In 1983, before September of that year, I was asked by Michael Mc Manus, an insurgent in the republican movement to devise a slogan for Russia. He had earlier pointed to “logistical” problems. A large consignment of weapons was later seized off the Kerry coast.
It is clear that in Russia itself Andropov had no new ideas of his own as is shown by his Speeches and Writings. He chose Gorbachev as his party successor. In late 1983, Thatcher declared that she could “do business” with Gorbachev. In 1983 the liberal press carried numerous articles about economic stagnation and shortages in Russia. The post war cycle of rapid economic expansion had come to an end. It was clear also that there were accumulated political problems which were the legacy of Stalin’s reign of terror. Under Reagan the United States forged strongly ahead although it did so on the basis of indebtedness which has in recent years imperilled its progress and threatened its liquidity.
I was studying for a law degree at that time. It was insinuated by John Bowyer Bell of the CIA that the Russians had turned to a “junior Lenin limbering up” to come up with political formulae and a slogan to solve the problems of authoritarianism and economic stagnation. Lenin and Marx were both law graduates so perhaps this was the acme of mechanistic Soviet thinking about Russia’s problems in late 1983 and in 1984 which was communicated to Pat Doherty of Irish Military Intelligence/ IRA.
I came to the conclusion that openness of a political and historical nature was necessary to clear away the debris of Stalinism because the Great Terror had destroyed the moral authority of Communism and ruined its limited appeal to western workers. The burden of the past had never been removed.
Looking at the economy and politics, it was clear that restructuring and reconstruction was necessary. I envisioned more industrial democracy on the Works Council model of western Germany. I should have been aware at that time that on those Works Councils trade unions exercised a purely supervisory role.
My final slogan in the triptych as demanded by Mc Manus was democratisation. It was clear that the Soviet Union needed broad political and economic democratisation with an emphasis on the former.
I came under pressure from the FBI' s Patricia Sharkey,a house guest in my student dwelling. It was this psychotic poisoner who declared me a "communist" in late 1984. I was the target of the RUC and UDR intimidation from 16 December 1984 to 22 January 1985 at that time. The RUC encamped at the door of my student lodgings in Belfast.
I left my written “Musings and Extrapolations” on the problems and slogan for safe keeping with Manus Maguire who was a fellow student on remand for political charges. Only later did it become clear that he was an intermediary, a double agent, trying to buy time for himself and another FBI/IRA poisoner.
I perceived correctly that the Russians were prepared to pay for my intellectual work.
In April 1986 Gorbachev announced his new policies of “Openness, Restructuring and Democratisation" to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
I was dumbstruck and told the tutor that it was" like winning the jackpot without the money".
The slogans were immensely popular outside the Soviet Union and set free the dead wood of history.
Joseph Paul Mc Carroll LlB.
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12.5.2022
As is the case with all Green Tories,Maguire was a police informer and at heart a Fine Gael-type.
Michelle Gildernew speaks the part of Maguire and Lynch and hopes to carry on the nationalist pursuits of catcalling, transparent deception and childish cribbing. This tactic of feminine backbiting she directs at those who the Catholic property-owning seigneurs have disenfranchised. By seigneurs, I mean large landholders and rich business owners. The Provos castigate and,finally,kill as every one of the 79.3% of the right-minded electorate realise.
Say to these people,"When are you going to look for suitable work if you are not sick or disabled? You are a focus for every pimp and thief and government artist in the North".
Sotto voce, that is,since "the rich have their spies in the homes of the poor ". That fact you realise when you see their houses. Sinn Feiners and SDLP leaders are an Evening Choral,not a Dawn Chorus (with apologies to Robert Zimmerman, the Church of England and Stephen Mooney).
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