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Red Symphony
Dr. Landowsky was a Russianized Pole and lived in Russia. His father, a Colonel of the Russian Imperial Army, was shot by the Bolsheviks during the 1917 revolution. The life-story of Dr. Landowsky is astonishing. He finished the Faculty of Medicine in Russia before the revolution and then studied two years at the Sorbonne in Paris, and he spoke fluent French. He was interested in the effects of drugs on the human organism, to help surgeons in operations. Being a talented doctor, he carried out experiments in this field and had achieved considerable results. The all-seeing NKVD (secret police) became interested in these works and easily discovered the real author. His specialty was very valuable for them. One day in 1936 there was a knock at the doctor's door. He was invited to follow, and he was never again allowed to rejoin his family. He was placed in the building of the chemical laboratory of the NKVD near Moscow. He lived there and was forced to carry out various jobs given to him by his masters, he was a witness at questionings, tortures and the most terrible happenings and crimes. This book is an exact recorded report of the questioning of the former Ambassador in France, C.G. Rakovsky during the period of the trials of the Trotskyists in the USSR in 1938, when he was tried together with Bukharin, Rykoff, Yagoda, Karakhan, Dr. Levin and others. The questioning took place in French by this agent. The doctor was present in order to put drug pills unnoticed into the glass of Rakovsky, to induce energy and a good mood. Behind the wall the conversation was registered on apparatus, and the technician who operated it did not understand French. Then Dr. Landowsky had to translate into Russian, with two copies, for Stalin and Gabriel. Secretly he dared to make a carbon copy, which he hid anyway.
58 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1968
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November 16, 2018
It's a very interesting book that reflects the meticulous artificial polarization of society, divided into minor issues that prevent the perception of power. The refined methods of manipulation and torture exercised by the Communists in the now defunct Soviet Union are also described vividly.
Another striking and interesting aspect is that this book also presents a "conspiracy theory" about the interrogation of Christian Rakovsky in 1938 during the Great Purge, an interrogation to which the author, Dr. Josef Landowsky apparently attended as a doctor . During the interrogation, Rakovsky made reference to a Jewish-Masonic-Communist-International Conspiracy. It's worth noting that Christian Rakovsky was indeed one of the founders of Soviet Bolshevism, as well as one of the victims of the show trials held by Stalin before the Second World War.
Even when there are not too many indications of its authenticity, it's still a very interesting reading in which it's possible to distinguish certain patterns that are repeated today.
Another striking and interesting aspect is that this book also presents a "conspiracy theory" about the interrogation of Christian Rakovsky in 1938 during the Great Purge, an interrogation to which the author, Dr. Josef Landowsky apparently attended as a doctor . During the interrogation, Rakovsky made reference to a Jewish-Masonic-Communist-International Conspiracy. It's worth noting that Christian Rakovsky was indeed one of the founders of Soviet Bolshevism, as well as one of the victims of the show trials held by Stalin before the Second World War.
Even when there are not too many indications of its authenticity, it's still a very interesting reading in which it's possible to distinguish certain patterns that are repeated today.
June 20, 2020
Rakovsky protocols, known as "Red Symphony". Authentic document or not, this text is a complicated exercise in dialectics, political philosophy (marxism and capitalism), conflictology, globalism and other fields of abstract exploration, I am not so competent to name them.
Ok, let's say, this is something for your critical thinking. Something to train your skills to question the official discourse and narrative itself. I can not promise it will not poison your thinking.
Well written, not easy to digest, especially in our times of deception, everything fake, everything instant and distracting, everything postmodern. I need to say, this text also feels fake to me - not because of the facts or interpretation, but because of the sharp intelligence/erudition and polite bilateral kindness of both speakers.
"It is known that Marxism was called Hegelian. So this question was vulgarised. Hegelian idealism is a widespread adjustement to an uninformed understanding in the West of the natural mysticism of Baruch Spinosa. "They" are Spinosists: perhaps the matter is the other way round, i.e. that Spinosism is "Them", insofar as he is only a version adequate to the epoch of "Their" own philosophy, which is a much earlier one, standing on a much higher level. After all, a Hegelian and for that reason also the follower of Spinosa, was devoted to his faith, but only temporary, tactically. The matter does not stand as is claimed by Marxism, that as the result of the elimination of contradictions there arises the synthesis. It is as the result of the opposing mutual fusion, from the thesis and antithesis that there arises, as a synthesis, the reality, truth, as a final harmony between the subjective and objective. Do you not see that already? (..) Moscow is subjective Communism, but Capitalism objective - State Capitalism. New York: Capitalism subjective, but Communism objective. A personal sythesis, truth: the Financial International, the Capitalist-Communist one. "They." "
Ok, let's say, this is something for your critical thinking. Something to train your skills to question the official discourse and narrative itself. I can not promise it will not poison your thinking.
Well written, not easy to digest, especially in our times of deception, everything fake, everything instant and distracting, everything postmodern. I need to say, this text also feels fake to me - not because of the facts or interpretation, but because of the sharp intelligence/erudition and polite bilateral kindness of both speakers.
"It is known that Marxism was called Hegelian. So this question was vulgarised. Hegelian idealism is a widespread adjustement to an uninformed understanding in the West of the natural mysticism of Baruch Spinosa. "They" are Spinosists: perhaps the matter is the other way round, i.e. that Spinosism is "Them", insofar as he is only a version adequate to the epoch of "Their" own philosophy, which is a much earlier one, standing on a much higher level. After all, a Hegelian and for that reason also the follower of Spinosa, was devoted to his faith, but only temporary, tactically. The matter does not stand as is claimed by Marxism, that as the result of the elimination of contradictions there arises the synthesis. It is as the result of the opposing mutual fusion, from the thesis and antithesis that there arises, as a synthesis, the reality, truth, as a final harmony between the subjective and objective. Do you not see that already? (..) Moscow is subjective Communism, but Capitalism objective - State Capitalism. New York: Capitalism subjective, but Communism objective. A personal sythesis, truth: the Financial International, the Capitalist-Communist one. "They." "
March 2, 2021
Intefested reading.
May 10, 2025
Nothing to see in the first 1/3rd, so I cut it loose.
March 17, 2026
This book is a historical document. This discussion is very complex and informative. Rakovsky is a blast to read. This book was so complex I had a bit of a headache
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