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The Collapse of Communism
 
   
 

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The Collapse of Communism: The Untold Story 
is a feature length documentary film currently in the post production.
    The great political upheaval of the late 20th century--the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and the collapse of the Soviet Union--is now generally regarded as the spontaneous product of long-accumulating social and economic pressures, and the political confusion and economic disarray that followed as nothing more than a passing phase in an inevitable march toward a more perfect democracy.

   During the final phase of the Cold War the Soviet Union, under its dogmatic and visibly senile party bosses, was sinking into near-bankruptcy. Yuri Andropov, Chairman of the KGB—the only organization with both a full knowledge of the state of the economy and a mastery of strategic decisions—came to the conclusion that there was no cure for the grave illness of the communist system.  To preserve the wealth that threatened to slip out of the leaders’ hands, he masterminded a nearly unthinkable program—throwing into the fire Moscow’s rule over the Eastern European bloc—and, as it turned out, the ruling party of the USSR itself.  Though Andropov died in 1984, the signs of his hand in the events that followed remain visible, as well as the role of his handpicked successor Mikhail Gorbachev. Our witnesses testify that what appeared to be a spontaneous freedom movement in 1989 was in fact a coup d’état orchestrated from Moscow—in offices of the Russian KGB.

Perhaps for the first time in known history, we have walked through a revolution without realizing who are the real winners and losers.

   The consequences are far reaching and people in the West seem to have a short memory. It’s clear today that development in Russia didn’t go the way the West anticipated. The Russia became the perfect KGB state. 80% of government officials are former or active KGB officers, including President Vladimir Putin himself.  The objective of Soviet regime was to overthrow the United States as the world’s leading power. Soviet KGB fathered the state sponsored terrorism. The PLO was dream up by KGB. In 1960s a new element was added to the Soviet/PLO war—the international terrorism. Today’s international terrorism was conceived at the Lubyanka. As Yuri Andropov once explained to Ion Pacepa, the Muslim world was a Petri dish in which the Russians might “nurture a virulent strain of American hatred grown from the bacterium of Marxist-Leninist thought.”  General Alexander Sakharovsky (KGB) once said to Pacepa: “In today’s world, when nuclear arms have made military force obsolete, terrorism should become our main weapon.” Americans and Europeans no longer remember the past and don’t realize that history is now repeating itself.  No effective counter-strategy is likely to emerge from the Washington because the regime predicated on economic optimism cannot acknowledge the truth, cannot accept the negative implications of ongoing Russian enmity. People will simply believe what they wish to believe. More people have been indulged in their own ideas of the world rather than in dealing with it as it is. 

   


 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

Tennent H.Bagley

A former CIA chief of Soviet block counterintelligence.  He served twenty-two years in the CIA, handling spies and defectors in Clandestine Services.

 

Vladimir Bukovsky

 A former Soviet Dissident and surviver of Gulag.  He was hired by President Boris Yeltsin to build a defense for the upcoming trial the Communist Party filed against Yeltsin.  Bukovsky agreed under one condition: he would get access to KGB archives.  he spent one full year in archives scanning thousands of classified documents into his laptop computer.

 

Petr Cibulka

A former Czech dissident and political prisoner.  In 1992 he acquired and published data from the Secret Police files disclosing over 200,000 names of STB officers and collaborators in Czechoslovakia.

 

Angelo Codevilla

A former U.S. Foreign Service Officer and a member of President-Elect Reagan's Transition Team within the U.S. Department of State. he served as U.S. Senate Staff Member dealing with oversight of the intelligence services.

 

Frantisek Doskocil

Former Czechoslovak Communist Party Central Committee member and CIA agent.


Joseph D.Douglass, Jr., PhD

A national security affair consultant with 25 years experience in defense policy, technology, an d intelligence. He served as the Assistant Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency during Reagan's administration. A recognized authority on U.S. and Soviet nuclear strategy, communist decision-making, and Soviet strategic intelligence operations.


Edward Jay Epstein

 Political analyst, Author. 


Robert M.Gates

US Secretary of Defense, former CIA Director. 


Bill Gertz

Journalist, a defense and national security reporter for The Washington Times.


Oleg Gordievsky

The KGB Colonel and resident in London,  a double agent working for British MI6. Adviser to Mikhail h and Margaret Thatcher.


Vladimir Hucin

An anti-communist activist and political prisoner in Czechoslovakia.  After the revolution in 1989 he was nominated by the Alliance of Political Prisoners to the newly formed BIS (Czech intelligence service) and became the counter-intelligence officer specializing in leftist extremism. When he threatened to expose hidden communist structures and plans for the return to totalitarian methods, he was arrested in 2001 and jailed for over a year. The trial took almost five years. In the fall of 2006 he was acquitted of all charges.

 

Jeff R.Nyquist

A Geo-political analyst and expert on America's fatal illusion of a balance of power, diplomatic and Cold War history.

 

Ion Mihai Pacepa

Lt. General of Romanian Intelligence, the highest ranking defector ever from the Eastern block. A former Chief of Romania Intelligence Service and National security adviser to president Nicolas Ceausescu.

 

Jaromir Stetina

A former journalist specialized in war conflicts in Europe. Since 2004 a member of the Czech Senate.


 Pavel Zacek

A Director of the Institute of Studies of Totalitarian Regimes and former Director of Interior Ministry Archives in Prague.

 

Ludvik Zifcak

A former Czech Secret Police (STB) officer. He was in charge of leading the students' demonstration in  November 1989 that triggered the Velvet Revolution and he played the "dead student" Martin Smid supposedly killed by the brutal riot police.


The crew:

Producer/Director         Robert Buchar
Associate Producer      Vladimir Kabelik
Assistant Producer       Mark Cohen
Camera                        Jiri Antalovsky
                                    Robert Buchar
                                    Kevin Moss
Animation                    Jim Rohn
Editing                         Vladimir Van Maule
Music/Sound Design    Joseph Cancellar
Sound Mix                   Diego Trejo

Produced by Hangover Productions & ArtCore Productions

 
   
 

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