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were taken out and shot.
The
Lesson of Soviet Villain Lavrentia Beria and the Current Evil that Dominates
Our Country
Guest post by John L.
Kachelman, Jr.
There is a historical reminder of the false
security that a deeply enmeshed bureaucrat believes his is protected from his
malevolence. Beria reminds those who are working “behind the scenes,” pursuing
their own agendas, that their safety is never secure; their security is tenuous
at best; and, their inevitable exposure, fall and execution by
Undergirding all governing is a large minion of
faceless workers. These are the “Chiefs.” And the “Chiefs” actually run
operations. Those elected are the “Faces”; those in the background are the
“Chiefs.” This is a critical distinction that many do not see. The following
discusses this factor in our government.
Here is the reality of governing—the Faces
respond only to the extent the Chiefs allow. This is not the ideal but it is
the real. There exists an almost impenetrable wall surrounding the elected
officials that is guarded by the Chiefs. This is not for the protection of the
elected officials but for the security of the Chiefs and their agenda.
The elected officials (Faces) may well have an
agenda that is publicized to the public and constituents BUT the Chiefs control
all matters. Legislation may pass the vote and its title sounds wonderful, but
the integral working details are contrary to the title—the Chiefs have the
ultimate control as they parse the legislation (Just look at the hideous
“Inflation Reduction Act”). This legislation was celebrated as “the American People have won, and special interests
lost.” The “Ministry of Truth” stands proud in the
absurdity and fantasy of these words penned by the Chiefs and spouted by the
Faces!
Go to the grocery, pharmacy, gas pump and
understand how ridiculous the Chiefs’ pronouncement that inflation has been
reduced is applied to daily living. Those who pay their own utility bills and
repair their own vehicles look with incredulity at the Faces spouting
The tragic truth in today’s governing the Chiefs
run operations and the Faces are the images presented. The Faces recline,
ensconced in elitism that is fueled and fed by the Chiefs who will “protect”
the faces from unnecessary people and outrageous conspiracies.
Willingly the Faces surrender all authority to
the Chiefs who “know better how to manage things.” And the DC Beltway becomes a
shield that isolates the Faces from the reality of life in the nation it has
sworn to represent. The ideals, morality, philosophy and legislation emanating
from the governing body reflects NOT the electoral populace but the
philosophies of the miscreants who deem themselves as “knowing better how the
government should spend the people’s money.”
Thus, it is believed
throughout Congress that the government knows better than the people how to
command and control all aspects of every individual’s life.
There is a belief that
the citizens’ individuality are the greatest threat to the Chiefs and so these
are primary acquisition targets to ensure the Chiefs’ positions.
Bureaucracy is the greatest threat to
individualism and is strangling
Some enthroned in Chiefs’ positions never face
termination—some have been ensconced for THIRTY YEARS!! These are “snug as a
bug in a rug”! (The idiom’s origin coming
from the moth larva happily feeding inside a rolled-up carpet is apropos to the
parasitic proclivity of such people.). Blue Wave or Red Wave it matters little
as these simply go from one position to the other and remain a permanent
influence in the governing structure. The elected POLS come and go. As the
Faces rotate, the Chiefs remain.
Depending on how these Chiefs deign to view one
trying to navigate the perils of government red-tape, the unelected Chiefs can
be either a “balm for the heart or a boil on your butt.”
And, as time passes these Chiefs assume they
have served in the shadows long enough and have collected sufficient political
IOUs to step forward and become one of the Faces in the political spotlight.
And, they foolishly think they can remain a Chief but be a Face.
Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria was involved in Marxist
revolutionary activities from his teens. By his twenties he had ascended to the
bureaucratic level of the head of the secret police in Georgia. He craftily
navigated the bureaucracy under Stalin. He supervised the ruthless 1930s purges
in the region and arrived in Moscow in 1938. He soon became the head of the
Soviet secret police. As a bureaucrat he ran the Soviet network of slave-labor
camps. This bureaucratic servant of the State was notorious for his sadistic
enjoyment of torture and his taste for beating and raping women and violating
young girls. By the time of Stalin’s death in 1953, even though he was a fixed
senior bureaucrat, he was one of the most hated men in the country. But his
amazing arrogance envisioned himself as the ideal candidate to control the
USSR.
