Paganism and Public Security in Russia

The Public Security Concept opens many sensible peoples eyes to the role of Judaic Christianity not only in destroying the human psyche but also in shaping a slavish mentality. This accounts for the rising interest in Paganism, pagan rites and culture that was destroyed by Judaic Christianity."

The bit about psyche destruction does make sense, as far as the author of this passage is concerned. But is he sure that it is Judaic Christians who are responsible for his psychic disorder? True, this is a question to his doctor rather than himself. Yet, all indications are that doctors, especially spin doctors, are exactly the problem.

The Mertvaya voda, or Dead Water, Public Security Concept (PSC) referred to above is one of those ideas that used to be disseminated through underground, self-published brochures. Mostly, in spring and fall when mental conditions tend to get more acute. Those happy days are over now. Today, persons afflicted by the PSC syndrome are crawling out of the woodwork in state and government structures, and all the year round to boot.

The PSCs "political career" began in 1994, when Ivan Rybkin, speaker of the First State Duma, disseminated among faction leaders a text bylined: "Capt. 2nd Rank Mikhail Ivanov, co-author of Dead Water methodology."

The PSC provided a conceptual groundwork for a party called Yedineniye, or Unification, in the latest Duma election. The party was a non-starter: It did not make it into the Duma. Yet Dead Water is not as dead as it should be.

SATANIC PREDICTOR IN THE AUDIT CHAMBER 

"Prevention of a new round of the Cold War requires a global peaceful offensive, unique in world history, by all righteous elements and all conscientious forces on our planet with the grace of Gods Universal Predictor." This is a quotation from a draft memo by the Systems Analysis Research Institute, a think tank of the RF Audit Chamber. The head of the think tank is Sergei Shakhrai, one of the authors of Russias 1993 Constitution.

The paper the institute has been laboring over for 18 months is grandly titled Global Development Trends in the World and in Russia until 2020. It abounds in similar passages – say, the chapter headed "A New Form of Bio-Security and Bio-Defense of Motherland" reads in part:

"Taking a realistic view of the current sweeping expansion of the Satanic Global Predictor and its secret-agent network in society, it cannot be ruled out that a path to a future Planetary Bio-Defense Union lies through an accelerated creation of a Pan-Eurasian Defense Union as a geopolitical alternative to the ongoing expansion of the United States and NATO."

Among the sages who penned this treatise were some well-known individuals, e.g., Alexei Podberezkin, leader of the Spiritual Heri-tage foundation; Valery Vorotnikov, a one-time officer with the KGB 5th Directorate; Vladimir Rubanov; Mikhail Margelov, a Federation Council member; Alexander Muzykantsky, a member of the Moscow city government, and others.

It could of course be argued that the unfortunate little chapter got into the paper by accident. Nonet-heless, the term "Satanic Predictor" is used in yet another report put out by the said think tank, viz., Russia and the World in the Globalization Period: LongTerm Development Trends, coauthored by Sergei Shakhrai and Alexei Podberezkin.

WHO IS THE AUTHOR? 

We asked Systems Analysis Institute Director Sergei Shakhrai for comment:

– Did you supervise the preparation of the report?

– Yes, as Institute director I supervise all major projects. But this one is in the charge of Alexei Podberezkin, who was the projects executive secretary, as my first deputy.

Judging by the text, you are citing raw, working material. We will look into how it got into the public domain, but weve tapped a large number of experts for the project, and someone must have inserted these words.

– Did you contribute to writing this particular chapter?

– Yes, I did.

– Specifically who did the report target?

– It was to be presented to the broad public for discussion.

– Would not you say that global challenges to Russia are not a subject for an Audit Chamber think tank?

– Indeed? Now, what is the state budget? It is a consolidated expression of public interest and citizens aspirations. So we can and should prepare such papers. This is an area of research. But therell be no more comment from me. You should put all questions to Podberezkin.

Mr. Podberezkin seems to have been expecting our call:

"Work on this subject has been going on for 18 months. There have been nine draft versions in all. One was published last June – the main highlights. Now an extended version is being prepared for publication. Prior to that, drafts were posted on the worldwide web, and then a team of experts added some things and deleted others. In fact, there were several expert teams. Although it is an institute-sponsored project, its of an add-on kind."

But how did the passage about the Satanic Predictor get in there at all – not only into a rough draft but also into the abstract posted on your official Internet site?

Id ask you to ignore it: It is not in my personal version that is to come out soon. It existed only at the discussion stage. And that was in fact what I told the projects authors. I have known them for quite a long time.

WHO ARE THEY?

– I forget their names.

Dead Water followers can also be found in the present Duma, e.g., in its Security Committee. Here is what Sergei Lisovsky, a committee expert and chief editor of a St. Petersburg newsletter, Obshchestvo i ekologia, or Society and the Environ-ment, has to say about the PSC adherents in his pages: "When he was still director of the Federal Security Service, our president, Vladimir Putin, secured a briefing on the PSC.

I have his official reply with his signature, where he speaks about it with approval, saying that state security agencies have been directed to study conceptual material and to step up efforts to strengthen Russias security. Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov is also familiar with the PSC. I have twice met with him in the State Duma. A copy of the PSC was handed to Fede-ration Council Speaker Sergei Mironov. Almost the entire St. Pete crew in Moscow knows about the Concept. Small wonder, as it was devised and developed in St. Petersburg."

According to Lisovsky, Igor Rodionov, a member of the Duma Security Committee and former defense minister, is all for the Dead Water concept, too. There is good reason to believe this. The Mari El Patriot newspaper (#8/9, August 2003) carried Rodionovs article titled "Pool Efforts To Save Motherland!" Here is the ex-defense ministers definition of the archenemy: "International Zionism as a diversified network of organized structures, acting on the basis of Judaic postulates."