How well did the Soviets do?

We are still in trouble

Below is a list of communist strategy for the United States I got this from the congressional record and has not been altered by me. Tell me how well did the communist succeed in their goals even though they lost the cold war?

EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 10, 1963

CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

Based on this list I see that even thought the soviets are long gone their goals are still hard at work! This is scary!
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I got this from the congressional record and has not been altered by me.


so lemme guess...

there you were, diligently perusing each entry in congressional record volume 109 by day of session--and of course you were doin this at your local federal depository library cuz nothing older than volume 140 (1994) is available online--when you made your discovery?

amazing find!

i salute your scholarship.

do you also know who actually compiled the list?
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My bad.
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As far as I can see, this isn't a list of Soviet goals so much as one particular person's impression of soviet goals. It's an interesting read, but I am skeptical of its significance.
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there you were, diligently perusing each entry in congressional record volume 109 by day of session--and of course you were doin this at your local federal depository library cuz nothing older than volume 140 (1994) is available online--when you made your discovery?

amazing find!

i salute your scholarship.


Kingbee,

Not amazing at all. Believe it or not people still use the public library for research. When I was doing research on my book on Mr. Reagan I had to go through the congressional record. This was before the internet was the place to look for things. Most of my research is done off net cause there is so little online when it comes to historical facts. Just for the record I write books for fun not to be published. The books that have been published are minor things for the government and not available outside of the military. Unless you have a real hard on for fiscal manuals or supply manuals. Though I am working on a book about an operation I was on in the 70’s that is fictionalized that is close to being ready for publishing.

do you also know who actually compiled the list?


All the information I have on this is posted I was only 8 when it was put into the record.

It's an interesting read, but I am skeptical of its significance.


I would point out that some of the things listed are still taking place, which is why I brought it up.
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Not amazing at all. Believe it or not people still use the public library for research. When I was doing research on my book on Mr. Reagan I had to go through the congressional record. This was before the internet was the place to look for things. Most of my research is done off net cause there is so little online when it comes to historical facts


so is that how you located this rather obscure entry in a congressional record volume published when you were 8 years old? by going to the library?
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so is that how you located this rather obscure entry in a congressional record volume published when you were 8 years old? by going to the library?


That is how I found it, but I just found it posted on a webpage a few days ago which is where I posted it from. Why do you ask? Or is it that you can't refute what was written so you wish to cause questions as to how it was obtained in order to minimalize the content?
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That is how I found it


you wish to cause questions as to how it was obtained in order to minimalize the content?


minimize the content you mean?

no, my wish is for you to explain how herlong came into possession of what musta been a closely guarded party secret document. perhaps you can shed some light as to which committee authored it as well as when and by whose authority it was approved?

(was anything ever done by the party except by committee?)


hopefully i'm not asking too much of someone capable of independently discovering this particular needle of an entry in an archival haystack comprised of all manner of stuff inserted into the record there on a daily basis by many of several hundred members of this specific session of congress.



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No communist ever wrote these words. They were written by someone who was avidly anticommunist. You find it in chain emails most often, misrepresented as being written either by someone in Congress or some secret communist document.

It is taken from a book called "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen. Late 50's red scare nonsense. The author is considered by some the father of the "new world order" conspiracy nuts.

Extended junk like this is kept on microfilm as far as I know. You might find it so long as the library is a federal repository, but none of these records are on the Internet beyond what has been carried here by third parties.

The introduction of that record, omitted here, reads:

"Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.

At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:"



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hopefully i'm not asking too much of someone capable of independently discovering this particular needle of an entry in an archival haystack comprised of all manner of stuff inserted into the record there on a daily basis by many of several hundred members of this specific session of congress.


It appears that Baker Street answered the question. Thanks I learned something I did not know.