Professional Anti-Communists

In Europe today, there are people who can best be described as Professional Anti-Communists. 

These people have taken to the internet to spread their anti-communist (and pro-western) gospel to the world.

These people should not be confused with genuine reformists, freedom fighters, or advocates for real independence and national sovereignty.

A Professional Anti-Communist has the following characteristics:

1. They spend their time accusing individuals, organizations, and nations of being a part of some on-going communist conspiracy that hasn’t really gone away, but is simply in-hiding. These supposed crypto-communist organizations and people have allegedly infiltrated top levels of European governments, are preventing progress and western-style reforms from being carried out, and from communist legacy being stamped out

2. They accuse Russia of being behind this crypto-communist conspiracy. To them, the Russian federation is the same as the Soviet Union, and nothing there has changed at all

3. They cherry-pick facts that support their worldview, while omitting ones that don't. Then they use their sanitized and particular world view to promote a regressive mentality, and policies and politics that are dangerous, harmful, and reckless to the entire nation

4. These people are very often co-opted and patronized by western organizations, governments, western embassies and their officials for their ‘expertise.’ They are given publicity, access, and funds to further their anti-communist/anti-Russian crusades

5. These people are against any type of rapprochement with, and understanding of the Russian position. They consider Russia to be totally untrustworthy and uncompromising based on deeds half a century or more old. They don't travel to Russia and talk to anyone first-hand. They only parrot the propaganda of Russian 'dissident' groups, which are supported with western money.

6. While condemning and publicizing the crimes of Soviet-era communist governments, they remain dismissive, or totally oblivious to the crimes committed by western powers,
even if committed against the PA’s own country. This is suspect behavior.

7. They smear anyone who disagrees with their views, and accuse them of being communist agents and/or Kremlin puppets

8. They are staunchly pro-American in their views, and willfully ignorant of the defects in the US system and its policies worldwide. They equate the US/west with real freedom.

9. They see the west and its institutions as ‘right,’ and ‘normal,’ while ignoring its crimes and blunders

10. They frequently travel to western countries on trips and meetings where they spread their anti-communist message

11. They consider neutrality in foreign affairs as a sacrilege and a sin, and see it as the work of pro-communist, anti-US/western forces that want to undermine democracy and freedom

To the professional anti-communist, the most sacred duty of each country that was once under communist rule is the eradication from all governmental positions, and public life of anything and anyone associated with the previous ex-communist governments.

The PA (Professional Anti-Communist) believes that all problems within each ex-communist country, past and present, are the fault of the previous communist system, and cannot be solved until all vestiges of communism are gone.

For this to happen, contend the PA’s, either there must be some sort of a national great reckoning against all former communist-era functionaries, or 3-4 generations must pass by after which all communists, their offspring, and associated communist ideology will be naturally cleansed from the country.

The PA may hold up the example of Romania in 1989, where the communist leader Nikolae Ceausescu and his wife met their end in front of a firing squad. (This hasn’t worked, or was a useless deed, as government corruption and ex-communists are still alive and well in EU/NATO-member Romania)

This act is held up by PA's and their acolytes as a standard by which all ex-communist leaders and functionaries should’ve been dealt with.

But the professional PA won’t notice the irony of doing the same thing that Stalinists used to do to their anti-communist heroes of the past.

The problem with the PA’s and their adherents assumption that it will take 3-4 generations to clean their countries of hidden communist influence is that of what will come later?

Are these PA’s and their disciples truly honest, justice-minded people who are simply only after their nation’s national freedom and sovereignty, unhampered by any foreign ideology and diktat, and free of any and all foreign agents who would hamper such freedom and sovereignty, regardless of what other country those agents represent and are acting on-behalf of?

If so, then that is a totally legitimate aim, and the PA’s are doing a great service for their nations, and should be encouraged, assisted, and see their aspirations succeed.

But if these PA’s aim is to remove all ex-communist influence from the nation, and see it replaced by another foreign one, then these people are traitors, and their efforts are useless and criminal.

If these PA’s are naïve enough to think that once ex-communist influence is removed that another batch of malign foreign influence doesn’t take its place, they better think again.

This is already happening. For it seems that the PA’s already went wrong years ago because they have very foolishly, or maliciously, equated western influence with real freedom and sovereignty.

So it will do the PA’s no good to get rid of ex-communist influence when the country is already heavily influenced by foreign western diktat.

In truth, there is no ex-communist influence or conspiracy. What there was-and is-are ex-communist opportunists and their offspring, who simply jumped from the hard-seat communist wagon to the cushier western one which has more hay. That’s all.

To think that these people are guided by communist principles is ridiculous. If they were, then why did these ex-communist countries embrace western-style capitalism, NATO/EU membership, paranoid Russophobia, and even accompanied the US on the illegal Iraq invasion and other criminal western regime change operations?

Is this the work of unrepentant, Soviet-loving communists?

But the PA will brush such logic away.

Those PA’s who advocate permanent attachment to the west and are against normal and friendly relations with the Russian Federation, or any other country they see as ‘communist,’ are not working for the best interests of the people they profess to want to help.

Such peoples’ motives are suspect. Because only an idiot would eschew good relations with their neighbors by using past history as a drum to rally constant hatred, distrust and tension against the other country.

This kind of attitude isn’t the work of a concerned patriot, but of either an idiot or a foreign agent-provocateur.

Such an attitude feeds off itself, and is dangerous. It leads to crises, which then cause more animosity.

This kind of attitude is what stoked WW2.

It’s one thing for any professional anti-communist hunter or historian to be driven by a proper, unbiased, and equal accounting of everyone’s crimes, regardless of which side they fall on.

But when a PA chooses a ‘bad’ side, constantly picks on it, ascribes all of their country’s problems and mistakes to it, and without acknowledging the errors and crimes of the ‘good’ side because of the PA’s self-interest and ideological attachments to the ‘good’ side, then that anti-communist crusader or historian lacks credibility no matter how great their knowledge and popularity may be.

The Professional Anti-Communist is at heart an opportunist with a specific agenda which has little to do with real freedom, democracy and sovereignty.

That agenda aims to serve and promote the interests and policies of certain countries, no matter how bad they may be.

Fighting communism becomes a cover to scapegoat a convenient boogeyman, so as to distract the public while the anti-communist’s masters get away with doing far worse things than the supposed communists the PA seeks to fight.

The PA is a true believer in the discredited, western-peddled cold-war propaganda myth of ‘The International Communist Conspiracy.’ This still exists in the PA’s mind, albeit secretly. It colors their world-view.

The PA uses history as a way to nurture divisions and promote their personal warped political views, and those of their western masters.

The PA is paid, and maybe recruited by foreign intelligence services or their front-groups to spread such anti-communist/Russian propaganda to all who are ignorant enough to listen. This serves the western governments' geopolitical interests.

The PA is not a friend or an asset to any society. The PA is a liability; a hindrance to the normal development of a country, and must be shunned. 

At their basic core, the PA truly believes that everything western is synonymous with real freedom and democracy, while ignoring the contradictions in western deeds. They simply seek to replace communist overseers with capitalist ones.

This gives the PA away as a fraud. 

One way to challenge the PA's real interests and agenda is to ask them, point blank, if they're pro-American. If they answer yes, then there's no need to talk to them any further because they have just proven themselves wrong, and without credibility.