and claiming that the Gestapo held the great thinker Rudolf Steiner prisoner for several days in the 1930s, while they interrogated him.

This would have been impossible, because the Gestapo was not even established until 1933 (and in Prussia only, until 1936). Apart from that, Steiner died in Switzerland, and of natural causes, in 1925 (8 years before the Gestapo was established), and was not even in Germany after 1923.

Copying bits out of books or tourist guidebooks does not make anyone “historian”; neither does inventing cartoon-level “anti-fascist” “history”…

Note that Stuchbery tells someone that she should be “seeking gainful employment”, when he himself grifts constantly on all the online donation sites, as well as now getting subsidized by the German “welfare” system. What a hypocrite!

The tweets below made me laugh!

https://twitter.com/CharlieMarriot9/status/1278713420225949697?s=20

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Treason is a Matter of Timing

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“Treason is a matter of timing”, Talleyrand is supposed to have said. A remark which perhaps goes down better in some countries than others, though really it has universal application. I suppose that it has two basic elements: treason; timing.

We all think that we know what “treason” means, but in fact there have been various definitions throughout the world and throughout history. We hear, in Robin Hood films and the comments columns of newspapers, the term “high treason”, for example, but outside the ranks of (some) lawyers, linguists and historians, the “high” seems just hyperbole to most people. The meaning, to most, can be said to be “caviar to the general”, above their heads.

In Germany and other Germanophone countries, there were traditionally two types of treason, Landesverrat [“Country Treason”] and the more serious Hochverrat [“High Treason”].

In fact, in the past, the main difference between the two, from the point of view of the captured perpetrator, was that he would be put to death in a somewhat less unpleasant manner for “Landesverrat“! Cold comfort, perhaps.

High Treason was doing such acts as to take over the State, or place the State under the rulership of another state; the lesser kind of treason would be to do acts such as helping the enemies of the State, giving secret information to those enemies, fighting on their side etc.

I suppose that one could, cynically, add the word “attempt” before the above “to take over the State”, inasmuch as a successful attempt to take over a state is not regarded as “treason” by the successful new rulers, and so the State itself, but as merely an incident of history. Only unsuccessful (“high”) traitors are punished; the successful ones punish others…

Other countries have other definitions of treason.

“The British law of treason is entirely statutory and has been so since the Treason Act 1351 (25 Edw. 3 St. 5 c. 2). The Act is written in Norman French, but is more commonly cited in its English translation.

The Treason Act 1351 has since been amended several times, and currently provides for four categories of treasonable offences, namely:

  • “when a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the King, or of our lady his Queen or of their eldest son and heir”;
  • “if a man do violate the King’s companion, or the King’s eldest daughter unmarried, or the wife of the King’s eldest son and heir”;[28][29]
  • “if a man do levy war against our lord the King in his realm, or be adherent to the King’s enemies in his realm, giving to them aid and comfort in the realm, or elsewhere”; and
  • “if a man slea the chancellor, treasurer, or the King’s justices of the one bench or the other, justices in eyre, or justices of assise, and all other justices assigned to hear and determine, being in their places, doing their offices”.

Another Act, the Treason Act 1702 (1 Anne stat. 2 c. 21), provides for a fifth category of treason, namely:

  • “if any person or persons … shall endeavour to deprive or hinder any person who shall be the next in succession to the crown … from succeeding after the decease of her Majesty (whom God long preserve) to the imperial crown of this realm and the dominions and territories thereunto belonging”.

[Wikipedia]

These “heads of treason” are now largely of historical interest, and the acts commonly charged via other laws, but it will be recalled that, after the 1994 book, Princess in Love, by the Jewess Anna Pasternak, about the affair between Princess Diana and the (by then, ex-) Guards officer James Hewitt, was published, an enterprising reporter from the Sun “newspaper” tried to make a citizen’s arrest of Hewitt for treason, for “violating the wife of the King’s eldest son and heir”! That would have made for an interesting incident, but Hewitt kept his front door firmly shut.