With Stalin’s removal, Beria thought it was his
time to step out of the shadows and become not only the Chief bureaucrat
manipulating political intrigue but also the Face of the nation. He was given
the combined ministries of State Security and Internal Affairs, which put him
in control of both the secret and the regular police as well as a small private
army of infantry divisions. It is instructive for present day readers
to observe the historical precedent of bureaucrats assuming control and
manipulating the law enforcement divisions in order to achieve their devilish
objectives. His evil led to many fearing him almost as much as they
had feared Stalin.
Although the details are shrouded in the USSR’s
cloistered past, it seems Beria’s downfall was engineered by Nikita Khrushchev.
On June 26th at a hastily convened meeting of the
Presidium, Khrushchev launched a blistering attack on Beria, accusing him of
being a cynical careerist, long in the pay of British intelligence, and no true
Communist believer.
Beria was taken aback and asked, “What’s going
on, Nikita?” Khrushchev told him he would soon find out. Molotov and others
accused Beria. Khrushchev motioned for his instant dismissal. Before a vote
could be taken, Malenkov pressed a button on his desk and Marshal Zhukov and a
group of armed officers burst in, seized Beria and led him away.
Beria’s men were guarding the Kremlin, so the
officers had to wait until nightfall and smuggled him out in a car. He was
taken to the Lefortovo Prison and then to the headquarters of General
Moskalenko, commander of Moscow District Air Defense, where he was imprisoned
in an underground bunker. His arrest was kept as quiet as possible while his
principal cohorts were rounded up – some were immediately shot.
The Central Committee spent five days convincing
itself of Beria’s guilt. An experienced prosecutor well known to Khrushchev,
was appointed to make certain that the police chief was tried, condemned and
executed with the maximum appearance of legality. Pravda announced
Beria’s fall on July 10th, crediting it to the initiative of Comrade Malenkov
and referring to Beria’s ‘criminal activities against the Party and the State’.
December 17th the Prosecutor announced that Beria and
six accomplices had been conspiring for many years to seize power in the Soviet
Union. Beria fell to the floor and begged on his knees for mercy. It was not a
quality he had shown to others, and it was not now shown to him. He and his
confederates were taken away and promptly shot. His wife and son were sent to a
Siberian labor camp.
The ignominy that awaited this bureaucratic
Chief and Face was a “whirlwind born of a wind”! Stalin’s security chief was
executed on December 23, 1953.
Of the many bureaucrats I have known and
struggled with to accomplish various actions, I have known a FEW who were
serving not for self-interest but for the ideals of our Founding fathers. But
it has been just a few.
To those in today’s stations of bureaucracy,
look closely at the allure of entitlements that the position offers. Know well
that each will ultimately face personal accountability.
There are many who sit comfortably in protective
tenure and fail to be courageous heroes. There are few who boldly step up and
courageously stand out exposing the swamp of bureaucratic elitism that seeks to
destroy individualism and pursue an arrogant, elitist statism agenda. The
prophet announces the judgment upon such as, “For they sow the wind and they
reap a whirlwind (storm)” (Hosea 8:7).
Where are the heroic
“whistleblowers” whose patriotic courage and inner fortitude propel them to
challenge the evil that is dominant?
Some brave hearts have already
stepped forward. A
trickle of whistleblowers has
begun. More are
standing up and speaking out. There are others who need to join in the exposure
now before they are destroyed in the whirlwind that will soon come. Where
are the heroes?
Who are the tenured bureaucrats hesitant to come
forth and expose the corruption that is destroying our nation? Are you willing
to be responsible for our national demise? Are you willing to be as Beria and
chronicled in history’s records as “a cynical careerist”?
