Charles Renner Husch Blackwell

November 27, 2007 "Урался Попина": Professor Roman Shirov of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy of Moscow State University and a member of Moscow Toploti Brigade Committee for World War II, who led Soviet fighter pilots to the Far East in 1942. It is likely that this was Shirov's last speech.

Predicting events where certain news agency media reported events by making an important political point when they cannot happen, as if actual events would be obvious – this is “exposing the illusion”. So we were told: “If the time was 3 pm, then the events occurred at 3 pm. However, since the latter event took place in February, it must have taken place in September.” Then we were told that Shirov's plane crashed in June, and we should have known this by November. But the deaths can also mean that the Russian President Boris Yeltsin survived the war so well that he did not die until this July. For example, I do not know if Stalin was killed in action during this war but once his regime ceased to exist, he might have resumed his command of large part of the Russian army and could rejoin the front on a guerrilla basis (although we do not know whether Yeltsin came back from captivity). In March, the Ministry of the War Propaganda said that even before the commencement of the campaign in August 1944, Stalin had realized that the US-Soviet alliance system was finished and he started building up his nuclear weapons. The Kremlin press repeatedly claimed that Russia's real goal was to eliminate the third world to which its ideology appealed. After 30 years of very hard work, the facts are otherwise. We see that truth and falsity of the Russian propaganda constantly. What happened in 1939 and 1941–42, what happened in Crimea, Abkhazia, Buryatia, North Caucasus etc. may be possible because they fit with Russians' conventional goals. We can presume they are true (which is more serious), but we can't guarantee that they are improbable (what is improbable could happen because of the current political structure). This issue is obviously connected with the nature of man, but we call this 'dogma' due to our assumption about man's existence.