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New Book Exposes Soviet Russia As A Parasitic Regime Built On Plunder

In Bogdan Musial’s Stalin’s Great Raid, the author presents eye-opening research showing how Soviet industrial capacity was dependent on looting, not economic prosperity.

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Soviet history, in Bogdan Musial’s Stalin’s Great Raid: The Plundering of Germany and the Rise of the Soviet Union to a Superpower, was less a burning of ideological fervor than a deliberate, predatory architecture. The Soviet Union, that vast, shivering colossus of the mid-twentieth century, did more than defeat Germany; it inhaled it. Musial’s thesis is as cold as a Siberian morning: The rise of the Soviet superpower was a metabolic process, a two-phase ingestion of German technology and industrial bone. The history is that of hard surfaces: steel, machine tools, and the indifferent math of extraction.

Before the first shot of 1941 was fired, there was the commerce of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, a cynical intimacy that Musial treats as the essential prologue to empire. The 1939 non-aggression agreement was a shopping list. Stalin was a predator waiting for the capitalist powers to exhaust their blood and treasure in a wider war, while he quietly strengthened the sinews of his own state. The exchange was a grim symbiosis: Soviet grain, oil, and phosphates flowed west to feed the German war machine and bypass the British blockade. In return, Germany sent the very instruments of its future undoing: aircraft, naval technology, and the specialized industrial machinery........

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