Treason. Were the officers involved in the 20 July 1944 plot to kill Hitler “traitors”? Hitler thought so! German law (as it was in 1944) also said yes. In fact, I am not convinced that German law as it now is would acquit the plotters (though I concede that my knowledge of German law is at best fragmentary). I blogged once or twice about those events:

https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/07/20/the-20th-of-july-2019-thoughts/

https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2018/07/20/the-20th-of-july/

These matters have been discussed more in Germany and France than they have in the UK. Nuances of loyalty have been tested more on the European mainland. The events around the Reich and the Second World War led to shades of meaning not always understood in the UK. In France during WW2, there was a spectrum of loyalties ranging from monarchist (!) and extreme conservative, through Gaullist and moderate conservative, to social democrat, to socialist, to Communist (pro-Stalin) and Trotskyist. Not all were hostile to Vichy and/or Germany. To give just one example, Francois Mitterand was supposedly both a “resistant” and part of the Vichy government, peripherally.

Some Frenchmen were not only pro-Vichy but pro-National Socialist. A relative few, perhaps 11,000, volunteered for SS Charlemagne:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33rd_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_Charlemagne_(1st_French)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_de_la_Mazi%C3%A8re

Honourable pro-German Frenchmen such as Christian de la Maziere were not, in their own eyes, “traitors”, any more than were, in their own eyes, German officers such as von Stauffenberg.

Of course, the masses like simplicity. In the UK, they were told that Mosley was a traitor (though of course never tried as such), and I suppose that a number of simple people still believe what they have heard based on that wartime propaganda.

Take another case: “George Blake” (born Behar, a half-Jew). Traitor? Many would say so, on the basis that he was in British service and even had a British passport:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Blake

Blake himself would say not a traitor, his allegiance being to the Communist ideal.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/dec/08/cell-mates-a-good-traitor-the-extraordinary-life-of-george-blake-the-spy-who-went-into-the-cold

These nuances seem rather un-British, but they would not perplex the spymasters of the 16th Century, such as Walsingham, used as he and his opponents were to ideological allegiance crossing national or state lines; in that era, allegiance based, usually, on religion.

What about timing? Well, of course, sometimes timing, as Talleyrand expresses, is what makes treason, treason. The officers who plotted against Hitler and survived became acceptable in postwar West Germany.

Timing is important in so many things. I was rereading a book I had not seen for about 25 years, In the Gunsight of the KGB. A quite compelling story of how a professor of Marxism-Leninism, Ushakov, was arrested for anti-Soviet agitation (being a dissident), released by administrative error, then fled to avoid re-arrest and certain long imprisonment. The half of the book that deals with his flight and then escape across the heavily-guarded Soviet-Turkish border is a good read; the rest, which deals with his views about Sovietism and upcoming events, is rather poor.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gunsight-KGB-Alexander-Ushakov/dp/0394562844

Timing is especially instructive here: Ushakov fled in 1984, if memory serves. Now, today, we know that had he avoided arrest in some lawful way, he would have been able to travel freely in about 7 years. Had he been imprisoned, he would have been released by the late 1980s if not before. He, however, did not know that!

How could he have guessed that the whole Soviet system (which he still fears in his book, regarding it as almost all-powerful and able to hoodwink the West easily: the Golitsyn syndrome) would crash to nothing after 1989, the State itself being dissolved by 1991?

In fact, Ushakov was unlucky also in that his book came out in August 1989, only a couple of months before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, followed by that of socialism across Eastern and Central Europe and then in the Soviet Union itself. Ushakov’s book was therefore obsolescent by the time it hit the bookshelves (though the adventurous first half is still, even today, of interest). Ushakov therefore fell into obscurity, whereas he might well otherwise have followed, in a minor way, in the footsteps of more famous dissidents, escapees and defectors, such as Bukovsky.

We all stand within the bounds of time and space. At present, our world seems almost immutable, but beware the hubris of thinking that our Western society will continue forever (“The End of History” fallacy). In fact, I should say that there is every chance that the world we know will not be around in its present form for much longer.

Forget treason. Concentrate on timing.

https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/01/26/the-tide-is-coming-in-reflections-on-the-possible-end-of-our-present-civilization-and-what-might-follow/

Notes

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landesverrat

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochverrat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason#United_Kingdom

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/9812978/Anna-Pasternak-I-met-my-Wizard-ina-yurt…-sobbing-my-heart-out.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2257828/Anna-Pasternak-The-ridiculed-writer-linked-Dianas-lover.html

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francois-Mitterrand

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ashes-Honour-Christian-Maziere/dp/0855230398/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gunsight-KGB-Alexander-Ushakov/dp/0394562844

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Bukovsky

http://antisoviet.imwerden.net/bukovsky_v_to_build.pdf