The history of the religion of communism

The idea to study the evolution of Soviet power from the standpoint of philosophical-historical and religious analysis came to me long ago, back in the symbolic year of 1984. I partially realized this idea by writing the book "The Fall of the USSR" in just three months, using materials I had accumulated over an entire decade. In that book, based on facts literally strained from the censored Soviet press, I argued that Soviet power, due to the degradation of the very foundations of its economy, politics, and utopian-religious ideology, was doomed and would not survive more than another 10 years. The fate of that book closely resembled the circumstances described in Orwell’s famous novel "1984". I began to distribute this book in Samizdat, and literally a month later, the head of the 2nd Department of the university where I worked called me and suggested I go to the office of the commandant of the main building, located at a distance from the lecture halls. When I entered, instead of the commandant, sitting there were an elderly KGB colonel and a young captain who supervised anti-Soviet sentiments in our district of the city. They presented me with a stack of photocopies of letters written to my friend who had moved to work in the Lithuanian city of Klaipeda, and since these letters contained thoughts consonant with the book, they began demanding that I confess to its authorship and write a statement to the KGB expressing repentance for my delusions and promising that this would not happen again. "Yuri Vladimirovich," said the Comrade Colonel, "has oriented the KGB organs differently than Leonid Ilyich. He does not want to severely infringe upon creative people for every piece of heretical scribbling, as long as they have not moved to open struggle against Soviet power and have not committed crimes of a political nature. Therefore, if you repent before the people's power, you will save yourself from just and deserved punishment."